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AP - A bus carrying wedding guests veered off a road and plunged into a lake Thursday in northeastern India, killing at least 47 people, police said. Another bus crash later in the day killed at least 15 people. Link To Original Article
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The Christian Science Monitor - Apparently concerned that fighting in Iraq could spill over into this oil-rich kingdom, Saudi Arabia is considering a major fortification of its 500-mile border with Iraq. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The Pentagon has released its most extensive list of foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, providing the names and nationalities of 558 detainees who went through a hearing process there. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - While President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao hoped their discussions inside the White House would cool tensions over a yawning U.S.-China trade gap, demonstrators massed outside Thursday to protest Beijing's human rights policies. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Iraq's parliament was to meet for only the second time since it was elected in December amid protracted political deadlock that has stalled the formation of a government for more than four months. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Nepali police opened fire to block tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marching into Kathmandu on Thursday to confront King Gyanendra, killing at least three people and wounding up to 100. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Police brought in the editors of Playboy Indonesia for questioning Thursday, as the toned-down version of the U.S. men's magazine said it might stop publishing in the world's most populous Muslim nation because of protests. Link To Original Article
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AP - The first of thousands of citizen-soldiers of the 48th Infantry Brigade returning after a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq were back in Georgia Wednesday night. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Thursday his Shi'ite Alliance should decide whether he should resign to end the deadlock over the formation of a new government. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Middle East envoy, Lord Levy, delivered a letter to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas outlining proposals to revive the moribund peace process. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Even assuming Iraq forms a national government, there will be no immediate end to the violence, nothing like V-E Day marking World War II's end in Europe, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Police shot dead three people and wounded scores more as tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators defied shoot-on-sight curfew orders in Kathmandu. Link To Original Article
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AP - A suspected foreign Islamic militant linked to al-Qaida and a security official were killed Thursday in a gunfight at a roadblock near Afghan border, according to the Pakistani army and intelligence agents. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The United States has botched efforts to improve public health in Iraq and Afghanistan, missing a chance to gain support in those countries, an independent report released on Wednesday said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao landed in the US capital ahead of a meeting with President George W. Bush and top US officials. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - The U.S. government released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison � nearly all labeled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - About a week after the first pictures surfaced of U.S. forces abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail, a senator asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld what he had to say to people demanding his resignation. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - The new prime minister of the Solomon Islands was secretly sworn into office after two days of violent protests calling for him to stand down left parts of the capital in flames. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Nigerian militants killed two civilians in a car bomb attack on an army barracks in the southern city of Port Harcourt, extending a four-month onslaught against the world's eighth-largest oil exporter. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Iraq's parliament will convene on Thursday, officials said, but deadlock over the formation of a national government dragged on as embattled Shi'ite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari insisted he will not step down. Link To Original Article
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