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[/url]AP - AP West Africa Bureau Chief Todd Pitman is embedded with U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Regiment in Ramadi, Iraq. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - A massive earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, followed by a huge aftershock, has rocked Russia's remote northeastern Kamchatka peninsula but caused only light injuries. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday invited interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Egypt for an official visit, Olmert's office said. Olmert accepted the invitation, which was extended in a telephone calland the date of the visit was to be set next week, according to his office. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Jordan has at the request of Iraq postponed an Amman conference aimed at halting the sectarian killings in the neighbouring country, a royal palace official told AFP. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso pressed Japan to ease restrictions on foreign investors as Asia's largest economy emerges from a decade of slumber. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The United Nations must now get out of the way and let Bosnia succeed or fail on its own, the top international envoy for Bosnia told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - At least 12 people were killed across Iraq in a series of bombings and shootings, while gunmen stormed two Baghdad bookstores and kidnapped six people. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - British airports operator BAA repeated its rejection of a hostile consortium bid, led by Spanish construction group Ferrovial, valuing it at 8.75 billion pounds (12.56 billion euros, 15.32 billion dollars). Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - The acting chief executive of an Australian export firm under investigation for allegedly paying huge bribes to Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq stood down. 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 - Calls for US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation by irate former commanders is prompting a hard look back at the mistakes that led to the US military's most intractable conflict since the Vietnam War. 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]AFP - Ten people have been killed across Iraq in a series of bombings and shootings, as the education ministry denied a grisly report that two teachers had been slaughtered in front of their pupils. Link To Original Article
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AP - The number of new people signing up for jobless benefits last week fell sharply, a fresh sign that employers are feeling better about the business climate. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - A much-awaited session of Iraq's parliament was cancelled amid signs that a breakthrough on forming a government of national unity might be on the immediate horizon. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Iran scoffed on Thursday at the idea of U.S. military action to halt its nuclear program and gave no hint of compromise before a visit by U.N. inspectors to assess Iranian compliance with Security Council demands. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Iraq's dominant Shiite United Iraqi Alliance will vote for a new candidate to head the next government before the parliament convenes on Saturday, Shiite lawmaker Hussein al-Shahristani revealed. Link To Original Article
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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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[/url]Reuters - Even if Iraqi leaders finally break the deadlock over a new government, they will have their work cut out stabilizing Baghdad trouble spots like Adhamiya, where sectarian tensions fueled fierce gun battles this week. Link To Original Article
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