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AP - Six months after being laid low by the most destructive storm in
 U.S. history, the people of New Orleans are still finding reason to
 celebrate Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, the last day before Lent.

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AP - Prosecutors at Saddam Hussein's trial presented a document Tuesday
 they said was signed by the former leader approving the executions of
 more than 140 Shiites in southern Iraq after an assassination attempt
 in the 1980s.

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AP - Four explosions rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday,
 killing at least 36 people and prompting fears that sectarian violence
 was continuing following last week's bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine.

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AP - Republican congressional leaders had hoped to curtail bipartisan
 outcries over a United Arab Emirates-based company's pending takeover
 of some U.S. port operations by brokering an agreement for a new
 investigation of the deal's potential security risks.

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Reuters - Four of five militants killed by Saudi security forces on
 Monday were on a most wanted list of al Qaeda-linked suspects, the
 Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

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AP - Leave it to the Dutch to help demonstrate the health benefits of
 chocolate. A study of older men in The Netherlands, known for its
 luscious chocolate, indicated those who ate the equivalent of one-third
 of a chocolate bar every day had lower blood pressure and a reduced
 risk of death.

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AP - America Online is taking advantage of a first-of-its-kind
 anti-"phishing" law in Virginia to sue three international groups that
 allegedly stole information from unsuspecting AOL users by sending
 e-mail that appeared to be legitimate messages from the company.

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AP - Scientists have found what they believe are traces of the lost
 Indonesian civilization of Tambora, which was wiped out in 1815 by the
 biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history.

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AP - The Rolling Stones will hold their first-ever concert in China in
 April, Chinese promoters said Tuesday, three years after canceling a
 pair of shows on the mainland because of the SARS outbreak.

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AP - Mats Sundin partied in Sweden with the rest of his Olympic
 teammates at a gold-medal celebration in Stockholm on Monday.

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Reuters - Bombs killed at least 30 people in Baghdad and wrecked the
 tomb of Saddam Hussein's father on Tuesday as the ousted leader was in
 court for the first time since days of sectarian violence pitched Iraq
 toward civil war.

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Reuters - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday
 that Tehran will not give up its nuclear program, but that ongoing
 talks with Russia to jointly enrich uranium would ease international
 concerns over its nuclear ambitions.

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Reuters - Iran has agreed to provide a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority
 with enough money to make up for any cuts in foreign aid, a senior
 Hamas official said on Tuesday.

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Reuters - President George W. Bush's job rating has fallen to an
 all-time low of 34 percent, amid strong opposition to the Dubai Ports
 World deal and increasing pessimism over the war in Iraq, according to
 a CBS News poll released on Monday.

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Reuters - Avian flu, which has hit a French poultry farm, will probably
 spread to domestic flocks in other European states, experts said on
 Tuesday, as Sweden became the latest country to report an outbreak.

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AFP - Iran insisted on its right to nuclear technology ahead of
 11th-hour talks in Moscow aimed at heading off fears it is seeking
 atomic weapons, sticking to its tough line despite huge international
 pressure.

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AFP - The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven former cohorts on charges of
 crimes against humanity reopened after a two week break, with all
 defendants present but the former Iraqi dictator's lawyers again
 storming out in fury.

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AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao said a decision by Taiwan abolishing
 guidelines for unification with China marked a "dangerous step" towards
 independence.

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AFP - France battled the first poultry outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the
 European Union and Britain predicted it would soon be hit, as world
 experts gathered in Paris prepared for a long, hard battle against the
 deadly virus.

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AFP - The vice president of the European Commission criticised a plan by
 France for state-run Gaz de France to take over French energy group
 Suez, saying it violated the spirit of the Europe-wide competition.

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