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water or electricity.
• "We all love soccer -- kids, men, women, old and young," said team director Ahmed Abu Hammad.
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• SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- A fisherman who says he drifted at sea for more than a year has finally made it home to El Salvador, exhausted and speechless.
• Jose Salvador Alvarenga tried to address a media throng waiting at the airport, eager to fill in details about what many people have viewed as a fish tale: a man tossed 6,500 miles (10,500 kilometers) across the Pacific in a small boat from Mexico to the Marshall Islands, surviving on raw fish, turtles and bird blood.
• But when handed the microphone at the San Salvador airport late Tuesday, Alvarenga could only put his hands to his face, appearing to cry.
• Wearing a dark blue T-shirt, khaki trousers and tennis shoes, the 37-year-old left the airport in a wheelchair and was taken by ambulance to the National Hospital San Rafael, where he was greeted by a daughter who didn't remember him and a mother who had thought he was dead after not hearing from him for years.
• Dr. Yeerles Ramírez described the reunions as emotional, and said that according to medical tests so far, "the prognosis is very good."
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• FREMONT, Neb. (AP) -- Residents of a small Nebraska city have reaffirmed their desire to take on illegal immigration.
• Nearly 60 percent of Fremont voters decided Tuesday to keep an ordinance that requires all renters to swear they have legal permission to live in the U.S., a move that will likely push the city back into the forefront of the nation's immigration debate.
• Local voters first approved the rules by a smaller margin in 2010. Critics had pushed for the new vote, saying the housing restrictions would be ineffective and might cost Fremont millions of dollars in legal fees and lost federal grants. They also said it was hurting the city's image.
• But it wasn't enough to sway voters in the conservative agricultural hub near

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