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| 2 hours ago | Spanish PM: No new government cutbacks | | With a general strike looming on September 29, Spain's prime minister said Friday the government does not plan new cutbacks to shore up the sagging economy. |
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| 2 hours ago | Chinese military power worries Japan | | China's military puts the scare into Japan and the U.S. is a key to keeping peace in the region, Japan's Defense Ministry said in a white paper Friday. FULL STORY l YEN BUYS TROUBLE TOKYO l NEW PM COMING? |
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| 5 hours ago | Southern Sudan acquires military aircraft | | Nearing a January vote on independence, southern Sudan is acquiring its first military aircraft as the oil-rich region prepares for potential conflict in a nation Washington is calling a "ticking time-bomb." |
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| 8 hours ago | Bodies of Americans arrive home from Iraq | | Like so many U.S. service members before them, the bodies of Sgt. Phillip Jenkins and Pvt. James McClamrock returned late Thursday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware -- the most recent deaths of the war in Iraq. |
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| 8 hours ago | Japan may get new prime minister next week | | The wife of Japan's prime minister is a pragmatist. When her husband, Naoto Kan, became prime minister in June, they moved in only with their summer clothes, she told a Japanese weekly magazine. |
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| 8 hours ago | Parents try to recover runaway teen in Brazil | | An American family is desperately trying to get their daughter back after the 15-year-old ran away with her boyfriend to Brazil, where authorities handed her over to the boyfriend's family. |
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| 8 hours ago | Report: Al Qaeda still threat to America | | Nearly nine years after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, Americans still face a serious threat from al Qaeda, according to a new report from a panel of top national security experts. |
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| 17 hours ago | Miners' families move near them | | Chile's Atacama Desert is no place to live. At night it's a freezing moonscape and when the sun comes up it becomes as hot as a burning skillet. |
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| 17 hours ago | Philippines says police may have shot some hostages | | Philippine authorities acknowledged for the first time Thursday that some of the tourists taken hostage in a bus standoff last month may have been shot by police in the bungled rescue operation. |
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| 17 hours ago | Rethinking canceled Quran burning? | | A U.S. pastor who called off a Quran burning said he would "rethink our position" after a Muslim leader said the minister incorrectly announced that the proposed Islamic center near New York's ground zero would be moved as part of a deal. |
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| 20 hours ago | China's tycoons shun Gates-Buffett | | In the world of business, who in their right mind would turn down the opportunity to dine with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett? Chinese tycoons, apparently. |
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| 20 hours ago | 17 killed in Russia car explosion | | A car exploded in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, government officials said. |
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| 20 hours ago | Iran to release 1 of 3 jailed Americans, official says | | Iran says it will release one of the three American hikers detained for more than a year on Saturday, a day after the conclusion of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, according to an official at the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance. |
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| 20 hours ago | U.S. pastor calls off Quran burning | | A Florida pastor Thursday called off his controversial plan to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. |
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| Yesterday | High-fashion hijabs | | Muslim headscarves might not be the most obvious garments for a high fashion makeover, but that's just what two Belgian women have given them. And now, their designs are selling from Paris to Dubai. |
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