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Iraqi army soldiers guard the Shalamcha border crossing with Iran, some 340 miles southeast of Baghdad. Iraqi and British forces in southern Iraq closed border crossings with Iran in an attempt to choke off smuggling networks accused by Washington of supplying militant groups. (Photo by Nabil al-Jurani)

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Justice audit faults terror stats

Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 - despite no evidence linking them to terror activity.

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AOL News

High court tosses Philip Morris verdict

The Supreme Court threw out a $79.5 million punitive damages award to a smoker's widow, a boon to businesses seeking stricter limits jury verdicts.

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CBS News

3 Americans released in West Bank

Three American women were briefly kidnapped in the West Bank city of Nablus and were released later in the evening, Palestinian security officials said.

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CNN

Media: Blair to announce start of Iraq exit

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce that British troops will start to withdraw from Iraq within weeks, British media said.

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Reuters

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Bomber strikes at Iraqi funeral

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BBC

Court: Detainees can't challenge cases

Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court ruled, upholding a key provision of a law at the center of President Bush's anti-terrorism plan.

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Yahoo! News

McCain: Rumsfeld among worst defense secretaries

Republican Senator John McCain said the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history.

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CNN

A growing epidemic of fake medications in Asia

Asia is seeing an "epidemic of counterfeits" of life-saving drugs, and the problem is spreading. In a recent sampling in Southeast Asia, 53 percent of the anti-malarials bought were fakes.

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International Herald Tribune

NATION

Iran defiant on nuclear program

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected international calls for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment, a day before a U.N. deadline runs out.

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BBC

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Iran 'six months from mass uranium enrichment'

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Guardian

Rape claim splits Iraq government

An allegation that Iraqi police raped a Sunni woman while enforcing a new security plan in Baghdad has opened sectarian splits within the government.

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BBC

POLITICS

GOP donor hit with terror charges

A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to the House Republicans' campaign committee over three years.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

The Libby verdict: What's at stake?

With the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, set to go to jury, stakes are high for the defense and prosecution.

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ABC News

Obama in SF, decries Bush policies

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, on his first Bay Area swing since announcing his bid for the presidency, said the nation's most vital division is "between the American people and their government.''

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San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

U.S. looks to stage 2018 World Cup

The United States intends to bid for the 2018 World Cup, hoping to return soccer's quadrennial championship to the country that produced the highest attendance in the event's history.

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International Herald Tribune

Crowds pump up riders as Tour of California race begins

The cowbells came in mighty handy as the finest cyclists in the world spun their titanium wheels through 97 miles of prime Northern California cow country.

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San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Increase in egg donors raises concerns

Human egg donation was a rarity not so long ago. But heightened demand for eggs - and rising compensation for donors - are prompting more young women to consider it.

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Yahoo! News

Moon ventures could bring in good money

Even as NASA moves ahead with its $100 billion plan to return to the moon, it's also making room for the private sector to get in on the ground floor.

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MSNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

EU ministers back ambitious climate change goals

European Union ministers backed ambitious targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions and started the touchy process of determining which states should carry the heaviest burden.

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Reuters

Carbon offsets 'harm environment'

The current trend for "offsetting" carbon emissions by planting trees is doing more harm to the environment than good, members of the British parliament were told.

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BBC

EDUCATION

School apologizes for questionable homework assignment

An Auckland high school is apologizing after students were given an assignment in which they had to describe themselves as a murderer and detail how they would kill their victim and dispose of the body.

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New Zealand Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Blind can see again thanks to bionic eye

People who have been blind for most of their lives have been able to see everyday objects with the help of a "bionic" eye that may one day restore sight to patients with degenerative eye diseases.

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New Zealand Herald

Lost ring comes full circle 20 years later

A college ring lost more than 20 years ago by a former undercover officer for the CIA has been found in an underwater cave off the coast of Africa.

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CNN

Rescuers: Dog helped keep climbers alive

Rescuers reached three stranded climbers on Oregon's Mt. Hood and a dog, Velvet, is being given K-9 kudos for helping keep them alive.

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Guardian

NATION

Class action suit filed over peanut butter illnesses

Seattle lawyer William Marler has filed a class action lawsuit seeking to represent people who became sick after eating peanut butter contaminated with salmonella.

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Seattle Post Intelligencer

Crime increase turning New Orleans into Big Uneasy

New Orleans, the "Big Easy" city famous for its good times and relaxed attitude, has become the Big Uneasy in recent weeks as its murder count has soared and anger grown at local leaders.

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Reuters

Older recruits find less success in Army

Older recruits are washing out of the Army at nearly twice the rate of all new soldiers, according to the Pentagon.

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USA Today

BUSINESS

US Airways CEO sentenced to jail

The CEO of US Airways will spend one day in jail for his drunken driving arrest shortly after his airline's $9.8 billion bid for Delta Air Lines was rejected.

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CNBC

JetBlue snafu could cost $30 million

The chief executive of JetBlue Airways Corp. said reimbursing passengers stuck on delayed flights and updating its operations could cost the airline $30 million or more.

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MSNBC

JetBlue's prospects dampened after delays

In the aftermath of last week's ice storm, JetBlue Airways' calamitous operational collapse will weigh down the company's stock price, according to a report by Morgan Stanley.

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Forbes

HEALTH

Most women at risk of heart disease, doctors say

Nearly all American women are in danger of heart disease or stroke and should be more aggressive about lowering their risk, the American Heart Association said in new guidelines.

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CBS News

3 patients given organs from HIV-positive donor

Three patients at hospitals in Tuscany were mistakenly given organs from an HIV-positive donor in a case that raised serious concerns over transplant procedures in Italy.

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International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Medical examiner says time running out on Anna Nicole hearing

A coroner said that despite being embalmed, Anna Nicole Smith's body is deteriorating "much faster than expected."

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Showbuzz

Richie pleads not guilty in DUI case

Nicole Richie's lawyer appeared in court without her client and entered a not guilty plea on Richie's behalf to a driving under the influence charge.

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Hollywood Reporter

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

Religion 'not causing tension' in workplace

Religious observance in the workplace is not a source of employer-employee conflict, despite a number of high-profile cases of alleged religious discrimination in the workplace, a survey claims.

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Monsters and Critics

When priests pilfer

Still recovering from the sexual abuse scandal of five years ago, the Catholic Church is facing another crisis: clergy who steal money from their parishes.

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TIME

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Revelers dance during 'Imperatriz'' samba school parade in Rio de Janeiro. (Photo by Jorge Saenz / AP)

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