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International Herald Tribune - From news reports Fierce clashes raged Thursday in Beirut after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its military telecommunications network.
Fighters from Hezbollah and the allied Amal group exchanged assault-rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades with pro- government gunmen in several areas of the capital in some of the worst domestic fighting since the 1975-90 civil war.
The latest clashes followed a defiant speech by Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in which he said the militant organizations would respond with force to any attacks.
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International Herald Tribune - From news reports Fierce clashes raged Thursday in Beirut after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its military telecommunications network.
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 PHILADELPHIA - The primaries in North Carolina and Indiana today offer Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton one more chance to tr...
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By Bronwen Roberts.
Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, where Britain's Prince Harry has been combating the Taliban, is a harsh battleground where extremists have teamed up with powerful opium lords.
It has also proven to be dead...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer - By Thomas Fitzgerald
Stitching together a coalition of blue-collar workers, white men and women, Sen. H...
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USA TODAY - By Jill Lawrence and Kathy Kiely
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton scoured Pennsylvania for votes Monday amid si...
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 USA TODAY - By Joan Biskupic and Kevin Johnson
WASHINGTON -- Several states are poised to resume executions after the Supreme Court o...
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By Stephen Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.
Worldwide protest over China's human rights record and actions in Tibet blocked the path of the Olympic torch's worldwide run this week, just before its trek through San Francisco.
The torch was ...
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 USA TODAY, By Richard Wolf
KIEV, Ukraine -- When the United States and 25 other members of the NATO alliance meet in Bucharest this...
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Virginian - Pilot. By Jim Yardley, The New York Times BEIJING - Thousands of Buddhist monks and other Tibetans clashed with riot police in a second Chinese city on Saturday, while the authorities said they had regained control of the Tibetan capit...
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By Rupert Cornwell - The top US commander for the Middle East resigned yesterday, a step that seems to bear out reports of sharp policy differences on Iran between a hawkish White House and a uniformed military leadership opposed to military action. ...
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 Presidential hopeful Barack Obama won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, beating rival Hillary Clinton.
Although there were ju...
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Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was the projected winner Tuesday over Barack Obama in the Texas Democratic primary, media repor...
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 By Joe Vardon, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio
CINCINNATI -- A right-wing talk show host three times invoked Sen. Barack Obama's middle name w...
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By David Espo Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama of politic...
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 By Ishtiaq Mahsud and Robert H. Reid Associated Press
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban militants declared a cease- fire Wedn...
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 By Barry Wilner, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GLENDALE, Ariz. - With the Super Bowl on the line, look who had the perfection thing down Pat: Eli...
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By Tom Raum and Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sparred, for the ...
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MIAMI - John McCain won Florida's Republican primary with the help of the state's wildly popular governor, his own war-hero biography an...
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Salt Lake City, Utah - The man 13 million Mormons consider to be a prophet of God and who served them as president of more
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S.C. -- Sen. Barack Obama crushed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday in the South ...
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It was a kinder, gentler GOP debate Thursday night.
Unlike prior gatherings, in which John McCain and Mike Huckabee attacked Mitt Romn...
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 Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
JERUSALEM - President Bush began an eight-day Middle East peace mission Wednesday as Israeli leaders w...
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USA TODAY - By Jill Lawrence MANCHESTER, N.H. -- New Hampshire voters make their presidential picks today in an environment trans...
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 Virginian - Pilot: By MATT APUZZO, The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Justice Department opened a full criminal investigation...
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Treacherous Political Situation Takes Another Blow. International Herald Tribune - By Salman Masood and Graham Bowley Graham Bowley reported and David Rohde contributed reporting from New York. The Pakistani opposition leader Bena...
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 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - By Mark Lavie Associated Press
JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister pledged Sunday to continue attac...
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Virginian - Pilot, By Scott Shane - The New York Times
WASHINGTON - The CIA has agreed to make documents related to the destruction of interrogation videotapes available to the House intelligence committee and to allow the agency's top lawyer, Jo...
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City), By Matt Apuzzo Associated Press -
WASHINGTON -- The controversy over destroyed CIA interrogation ...
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 Deseret News (Salt Lake City): By Anne Gearan, Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- North Korea and Iran have a long way to go to get...
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Virginian - Pilot: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A gunman killed two staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later, a gunman fatally shot a person at a megachurch...
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United Press International - An unhappy young man who opened fire in an Omaha mall, killing eight people and wounding five before killing himself, was described as a lost pound puppy.
Police said they found a suicide note on Robert A. Hawkins, ag...
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 Chicago Tribune - CARACAS, Venezuela: For the first time, voters put the brakes on President Hugo Chavez's "socialist revolution" by def...
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The Miami Herald - By Tyler Bridges and Phil Gunson, The Miami Herald
CARACAS -- Venezuelan voters began lining up early outside pol...
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The London Independent, By Andrew Buncombein Lahore
Eleven days after suspending the Pakistani constitution and sacking the Sup...
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USA TODAY - By Donna Leinwand
The Senate confirmed Michael Mukasey as attorney general late Thursday over the objections of many...
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Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK) - PAKISTAN'S President Musharraf declared a state of emergency yesterday amid rising Islamic violence...
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United Press International - The U.S. Senate passed a second measure aimed at doubling the funding for a program aimed at providing health insurance for children.
The Democratic-controlled Senate passed the measure Thursday on a 64-30 vote, with ...
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 Leaders Call For Ouster Of Nation’s Top Product Safety Official. More and more Americans exposed to deadly products, report says. ...
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Early and often, on Iraq, Iran and electability, Hillary Rodham Clinton was sharply c...
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Clinton, Obama Court West Virginians Before Tuesday's Vote
_ Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made their closing arguments in West Virginia Monday on the eve of the state's Democratic presidential primary, which Clinton is expected to win handily.
900 Students Feared Buried Alive in Quake
Up to 900 students may have been trapped when a high school collapsed in a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in China that killed at least 107 people, officials said.
Duncan, Parker Get the Spurs Even
Tim Duncan had 22 points and 15 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the New Orleans Hornets 100-80 on Sunday night in Game 4 to even the Western Conference semifinals at 2.
Boat Carrying Aid to Cyclone Victims Sinks
Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first international shipments - sank on its way to the disaster zone.
Rescuers Dig Through Debris in Search of Storm Victims
Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms a day earlier killed at least 22 people in three states.
Court to Hear Arguments for Link Between Vaccines, Autism
Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine today as they take their case to a federal court.
Number of Disabled U.S. Veterans on the Rise
By Jennifer C. Kerr
25-Year-Old L.A. Boxer Claims $1 Million Prize
Parvati Shallow has won "Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites."
Tornadoes and Storms Leave 22 Dead in 3 States
Emergency crews searched through the wreckage Sunday from violent storms that killed at least 22 people in Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia.
Newsday Bids Narrow to 2
Cablevision appeared likely to prevail in the bidding for the New York daily newspaper Newsday, people briefed on the matter said over the weekend, after News Corp., controlled by Rupert Murdoch, pulled out of the running.
Spurs Revive '07 Title Form
SAN ANTONIO -- So this is why they're the defending champions.
Aussie Survives Shark Attack
An Australian swimmer says he survived a weekend shark attack by poking the beast in the eye after it dragged him underwater.
Democrats Step Around Elephant in the Room
May 12--WASHINGTON--Breaking up is hard to do, especially when the other person doesn't want to say goodbye.
Death Toll at 6 in Picher Tornado; All Accounted For
May 12--PICHER -- Picher residents have spent years dealing with a man-made disaster that took decades to build.
Jimmy Fallon Takes 'Late Night' Reins: Former 'SNL' Star Will Replace Conan O'Brien in '09
May 12--NEW YORK -- The poorly kept secret that Jimmy Fallon will be the next host of NBC's "Late Night" became official Monday.
Pupils Buried Alive in Quake ; HORROR: Nearly 1,000 Chinese Kids Trapped in School Buildings
AROUND 900 children were buried alive in their school buildings by a massive earthquake that struck China's south western Sichuan province today, state media said.
Primary Belongs to Clinton
May 12--U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton enters the final week before Kentucky's May 20 Democratic presidential primary with a commanding 27 percentage point lead over U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, a new poll shows.
Thousands Dead As Quake Collapses Schools in China
BEIJING _ A powerful earthquake rocked a region of southwest China Monday, killing more than 8,500 people, burying schoolchildren in collapsed classrooms and rattling high-rise buildings across much of East Asia.
MLB: Pittsburgh 5, Atlanta 0 (1st Game)
Zach Duke pitched six scoreless inning in helping the Pittsburgh Pirates collect a 5-0 win Monday over the Atlanta Braves in the first game of a doubleheader.
UN Chief Pledges to Help China With Disaster Relief
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
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