Nation and World
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Bush arrives in Tanzania with $700 mil in aidFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- President Bush, targeting disease and poverty in travels across the African continent, touted a soft-power agenda Sunday in Tanzania where he ...
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Kosovo declares independence
Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Revelers fired guns, waved red-and-black Albanian flags and set off fireworks over Kosovo Sunday after parliament proclaimed independence in defiance...
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Father says he killed daughter over text messages
Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A father who said he was upset with his teenage daughter for text-messaging a boy was arrested Saturday on charges of killing the girl, whose burned body was...
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World maps might change
Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - PRISTINA, Serbia -- Tiny Kosovo -- poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-Western -- braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia, a dec...
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Mercury rising, so cool it
Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- While arguing in court that states are free to enact tougher mercury controls for power plants, the Bush administration pressured dozens of states to accep...
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American citizens getting squeezedFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - In regards to Ruben Navarrette's article(Feb. 6), "No entitlement to a bailout from a bad gamble on mortgages." How predictable it is that Ruben would get behind the pr...
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Kosovo state still in doubt
Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Kosovo's hope for widespread international recognition of its newly declared independence is facing tense days of negotiations and posturing in the d...
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Shooting down satellite veiled U.S. defense test?
Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Russia said Saturday that U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of America's missile defense system. The Pentagon fail...
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Student abducted in Reno was strangled by serial rapist
Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - RENO, Nev. -- A 19-year-old college student missing since she was abducted nearly a month ago was strangled by a serial rapist who has attacked at least two other women ...
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China: Climate pact must treat rich nations as 'culprits'
Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - UNITED NATIONS -- Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich nations are not treated as "culprits" and developing countries as "victims," Chi...