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AP - The Bush administration will conduct a highly unusual second review
 of potential security risks in a business deal it previously approved
 for a United Arab Emirates-based company to take over significant
 operations at six leading U.S. ports.

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AP - Tourists and locals stood side-by-side -- in some spots 6 to 8 feet
 deep -- as two of the Carnival season's biggest and glitziest parades
 rolled through a city struggling to reclaim some of its famous fun.

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AP - Sunni Arabs are ready to end their boycott of talks to form a new
 government if rival Shiites return mosques seized in last week's
 sectarian attacks and meet other unspecified demands, a top Sunni
 figure said Monday.

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AP - Arrivederci, eh? Turin bid farewell to its Olympics and handed over
 custody of the Winter Games to Vancouver in a spectacular, circus-like
 closing ceremony Sunday night, with a legion of clowns, acrobats and
 daredevils echoing both the misadventures and magnificence of the past
 two weeks.

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Reuters - The medals have all been won and the flame has been put out
 but on Monday Turin was dealing with the final challenge of the Winter
 Olympics -- getting thousands of people out of the city and on their
 way home.

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AP - The economy ended 2005 like a lamb and is roaring back like a lion,
 a resounding rebound that economists say will lead the Federal Reserve
 to raise interest rates in the months ahead.

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AP - The most common consumer version of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows
 operating system will include tools for things like recording and
 watching television, along with other functions aimed at using the PC
 for entertainment purposes.

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AP - Drew Lachey leaped to victory on "Dancing with the Stars."

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AP - Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to
 Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of
 the nation's wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names.

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AP - The Villanova-Connecticut rematch lived up to its billing, a couple
 of Big East heavyweights slugging it out for the conference lead. The
 third-ranked Huskies came out on top this time with an 89-75 home win
 Sunday, avenging a loss to the No. 2 Wildcats two weeks ago that
 knocked them from the top spot in the AP poll.

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Reuters - Saudi forces on Monday killed five suspected militants
 believed to be linked to an al Qaeda attack on the world's biggest oil
 processing plant, the Interior Ministry said.

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Reuters - Iraqi authorities on Monday lifted a curfew in Baghdad imposed
 to halt a sectarian bloodbath caused by the bombing of a Shi'ite holy
 site, but a mortar attack that killed four people kept fears of civil
 war alive.

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Reuters - About 5,000 personnel including snipers, commandos and U.S.
 marines using helicopters, bomb detectors and electronic jammers will
 protect President George W. Bush during his visit to India this week,
 officials said on Monday.

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Reuters - American journalist Jill Carroll is alive and Iraqi
 authorities are optimistic about her release, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
 Zalmay Khalilzad said on Monday.

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Reuters - Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ended on health
 grounds a hunger strike he began earlier this month to protest against
 the conduct of his trial, his chief lawyer said on Monday.

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AFP - Saudi security forces killed in intense clashes five men who were
 hiding in a Riyadh house with a cache of explosives and were linked to
 a bid to blow up the world's largest oil-processing plant.

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AFP - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened a landmark
 genocide case brought by Bosnia against Serbia-Montenegro, the first
 state-level genocide case ever to be heard past the preliminary stages
 by the United Nations's highest court.

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AFP - Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian scrapped an advisory council on
 unifying the island with China, a move that Beijing has warned would
 set off a serious crisis in the region.

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AFP - Japan, a major oil importer friendly to both Iran and the United
 States, pressed the Islamic republic to stand down in its nuclear drive
 in talks with its foreign minister.

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AFP - European Union foreign ministers will warn Serbia that its EU
 aspirations could be in doubt, but will not set any deadline for it to
 hand over top war crimes suspects to the UN tribunal.

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