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    Group: Four Iraqis Carried Out Bombings (AP)

AP - Police said Friday they had arrested 120 people, mainly Iraqis and
 Jordanians, in the nationwide manhunt for those behind the triple Amman
 hotel bombings. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed the bombings were carried out
 by four Iraqis -- including a husband and wife team.

    Rice Urges Iraqis to Bridge Differences (AP)

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a personal appeal Friday
 for Iraqis to bridge sectarian differences, venturing to a majority
 Sunni Arab region of the country to ask for cooperation in the coming
 election.

    Residents of French Suburbs to Demonstrate (AP)

AP - Police tightened security in central Paris as exasperated residents
 of riot-torn suburbs prepared to march Friday near the Eiffel Tower to
 call for an end to more than two weeks of car burnings and vandalism
 across France.

    Poll: Most Americans Doubt Bush's Honesty (AP)

AP - Most Americans say they aren't impressed by the ethics and honesty
 of the Bush administration, already under scrutiny for its
 justifications for an unpopular war in Iraq and its role in the leak of
 a covert CIA officer's identity.

    Internet holds only future for newspapers, experts warn (AFP)

AFP - Newspapers have no future without online and digital services,
 media executives heard at a World Association of Newspapers meeting in
 Madrid.

    Warning Issued for Birth-Control Patch (AP)

AP - The Food and Drug Administration warned users of the popular Ortho
 Evra birth control patch that they are being exposed to more hormones,
 and are therefore at higher risk of blood clots and other serious side
 effects, than previously disclosed.

    Consumer Confidence Returning, Poll Shows (AP)

AP - Consumer confidence emerged from a funk. With gasoline prices
 moderating, people are feeling better -- but not ebullient -- about the
 economy's prospects and their own.

    Paul McCartney Publishes Children's Book (AP)

AP - Besides being a grandfather, a knight, and a former Beatle, Paul
 McCartney is now a children's book author. The 63-year-old singer
 entertained a young group of cute but squirmy elementary school
 students Thursday by reading an excerpt from his new book "High in the
 Clouds" and answering questions.

    Thief Robs Banks While Chatting on Phone (AP)

AP - These days it seems that some people just can't go anywhere or do
 anything without a cell phone in their ear. In northern Virginia the
 police say they're looking for a woman who's been holding up banks
 while chatting on her phone.

    NFL Reaches Agreement to Return to L.A. (AP)

AP - The NFL and city officials have reached a preliminary agreement on
 terms to bring a team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum. Commissioner
 Paul Tagliabue made the announcement Thursday on the steps of City
 Hall. But he didn't identify a potential tenant or speculate when Los
 Angeles might get the team.

    Rice makes surprise Iraq visit (Reuters)

Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vowed America would stay
 the course in Iraq as she made an unannounced visit on Friday to try to
 reduce sectarian tensions just five weeks before elections.

    Woman, 3 men behind Jordan attacks: Qaeda (Reuters)

Reuters - An Iraqi married couple and two other men carried out the
 suicide bombings at three hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman which
 killed 57 people this week, al Qaeda in Iraq said in an Internet
 statement on Friday.

    Bush to swing back at Democrats (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush will use a Veterans Day speech
 on Friday to fight back against Democratic charges that the White House
 misused intelligence to gain support for the Iraq war, administration
 officials said.

    Pirates attack more ships off Somalia: official (Reuters)

Reuters - Somali pirates attacked five ships in the past week in a sharp
 rise of banditry apparently directed from a mysterious "mother ship"
 prowling the busy Indian Ocean corridor, shipping experts said on
 Friday.

    US, N. Korea seek action to match words (Reuters)

Reuters - The United States and North Korea each insisted the other must
 offer more to overcome a standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons as
 the latest session of multiparty disarmament talks ended in Beijing on
 Friday.

    Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq (AFP)

AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to
 Iraq and urged the war-battered country's fractious communities to
 bridge their differences before next month's general elections.

    Sirleaf set for win as Weah partisans gear up for protest (AFP)

AFP - Supporters of Liberian football hero George Weah gathered to
 protest as his rival Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was set to make history by
 becoming Africa's first female president.

    More vehicles burn in French unrest as Chirac says lessons must be
     learnt (AFP)

AFP - More vehicles were set alight in suburban violence in France after
 President Jacques Chirac said the country needed to learn lessons from
 two weeks of unrest.

    Palestinians commemorate Arafat's death (AFP)

AFP - Palestinians were commemorating the first anniversary of the death
 of Yasser Arafat, their iconic leader who even in death embodies their
 struggle for independence and statehood.

    Germany to tell China's Hu it will not contest arms embargo (AFP)

AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao has gone into talks with Germany's
 incoming chancellor Angela Merkel, who was expected to tell him that
 her government will not support lifting an EU arms embargo on China.

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