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SALT LAKE CITY – A woman accused of murder because she allegedly avoided a Caesarean section that could have saved her unborn twin has denied the charge, saying she already had scars from earlier C-sections.

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Children in a nursery were shocked when they spotted a three-headed frog hopping in their garden. The creature - which has six legs - has stunned BBC wildlife experts who warned it could be an early warning of environmental problems. See the photo here

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It has been widely held that suicide attackers are all foreigners, but recent evidence points to home-grown cells of religious extremists. This is interesting. The Bush administration has been trying to convince us that Al Qaeda is behind the attacks, but there is no evidence to support that.

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Seven policemen were killed on Monday in a suicide car attack that also left two bombers dead in northern Iraq, as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held talks in Baghdad on shifting security responsibility to Iraqis. The fresh attack against Iraqi police, in the city of Kirkuk, also came as the United Nations prepared to issue recommendations on the best way forward for the war-torn

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Divorce rate one of highest in country It's the kind of program President Bush wants Congress to budget $1.2 billion for over the next five years. But can government succeed at what has traditionally occurred in the confines of a counselor's office? Should it even try? Denise Jenkins thinks it's worth a shot, explaining, "I really don't want to be a statistic in Oklahoma." The Oklahoma

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Against the euro, the dollar fell to $1.2867 at 11:34 a.m. in London from $1.2771 late yesterday. The dollar fell to $1.9 versus the British pound for the first time since September 1992, dropped to a seven-year low versus the Australian dollar and declined against the Swiss franc and Canadian dollar.

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A Chinese academic branded a "black hand" mastermind of the 1989 Tiananmen protests has quietly returned to work at a private think-tank, 15 years after many of its researchers were jailed. Chen Ziming, 52, who served 13 years in jail, resumed work at the Beijing Social Economic Research Institute in late January. "He may conduct some research but we still haven't considered whether he will

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Opposition to the 2-year-old No Child Left Behind Act is gaining momentum among U.S. states, and the Bush administration is fighting back. The National Education Association, the biggest teachers' union in the country, has opposed the act from the very beginning and said its support is growing. It said Friday the complaints of insufficient funding of the education reform act, and that it

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In separate roadside bomb attacks Monday, two US soldiers were killed - one in Baghdad and the other in a city northeast of the capital, the US military said. One soldier from Task Force Iron Horse died and four others were injured when a bomb exploded at about 9:40 a.m. [local time] in the center of Baqouba, some 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, the 4th Infantry Division said.

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Many jilted after rush for same-sex licenses Hundreds of couples turned away Demand for same-sex marriage licenses has been so great that Sunday officials turned away hundreds of gay and lesbian couples lined up outside City Hall, saying they didn't have the time or resources to meet all the requests. San Francisco authorities calculated they could process 400 licenses during special weekend

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Released Papers Do Not Document Alabama Service

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Dozens of guerrillas shouting 'God is great' launched a bold daylight assault on an Iraqi police station and security compound west of Baghdad on Saturday, freeing prisoners and sparking a gun battle that killed 20 people and wounded 30, police and hospital officials said.

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There is "no doubt" that Republican staffers acted improperly in accessing Democratic strategy memos on judicial nominees, the Senate's sergeant-at-arms said Wednesday, as he defended his investigation into the incident. "There is no doubt that what was done by certain people was certainly improper. There is no way of getting around it," Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle said in an interview

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GONAIVES, Haiti -- To cheers of approval, rebels set ablaze an accused government hit man and shot another man yesterday, raising the death toll to 46 in a popular uprising that began in this traditional hotbed of revolutionary fervor.

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The CIA, under fire over its intelligence about Iraq's arms programs, has posted a notice on its website offering rewards for information on the elusive weapons. The "Iraqi Rewards Program" notice dated Tuesday seeks "specific and verifiable information" on the location of stocks of "recently made" chemical or biological weapons, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles or their components. The

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A suicide car bomb exploded at an Iraqi army recruitment center in Baghdad Wednesday, killing 24 recruits, in the second deadly attack against Iraqis working with U.S. occupation forces in 24 hours. Around 50 people were killed Tuesday in a similar attack against Iraqis outside a police station south of Baghdad.

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Haitian police took back control of the northern city of Saint-Marc, after rebels trying to overthrow President Jean Bertrand Aristide overran 10 towns and cities, leaving at least 41 people dead.

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An Iranian plane has crashed in the south of the United Arab Emirates, reports say. The Kish airlines flight went down as it approached the airport in the emirate of Sharjah. Police said there were 35 people on board, though Sharjah state TV put the figure at around 60. The TV said there were survivors, and showed flames and black smoke pouring from the wreckage.

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Australian troops fighting in Iraq were told in an official briefing days before entering the country that Saddam Hussein did not have the capability to launch weapons of mass destruction against its neighbours.

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Sri Lanka's president has dissolved parliament, paving the way for elections nearly three years ahead of schedule, a top presidential official said. The move came amid the president's bitter political battle with Prime Minister Ranil Wickreme-singhe, which started Nov. 4 when Kumaratunga seized control of the key defense, media and interior ministries from the prime minister's Cabinet.

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Protests in Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected President of Haiti in 1990, ousted in 1991, and returned to power in 1994 with the aid of the United States. He was reelected in 2000, but the elections were widely denounced as rigged, and the main opposition refused to accept the outcome. Still, relative peace was maintained until this recent outbreak of protests. Aristide is now seen as

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More than six million North Koreans will go without emergency food aid until April, says the UN. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says it has run out of food and blames the supply shortfall on a funding crisis. For the next two months food rations will only be given to 100,000 people - mostly child-bearing women and children in hospitals and orphanages. A quarter of the population who

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BY RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 7, 2004 DES MOINES, Iowa - In what may be the first subpoena of its kind in decades, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war activists. In addition to the subpoena of Drake University, subpoenas were served this past week on four of the activists who attended a Nov. 15 forum at the school,

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Tony Blair today held up his hands and admitted for the first time that the weapons hunt in Iraq had proved a failure.

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One day after proposing bigger budgets for defense and homeland security, the White House on Tuesday released a list of the 128 programs it wants gutted, from education equity for women to combating alcohol abuse, a problem President George W. Bush faced himself. A program that provides residents of poor areas access to computers and training would also get the ax, along with recreation

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A watercolour by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler will be put on display on Saturday at a theater in Tokyo to coincide with the screening of a film about his artistic ambitions. Toshiba Entertainment, distributor of the film Max, a joint Hungarian, Canadian and British production, said it is taboo in Europe to display art by Hitler, but the piece is invaluable material with which people can have a "

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Manufacturing sector expanded in Jan. Latest data indicate industry is recovering Well, that sounds promising. The nation’s manufacturing sector continued to rebound strongly in January, fresh evidence that the economic recovery is solidifying, an industry group reported. The Institute for Supply Management said Monday that its manufacturing index rose to 63.6 in January from 63.4 in

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A series of shocking personal testimonies is now shedding light on Camp 22 - one of the country's most horrific secrets Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in glass chambers and gassed. They are left to an agonising death while scientists take notes. The allegations offer the most shocking glimpse so far of Kim Jong-il's North Korean regime. Kwon Hyuk, who has changed

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Panel May Subpoena Its Summaries of Bush Briefings The White House, already embroiled in a public fight over the deadline for an independent commission's investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is refusing to give the panel notes on presidential briefing papers taken by some of its own members, officials said this week. The standoff has prompted the 10-member commission to consider

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The state has unveiled sweeping changes it wants to make in the K-12 curriculum. A high school history teacher says the plan will gut the subject he has taught for 25 years. But the state superintendent says the new curriculum will make Georgia's schools the best. The Georgia Department of Education recently unveiled a draft of the new high school history curriculum. Officials tout it as "

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South Africa has been named, along with the United States and Libya, as one of 200 beneficiaries of oil for supporting Saddam Hussein. Iraqi government officials said on Sunday the country's former dictator rewarded 200 of his leading supporters abroad by giving them millions of barrels of crude oil. Oil ministry undersecretary Abdul Sahib Salman Qotob told AFP the supporters included at

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The bombs brought the U.S. military death toll in Iraq to 512. Five U.S. soldiers and four Iraqis were killed Saturday and dozens of people were injured in three bombings in the volatile region known as the Sunni Triangle that extends north and west of the capital. In an apparent suicide attack, a car reportedly crashed into a checkpoint and exploded outside a U.S. military installation near

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The Pentagon is continuing to withhold documents on Cold War chemical and biological weapons tests that used unsuspecting sailors as ``human samplers'' after telling Congress it had released all medically relevant information.

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Jan. 22—Strong-armed by President George W. Bush, members of the U.S. Senate backed off a filibuster against a massive government spending bill. Bush had threatened to veto the bill if it included an overtime pay protection guarantee for the nation’s workers, and the Senate in December launched a filibuster to protest the lack of an overtime pay guarantee in the bill. The 61–32 vote that

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Recording Reveals Kerry Operative Dissing Dean in Campaign Call

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Insurgents kill 4 women, 2 Iraqi police in separate incidents

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Scientists vow to keep Hubble alive Officials mull donations, Russian help in wake of NASA decision.

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The US on Friday cautiously welcomed the changes Taiwan made to the terms of a referendum that has outraged China and which US President George W. Bush feared would upset the delicate status quo with China. Conciliatory statements about the referendum from Secretary of State Colin Powell and White House spokesman Scott McClellan came after President Chen Shui-bian set ballot issues that were

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More than five million aerial photographs of World War II are to be made publicly available on the internet. The pictures will go online on Monday. Taken by the RAF, they were used by Allied commanders to help devise their strategy during the six-year conflict. The pictures cover events such as D-Day, the Holocaust, and the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. The website has been

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Court: Congress did not authorize claims against governments A federal appeals court yesterday made it more difficult for American victims of terrorism to sue and collect damages from foreign governments for sponsoring the attacks. Ruling in a case brought by the family of a Pennsylvania man taken hostage in Lebanon, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said

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3 U.S. soldiers killed in bombing, fourth dies in non-combat incident

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Chief of Staff Tells China That U.S. Will Resist 'Coercion' Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concluded two days of talks with senior Chinese military leaders Thursday and said they understand "very clearly" that the United States "will resist any attempt to use coercion" to resolve the status of Taiwan.

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David Kay, the chief United States weapons hunter in Iraq, has told the CIA he will not return to his post, a US government source said today. "He has told the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet) that he doesn't want to go back, they have been trying to get him to stay," the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity. It was unclear whether the CIA had had any success in

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Indiana diners chow down on a disappearing delicacy Fear of mad cow disease hasn't kept Cecelia Coan from eating her beloved deep-fried cow brain sandwiches. She's more concerned about what the cholesterol will do to her heart than suffering the brain-wasting disease found in a cow in Washington state. "I think I'll have hardening of the arteries before I have mad cow disease," said Cecelia

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European firms are being urged to buy a licence for Linux to avoid legal action by SCO which claims the operating system unlawfully includes some of its computer code.

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Former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, whose campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, never got off the ground, will drop out of the race and endorse front-runner Howard Dean, campaign officials said Wednesday.

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Italy says it will bring three former Nazi SS officers to trial over the massacre of hundreds of civilians in a Tuscan village 60 years ago. An investigator told Reuters that Gerhard Sommer, Alfred Schonenberg and Ludwig Sonntag, who are all in their 80s and living in Germany, are accused of taking part in the killings in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema. Some 560 people, including women

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Bias is catching: Voters from both political parties now think that the news media takes a partisan tilt in its election coverage, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Sunday. "Perceptions of partisan bias seen as growing — especially by Democrats," the survey stated. Among those Democrats, 29 percent think the coverage favors Republicans, up from 19 percent in 2000. And

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Two African soldiers have died of hypothermia during a training exercise in the French Alps. The men, from Togo and Niger, died after a snowstorm prevented them from reaching their barracks, so they dug into the snow, an official said.

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More than $4bn of oil revenue has disappeared from government accounts in Angola over a five-year period, says the lobby group Human Rights Watch.

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THE United States president, George Bush, yesterday appeared to support claims made by one of his former advisers that he was intent on invading Iraq long before the 11 September attacks triggered a more aggressive focus to US foreign policy, saying his administration was "for regime change". Speaking during a visit to Mexico, Mr Bush said that, while US policy altered after the terror attacks

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Key points • Tony Blair was unsure when asked whether he accepted his statement that Iraq had WMD capable of being fired within 45 minutes was wrong • The PM's position has been shifting since July last year; he is now looking for "clandestine operations" in Iraq - rather than weapons themselves • Claims that the Iraqi Survey Group had found "clandestine laboratories" were recently dismissed

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The confidence that has been so contagious among investors just hasn't caught on with employers. The Labor Department's December report issued Friday showed that employers are not quite as optimistic as Wall Street has been about what's ahead in the coming year. And so, while lower hiring levels might be a key factor in the strong profit reports investors are expecting, the job data left

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Despite stiff resistance from airlines and privacy advocates, the U.S. government plans to push ahead this year with a vast computerized system to probe the backgrounds of all passengers boarding flights in the United States.

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Almost one-third of Afghanistan's nascent national army has deserted after completing training by instructors from the United States, France and Britain. The Afghan National Army currently boasts about 10,000 troops. That number was already dwarfed by the 100,000 or so militia members loyal to warlords around the country. The Afghan army has been charged with the responsibility of disarming,

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A scathing new report published by the Army War College broadly criticizes the Bush administration's handling of the war on terrorism, accusing it of taking a detour into an "unnecessary" war in Iraq and pursuing an "unrealistic" quest against terrorism that may lead to U.S. wars with states that pose no serious threat.

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Associated Press Jan. 9, 2004 | ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Alfred Pugh, the last known combat-wounded U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. He was 108, just 10 days short of his 109th birthday, when he died Wednesday. Pugh, who often told visitors the key to a long life is "keep breathing," joined the Army in 1917 and fought in France during World War I with the 77th Infantry Division. In 1918,

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Judicial Watch lawsuit also uncovers list of 'foreign suitors' for contracts The controversial White House energy task force two years ago reviewed Iraqi oil-field maps and "foreign suitors for Iraqi oil-field contracts," reveal documents turned over under court order to a government watchdog group by a member of the task force. Judicial Watch Inc. first requested the documents under the

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U.S. also says Black Hawk crash likely due to ground fire Iraqi police fired into a crowd of stone-throwing protesters angry over the lack of jobs in the southern town of Amarah on Saturday, killing six people and wounding 11, witnesses and a hospital doctor said. Hundreds of protesters gathered opposite the coalition office where British security forces have a regional headquarters, saying

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Two Iraqi policemen were killed Friday by U.S. soldiers after the men failed to identify themselves when the soldiers responded to a domestic dispute near Kirkuk, an Army spokesman said Saturday.

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When his family gathers to bury Aaron Weaver, 32, an Army helicopter pilot from Inverness killed near Fallujah, Iraq this week, three of his seven brothers and sisters will return for the funeral from active military duty all over the world. Two are Army helicopter pilots, including one stationed in Baghdad. A third is an Air Force MP. They'll bring home memories of a smiling, outdoors-loving

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Turkey has agreed to a total ban on capital punishment. Its envoy to the Council of Europe signed a European Convention protocol abolishing the death penalty in all circumstances, including during wars. The Turkish parliament had already voted to abolish the death penalty in peacetime in August 2002. The European Commission said Ankara's latest move was a "significant step on its way to

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Policy blasted by minorities Some faculty leaders at Texas A&M University said Thursday it is time to end the legacy program, in which applicants get credit for their blood ties to alumni. The comments by A&M faculty senate members mark the first internal opposition to the program, currently under fire from minority politicians and activists because it favors whites. Both internal and

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President Bush, campaigning in the state that put him into the White House, dropped his self-proclaimed reluctance to talk about politics Thursday and said he expects a tough re-election campaign but "a great national victory in November." He said Florida would help him win a second term. "We carried it once and we're going to carry it again," Bush said at a fund-raiser that brought in $1

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Levi Strauss & Co., the California Gold Rush outfitter whose blue jeans are a globally recognized symbol of America, closed its last two U.S. sewing plants Thursday.

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Unofficial Iraqi sources told Al Bawaba Wednesday that Abed Hamoud al-Tikriti, presidential secretary of former leader Saddam Hussein died two days ago while in US custody. Iraqi security officials contacted by Al Bawaba declined to comment on the report, but have not denied it either. Al-Tikriti was taken into custody on 18 June, 2003. Abed Hamoud was considered one of Saddam's closest

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Insurgents in Iraq have fired two rocket-propelled-grenades at a central Baghdad hotel. No casualties have been reported. A security guard at the Bourj al-Hayat hotel in central Baghdad says four masked men jumped out of a white sedan, and then fired two rocket-propelled grenades at the building. The grenades slammed into the first and fourth floors, but no-one was hurt. The Baghdad

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Afghanistan's first democratic elections are unlikely to take place in June as scheduled because of delays in voter registration, the United Nations says. "The current rate of registration is far below the rate necessary to complete registration for election this year," UN spokesman Manuel de Almeida e Silva said. "The right date remains June but it is close to impossible to meet the June

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Today's recount in the House District 91 race is likely to raise questions about electronic voting, including whether paper records are necessary. Three years after helping render punch-card voting systems obsolete, Broward County voters have proven that no election system is foolproof. In Tuesday's special election to fill state House seat 91, 134 Broward voters managed to use the 2-year-old

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No proof links Iraq, al-Qaida, Powell says Chief weapons inspector reportedly about to quit Secretary of State Colin Powell reversed a year of administration policy, acknowledging Thursday that he had seen no “smoking gun [or] concrete evidence” of ties between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. Powell, speaking at a news conference at the State Department, stressed that he

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Saboteurs have blown up a pipeline west of the northern oil centre of Kirkuk, a senior Iraqi oil official says. Northern Oil Company director general Adel Kazzaz says an explosion tore up a line connecting oil fields to a pumping station in the area around Hassiba, 135 kilometres west of Kirkuk. "The fuel line was used for domestic market needs and filling up tankers that export crude," Mr

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New York Stock Exchange directors may ask New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to sue former NYSE Chairman Richard Grasso, beginning an effort to recoup some of the $140 million paid to Grasso before he was ousted in September, said a person familiar with the matter. Spitzer's authority to pursue Grasso stems from provisions of the state's not-for-profit corporation laws. Members of

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U.S. Black Hawk Helicopter Goes Down in Iraq; All 8 Passengers Were Killed, Including 4 Soldiers

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The Pentagon took the first step yesterday in the politically charged process of selecting domestic military bases that it will recommend next year that the White House and Congress approve for closure. The Defense Department asked commanders of about 425 installations in the United States and its territories and possessions to provide information about their bases for a fifth round of

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Thirty-five U.S. soldiers were wounded Wednesday in a mortar attack on a U.S. base west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Anti-American insurgents fired mortar rounds at a military camp, killing one American soldier and wounding 34 others, the U.S. command said.

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Small businesses will have their access to capital crimped by a government move suspending the biggest loan program for them as it runs short of money, a Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday. The move is "the Bush administration's latest attempts to gut this critical program," said Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York, senior Democrat on the House Small Business Committee. "As the economy struggles

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 With its rising budget deficit and ballooning trade imbalance, the United States is running up a foreign debt of such record-breaking proportions that it threatens the financial stability of the global economy, according to a report made public today bythe International Monetary Fund. In nearly 60 pages of carefully worded analysis, the report sounded a loud alarm about the

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A firefight between US occupation forces and Iraqi resistance fighters in the town of Fallujah left an Iraqi couple dead, Iraqi police and witnesses said, according to AFP. In northern Iraq, resistance fighters attacked a checkpoint with bullets, killing a policeman and a civilian west of Kirkuk on Wednesday. Fallujah residents and the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division reported the shelling

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Europe's top court has ruled that restricting marriage and pension rights for transsexuals violates European Union law. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg heard a case involving a British woman, identified only as KB Under British law, her partner, a female-to-male transsexual, would not be able to receive a widower's pension because they were unable to marry legally. The European

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When Arizona schools superintendent Lisa Graham Keegan and a group of predominantly conservative educators began the Education Leaders Council in 1995, their proclaimed goal was to upset an educational establishment long dominated by the Democrats and left-leaning teachers unions. Nearly a decade later, Keegan and her allies have become the establishment -- and the left is crying foul.

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Libya's pledge to dismantle its programme to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) could pave the way for the return of US oil companies that left the North African country in 1986 when then President Ronald Reagan imposed sanctions on the country. The US is expected to lift the Libyan portion of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act next year. However, this may not occur until after the

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The US-led coalition will release 100 people from Iraqi prisons tomorrow and hundreds more in coming weeks. Who are these people?: According to L. Paul Bremer: Those released will be set free on the understanding they "must renounce violence" and have "a guarantor, such as a prominent person in his community or a religious or tribal leader, who will accept responsibility for the good conduct

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AIDS killed three million people around the world last year, more than two million of them in Africa. The three major U.S. television networks' evening news programmes devoted a combined total of 39 minutes to the issue.

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Bechtel has won its second major award for reconstruction in Iraq through which it will earn up to $1.8 billion for work on power, water, sewage, airports, seaports, schools and government buildings.

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President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee have held their first talks in almost three years. The one-hour meeting took place in Islamabad, where Pakistan is hosting a summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc). Pakistan's information minister said it was held in a "cordial manner and ended on a positive note", The

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An audiotape, purportedly from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, refers to the capture last month of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and denounces Persian Gulf states for supporting the U.S., the al-Jazeera television network said. The Qatar-based satellite news channel broadcast a tape late yesterday, said to be from the fugitive terrorist leader. The voice refers to the capture of Hussein,

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Georgian opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili has claimed victory in Sunday's presidential elections. He told the BBC his top priorities were to tackle corruption and to make the country investor-friendly. Mr Saakashvili, 36, led November's popular revolution that ousted former Soviet veteran Eduard Shevardnadze. The US-educated lawyer faces big challenges - Georgia remains volatile, with

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The dollar fell to a record against the euro in London after Federal Reserve Governor Ben S. Bernanke said the risk of a dollar crisis is ``quite low'' and that valuing the currency only against the euro may be ``misleading.'' The dollar fell 17 percent versus the euro last year and 9.7 percent against the yen after the Fed said it can keep rates low well into 2004. Bernanke also said the

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A military tribunal has sentenced five young Israelis to a year in prison for refusing to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories, one of those convicted says. The five, all aged about 20, were convicted on December 16 of insubordination after a court martial in Jaffa rejected their refusal to serve on grounds of conscience. The court martial found their motives were political. Matan

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Legislation also would not allow weekend executions Utah could ban firing squads and execute condemned prisoners only by lethal injection "but not on Sundays, Mondays or holidays� under bills submitted for the upcoming legislative session. Utah is the only state that uses firing squads. Three current death row inmates have chosen to die by firing squad rather than injection. This strikes me

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Prime minister thanks British troops in Basra British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose political fortunes have wavered since backing the U.S.-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein, flew into southern Iraq Sunday to thank British troops for their part in the war. During the daylong visit, he was scheduled to meet military commanders and. later Sunday, give a speech to some of the 10,000

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Iraqi resistance fighters hit a U.S. base in central Iraq with mortar shells, killing one American soldier and injuring two others, a U.S. military spokesman said Saturday. Two other troops were killed in a separate bomb attack.

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Some 30 Bulgarian soldiers have pulled out a 500-man battalion heading for Iraq following attacks there in which five Bulgarian soldiers died, the chief of staff of the army said Friday. "Between 25 and 30 soldiers have declined duty, probably as a result of pressure from their families," General Nikola Kolev told Bulgarian radio. The battalion is meant to replace 480 Bulgarian troops who have

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The north of Iraq was threatened by ethnic conflict yesterday as crisis talks between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk failed to prevent continuing bloodshed in the divided city. At least one man was killed after a demonstration by ethnic Arabs and Turkmen culminated in an exchange of gunfire with Kirkuk's mostly Kurdish police. The march followed a similar clash on Wednesday when five people

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Six cases of mistaken identity were behind the pre-Christmas grounding of six Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles over terrorism fears, a police official said Friday. The names of six passengers sounded similar to those of terrorist suspects provided by the FBI, prompting the French government to ground the planes, the official said on condition of anonymity. Interior Minister

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One US soldier was killed and two wounded in a mortar attack on a US base in a town north of the Iraqi capital on Friday, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.

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German police experts believe the various videos and tapes attributed to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States are authentic, according to a report quoted by the weekly Focus which goes on sale on Monday. It said experts had ruled out the possibility that the tapes had been put together from archive material or otherwise manipulated.

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Boeing 737 disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff A charter airliner with 141 people aboard -- most of them French tourists -- crashed into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff early Saturday from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, according to officials who feared no one had survived.

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A people who may have been ancestors of the first Americans lived in Arctic Siberia, enduring one of the most unforgiving environments on earth at the height of the Ice Age, according to researchers who found the oldest evidence yet of humans living near the frigid gateway to the New World. Russian scientists uncovered a 30,000-year-old site where hunters lived on the Yana River in Siberia,

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Democratic presidential contender John Edwards probably will not appear on Rhode Island's primary ballot because he did not submit enough valid signatures, election officials said.

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