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AP - A string of explosions in Baghdad and north of the capital Monday
 killed at least 11 Iraqis and injured 47. An American soldier was
 reported killed in insurgency-plagued western Iraq.

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AP - Milan Babic, the Serb leader of a rebel republic in Croatia and one
 of the key figures in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, committed suicide
 in prison, the U.N. war crimes tribunal said Monday.

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AP - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency expressed cautious
 optimism Monday on the chances of reaching an international agreement
 to defuse concerns about Iran's nuclear activities and make U.N.
 Security Council action unnecessary.

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AP - Iraq's president said Monday that he would call the country's new
 parliament into session for the first time on March 12, beginning a
 60-day countdown during which the legislature must elect a new head of
 state and sign off on a prime minister and Cabinet.

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AP - Hamas officials shrugged off the support offered by al-Qaida's No.
 2 leader, saying Sunday the Palestinian militant group has a different
 ideology than the terror network and won election through a moderate
 approach to Islam.

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Reuters - The line of well-dressed young executives stretches down a
 hallway, past a table of Kinky Friedman talking action figures and
 straight up to the candidate for Texas governor in the black cowboy
 hat.

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AP - Detainees in Iraq are still being tortured receiving electric
 shocks and beatings with plastic cables despite U.S. promises to
 prevent such abuse after the Abu Ghraib scandal, a report by an
 international rights group said Monday.

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AP - Narciso "Chicho" Ramirez has spent time in prison on suspicion of
 smuggling migrants and was stripped of his U.S. visa. But in his
 hometown he's mayor material -- the man who helped hundreds of
 Salvadorans achieve "el sueno Americano" -- the American dream.

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Reuters - Nigerian lawmakers began discussing amendments to the
 constitution on Monday which could allow President Olusegun Obasanjo to
 extend his hold on power and give a greater share of oil wealth to
 Niger Delta states.

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AP - A Chinese lawmaker called Monday for police to tape interrogations
 in possible death penalty cases following widespread complaints of
 confessions being forced by torture, state-run media said.

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Canadian Press - FERNIE, B.C. (CP) - One snowmobiler is dead after he
 and a friend were swept away in an avalanche in southeastern British
 Columbia on Sunday.

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Reuters - Australia will consider selling uranium to India if it is
 convinced about New Delhi's commitment to follow global nuclear
 safeguards for its civilian atomic reactors, Prime Minister John Howard
 said.

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