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AP - Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader who orchestrated the
 Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for war crimes, was found
 dead in his prison cell near The Hague, the U.N. tribunal said
 Saturday.

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AP - The body of American Tom Fox, who was among four Christian peace
 activists kidnapped last year, was found near a west Baghdad railway
 line with gunshot wounds to his head and chest, the Iraqi Interior
 Ministry said Saturday.

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AP - U.S. and Iraqi forces detained 20 suspected insurgents early
 Saturday, four at a west Baghdad mosque identified by the U.S. military
 as a possible haven for al-Qaida in Iraq.

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AP - The rate of friendly fire deaths for soldiers in Iraq and
 Afghanistan is substantially lower than in other major military
 conflicts, a decline that Army officials attribute to better training
 and high-tech equipment.

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Reuters - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday defended his
 government's growing closeness with the United States, highlighted by a
 nuclear cooperation deal, saying it was in the nation's best interests.

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AP - Hoisting American flags into the air, tens of thousands of
 immigrants from the Chicago area marched downtown in a display of
 support for immigrant rights as a bill to stiffen border enforcement
 awaits action in the U.S. Senate.

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AP - The son of a former Orange County assistant sheriff and two friends
 were each sentenced Friday to six years in prison for the videotaped
 sexual assault of an unconscious teenage girl.

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AP - General Motors Corp. said Friday it is recalling about 900,000
 pickup trucks worldwide to fix tailgate cables that can corrode and
 break when loads are placed on them.

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AP - State regulators said Friday they will go after Michael Jackson in
 court if he fails to meet a Tuesday deadline to pay $100,000 in
 penalties and $306,000 in back pay owed to nearly 50 workers at his
 Neverland Ranch.

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AP - Gerry McNamara has done just about everything to get his team to
 the Big East tournament championship game. All that stands in the way
 of a second straight title is No. 15 Pittsburgh.

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Reuters - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has died, the UN
 tribunal said on Saturday.

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Reuters - Intelligent, ruthless and compulsively defiant, Slobodan
 Milosevic carried his momentous gambles to the brink of disaster and
 beyond during a decade of useless wars, vainly resisting the breakup of
 Yugoslavia.

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Reuters - American hostage Tom Fox has been killed and his body, showing
 signs of torture, left on a garbage dump in Baghdad, police said on
 Saturday.

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Reuters - Claude Allen, President George W. Bush's former top domestic
 policy adviser, was arrested this week in Maryland for allegedly
 swindling two stores out of more than $5,000, the Washington Post
 reported on Saturday, quoting Montgomery County police.

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Reuters - Eritrea accused Washington on Saturday of hypocrisy over the
 release of the annual U.S. human rights report, saying in the wake of
 prison abuse scandals it had no moral grounds to criticize other
 nations.

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AFP - Local media gave mixed reactions to a planned UN meeting on Iran's
 controversial nuclear programme, with one hardline paper urging
 abandonment of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and another
 advocating continued diplomacy.

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AFP - A US judge ordered the CIA to turn over summaries of top secret
 intelligence briefs to lawyers representing indicted ex-White House
 aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, setting up a possible constitutional
 showdown.

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AFP - A US hostage, abducted in November, has been found shot dead in
 Iraq as US President George W. Bush acknowledged the gravity of
 mounting unrest and called on Iraqi leaders to quickly form a national
 unity government.

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AFP - A US think tank has questioned India's nuclear non-proliferation
 record, saying it had uncovered illicit Indian governmental nuclear
 procurement from Europe.

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AFP - Socialist single mother Michelle Bachelet will be sworn in as
 Chile's first woman president, ushering in a new era in the socially
 conservative country, which is moving aggressively to shed the legacy
 Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

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