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AP - Gunmen stormed an electricity substation and slaughtered Shiite
 factory workers in separate attacks during a night of carnage that
 killed at least 19 people in Baghdad's southeastern suburbs, police
 said Friday. The attacks raised the toll from Thursday's violence to
 58.

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AP - With U.S.-India relations at their highest mark in six decades,
 President Bush said Friday Americans should see the rapidly growing
 nation as a land of opportunity instead of a threat.

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AP - As Hurricane Katrina loomed over the Gulf Coast, federal and state
 officials agonized over the threat to levees and lives. Hours after the
 catastrophic storm hit, Louisiana's governor believed New Orleans'
 crucial floodwalls were still intact.

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AP - The Senate's passage of the USA Patriot Act hands President Bush a
 victory in his troubled second term and allows the Republicans to
 polish their tough-on-terror image for the midterm elections.

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Reuters - Hamas leaders met senior Russian officials on Friday in their
 first talks with a major foreign power since winning a January 25
 Palestinian election, but flatly rejected international demands to
 recognize Israel.

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AP - A small-town police chief was accused in a federal lawsuit Thursday
 of stopping a would-be rescuer from performing CPR on a gay heart
 attack victim because he assumed the ailing man had HIV and posed a
 health risk.

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AP - A veteran Presbyterian minister told a church judicial panel that
 she knew the faith's position on gay marriage, yet felt called by God
 and her conscience to call the unions between two lesbian couples
 marriage anyway.

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AP - A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced former British glam rocker
 Gary Glitter to three years in prison for molesting two Vietnamese
 girls, with the judge condemning him for "disgusting and sick"
 behavior.

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AP - Jae-Weong Seo pitched two-hit ball and Chan Ho Park worked three
 effective innings for a save to lead South Korea past Taiwan 2-0 on
 Friday in the opener of the inaugural World Baseball Classic.

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AP - Wendy's International Inc. is exploring a sale of its
 underperforming Baja Fresh Mexican Grill unit and plans to boost its
 board ranks with three new directors endorsed by an influential
 investor.

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Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday defended job outsourcing to
 India during a whistlestop tour of an Indian technology city as Muslims
 clashed with police in protests against his visit.

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Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's treatment of Iran is politically
 motivated, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday as last-ditch
 nuclear talks with European nations in Vienna ended without agreement.

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Reuters - Gunmen raided a small town near Baghdad and shot dead at least
 19 people in what police said on Friday was a sectarian attack by
 Sunnis on Shi'ites, latest in a string of killings since a Shi'ite
 shrine was bombed last week.

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Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday defended a controversial
 nuclear agreement with India against criticism from Democrats in the
 Congress who say the deal rewards New Delhi for bad behavior.

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Reuters - The FBI has joined Pakistani police to hunt down the planners
 of a suicide car bomb attack that killed four people, including an
 American diplomat, outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi, officials
 said on Friday.

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AFP - European Union powers and Iran failed to strike a deal in
 last-ditch talks on Tehran's suspect nuclear program ahead of a crucial
 UN meeting that could open the way to punitive action.

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AFP - The leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas arrived in
 Moscow for his first talks with a major world power as it bids to
 emerge from the international cold after its shock election win.

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AFP - US President George W. Bush met farmers and weavers in the
 southern Indian city of Hyderabad, as Muslim protesters clashed with
 police and brought the business centre to a standstill.

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AFP - Around 20 people are feared to have been buried after an avalanche
 swept down a mountainside near Italy's border with France, the ANSA
 news agency reported.

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