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US forces help repel attack on Baghdad military HQ
American officials say that U.S. troops helped repel a complex attack by a group of heavily armed militants against a Baghdad military headquarters.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:43 pm
Bahrain steps up pressure on Shiite 'plotters'
What began last month with the arrest of an opposition leader in Bahrain has mushroomed into a full-blown political offensive in the tiny Gulf nation with big fault lines: U.S.-allied Sunni rulers against members of a Shiite majority being cast as coup plotters who could open the door to …
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:42 pm
Basque separatist group ETA announce cease-fire
The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and decapitated repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:33 pm
Former Saddam confidant says he'll die in prison
The man who once served as the international face of Saddam Hussein's regime predicted Sunday that he will die in an Iraqi jail, citing his old age and lengthy prison sentence.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:25 pm
Greenest state behind the waste-to-energy race
Government officials from around the world used to come to this port city to catch a glimpse of the future: Two-story piles of trash would disappear into a furnace and eventually be transformed into electricity to power thousands of homes.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:27 pm
Racial violence changes student _ and school
Duong Nghe Ly can't wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:15 pm
Accident at German flight show kills 1, injures 33
A pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators Sunday, leaving one person dead and 33 injured, police said.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:09 pm
Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal'
The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:04 pm
Endangered or not, wolf killings set to expand
Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 12:05 pm
Nine women describe why early mammograms remain crucial
Diagnosed with breast cancer at 49. At 44. At 30. Nine La Crosse area women are among more than 100,000 Americans in the past decade who learned they had the disease before their 50th birthday.
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Mideast crisis looms over Israeli settlements
Just days after Mideast peace talks began in Washington, the first major crisis is already looming: Israel hinted Sunday it will ease restrictions on building in West Bank settlements, while the Palestinian president warned he'll quit the talks if Israel resumes construction.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 11:58 am
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit
Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala _ most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.
New Sep 05, 2010 | 11:56 am
Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations
The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
Sep 05, 2010 | 11:49 am
Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds
While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.
Sep 05, 2010 | 11:48 am
Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead
A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official confirmed the boat had tipped but said the passenger manifest apparently vanished in the fire.
Sep 05, 2010 | 11:44 am
Pakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown
Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
Sep 05, 2010 | 11:42 am
9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder
It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site _ which is also what it is.
Sep 05, 2010 | 11:27 am
Army studies concussions' effects on bomb techs
Motivated by the deaths of two friends in war-zone explosions, 1st Lt. Timothy Dwyer decided to become a bomb hunter.
Sep 05, 2010 | 11:20 am
Two motorcyclists injured in crash
WHITEHALL -- Two motorcyclists were injured Saturday after one lost control of his cycle striking a bridge railing and crashing on North Creek Road in Arcadia Township.
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Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank
When Mio Honzawa starts fifth grade next April, her textbooks will be thicker.
Sep 05, 2010 | 11:05 am
