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Benazir Bhutto's daughter raps for slain mum
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LONDON, AP - The teenage daughter of slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto has found an unusual way to honour her late mother - by placing a rap song on the video website YouTube.
The song, called I Would Take the Pain Away, pays... Read more »
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Prince Harry, William granted own royal staff
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LONDON, AP - Princes William and Harry say they have been granted their own royal "household" by their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
While called a household, it isn't where the princes live. Having a household means having... Read more »
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Israel to open 'humanitarian corridor', school blast kills 30
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Israel says it has agreed to set up a "humanitarian corridor" to ship vital supplies to the people of the Gaza Strip.
The office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says in a statement that the humanitarian corridor idea came from the... Read more »
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Burris denied seat in US Senate to succeed Obama
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WASHINGTON - An appointee of Illinois' embattled governor failed in his bid to take President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat yesterday in a scripted piece of political theatre staged just before the opening of the 111th Congress.
"My... Read more »
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Aust woman accused of husband's fatal penis burning
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An Australian woman has been charged with murder after allegedly
setting her husband's genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair.
Prosecutors told the Adelaide Magistrates Court that 44-year-old Rajini
Narayan... Read more »
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Renewed increase in Zimbabwe cholera cases
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HARARE - The UN reported a one-day jump in new cholera cases and deaths in Zimbabwe yesterday, following a week in which the epidemic had showed signs of slowing.
The UN's World Health Organization reported 751 new cases and 59... Read more »
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Crying in the chapel as Vegas loses shine
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This is not just a place people are born and live. Las Vegas is an enterprise.
It is a deal people enter, a set of givens agreed upon: More is better. Biggest is best.
To live in Las Vegas is to stake your future on this enterprise... Read more »
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Bush protects vast Pacific tracts
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WASHINGTON - Parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside by President George W. Bush as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction and commercial fishing in what will be the... Read more »
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Man charged in Halloween killing pleads not guilty
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - A South Carolina ex-convict accused of answering a knock at his door on Halloween night by spraying the front of his house with bullets and killing a 12-year-old trick-or-treater pleaded not guilty yesterday to a... Read more »
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Ebola outbreak suspected in western Congo
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Medical experts monitored a remote area in western Congo hit by an outbreak of the Ebola virus yesterday, trying to determine for certain if the disease was spreading.
Doctors Without Borders spokesman Francois... Read more »
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