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IN GERMANY, OBAMA URGES JOINT FIGHT AGAINST TERROR
Thu, 07/24/2008 - 14:03BERLIN -- Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they...
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IRAQ BANNED FROM OLYMPICS
Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:16BAGHDAD - Iraq has been banned from taking part in the Beijing Olympics because of a government decision to disband the Iraqi Olympic Committee, an official at the committee said on Thursday. Iraq's government had disbanded the country's Olympic...
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FAMILY: CHRISTIAN BALE NEEDED TO BE 'TAUGHT A LESSON'
Thu, 07/24/2008 - 10:38Christian Bale's mother and sister are "devastated" that their confrontation with the actor led to his arrest but they also believe he had to be "taught a lesson," London's Sun newspaper reported. The two went to his hotel room Sunday so his...
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BATMAN WENT BATTY 'FOR WIFE'
Thu, 07/24/2008 - 03:46Batman star Christian Bale doesn't rush to the aid of a damsel in distress only in the movies. His hotel-room dust-up with his mother and sister started when his mom insulted his wife - causing him to "fly off the handle," according to reports...
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OLD COOT'S LUTE
Thu, 07/24/2008 - 03:46BELGRADE, Serbia - Radovan Karadzic sent word he plans to defend himself against U.N. genocide charges, but his fellow Serbs were more enthralled with details that emerged Wednesday about his secret life: a mistress, a bogus family in the U.S...
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DRIVER AT 9/11 MEET: FED
Thu, 07/24/2008 - 03:46GUANTANAMO BAY - A Guantanamo prisoner on trial for war crimes was so close to Osama bin Laden that he attended a meeting of top al Qaeda aides the day of the Sept. 11 attacks, a former FBI agent testified yesterday. Defendant Salim Hamdan heard...
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SERB'S FUGITIVE LIFE HAD MISTRESS, BOGUS FAMILY
Wed, 07/23/2008 - 13:46BELGRADE, Serbia - Radovan Karadzic's secret life included a mistress, a bogus family he claimed he left behind in the U.S., and frequent visits to a Belgrade pub called "The Madhouse," acquaintances said Wednesday. A lawyer for the former Bosnian...
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OBAMA DEFENDS PLAN TO TALK WITH IRAN WHILE IN ISRAEL
Wed, 07/23/2008 - 13:23SDEROT, Israel -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama defended his proposal to negotiate with Iran Wednesday and said he would use "big sticks and big carrots" to persuade the country's leaders not to develop nuclear weapons. "My whole...
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COPYCAT ATTACK IN JERUSALEM WITH BULLDOZER
Wed, 07/23/2008 - 08:28JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian attacker turned a construction vehicle into a fearsome weapon in downtown Jerusalem just hours before Barack Obama's visit Tuesday, ramming a bus, overturning a car and injuring five people before he was shot dead. It...
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JEWS PROTECT PALESTINIANS
Wed, 07/23/2008 - 04:02A Jewish family sitting shiva at their home in Jerusalem last night fought off an enraged mob of Orthodox yeshiva students trying to lynch two Palestinian men - and nearly paid for it with their lives, Israeli newspapers reported. "Two...
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MAHMOUD TO NY: SEE YOU IN SEPT.
Tue, 07/15/2008 - 03:32TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to revisit New York this fall, possibly sparking new protests. He told Iranian state TV yesterday that he would attend the annual UN General Assembly in September to talk about "ruling...
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ISRAEL RIVETED BY 20-YEAR MYSTERY
Tue, 07/15/2008 - 03:32JERUSALEM - Israelis yesterday pored over every detail of 20-year-old photos just received of their most famous missing soldier - from the length of his beard to the Arabic writing on a wall in the background. Airman Ron Arad was captured in...
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JOLIE KIDS LOOKING LIKE $20M TWINS
Mon, 07/14/2008 - 03:43Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcomed their twins into the world - and into ravenous demand for first photos of the celebrity offspring. Baby boy Knox Leon and girl Vivienne Marcheline were born one minute apart Saturday night via Cesarean...
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9 GIS DIE IN AFGHAN ATTACK
Mon, 07/14/2008 - 03:43KABUL, Afghanistan - A multipronged assault on a remote US base killed nine American soldiers yesterday in one of the deadliest attacks on GIs since the 2001 invasion, a Western official said. Militants fired machine guns, rocket-propelled...
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$IBERIA POL PLAY
Mon, 07/14/2008 - 03:43MOSCOW - The Arctic region of Chukotka in Russia's Far East wrote to billionaire Roman Abramovich yesterday imploring him not to abandon the region, after he quit as governor. The head of Chukotka's parliament said he wanted to resign and allow...
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9 US TROOPS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
Sun, 07/13/2008 - 14:26A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said. The attack on the U.S. outpost came the same...
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BOY & GIRL FOR JOLIE
Sun, 07/13/2008 - 04:40The Brangelina twins are here: Angelina Jolie has given birth to a girl and a boy. The obstetrician who delivered the twins, Dr. Michel Sussmann, told The Associated Press that the actress, the babies and Jolie's partner, actor Brad Pitt, "are...
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OLMERT'S '100G FRAUD'
Sat, 07/12/2008 - 04:08Israel's prime minister scammed his country's revered Holocaust memorial, a charity for disabled children and other groups out of $100,000 in a brazen double-billing scheme, investigators said yesterday. They said Ehud Olmert personally ran the...
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ISRAELI 'BASE' IN IRAQ
Sat, 07/12/2008 - 04:08Israeli warplanes have been flying over Iraq and landing at US bases there in preparation for an attack on Iran, Israeli media reported yesterday. Israeli defense ministry sources said that, for a month, the fighter jets have been practicing at...
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HEZBOLLAH MUSCLES IN
Sat, 07/12/2008 - 04:08BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah and its allies solidified their hold on Lebanon's government yesterday with the formation of a national unity Cabinet that gives them veto power over government decisions. Still, the Western-backed parliamentary...
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