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AP - A car bomb exploded in a Shiite holy city and 13 members of one
 Shiite family were gunned down northeast of the capital Saturday in a
 surge of attacks that killed at least 30 people despite heightened
 security aimed at curbing sectarian violence following the bombing of a
 revered Shiite shrine.

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AP - Al-Qaida suicide bombers will attack more Saudi oil facilities, the
 terror group purportedly threatened Saturday in an Internet statement
 that claimed responsibility for the foiled attack on the Abiqaiq plant
 in eastern Saudi Arabia.

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AP - The Bush administration said Friday it won't reconsider its
 approval for a United Arab Emirates company to take over significant
 operations at six U.S. ports. The former head of the Sept. 11
 commission said the deal "never should have happened."

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AP - Gov. Mike Rounds said he is inclined to sign a bill that would ban
 nearly all abortions in South Dakota, making it a crime for doctors to
 perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life.

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Reuters - Iraq's largest Sunni Muslim bloc said on Saturday it would
 consider ending its boycott of talks on the formation of a new
 government after the Shi'ite prime minister promised to protect all
 places of worship.

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AP - The Army has recommended that seven 82nd Airborne Division
 paratroopers be discharged following allegations they engaged in sex
 acts shown on a gay pornographic Web site.

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AP - The Bush administration is looking at ways to simplify the new
 Medicare prescription drug benefit, but initial proposals are unlikely
 to win over the program's critics.

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AP - A University of Texas student found a substance that has tested
 positive for ricin, a potentially deadly poison, in a roll of quarters
 she was using to do laundry in her dormitory, officials said.

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AP - Sheryl Crow says she is recovering from breast cancer surgery and
 doctors have assured her she should make a full recovery.

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AP - Chad Campbell expected overtime against Tiger Woods. Standing to
 the side of the 18th green with a 1-up lead, he was so certain that
 Woods was going to make a 12-foot birdie -- doesn't he always? -- that
 Campbell already was planning his tee shot on the first extra hole.

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Reuters - A car bomb in a Shi'ite holy city and bloody battles around
 Sunni mosques in Baghdad that breached a second day's curfew on the
 capital heightened fears on Saturday that Iraq was heading for civil
 war.

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Reuters - Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for Friday's attack on a Saudi
 oil facility at Abqaiq, when security forces fired at suicide bombers
 trying to storm the world's biggest oil processing plant.

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Reuters - The White House welcomed on Friday the temporary delay in a
 deal allowing a state-owned Arab company to run U.S. port terminals,
 but senators called for a law to put the deal on hold pending a
 security review.

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Reuters - U.N. nuclear experts arrived in Iran on Saturday after Tehran
 promised answers to outstanding questions about work the U.N. fears
 could be linked to atomic "weaponisation," Western diplomats said.

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Reuters - The United States said on Saturday it still had differences
 with India on finalizing a landmark nuclear deal, but both sides were
 trying to sew up the pact before President George W. Bush visits New
 Delhi next week.

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AFP - Saudi Arabia moved to reassure consumers that supplies from the
 world's number one producer are secure after Al-Qaeda militants killed
 two security guards in an unsuccessful attempt to penetrate the world's
 biggest processing plant.

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AFP - Philippine police arrested an opposition congressman and a retired
 general and raided a newspaper office after President Gloria Arroyo
 declared an emergency to foil an alleged coup plot.

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AFP - The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found on a turkey farm
 in eastern France, the agriculture ministry announced, signalling the
 first such outbreak in the European Union.

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AFP - A spectacular robbery of art works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and
 Dali marred the start of the Rio carnival, which saw a slimmer than
 usual King Momo kick off festivities to feverish samba rhythms.

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AFP - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won the country's first
 multi-party polls since 1980, according to official results released
 giving him an insurmountable lead over opposition challenger Kizza
 Besigye.

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