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AP - President Bush and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf recommitted
 their nations Saturday to the difficult task of hunting down terrorists
 still hiding here and across the globe.

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AP - President Jalal Talabani on Saturday underscored the need for a
 unity government in Iraq after a spasm of sectarian killing and said he
 had been assured U.S. forces would remain in the country as long as
 needed -- "no matter what the period."

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AP - Offering a glimpse into the top-secret world of Guantanamo Bay, the
 Pentagon has released the names and home countries of many detainees
 who have been held at the isolated military prison for up to four
 years.

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AP - The U.N. food agency will soon run out of food necessary to feed
 some 3.5 million Kenyans facing shortages caused by prolonged drought
 because it has received just over a tenth of required funding, a
 spokesman said Saturday.

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Reuters - The deeper review promised by the Bush administration of a
 Dubai company's plan to take over some terminal operations at U.S.
 ports will include inspections at the ports, employee background checks
 and an examination of the United Arab Emirates' terrorism-fighting
 efforts, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

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AP - A jury recommended Friday that Oregon's most prolific serial killer
 be sent back to death row for a third time.

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AP - The police chief and a sergeant in this eastern Texas town were
 arrested on drug and evidence tampering charges and the department shut
 down.

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AP - Eighty-one-year-old Myron Manders wants the Social Security
 Administration to know that he still is alive. The problem is, it
 doesn't seem to be listening.

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AP - Paula Abdul was allowed to board a plane at the Las Vegas airport
 without passing through a security checkpoint, prompting all passengers
 and luggage to be screened when they landed in California, officials
 said Friday.

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AP - Japan advanced to the second round of the inaugural World Baseball
 Classic with a 14-3 win over Taiwan on Saturday.

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Reuters - Getting U.S. President George W. Bush into not one but two
 battlegrounds in the war on terrorism -- Pakistan and Afghanistan --
 stretched his security detail but Bush was adamant about going despite
 the risks.

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Reuters - Islamist militant Hamas, which is forming a Palestinian
 government, will not recognize Israel despite pressure from Russia to
 do so during talks in Moscow, a senior leader of the group said on
 Saturday.

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Reuters - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said God and history would
 judge whether he was right to go to war in Iraq, according to the
 transcript of a television interview to be broadcast later on Saturday.

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Reuters - The Pentagon released under court order on Friday a partial
 listing of names and nationalities of the nearly 500 foreign terrorism
 suspects at Guantanamo Bay, but withheld data on the rest.

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Reuters - At least nine people were killed on Saturday in two separate
 attacks in an area southeast of Baghdad torn by sectarian violence,
 police said.

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AFP - US President George W. Bush, on the final leg of a first South
 Asian tour, praised Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for his
 commitment to the war on terror but said more work was needed to defeat
 Al-Qaeda.

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AFP - Bowing to a court order, the Pentagon has released thousands of
 documents, identifying for the first time some but not all of the 490
 detainees held at a war-on-terror prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said believes God will judge him
 on his decision to go to war with Iraq.

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AFP - The United States has signaled its apparent abandonment of the
 goal of nuclear disarmament "for the foreseeable future" as it embarked
 on a quest for a new generation of more reliable nuclear warheads.

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AFP - A disgraced former Republican US congressman has been sentenced to
 more than eight years in jail for taking 2.4 million dollars in bribes
 in return for influencing defence contracts.

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