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AP - After an election-year repudiation by a GOP-led House committee,
 President Bush hopes to avoid getting steamrolled in the Senate over a
 deal allowing a Dubai-owned company to take control of some U.S port
 operations.

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AP - After a long battle with Congress that went down to the wire
 President Bush will sign a renewal of the USA Patriot Act, a day before
 16 major provisions of the old law expire.

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AP - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expects to draw Israel's
 permanent borders by 2010, and as part of that effort, will build a
 controversial settlement outside Jerusalem, he said in an interview
 published Thursday.

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AP - A dust storm driven by howling wind enveloped the Iraqi capital
 Thursday, muffling the sound of five heavy explosions, including a car
 bomb that killed at least nine people and wounded six -- all of them
 passers-by, police said.

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Reuters - The number of cigarettes sold in the United States in 2005
 fell to the lowest level in 55 years largely due to enforcement of
 marketing restrictions imposed on the tobacco industry, the National
 Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) said on Wednesday.

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AP - After months of cryptic Web marketing and word-of-mouth hype over
 Microsoft Corp.'s Project Origami, the company finally showed off the
 product: an ultracompact computer running Windows XP with a touchscreen
 and wireless connectivity.

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AP - Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit
 alleging the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of
 advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse
 known as "click fraud."

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AP - Paul McCartney, in a letter to the governor of Arizona, says he
 doesn't want drug developer Covance Inc. to open an animal testing lab
 in the state where he owns a ranch.

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AP - A rare $10,000 bill is getting a new home. The bill -- one of 15
 large-denomination bills at a Chase Bank branch in Green Bay -- was
 shipped to the bank's corporate archives in New York for safe keeping.

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AP - At the end, even the NFL's maverick owners decided that labor peace
 was better than the uncertainty of working without a salary cap. They
 didn't especially like doing it, though, after two days of meetings
 that sometimes got quite contentious.

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Reuters - Iran's top leadership on Thursday vowed no compromise on its
 nuclear dispute with the West, which President Mahmoud Amadinejad said
 would suffer more than Tehran if it continued to confront Iran's atomic
 ambitions.

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Reuters - A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday voted
 overwhelmingly to block an Arab-owned company from managing American
 ports, defying President George W. Bush who has vigorously supported
 the deal.

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Reuters - Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he plans to impose
 permanent Israeli borders by 2010 through pullouts from parts of the
 occupied West Bank, unless Hamas recognizes the Jewish state and
 renounces violence.

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Reuters - A roadside bomb killed six people and wounded eight on
 Thursday in Baghdad's western Amriya district, a Sunni insurgent
 stronghold, police and hospital officials said.

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Reuters - Senate Republicans unveiled a 2007 U.S. budget blueprint on
 Wednesday that would spend at least $90 billion on the Iraq and
 Afghanistan wars and tries to resurrect a plan to drill for oil and gas
 in the Alaskan wildlife refuge.

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AFP - Iran voiced gritty determination to pursue its controversial
 nuclear programme, with the Islamic regime unfazed by looming UN
 Security Council action and warning the West of a "heavy price".

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AFP - China rejected a US report that branded it one of the world's
 worst human rights offenders, instead accusing Washington of hypocrisy
 and its own "serious violations".

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AFP - An unknown Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for
 blasts that killed 23 people in India's holiest Hindu city of Varanasi
 as grieving relatives cremated victims.

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AFP - Ugandan police said they were probing the cause of the building
 that collapsed outside the capital, claiming 28 lives and injuring
 nearly 100 others.

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AFP - A powerful House of Representatives committee voted overwhelmingly
 to block Dubai Ports World from managing six US ports, moving closer to
 a showdown with the White House over the deal.

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