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- McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON? The U.S. death toll in Iraq increased in January, ending a four-month drop in casualties, and most of the deaths occurred outside Baghdad or the once-restive Anbar province, according to military statistics. |
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- AFP - US President George W. Bush on Thursday warned that a hasty pull-out from Iraq would ruin fragile progress there and convince extremists and Iran that the United States is a “paper tiger.” |
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- AP - Violence returned Thursday to the southern city of Basra, where militants pummeled Britain’s airport base with 20 rockets and British gunners answered with volleys of artillery. Civilians were killed and wounded in the crossfire. |
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- AFP - EU and Iraqi officials agreed Thursday to pursue closer energy ties, part of a broader strategy by Europe to reduce its dependence on Russian supplies. |
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- AP - Iraqi and European Union officials agreed Thursday to pursue closer energy ties, bringing the EU a step closer to turning Iraq into a major supplier and reducing its dependency on Russia. |
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- Reuters - Iraq’s Presidency Council is unlikely to ratify a new law that would give thousands of former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party their old jobs back, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Thursday. |
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- Reuters - Violent civilian deaths in Iraq fell again in January, figures showed on Thursday, and were significantly lower than a year ago after nationwide security crackdowns. |
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- AFP - Human rights in Iraq deteriorated for much of 2007 while sectarian violence targeting civilians swelled the number of displaced to around 4.4 million, half of them abroad, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. |
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- AFP - Life is slowly returning to normal in the miserable grimy streets of Baghdad’s Fadel district, heartland of Iraq’s Sunni “resistance.” |
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- AFP - A car bomb tore through a group of building workers gathered in a street of the Iraqi capital’s Kadhimiyah district on Thursday, killing five people and wounding at least eight, security officials said. |
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- AFP - Insurgents fired a barrage of rockets into a British base in southern Iraq on Thursday, lightly wounding two British soldiers, a military spokesman said. |
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- AP - Rockets slammed into the British base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday, slightly wounding three British soldiers, a spokesman said. Iraq |
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- AFP - Two earthquakes jolted the southeastern Iraqi city of Kut, causing no injuries or damage but panicking residents, the meteorological department and residents said on Thursday. |
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- AP - Republican Mitt Romney accused John McCain of using dirty tricks by suggesting the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, in a spirited debate Wednesday night that underscored the intensity of their presidential rivalry. |
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- AP - Russia’s Jewish community on Thursday reported three attacks in the last two weeks, including a raid on a synagogue and desecration of a memorial to Holocaust victims. |
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- Reuters - President Vladimir Putin’s chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, will win 71 percent of the votes in March’s Russian presidential election, state-owned pollster VTsIOM predicted on Thursday. |
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- Reuters - President Vladimir Putin told Russia’s state security service on Wednesday to raise its guard against outside attempts to meddle in a March election which is expected to bring to power his hand-picked successor. |
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- AP - Police charged a reputed international crime boss with tax evasion Wednesday, pursuing prosecution of a man wanted in the U.S. and suspected of playing a key role in Russia’s lucrative natural-gas trade with Europe. |
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- AP - No foreign countries will be allowed to meddle in the campaign leading up to Russia’s crucial presidential election in March, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. |
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- AP - President Vladimir Putin and his likely successor called Wednesday for sweeping environmental improvements, saying cleaning up Soviet-era pollution and reducing industrial waste are crucial for Russia’s economy and public health. |
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- AFP - Serbia’s nationalist presidential candidate, Tomislav Nikolic, held talks in Moscow Wednesday as a tug-of-war for influence in the Balkans intensified ahead of weekend run-off elections. |
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- AP - The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year’s Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt. |
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- AP - A murderer who would have become the nation’s first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. |
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- AP - Two Egyptian college students arrested near a South Carolina Navy weapons station last year were carrying low-grade fireworks, as they claimed, not the dangerous explosives as charged by federal prosecutors, the FBI has determined. |
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- AP - Yet another storm swept across the nation’s midsection Thursday, burying areas still recovering from an earlier wave of severe weather, tying up air travel and killing at least three people. |
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- AP - Delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants worked Thursday to advance discussions on how the world can combat global climate change. |
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- AP - Tougher identification rules went into effect Thursday along the nation’s borders, but there appeared to be little added delay as travelers unprepared for the change were in many cases allowed to cross with a warning. |
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- AP - Josh Rich clutched an envelope as he paid his last respects to Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley. |
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- AP - Investigators have verified 14 cases of abuse by a nightshift nurse who told police he abused nearly 100 patients at health care centers since the 1980s, authorities said Thursday. |
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- AP - A doctor whose disappearance just before Sept. 11, 2001, led her family on a painstaking search for answers was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, a court ruled Thursday. |
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- AP - DNA evidence now links the suspected abduction of a 19-year-old woman from a friend’s home to two attacks on women near a university late last year, and authorities said Thursday that they’re investigating still another attack that could be related. |
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- AP - An appeals court overturned the conviction of a baby sitter on Thursday and ordered a new trial, saying the latest research into shaken baby syndrome might prove she didn’t kill a baby in her care. |
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- AP - Global warming issues took over lecture halls in colleges across the country Thursday, with more than 1,500 universities participating in what was billed as the nation’s largest-ever “teach-in.” |
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- AP - Despite being the nation’s fifth-largest city, Phoenix used to practically go to sleep after 5 p.m. Commuters deserted downtown high-rises in droves to return to the suburbs. Sidewalks were empty by early evening. |
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- AP - Two men accused of breaking into a rural church and setting it ablaze last month were arrested on arson and burglary charges, authorities said Thursday. |
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- AP - A former cellmate of a woman accused of killing her month-old baby by burning the girl in a microwave testified Thursday that the woman confessed to the crime, saying the baby “fit right in” the oven. |
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- AP - Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to protect the city. |
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- AP - A 13-year-old runaway returned home with a horrific account of being forced into prostitution by the kind of person who should have instead come to her aid: a city detective. |
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- AP - A significant drop in the number of hunters in West Virginia has left a hole in the state’s budget, and one lawmaker thinks he has a solution: Allow children to receive hunter training in school. |
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