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AP - More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of
 President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer
 consider him a strong leader against terrorism, according to an
 AP-Ipsos poll documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency.

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AP - President Jalal Talabani issued a decree Friday ordering Iraq's new
 parliament to hold its first session March 19, his chief of staff told
 The Associated Press.

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AP - Storms packing heavy rain and high wind moved across several
 Southern states, damaging homes, barns and businesses and killing at
 least two people and injuring several more.

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AP - Prosecutors in Milan said Friday they have requested that Italian
 Premier Silvio Berlusconi be indicted on charges of corruption.

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The Christian Science Monitor - The Christian Science Monitor has
 reinvigorated its Iraqi media campaign to free journalist Jill Carroll,
 who was on assignment for the paper when she was kidnapped on Jan. 7,
 2006. The effort is focused on reminding Iraqis of her situation as she
 marks two months in captivity.

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AP - Nine people in two groups were found asphyxiated in sealed cars,
 apparently the latest cases of group suicides that have surged in
 Japan, police said Friday.

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AP - After a seven-month journey, a NASA spacecraft closed in on Mars on
 Friday on a mission to examine the Red Planet in unprecedented detail
 from low orbit.

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AP - Consumer confidence dropped in early March as people fretted about
 the economy's performance and their own financial fate in the months
 ahead.

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AP - Twelve down, 12 to go. The popular talent show "American Idol" axed
 four more contestants Thursday night, slimming the competition to 12
 aspiring singers. There were 24 hopefuls at the start of the
 elimination rounds.

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AP - The Kentucky Wildcats feel confident they've finally earned an NCAA
 tournament berth. They'll have to play much better if they want to make
 that spot automatic as the Southeastern Conference tournament champions
 for the 26th time.

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Reuters - A hardline Iranian cleric denounced the European Union as a
 U.S. puppet on Friday and the EU's foreign policy chief raised the
 prospect of slapping targeted sanctions on Iran over its nuclear
 ambitions.

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Reuters - Israel could target Palestinian Prime Minister-designate
 Ismail Haniyeh if the senior Hamas leader gets involved in militant
 attacks, Israel's interim leader said in remarks published on Friday.

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Reuters - A suicide truck bomb struck a checkpoint manned by U.S.
 soldiers and Iraqi security forces in the former Sunni stronghold of
 Falluja on Friday, killing at least 11, including five police, police
 said.

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Reuters - Iraq's president on Friday invited parliament to convene on
 March 19, a day after the powerful Shi'ite Alliance asked for more time
 to negotiate a national unity government.

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Reuters - Bird flu has killed its 22nd human victim in Indonesia, a
 12-year-old girl, according to tests by the World Health Organisation's
 Hong Kong laboratory, an Indonesian health ministry official said on
 Friday.

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AFP - A vehicle carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mine in
 Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Baluchistan Friday, killing
 27 people, mostly women and children.

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AFP - The UN Security Council was set to discuss taking a united, firm
 but gradual response to Iran's nuclear defiance, amid expectations it
 will meet next week to endorse demands that Tehran halt uranium
 enrichment.

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AFP - The growing Iran crisis, turmoil in the Middle East peace process
 and global Muslim protests over disputed cartoons risk clouding a
 meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Austria Friday.

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AFP - Indonesia's known death toll from bird flu has risen to 21 with
 the confirmation that a toddler who died last month was infected with
 the H5N1 strain of the virus, the health ministry said.

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AFP - A Dubai government-owned company said it will sell its US port
 operations in a move that spared President George W. Bush a showdown
 with Congress.

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