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AP - Israel's acting prime minister vowed on Tuesday that his Kadima
 Party would shave billions off settlement spending, while his defense
 minister advised the incoming Palestinian prime minister to fear for
 his life if Hamas militants start attacking Israel again.

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AP - Arab television broadcast a new videotape Tuesday showing three
 Christian peace activists taken hostage in Iraq last year, but a fourth
 -- the only American abducted -- was not seen in the footage.

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AP - Dana Reeve, who fought for better treatments and possible cures for
 paralysis through the Christopher Reeve Foundation, named for her late
 actor-husband, has died. She was 44.

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AP - The U.S. attorney general defended his country's treatment of
 terror suspects against criticism from Europe and elsewhere, saying
 Tuesday that the United States abhors torture and respects the rights
 of detainees.

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The Christian Science Monitor - Military officials might have to run a
 bigger gantlet of protesters as they search for recruits on America's
 university campuses. But they no longer have to worry that they'll be
 shut out altogether because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy
 related to gay members of the armed forces.

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AP - The Bush administration is getting closer to a U.N. Security
 Council rebuke of Iran, but the latest round of diplomacy shows the
 United States needs the help of Cold War foe Russia to close the deal.

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AP - The efficiency of American workers actually declined in the final
 three months of 2005, the first time that has happened in more than
 four years, while wage pressures accelerated.

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AP - TiVo subscribers will soon be able to program television recordings
 straight from cell phones using the Verizon Wireless network.

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AP - Kirby Puckett didn't need much time to make a big impact. Those who
 felt it, near and far, can only wish he had stayed around longer.

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AP - The World Baseball Classic resumes today with five games on the
 schedule, including the first game for the U.S. team. The U.S. takes on
 Mexico in Phoenix at 4 p.m. EST.

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Reuters - Dozens of people were hurt in at least two separate explosions
 on Tuesday in the north Indian pilgrimage town of Varanasi, an official
 said.

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Reuters - Three of four Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq
 were shown in a video played on Al Jazeera television on Tuesday and
 looked in good health.

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Reuters - Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Tuesday to reduce
 spending on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank after an
 Israeli election his party is expected to win, underscoring plans to
 quit isolated enclaves.

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Reuters - Growing U.S.-Russian tensions including differences over Iran
 and the Palestinian militant group Hamas are expected to be aired in
 talks on Tuesday between Russia's foreign minister and the Bush
 administration.

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Reuters - Russia has offered to let Iran do some atomic research if it
 refrains from enriching uranium on an industrial scale for 7 to 9
 years, diplomats said on Tuesday, cracking big-power unity on how to
 stop Tehran getting the bomb.

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AFP - The UN atomic agency met in Vienna amid a US-Russian rift over a
 compromise plan that could head off UN Security Council action against
 Iran's suspect nuclear program.

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AFP - A Ugandan high court acquitted opposition leader Kizza Besigye on
 rape charges, saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

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AFP - Two Canadians and a Briton working for a Christian peace group
 kidnapped in Iraq three months ago issued a new plea for their release,
 according to a video broadcast on Al-Jazeera.

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AFP - Afghanistan fuelled a row with Pakistan when it reiterated calls
 for its neighbour to stop cross-border raids by militants the same way
 it did during Afghan elections nearly two years ago.

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AFP - South Africa's powder-keg rape trial which could seal former
 deputy president Jacob Zuma's political fate continued with the defence
 set to grill the HIV-positive alleged victim on her sexual past.

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