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[/url]AP - Dame Muriel Spark, whose spare and humorous novels made her one of the most admired British writers of the post World War II years, has died in Tuscany, Italian officials said Saturday. She was 88. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - President Bush expressed his full support for Donald Rumsfeld on Friday to counter rising calls led by retired generals for the defense secretary to quit over his handling of the Iraq war. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - U.S. government officials allowed concerns about terrorism to overshadow the dangers posed by natural disasters after the September 11 attacks, even though such disasters occur more frequently and are not preventable, The New York Times reported on Saturday citing a new Department of Homeland Security report. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been hospitalized after another prisoner slashed him in the face while he slept, his lawyer said Saturday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Two U.S. Marines were killed and 22 wounded in combat against insurgents in Anbar province in western Iraq on Thursday, the U.S. military said on Saturday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Security has been stepped up at temples and mosques in northern India to guard against reprisal attacks as police hunted for those responsible for blasts at the country's biggest mosque in which 14 people were injured. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - A roadside bomb exploded Saturday in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, killing three Iraqi soldiers, the army said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Two U.S. Marines were killed and 22 were wounded, two of them critically, in fighting in western Iraq, the U.S. command announced Saturday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - At least 11 Iraqis, including three soldiers, have killed across the country in a series of bombings and shootings. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Vote counting in Peru's presidential election slowed Friday for the Easter holiday weekend, leaving the country in suspense over who will face nationalist Ollanta Humala in a runoff. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq's turbulent future. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - His back against the wall, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has issued an appeal, published in a leading daily but already rejected by his election nemesis Romano Prodi, for a short-term power-sharing agreement. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sought to defuse anger over remarks he made about Shiite Muslims being more loyal to Iran than their own countries, saying he was referring only to religion. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - A pillar of black smoke blocked a quarter of the sky, turning the spring sky outside Kirkuk overcast and hinting at yet another attack on the all-important pipeline to the refinery at Baiji. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Landslides triggered by heavy rains in southwestern Colombia this week have killed an estimated 51 people and paralyzed the country's main port on the Pacific. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Troops shot dead a militant who threw a grenade wounding at least two soldiers near Miranshah, the main town in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan border, security officials said on Saturday. Link To Original Article
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Britain's former Olympic heavyweight champion Audley Harrison suffered a second successive defeat in Rancho Mirage, California, and saw his hopes of ever lifting the world crown all but vanish. Link To Original Article
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AP - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday called his 2004 decision not to recuse himself from a case involving Vice President Dick Cheney the "proudest thing" he's done on the court. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - A dozen pre-teen Iraqi girls in ballerina outfits twirl onto the stage as the audience applauds fiercely for the fragile performers, who are learning, all too well, the age-old axiom that the show must go on. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - A key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated doubts about the country's bid to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Link To Original Article
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