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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva cut the inauguration ribbon for the opening of Venezuela's second bridge over the Orinoco River near Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. (Photo by Leslie Mazoch / AP)

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Lebanon crisis deepens, cabinet meets

Lebanon's political crisis deepened as the last pro-Syrian minister quit the cabinet shortly before it met to discuss the framework of a special court to try killers of a former prime minister.

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Reuters

Insurgent activity rising in Afghanistan

Insurgent activity in Afghanistan has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month.

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Global pact to clean up unexploded arms takes effect

A global treaty obliging warring parties to remove unexploded munitions which kill and maim long after fighting ends came into force, amid moves to start negotiations on curbing cluster bombs.

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Reuters

Bush salutes King at memorial groundbreaking

President Bush, appearing at a groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said the National Mall monument will "preserve his legacy for ages."

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Houston Chronicle

Bush, staff meet with bipartisan Iraq group

President Bush met with a bipartisan group seeking consensus on a new approach for the war in Iraq.

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20 killed in bus bombing in Baghdad

A bomb exploded in a minibus in Baghdad's largely Shiite Shaab neighborhood, killing at least 20 people and wounding 18.

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Iraqi leader pushes Cabinet changes as dozens killed

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CNN

U.S. officials: Castro has terminal cancer

The government believes Fidel Castro’s health is deteriorating and that the Cuban dictator is unlikely to live through 2007.

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Pelosi supports Murtha bid to become House majority leader

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, in line to become Speaker of the House, stepped into a postelection power struggle among Democrats with a letter of support for Rep. Jack Murtha's bid to become majority leader.

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USA Today

Bush faces GOP ire Over Rumsfeld timing

The White House is trying to soothe Republicans who say the party might have fared better on Election Day if Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was ousted earlier.

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Guardian Unlimited

Cooperative tone heard after elections

Pledges of bipartisan cooperation rang from the Capitol to the White House, with newly empowered Democrats pledging to tone down their rhetoric and go about the people's business.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

Envoys: Hamas accepts peace talk plan

The Arab League called for an international peace conference with Israel, and diplomats said the Hamas-led Palestinian government accepted.

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Forbes

Fatah, Hamas leaders to meet over new PM

A U.S.-educated professor with ties to both Hamas and the rival Fatah Party is the leading candidate for Palestinian prime minister in the emerging unity government.

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US News & World Report

Poor farmers in Pakistan donate kidneys for money

Nassem Kausar has done it. So, she says, have her sister, six brothers, five sisters-in-law and two nephews. Each has sold a kidney.

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BUSINESS

Russia gets OK from U.S. to join the WTO

Russia has won U.S. blessings to join the World Trade Organization, a move that could help the country shed its bad boy image among global trading nations.

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'Insulted' college donor withdraws $20 million gift

A $20 million gift to Florida International University was withdrawn because of a disagreement between the donor and the university's president.

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AOL

Kyoto countries expected to extend pact

No breakthrough will happen next week in talks to extend the Kyoto pact on global warming, but a softening of stances will produce an agreement on the next steps.

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Reuters

SPORTS

Justine on top of the world

The world champion as well as the world number one - Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium finished her season in style.

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Korean Yang beats Woods by 2 at HSBC Champions

Tiger Woods' streak is over. Woods failed to win a 72-hole tournament for the first time since July 9, finishing two shots behind Yong-eun Yang in the HSBC Champions.

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Sports Illustrated

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Pacific Ocean gives birth to new volcanic island

The Pacific Ocean has given birth to a new volcanic island near Tonga, according to ocean-going eyewitnesses.

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Yahoo

Mom finds children who vanished 21 years ago

Twenty-one years ago, San Juanita Martinez rushed from Florida to Houston to be at her mother's bedside.

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Houston Chronicle

DUI suspected in Denver hit-and-run deaths

The man accused of barreling his pickup into a family of four, killing a mother and her two children, also is suspected of driving drunk at the time of the crash.

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Denver Post

New Yorkers mark Flight 587's fifth anniversary

A memorial to the victims of American Airlines Flight 587 was dedicated in a morning ceremony marked by the recitation of the 255 victims' names, ceremonial bell tolling and poetry readings.

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Newsday

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McCain edges toward '08 run

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San Jose Mercury News

EDUCATION

US students start to shun British universities

Britain remains the most popular destination for US students studying abroad, but it is losing its stranglehold as Italy, France and Spain see numbers rise

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Guardian

Humiliation, job loss for ‘Borat’ victims

While teaching American humor to a gregarious and absurdly out-of-touch foreign journalist, Pat Haggerty realized something was off — who WAS this guy?

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TECHNOLOGY

Sony PlayStation 3 sells out at Japan launch

Through all the problems, delays and setbacks, Sony has proved that shoppers still have an appetite for its latest games console, the PlayStation 3.

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Pocket-lint

Disney sells half a million movies on iTunes

Walt Disney has sold nearly half a million movies through iTunes in just two months, the company revealed.

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PC Advisor

Hospitals race to improve heart attack care

Hundreds of hospitals around the country are joining the most ambitious project ever undertaken to give faster emergency room care to people suffering major heart attacks.

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Feds pursue case against American Indian who shot bald eagle

Federal prosecutors are appealing a judge’s decision to dismiss a case against an American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony.

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Church of England: Some sick babies must be allowed to die

Church of England leaders want doctors to be given the right to withhold treatment from seriously disabled newborn babies.

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