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America calls end to front line operations in Iraq
Telegraph.co.uk
America called an end to front line operations in Iraq on Tuesday night amid telling warnings about its failure to end the threat of al-Qaeda or install a stable government. By Richard Spencer in Baghdad As President Barack Obama addressed the nation, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
AP source: Unlikely that 2 men plotting terror
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious items turned up in one of the men's luggage is finding they were probably not on a test run for a future terror attack, a US official said Tuesday, casting doubt on earlier ...
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Israelis shot dead in West Bank
ABC Online
By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker Four Israelis have been shot dead near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, in what police are describing as a terrorist attack. The shooting comes barely two days before new peace talks begin in Washington. ...
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'Unprecedented' challenge to save Chilean miners
The Associated Press
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The effort to save 33 Chilean men trapped deep in a mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved through ...
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Anger in France over Roma expulsions
The Hindu
For the past several weeks French President Nicolas Sarkozy had gone on a relentless "security" drive, threatening to revoke the nationality of naturalised foreign citizens who fall foul of the law and expelling thousands of Roma gypsies on the grounds ...
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FEMA: US evacuations may be required for Earl
The Associated Press
RALEIGH, NC — Federal officials urged US residents to prepare for possible evacuations and islanders in the Turks and Caicos braced for high winds Tuesday as powerful Hurricane Earl howled over open seas toward the East Coast of the US The Category 4 ...
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US, Chinese envoys to discuss NKorean nuclear standoff
The Canadian Press
WASHINGTON — Senior US officials will get an inside look at North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's visit to China when Beijing's envoy to stalled North Korean nuclear talks visits the State Department on Wednesday. The meeting between Wu Dawei, ...
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Labor should win two-party seesaw
Sydney Morning Herald
ON ELECTION night, the Australian Electoral Commission's website showed Labor well ahead of the Coalition in the two-party preferred vote. Yet by Monday night, the Coalition had surged to the lead. And last night, Labor was back in front. ...
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Mexico lauds capture of top drug lord as violence rages
AFP
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities on Tuesday paraded a top drug lord in public, presenting his capture as a much-needed victory in the escalating battle against the country's vicious traffickers. As police in Mexico City presented US-born Edgar Valdez ...
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AFP
WikiLeaks Founder Assange Applies For Swedish Residency
Wall Street Journal
By Ian Edmondson Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES STOCKHOLM (DOW JONES)--WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has applied for residency in Sweden, the Swedish Migration Board said Tuesday, even as police questioned him over allegations that he molested two Swedish ...
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Pakistan's flood victims frustrated with medical care
Toronto Star
MUZAFFARGARH, PAKISTAN—Victims of Pakistan's floods on Tuesday queued at hospitals where scant resources were available to treat a rising number of patients. Aid agencies fear disease, food shortages and malnutrition may create new crises as people ...
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New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist
The Associated Press
HAVANA — Cuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based policy expert, while a Mexican newspaper published an interview in which the gray-bearded revolutionary expressed regret for past ...
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Glenn Beck's generic God
Washington Post (blog)
Fox News host Glenn Beck muddled biblical references with fragments of American history, recreating a pottage of civil religion that says America has a divine destiny and claiming that a national revival is beginning. At the very beginning of the ...
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22 US troops killed in Afghanistan in four days
Telegraph.co.uk
Twenty two American troops have been killed in Afghanistan in four days, making it one of the bloodiest periods of the summer. By Ben Farmer, Kabul A series of bomb attacks have badly hit US troops in eastern and southern Afghanistan in the past 48 ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Bombs, shelling kill dozens in Somalia
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- At least nine civilians were killed and 25 were injured when roadside bombs hit minibuses in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, according to eyewitnesses and officials. The roadside bombs exploded near the former compound of ...
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Villagers return to slopes of Indonesian volcano
The Associated Press
TANAH KARO, Indonesia — Thousands of villagers returned to their homes along the ash-covered slopes of an Indonesian volcano that exploded after four centuries of dormancy, even though officials warned they could be putting their lives at risk. ...
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14-year-old Brazilian girl cannot fit on the bus: Elisany Silva too tall for ...
Daily Mail
By Mail Foreign Service It's hard standing out from the crowd when you are a teenager but few schoolchildren can claim to be more visible than Elisany Silva. The 14-year-old measures an unbelievable 6ft 9in tall, making her one of the biggest teenagers ...
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Daily Mail
US man charged with hate crime for stabbing Muslim cabbie
Sify
A 21-year-old American suspected of knifing a Muslim taxi driver in New York has been charged with attempted murder and assault, which could put him in jail for 25 years if convicted, news reports said Tuesday. Michael Enright was charged with the hate ...
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