| AP source: US envoy objects to troop increase (AP)
November 12, 2009 at 1:28 am
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|  AP - The U.S. envoy in Afghanistan, a former Army general who once commanded troops in the country, has objected strongly to emerging plans to send tens of thousands of additional forces to the country, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
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| Suns use 40-point 1st quarter to rout Hornets (AP)
November 12, 2009 at 1:21 am
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|  AP - Amare Stoudemire and Steve Nash combined to hit all eight of their first-quarter shots and the Phoenix Suns used a sizzling opening period to beat the New Orleans Hornets 124-104 on Wednesday night for their eighth victory in nine games.
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| China looms as key challenge on Obama's Asia tour (Reuters)
November 12, 2009 at 1:11 am
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| | Reuters - President Barack Obama leaves for Asia on Thursday with the U.S. economy, jobs and a yawning trade deficit with China looming large on his agenda. |
| Gunmen kill Pakistani working at Iranian Consulate (AP)
November 12, 2009 at 12:49 am
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|  AP - Gunmen killed a Pakistani working at the Iranian Consulate in Peshawar on Thursday, the latest in a wave of attacks in or near the largest city in the militant-riddled northwest, said police.
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| Taylor Swift makes CMA history (AP)
November 12, 2009 at 12:27 am
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|  AP - It's been Taylor Swift's year, and Wednesday was her night as she became the youngest person and the first solo female act in a decade to win the Country Music Association's entertainer of the year award.
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| Foreclosures dip 3 pct. in October from September (AP)
November 12, 2009 at 12:22 am
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| | AP - The number of homeowners on the brink of losing their homes dipped in October, the third straight monthly decline, as foreclosure prevention programs helped more borrowers. |
| Taylor Swift wins CMA entertainer of the year (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 11:36 pm
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|  AP - Taylor Swift made history at the Country Music Awards, becoming the youngest person to win entertainer of the year and the first solo female to win it in a decade.
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| N.Korea: S.Korean military will pay for sea clash (AFP)
November 11, 2009 at 11:32 pm
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|  AFP - North Korea accused South Korea's military Thursday of staging a naval clash this week to raise tensions on the peninsula, and said it would pay dearly for the provocation.
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| LeBron, Shaq help Cavs to 102-93 win over Magic (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 11:18 pm
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|  AP - LeBron James scored 36 points, Shaquille O'Neal provided an inside presence and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Orlando Magic 102-93 on Wednesday night in a rematch of the Eastern Conference finals.
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| Shooting suspect's superiors questioned behavior (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 11:17 pm
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|  AP - A group of doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan's medical training discussed concerns about his overly zealous religious views and strange behavior months before the Army major was accused of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 dead and 29 wounded.
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| Jury convicts Ark. man in death of TV anchorwoman (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 10:51 pm
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|  AP - A man was convicted of capital murder Wednesday for beating an Arkansas TV anchorwoman so brutally that her face was shattered and she never regained consciousness before dying five days later.
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| Lou Dobbs leaving CNN for 'new opportunities' (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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|  AP - CNN's Lou Dobbs, a lightning rod for criticism following his transition from a business journalist to an opinionated anchor on such issues as illegal immigration, told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his nightly show to pursue new opportunities.
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| Obama pushes for changes in Afghan strategy options (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 10:45 pm
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| Reuters - President Barack Obama pushed his Afghan war council Wednesday for revisions in strategy options presented to him before he will go ahead with a final decision on boosting troop levels in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official said.
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| Official: Obama wants his war options changed (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
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| North Korea warns South it will pay for clash (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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|  Reuters - North Korea said the South will pay "an expensive price" for firing at Pyongyang's retreating patrol boat on Tuesday, keeping up its saber rattling two days after a naval gunfight raised tension between the rivals.
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| Sources: Reid eyes payroll tax hike on wealthy to finance health reform (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:59 pm
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|  AP - Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in the next several days, numerous Democratic officials said Wednesday.
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| Obama warns Afghan commitment not 'open-ended' (AFP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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|  AFP - President Barack Obama warned that the US commitment to Afghanistan was "not open-ended" after meeting his war cabinet to discuss the deployment of tens of thousands more troops.
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| 10 states face looming budget disasters, report says (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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|  AP - In Arizona, the budget has grown so gloomy that lawmakers are considering mortgaging Capitol buildings. In Michigan, state officials dealing with the nation's highest unemployment rate are slashing spending on schools and health care.
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| 5 men charged with sex crimes against children (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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|  AP - Authorities on Wednesday searched a rural property in western Missouri for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members of their own family.
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| Stench returns near Ohio property that held bodies (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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|  AP - A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door for more bodies and carried out bags of evidence.
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| Afghan future threatened by ex-warlords in gov't (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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|  AP - Warlords helped drive the Russians from Afghanistan, then shelled Kabul into ruins in a bloody civil war after the Soviets left. Now they are back in positions of power, in part because the U.S. relied on them in 2001 to help oust the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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| 5 men charged with sex crimes against children (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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| AP - Authorities on Wednesday were searching a rural property in western Missouri for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members of their own family.
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| Stench returns near Ohio property that held bodies (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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| AP - A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door for more bodies and carried out bags of evidence.
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| Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revolt (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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|  AP - Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.
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| Australian men undress and soap up at a car wash (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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| | AP - It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car — and no clothing. Four Australian men who allegedly undressed and soaped up at a car wash have been charged with exposure and public nuisance. Police said the men paid for a wash before stripping nude and cleaning themselves in the soapy water while their female companions took photos. |
| GMs head out to work on offseason trades (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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|  AP - General managers grabbed their bags, caught a quick lunch and headed down the corridor a short distance to their flights Wednesday after their annual meeting ended in a hotel at O'Hare International Airport.
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| Obama war council weighs Afghan troop boost (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 3:29 pm
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| Reuters - President Barack Obama convened his war council on Wednesday for talks considered critical to his deliberations on boosting troop levels in the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan.
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| Report: 10 states face looming budget disasters (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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| AP - A study released Wednesday warns that nine states are barreling toward an economic disaster similar to California's ongoing fiscal crisis that has been marked by IOUs and budget-busting deficits.
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| Fort Hood probe spotlights Web-savvy preacher (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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|  Reuters - A radical Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base is an influential voice in English-language Internet forums increasingly used by militants unfamiliar with Arabic.
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| Get ready, America: Here comes Sarah Palin (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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| | Reuters - Get ready, America. Like her or not, Sarah Palin is coming to a city near you. |
| Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 1:29 pm
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|  AP - After nearly 40 years of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list.
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| Abbas resists U.S. pressure to resume peace talks (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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|  Reuters - The Palestinian president on Wednesday resisted U.S. pressure for a resumption of peace talks with Israel, repeating his demand for a complete halt to West Bank settlement building before negotiations.
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| Obama honors veterans at Arlington cemetery (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 1:10 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama carried out the traditional Veterans Day role Wednesday, then made a surprise visit to a part of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, walking among the grave sites and talking to mourners.
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| Death penalty rare, executions rarer in military (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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|  AP - Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century.
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| UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 1:05 pm
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|  AP - Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don't get enough to eat, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger.
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| U.S. aid worker held over Afghan boy's shooting (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 12:27 pm
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| | Reuters - An American aid worker in northern Afghanistan is being held by Afghan authorities over the fatal shooting of an Afghan teenager at his home, a provincial police chief said on Wednesday. |
| United Airlines pilot charged with being drunk (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 12:21 pm
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| | Reuters - A United Airlines pilot has been charged after being arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being drunk shortly before he was about to fly a transatlantic airliner, police said on Wednesday. |
| A steal? Madoff's NYC, Palm Beach homes get price cuts (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 11:04 am
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|  Reuters - It's still not cheap, but Livin' La Vida Madoff may now cost a bit less. Asking prices for homes once occupied by now imprisoned Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff in Manhattan's Upper East Side and in Palm Beach, Florida, have been cut, after about two months on the market.
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| Nato Sec-Gen expects more resources for Afghanistan (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 9:54 am
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| | Reuters - NATO's secretary-general said on Wednesday he expected the alliance to provide more resources for training Afghan troops and police, but would not comment on exact troop numbers. |
| 'Veil martyr' murderer gets life sentence (AFP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:50 am
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|  AFP - A Russian-born German man was sentenced to life behind bars Wednesday for the brutal murder of a pregnant headscarved Egyptian woman, a crime that sparked outrage in the Muslim world.
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| Woods faces tricky test at Australian Masters (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:49 am
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|  AP - The sun-baked fans let out a cheer Wednesday when Tiger Woods pulled his driver from the bag, a rarity at the Australian Masters on the shortest golf course he has played all year.
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| Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:42 am
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|  AP - A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in South Africa said Wednesday.
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| Bomb kills 9 security officers in Pakistan (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:26 am
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| AP - Officials say a roadside bomb has killed nine security officers in a Pakistani region close to the Afghan border.
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| World remembers sacrifice of WWI lost generation (AFP)
November 11, 2009 at 9:17 am
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|  AFP - German and French leaders stood side by side at the World War I remembrance ceremony in Paris for the first time on Wednesday as events were held around the globe to honour the millions of dead.
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| Geithner wants strong dollar, will tackle deficit (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 8:22 am
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|  Reuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday he believes strongly in the need to maintain a strong dollar and said the United States was determined to get its budget deficit down.
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| No talks unless Israel halts settlements: Abbas (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 8:16 am
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|  Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called again on Wednesday for a halt to Israeli settlement building before he would resume talks with Israel, accusing it of trying to scupper Palestinian statehood.
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| Obama, Japan PM to agree on alliance review: report (Reuters)
November 11, 2009 at 7:15 am
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|  Reuters - The United States and Japan will agree this week to review their decades-old security alliance to tighten ties long term, a Japanese newspaper said Wednesday, as the two countries struggled to keep a feud over a U.S. military base from spoiling their leaders' summit.
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| Missing US soldier's body found in Afghan river (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 5:06 am
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|  AP - Military divers have found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who went missing last week as they tried to recover airdropped supplies that fell into a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday.
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| Blackout darkens much of Brazil and Paraguay (AP)
November 11, 2009 at 4:55 am
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|  AP - Brazil emerged early Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged its major cities into darkness for hours, prompting concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.
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| Massive blackout leaves Brazil on edge (AFP)
November 11, 2009 at 4:39 am
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|  AFP - A massive blackout plunged tens of millions in Brazil's largest cities into darkness, sparking major disruptions, fears of crime and energy supply concerns Wednesday for the newly named Olympic hosts.
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