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AP - Bomb blasts and gunfire killed at least seven people, including two
 U.S. soldiers, in Baghdad and to the south Sunday as an extraordinary
 daylight curfew was lifted in three provinces following the bombing of
 a Shiite shrine and a wave of retribution against Sunnis.

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AP - Terror convicts and hundreds of other inmates clashed with guards
 and took control of parts of a high-security prison in Afghanistan's
 capital, officials said Sunday.

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AP - Al-Qaida on Saturday vowed more attacks a day after an attempt to
 bomb the world's biggest oil processing complex showed the group still
 can strike inside Saudi Arabia despite the arrests of hundreds of
 suspects.

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AP - The Homeland Security Department objected at first to a United Arab
 Emirates company's taking over significant operations at six U.S.
 ports. It was the lone protest among members of the government
 committee that eventually approved the deal without dissent.

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Reuters - Dubai Ports World is willing to wait 45 days to take over
 operations at six major U.S. ports to give authorities time for a
 security review, a source close to the Arab ports operator said on
 Sunday.

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AP - A University of Texas student found a substance in a roll of
 quarters that tested positive for ricin, a potentially deadly poison,
 but more tests were needed, officials said Saturday.

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AP - Thomas Haley was unloading supplies for his job at Hardy's Hardware
 when he said something odd caught his eye: the face of Jesus Christ on
 a piece of sheet metal.

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AP - Darren McGavin was painting a movie set in 1945 when he learned of
 an opening for a small role in the show, climbed off his ladder, and
 returned through Columbia's front gates to land the part.

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AP - Jamie Foxx's quest for musical stardom got a boost Saturday at the
 37th Annual NAACP Image Awards, where the Oscar-winning actor was
 picked as best male musical artist.

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AP - Germany and the United States again won the most medals at a
 share-the-wealth Turin Olympics that featured more countries winning
 medals and more in double figures than ever before. Canada and Austria,
 among others, had their best all-time showing.

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Reuters - Iran has reached a "basic" agreement with Russia on a joint
 venture to enrich uranium and will contine talks in coming days, Iran's
 nuclear chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh said on Sunday.

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Reuters - A bomb killed five people at a bus station south of Baghdad on
 Sunday, breaking a relative calm after Iraqi and U.S. leaders appealed
 for an end to days of sectarian bloodshed that have pitched Iraq toward
 civil war.

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Reuters - Taliban and al Qaeda militants took control of a wing of the
 Afghan capital's main high security prison and at least 30 prisoners
 were wounded in attempts to quell the riot, officials said on Sunday.

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Reuters - Restrictions on abortion that would be the most severe since
 the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the practice 33 years ago are likely
 to turn South Dakota into an expensive legal battleground should they
 become law.

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Reuters - Serbia expects censure from the European Union this week for
 not delivering Ratko Mladic to the Hague tribunal, but believes it has
 one more month to rescue its EU membership bid by arresting the war
 crimes fugitive.

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AFP - Sixty-five Mexican miners trapped in a mine six days ago are dead,
 the mine manager has told their family members.

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AFP - A Marine colonel sacked over an alleged coup plot against
 Philippine President Gloria Arroyo holed up inside a military camp in
 Manila with several dozen other Marines and urged the public to rally
 round him.

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AFP - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on influential world
 figures to fight extremism and bridge the divide between East and West
 at the opening of a conference of Muslim and European leaders.

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AFP - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed appealed for unity as the
 transitional parliament opened its first session on home soil since
 relocating from exile last year.

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AFP - Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, which is locked in a bitter legal battle
 over environmental damage in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Delta, is
 appealing against a hefty 1.5-billion-dollar (1.2-billion-euro) fine
 for pollution.

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