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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 - 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 - 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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AP - At least two explosions rocked a railway station and Hindu temple
 in the Indian holy city of Varanasi on Tuesday, killing at least four
 people, police said.

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The Christian Science Monitor - What's in a name? If you're a married
 woman in Argentina, it's often a little word called "de,"
meaning "of,"
 that comes after your maiden name and before your husband's last name.

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AP - Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for the immediate and
 unconditional release of a 17-month-old epileptic boy kidnapped from
 his parents' northern Italian home last week.

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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 - President Evo Morales on Monday accused the U.S. government of
 trying to intimidate Bolivia by announcing it would cut some aid
 because of a disagreement over the appointment of a military commander.

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Reuters - About 200 Sudanese students demonstrated on Tuesday urging the
 United Nations to leave their country and calling it a colonial force,
 days ahead of a decision to deploy U.N. troops to the violent Darfur
 region.

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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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Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - One of the world's leading Internet
 security firms expects a spike in criminal activity involving zombie
 computers in the next six to 18 months.

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AFP - Prime Minister John Howard said Australia was on the threshold of
 a major expansion in trade with India as Asia seeks to challenge the
 West as the centre of global economic activity.

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