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At least 153 dead as jet crashes at Madrid airport
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 AP - A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead ? Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:49:36 GMT |
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US, Poland OK missile defense base, riling Moscow
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 AP - The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia ? a move followed swiftly by a new warning from Moscow of a possible military response.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:09:45 GMT |
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In Georgia, Russia digs in as pullback date nears
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 AP - Russian forces dug trenches and built sentry posts deep inside Georgia on Wednesday, showing few signs they would pull back later this week as promised.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:48:03 GMT |
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Officials: Deal calls for troop pullback in Iraq
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 AP - Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June 30, Iraqi and American officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:16:56 GMT |
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4 more foreign activists detained in China
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 AP - Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:56:09 GMT |
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Illinois sheriff goes to jail for an education
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| Reuters - There's a new sheriff in jail. |
| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:00:44 GMT |
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Iraq's Sunni politicians angry over arrests
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 AP - Top Sunni politicians on Wednesday accused Iraq's Shiite-dominated security forces of carrying out political arrests, and warned that this could push Iraq into another round of sectarian fighting.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:12:31 GMT |
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Close ally of Colombia's president freed from jail
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 AP - A former senator close to President Alvaro Uribe was freed from prison on Wednesday, four months after his arrest on charges of colluding with far-right death squads.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:43:26 GMT |
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U.S. stops African refugee program after DNA tests
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| Reuters - The United States has halted a
program that united African refugees with relatives in America
after DNA testing revealed many people were lying about family
links, the State Department said on Wednesday. |
| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:29:43 GMT |
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US general warns of security gap when Marines leave Afghanistan
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AFP - Security gains made in southern Afghanistan could suffer if US Marines are pulled out later this year without replacements, the head of the Marine Corps has warned.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:42:07 GMT |
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Court: Accused Nazi eligible for extradition
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 AP - An 86-year-old man accused of killing a Jewish teenager in Hungary during World War II can be extradited to Hungary to face charges, an Australian judge found Wednesday.
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| Date Posted : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:42:36 GMT |
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