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14 dead after storm lashes Philippines

Sun, 11/01/2009 - 4:42am
At least 14 people were dead and four missing in the Philippines a day after Typhoon Mirinae roared through the heart of the country, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said Sunday.
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Chapel housing 9/11 victims set on fire

Sun, 11/01/2009 - 12:39am
A man faces charges of arson after he allegedly set fire to a section of Memorial Park, which houses the remains of victims of September 11, 2001, attacks, police said Saturday.
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Gang-raped teen's parents: End violence

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 9:26pm
The parents of a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly gang-raped on a California high school campus urged the community Saturday to channel its anger over the event "through positive action," according to a pastor.
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Uyghurs from Gitmo arrive in Palau

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 8:13pm
Six Uyghurs -- Muslims from Southern China -- who were imprisoned in the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were transferred Saturday to the South Pacific island nation of Palau, an Obama administration official said.
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Official: 6 women in U.S. home strangled

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 7:12pm
Six women found dead at a Cleveland, Ohio, home appeared to have been strangled, and their decomposing bodies could have been lying there for "weeks, if not months or years," a coroner told CNN on Saturday.
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Clinton tries to jump-start Mideast talks

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 4:23pm
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried Saturday to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, saying she'd like to see talks begin "as soon as possible."
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Hitman caught on video reportedly ID'd

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 3:36pm
Police have identified the man whose shooting of another man outside a store in Naples, Italy, was captured by a surveillance camera, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Saturday.
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Nine still missing in Pacific

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 1:46pm
Rescuers were still searching for nine people missing in the Pacific off southern California after a U.S. Coast Guard plane and a Marine helicopter collided Thursday night.
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Six Afghans held for attack on U.N. staff

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 11:43am
Six Afghans have been arrested for planning this week's guest house suicide attack that killed five U.N. employees in Kabul, Afghanistan's chief of national security said Saturday.
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Hot Hamilton scorches to Abu Dhabi pole

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 10:59am
Last year's world champion Lewis Hamilton has claimed pole position for Sunday's inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix while his successor as Formula One's top driver, Jenson Button, qualified fifth.
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Iraq bombing suspect killed

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 10:30am
A suspect in a massive double bomb attack in Baghdad grabbed a guard's weapon and shot an investigator before being shot himself, the Interior Ministry said.
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Memo shows UK officer foresaw death

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 9:09am
A high-ranking British officer killed this year in Afghanistan warned a month before he died that a shortage of helicopters was putting troops at risk, a leaked memo showed Saturday.
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London marks 1,000 days to Olympics

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 8:22am
Saturday marks 1,000 days until the London 2012 Olympic Games, and officials promise the event is on track and on budget.
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Election chief opposes Afghan coalition

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 6:33am
Afghan president Hamid Karzai's representatives were holding 11th hour talks Saturday with those of main rival Abdullah Abdullah in a bid to prevent the former foreign minister from boycotting an election run-off vote amid claims it will be mired in fraud, a spokesman for Abdullah said.
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FBI: Cheney did 'not recall' Plame details

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 4:09am
Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to newly released FBI documents.
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Typhoon-weary Philippines hit again

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 3:48am
The fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month came ashore east of the capital, Manila, on Saturday morning, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and washing away shanty houses near the coast.
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Amazon tribe finds plane survivors

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 2:52am
Indigenous Indians located nine survivors of a plane that crashed in a river in the Amazon rain forest with 11 people onboard, according to the Brazilian air force.
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Reward bus trip turns deadly in China

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 2:25am
A bus trip intended to reward customers of a health-care products company turned deadly when the vehicle plunged off a road in China's northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
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Obama wants classified info protected

Sat, 10/31/2009 - 12:17am
The Obama administration invoked the state secrets privilege on Friday in a lawsuit pertaining to government eavesdropping intended to intercept terrorist communications, and one privacy advocacy group called the decision "incredibly disappointing."
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Rapist sought in six U.S. deaths

Fri, 10/30/2009 - 9:52pm
A search has been launched for a 50-year-old convicted rapist and suspect in the killings of six people whose bodies were found in and around a house in Cleveland, Ohio, police said Friday.
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