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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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AP - Iran said Thursday it won't be bullied into abandoning its nuclear
 program, rejecting its referral to the U.N. Security Council as
 "unjust."

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AP - The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in a weasel-like mammal
 called a stone marten, a German laboratory said Thursday, indicating
 the disease has spread to another animal species.

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AP - China on Thursday lashed out against U.S. criticism of its human
 rights record, saying racial discrimination and crime were still rife
 in the United States and prisoners were being abused at U.S.-run
 detention centers abroad.

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AP - At Mussa Bachiri's butcher shop, the customers used to include a
 man now jailed on suspicion of playing a role in the Madrid terror
 bombings two years ago this week.

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AP - British Airways PLC, which is facing tough competition from budget
 airlines and coping with surging fuel costs, announced another
 cost-cutting program Friday.

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AP - A bomb set off by suspected Kurdish guerrillas killed three people
 and injured 18 Thursday in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast,
 officials said.

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AP - About 2,000 highly organized farm workers invaded a plantation
 owned by a big Brazilian paper and pulp company Wednesday, uprooting
 saplings and destroying a laboratory in an environmental rampage
 against mass eucalyptus tree cultivation, the company and the
 protesting group said.

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Reuters - Sudan's opposition said on Thursday they supported a plan to
 hand over peacekeeping in the country's troubled Darfur region to the
 United Nations and denounced a government media campaign against it as
 misleading.

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AFP - Ashes hero Kevin Pietersen cracked a robust 64 in murky conditions
 to help England survive early blows in the second Test against India.

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Canadian Press - WINNIPEG (CP) - Belinda Stronach received a small but
 warm welcome Wednesday as she took her tour to gauge support for a run
 at the federal Liberal leadership to Winnipeg.

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AFP - Australia is considering a plan to "de-programme" Islamic
 militants held in jail despite criticism by a rights group saying it
 amounted to brainwashing.

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