Iraqi MPs approve a bill to allow officials from ex-leader Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Jan 2008 | 2:43 pm
Taiwan's nationalists win a landslide victory in parliamentary polls, in a vote closely watched by China.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Jan 2008 | 2:39 pm
BEIJING (AP) -- Accidents in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year, state media reported Saturday - a toll that is a marked improvement from previous years, but still leaves China's mines the world's deadliest....
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MANAMA (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Saturday that America's new strategy had reversed Iraq's descent into mayhem and the United States was on track to complete the withdrawal of 20,000 troops by mid-year.
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Reuters: Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 2:32 pm
India withdraw their threat to quit the tour of Australia if an appeal against Harbhajan Singh's ban fails.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Jan 2008 | 2:28 pm
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CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait (AP) -- Facing another decision about U.S. troop levels in Iraq by spring, President Bush said Saturday it's "fine with me" if generals recommend no more reductions than those already planned to take the force posture down to about 130,000....
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AP Top International News At 9:34 a... | 12 Jan 2008 | 2:13 pm
AP - Facing another decision about U.S. troop levels in Iraq by spring, President Bush said Saturday it's "fine with me" if generals recommend no more reductions than those already planned to take the force posture down to about 130,000.
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of thousands of former supporters of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to government jobs, a key benchmark sought by the United States as a step toward easing sectarian tensions....
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AP Top International News At 9:34 a... | 12 Jan 2008 | 2:06 pm
AP - Iraq's parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of thousands of former supporters of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to government jobs, a key benchmark sought by the United States as a step toward easing sectarian tensions.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, dealing a humiliating blow to the government's hardline China policies two months before a presidential poll....
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Reuters - Iraq's parliament passed a law on
Saturday to let members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party return
to public life, winning Washington's swift praise for meeting a
benchmark aimed at reconciling warring sects.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 1:57 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament passed a law on Saturday to let members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party return to public life, winning Washington's swift praise for meeting a benchmark aimed at reconciling warring sects.
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Reuters: Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 1:57 pm
Police arrested a woman Friday after her 7-year-old son told authorities she burned him in an oven, and a day-care worker was arrested for not reporting the attack.
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FOXNews.com | 12 Jan 2008 | 1:55 pm
Reuters - President George W. Bush said on
Saturday that America's new strategy had reversed Iraq's
descent into mayhem and the United States was on track to
complete the withdrawal of 20,000 troops by mid-year.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 1:54 pm
'Simple Life' star Nicole Richie and her boyfriend welcomed a baby girl on Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, People Magazine reported, while singer Christina Aguilera and her husband had their baby just doors down the hall.
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South Africa's police chief Jackie Selebi is suspended as he prepares to face corruption charges.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Jan 2008 | 1:42 pm
The union representing Hollywood directors was to begin contract talks with studios on Saturday, Directors Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced. No other details were disclosed.
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Iraq's parliament adopts legislation to reinstate former Baath party supporters, a key benchmark sought by the U.S.
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AFP - Shiite and Sunni members of Iraq's parliament buried their differences on Saturday to pass a controversial bill allowing former officials of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life.
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Shiite and Sunni members of Iraq's parliament buried their differences on Saturday to pass a controversial bill allowing former officials of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life.
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TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's opposition nationalist Kuomintang (KMT), which favours closer ties with China, on Saturday declared a landslide victory in the island's parliamentary election.
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A woman with stab wounds and four children die under unknown circumstances after being pulled from burning house.
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President Bush says hope is returning to Iraq after last year's US troop surge, as he visits troops in Kuwait.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:56 pm
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) -- A speeding fuel tanker crashed and spilled its cargo Saturday in Nigeria's main southern city, and as many as three dozen people were feared dead in the resulting fire, police and witnesses said....
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Reuters - Fast-growing Nevada had hoped to play
an influential part in selecting the nominees for this year's
presidential election, but with the state's caucuses a week
away, Republican voters are not seeing many candidates.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:50 pm
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Fast-growing Nevada had hoped to play an influential part in selecting the nominees for this year's presidential election, but with the state's caucuses a week away, Republican voters are not seeing many candidates.
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Reuters: Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:50 pm
It's a benchmark long sought by the United States as a key step toward national reconciliation.
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A huge fire raged through a central market in Calcutta, destroying more than 1,000 shops.
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Reuters - Iran told the visiting head of the U.N.
nuclear watchdog that Tehran's cooperation in clarifying the
scope of its atomic work will show the West is wrong in
accusing the Islamic state of having military aims.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:43 pm
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran told the visiting head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog that Tehran's cooperation in clarifying the scope of its atomic work will show the West is wrong in accusing the Islamic state of having military aims.
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Reuters: Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:43 pm
A hearing for Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline was to be held on Monday as Mark Vincent Kaplan requested the police report and names of the officers who responded.
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AP - Even Shakespeare couldn't help Marion Jones stay out of jail. Her attorney quoted the bard in asking a judge to be merciful, but the former Olympic track gold medalist was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying to investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs and about her role in a check-fraud scam.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:32 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Recent clashes between Iranian and U.S. Navy forces in the Persian Gulf reflect Iran's shifted military strategy to use its Revolutionary Guard's fast boats more aggressively in the region, the top U.S. military officer said Friday....
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The new head of S Africa's ruling party, Jacob Zuma, uses his first public address to the ANC to call for unity.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:23 pm
Some countries hopping on the nuclear power bandwagon have abysmal industrial safety records and corrupt ways.
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USATODAY.com News - Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:19 pm
Kevin Connolly takes up the reins as the BBC's new man in Washington, joining the pack of journalists on the presidential campaign trail.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:17 pm
Humphrey Hawksley meets Iraqis who believe economic good times are just around the corner.
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Taiwan's main opposition party is assured of a majority in the Legislature, TV stations reported.
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Government soldiers and Tamil separatists fought a series of gunbattles in Sri Lanka's embattled north.
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A fuel tanker crashed in Nigeria's main southern city, and as many as three dozen people were feared dead, police and witnesses ...
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New Jersey man discovers pea-sized pearl after biting into his fried oyster.
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A bondsman told authorities that O.J. Simpson tried to get him to pass a message to a co-defendant.
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USATODAY.com News - Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 11:57 am
The faltering economy has caught the Iraq war as people's top worry, a national poll suggests.
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USATODAY.com News - Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 11:46 am
LAGOS (AFP) - At least 30 people were killed and several shops razed Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded in Port Harcourt, the hub of Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry and a target of attacks by militants.
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AFP - Wire stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 11:44 am
Investigators hoped to find the remains of a pregnant Marine by scraping dirt from a grave at the home of a comrade whom she ...
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USATODAY.com News - Top Stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 11:34 am
A 77-year-old woman has reportedly been stabbed to death in her own home.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 11:31 am
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said on Saturday his goal of reducing troop numbers in Iraq by July was on track but called on Syria and Iran to stop fuelling violence in the war-torn country.
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AFP - Wire stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 11:30 am
JAKARTA (AFP) - The health of Indonesia's ex-dictator Suharto improved Saturday, a day after he suffered multiple organ failure, as the government said it wanted to settle a graft case against him out of court.
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AFP - Wire stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 11:28 am
MATESEH, INDONESIA (Reuters) - As Indonesia's former President Suharto lay critically ill in hospital on Saturday, the military and police rushed to prepare the Suharto family's mausoleum in central Java for his burial.
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Reuters: Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 11:16 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tense encounter between U.S. Navy ships and Iranian boats in the Gulf shows Iran poses a threat and the United States is ready to counter it, the top U.S. military officer said on Friday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf ruled out a U.N. inquiry into the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, as demanded by her party, saying that Pakistan should not be compared to Lebanon.
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Reuters: Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 9:37 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton on Friday proposed $70 billion in emergency spending to stave off a possible U.S. election-year recession, upstaging Republican rivals who clashed over the economy but offered few specifics.
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Reuters: Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 8:28 am
PARIS (AFP) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out a United Nations probe into the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, in an interview with a French newspaper published Saturday.
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AFP - Wire stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 8:20 am
BEIJING (AFP) - China will introduce food labelling that meets international standards from May 1, better informing consumers and banning producers from making false claims, a new health ministry order said.
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AFP - Wire stories | 12 Jan 2008 | 7:37 am
There's no shortage of information—the challenge is sorting through it and harvesting the best.
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U.S. News & World Report | 12 Jan 2008 | 4:11 am
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez, emboldened by his success in a hostage release, took the side of leftist rebels in neighboring Colombia's decades-old civil conflict Friday, calling the guerrillas "true armies" who shouldn't be categorized as terrorists....
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AP Top International News At 9:34 a... | 12 Jan 2008 | 4:05 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A teary-eyed President Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday at Israel's Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there....
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AP Top International News At 9:34 a... | 12 Jan 2008 | 2:06 am
The Queen has led tributes to Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to conquer Mount Everest, as his native New Zealand announced that it would accord him the rare honour of a state funeral.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
General Suharto, the former dictator of Indonesia, appeared on the brink of death last night, after suffering multiple organ failure. His family was at his bedside in a Jakarta hospital where he was brought a week ago.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
A Muslim girl who had refused her family's wish to have an arranged marriage was murdered, a coroner has ruled.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Peter Hain is fighting for his political life as calls mount for him to resign over undeclared donations to his unsuccessful Labour deputy leadership bid.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Peter Hain was fighting for his political life yesterday as calls mounted for him to resign over undeclared donations to his unsuccessful Labour deputy leadership bid.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Burma's most senior dissident leader to escape arrest in the crackdown following the pro-democracy protests in September has condemned United Nations-backed talks between the opposition and the military regime as a sham.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
The voting age could be lowered to 16 to encourage young people to get involved in politics, Harriet Harman has suggested.
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Comment by Wayne F. Lesperance, Jr. Professor, Political Science, New England College
