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AP - On his first trip to India, President Bush and his Indian
 counterpart agreed Thursday on a landmark nuclear energy agreement that
 deepens ties between the world's oldest and largest democracies.

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AP - A suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a
 vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Pakistan's largest city,
 killing the diplomat and three other people before President Bush's
 visit to Pakistan. Fifty-two people were wounded.

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AP - The renewal of the USA Patriot Act is heading for final passage in
 the Senate after majority Republicans broke a two-month stalemate over
 the legislative centerpiece of President Bush's war on terrorism.

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AP - Killer Charles Cullen has been sentenced to two consecutive life
 sentences in prison and will not be eligible for parole for 127 1/2
 years.

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The Christian Science Monitor - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein,
 after days of withering testimony about his involvement in the killings
 of 148 residents of a small farming town, decided he'd had enough.

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AP - An Italian parliamentary commission concluded "beyond any
 reasonable doubt" that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 attempt to
 kill Pope John Paul II -- a theory long alleged but never proved,
 according to a draft report made available Thursday.

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AP - Retail sales growth slowed last month as the reappearance of winter
 weather after a warm January chilled consumers' interest in spring
 apparel.

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AP - Just in time for spring, the government infused a little color into
 the $10-bill Thursday.

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AP - Opponents of Canada's seal hunt have a powerful ally in their bid
 to end the annual slaughter: Paul McCartney, who pledged to take to the
 ice floes Thursday and frolic with the doe-eyed pups before the harvest
 gets under way.

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AP - NFL owners voted unanimously Thursday to break off talks with the
 players' union on a contract extension, leaving the current salary cap
 in place with the start of free agency looming -- and possibly forcing
 the mass dumping of veterans.

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Reuters - A bomb in Karachi and assault on an al Qaeda-linked militant
 camp in northwest Pakistan have provided a bloody prelude to U.S.
 President George W. Bush's visit to a country seen as crucial to his
 "war on terror."

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Reuters - U.S. military operations in the province of Anbar, west of
 Baghdad, have resulted in the capture of 61 members of al Qaeda in
 Iraq, Major General Rick Lynch, a U.S. military spokesman, said on
 Thursday.

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Reuters - India and the United States sealed a landmark civilian nuclear
 cooperation pact on Thursday, the centerpiece of President George W.
 Bush's first visit to the world's largest democracy.

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Reuters - A London High Court judge ruled on Thursday that Dubai Port
 World's $6.85 billion proposed takeover of P&O can go ahead, despite
 objections from one of the British firm's partners in the United
 States.

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Reuters - European Union powers said they had agreed to last-minute
 talks with Iran on Friday before a U.N. nuclear watchdog meeting that
 could prompt Security Council steps against Tehran over concerns it
 seeks atomic weapons.

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AFP - US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
 Singh sealed what they hailed as an "historic" nuclear deal, seen as
 the bedrock of a new strategic partnership.

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AFP - A suicide car bomber rammed a diplomatic vehicle outside the US
 consulate in Karachi, killing an American diplomat and four other
 people, but President George W. Bush vowed "terrorists" would not stop
 him visiting Pakistan.

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AFP - Insurgent attacks across Iraq killed at least 31 people and
 wounded scores more in renewed violence as the US military said it has
 captured 61 rebels linked to Al-Qaeda in Iraq's frontman Abu Musab
 al-Zarqawi.

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AFP - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas voiced fears that Al-Qaeda had
 infiltrated the West Bank and Gaza, as he urged the world to give the
 incoming Hamas government a chance.

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AFP - Iran's top nuclear negotiator is to meet with the British, French
 and German foreign ministers Friday in a last-minute attempt to prevent
 possible United Nations action over Tehran's atomic program.

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