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Abortion roils tense health debate (Politico)

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Abortion roils tense health debate
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,Politico – A coalition of anti-abortion groups is set to open a new front against Democrats’ efforts to restructure American health care, claiming the plans open a back door to publicly financed abortions.

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Mumbai gunman says he’s ready for gallows (AP)

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Mumbai gunman says he’s ready for gallows
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AP – The lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks said Wednesday that he is ready to go to the gallows and wants no mercy from the court for his role in one of India’s worst terrorist acts, which left 166 people dead.

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Saudi rights abuses increased since 9/11: Amnesty (AFP)

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Saudi rights abuses increased since 9/11: Amnesty
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AFP – Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia have soared as a result of counter-terrorism measures introduced since the 2001 attacks in the United States, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

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Report: Insecurity hinders Arab progress (AP)

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Report: Insecurity hinders Arab progress
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,AP – A new report by over 100 independent intellectuals and scholars from Arab countries blames political, economic, social and environmental problems for undermining the lives and freedom of Arabs coupled with the region’s vulnerability to outside intervention.

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Health bill a boon to doctors (AP)

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Health bill a boon to doctors
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,AP – House Democrats want to give doctors a $245 billion sweetener that helps ensure their critical support for a health care overhaul bill. Next up: trying to explain how they could do it without breaking President Barack Obama’s promise that health legislation won’t increase the federal deficit.

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Report: Shortage of cyber experts may hinder govt (AP)

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Report: Shortage of cyber experts may hinder govt
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AP – Federal agencies are facing a severe shortage of computer specialists, even as a growing wave of coordinated cyberattacks against the government poses potential national security risks, a private study found.

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Mexico nabs 4 accused of slaying federal police (AP)

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Mexico nabs 4 accused of slaying federal police
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AP – Police have captured four men accused of slaying 12 federal agents and dumping their bloodied bodies along a highway in President Felipe Calderon’s home state of Michoacan, federal authorities said Wednesday.

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Spurs snap up Blades duo (AFP)

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Spurs snap up Blades duo
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AFP – Tottenham made a double swoop for highly-rated Sheffield United defenders Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker on Wednesday.

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America’s south Afghan offensive worries Pakistan (AP)

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America’s south Afghan offensive worries Pakistan
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AP – Pakistani officials voiced fears Wednesday that a U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan could force Taliban fighters into this nation’s restive southwest, but said they had not asked the Americans to stop or slow the operation.

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Panel approves $128 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan (AP)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:23:44 +0000

Panel approves $128 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan
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,AP – The total cost of the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would top $1 trillion under a Pentagon funding bill approved by a key House panel Wednesday.

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Iran Protest: Opposition Tries to Spark Power Outage (Time.com)

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Iran Protest: Opposition Tries to Spark Power Outage
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Time.com – With many among them intimidated by the fearsome Basij, dissidents in Tehran try new forms of striking back at the regime

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Intel chief: Computer attacker still a mystery (AP)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:13:03 +0000

Intel chief: Computer attacker still a mystery
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,AP – The top U.S intelligence official says the U.S. still has not figured out who was behind the July 4 cyberattacks that took down a series of government Web sites.

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US Senate defeats gun rights measure (AFP)

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US Senate defeats gun rights measure
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AFP – The US Senate on Wednesday narrowly rejected a measure that would have allowed the carrying of concealed weapons across state lines, in a close-call defeat for the powerful US gun lobby.

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Biden rejects Russian sphere of influence (AP)

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Biden rejects Russian sphere of influence
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AP – Washington rejects the Kremlin’s claim to a sphere of influence over former Soviet nations, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden declared Wednesday before receiving a hero’s welcome in Georgia.

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GOP Sen. Graham to support Sotomayor (AP)

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GOP Sen. Graham to support Sotomayor
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AP – Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (SOHN’-ya soh-toh-my-YOR’), breaking with his party’s conservative leaders.

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GOP Sen. Graham to support Sotomayor (AP)

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GOP Sen. Graham to support Sotomayor
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AP – Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (SOHN’-ya soh-toh-my-YOR’), breaking with his party’s conservative leaders.

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Zimbabwe to hold three day peace programme: minister (AFP)

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Zimbabwe to hold three day peace programme: minister
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AFP – Zimbabwe will hold a three-day programme to promote peace and national healing, as political violence remains a problem despite the creation of a unity government, a cabinet minister said Wednesday.

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Poll: Specter, Toomey even in Pa. Senate race (AP)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:46:46 +0000

Poll: Specter, Toomey even in Pa. Senate race
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,AP – Republican conservative Pat Toomey is virtually tied with Sen. Arlen Specter in the long run-up to Pennsylvania’s 2010 Senate race, according to a poll released Wednesday.

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Leader rejects Iran vice president appointment (AP)

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Leader rejects Iran vice president appointment
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AP – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stuck by his controversial appointment for a key top deputy on Wednesday in an unusual defiance of Iran’s supreme leader who reportedly ordered the man’s removal. His move deepens the dispute among the country’s hard-line leadership.

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Govt calls for volunteers to test swine flu shots (AP)

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Govt calls for volunteers to test swine flu shots
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,AP – The government called Wednesday for several thousand volunteers to start rolling up their sleeves for the first swine flu shots, in a race to test whether a new vaccine really will protect against this novel virus before its expected rebound in the fall.

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Govt calls for volunteers to test swine flu shots (AP)

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Govt calls for volunteers to test swine flu shots
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,AP – The government called Wednesday for several thousand volunteers to start rolling up their sleeves for the first swine flu shots, in a race to test whether a new vaccine really will protect against this novel virus before its expected rebound in the fall.

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Concealed arms reciprocity rejected by Senate (AP)

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Concealed arms reciprocity rejected by Senate
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AP – In a rare win for gun control advocates, the Senate on Wednesday rejected a measure allowing a person with a concealed weapon permit in one state to also hide his firearm when visiting another state.

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Concealed arms reciprocity rejected by Senate (AP)

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Concealed arms reciprocity rejected by Senate
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Concealed arms reciprocity rejected by Senate (AP)

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Concealed arms reciprocity rejected by Senate
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USDA: Farmers face modest costs from climate bill (AP)

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USDA: Farmers face modest costs from climate bill
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,AP – A new government analysis predicts farmers will experience modest declines in income if Congress enacts legislation to limit the gases blamed for global warming.

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Congress making "great progress" on healthcare: Pelosi (Reuters)

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Congress making "great progress" on healthcare: Pelosi
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Reuters – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday lawmakers were making great progress on a healthcare overhaul and there was “no question” there were enough House votes to pass the bill.

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10 questions for Obama (Politico)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:24:12 +0000

10 questions for Obama
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,Politico – For the first time in his presidency, Obama is using a prime-time news conference to play catch-up.

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Obama may have to wait for health care passage (AP)

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Obama may have to wait for health care passage
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AP – Conservative House Democrats signaled on Wednesday that Congress is far from fulfilling President Barack Obama’s goal of overhauling health care, just hours before the president planned another televised appeal to lawmakers to get the job done.

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Obama may have to wait for health care passage (AP)

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Obama may have to wait for health care passage
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Obama may have to wait for health care passage (AP)

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Obama may have to wait for health care passage
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GM, Chrysler defend dealer cuts (AP)

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GM, Chrysler defend dealer cuts
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,AP – General Motors and Chrysler defended their plans Wednesday to eliminate about 3,000 dealerships in front of critics in Congress, calling it a vital piece of their strategy to rebound from government-led bankruptcies.

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Acquittal or new trial sought in Miami terror case (AP)

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Acquittal or new trial sought in Miami terror case
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,AP – Five men convicted of plotting with al-Qaida to destroy a Chicago skyscraper and blow up FBI offices want a federal judge to declare them innocent or order a new trial, claiming that a juror who appeared skeptical of the prosecution’s case was improperly removed during deliberations.

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Pace of reconciliation tops Obama-al-Maliki talks (AP)

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Pace of reconciliation tops Obama-al-Maliki talks
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AP – U.S. concerns over the slow pace of political, religious and ethnic reconciliation in Iraq are expected to dominate President Barack Obama’s talks at the White House with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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Israel cuts 1948 ‘catastrophe’ from Arabic texts (AP)

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Israel cuts 1948 ‘catastrophe’ from Arabic texts
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AP – The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said Wednesday.

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Ban urges Israel to freeze east Jerusalem settlements (AFP)

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Ban urges Israel to freeze east Jerusalem settlements
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AFP – United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Israel to freeze its settlement activity in occupied east Jerusalem, adding his voice to mounting international pressure on Israel.

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Sen. Kyl, No. 2 Republican, to oppose Sotomayor (AP)

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Sen. Kyl, No. 2 Republican, to oppose Sotomayor
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AP – Republican Sen. Jon Kyl’s office says he’ll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (SOHN’-ya soh-toh-my-YOR’), the latest of his party’s conservative leaders to announce he’ll oppose President Barack Obama’s choice to be the first Hispanic justice.

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Sen. Kyl, No. 2 Republican, to oppose Sotomayor (AP)

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Sen. Kyl, No. 2 Republican, to oppose Sotomayor
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Has Clinton closed door on running for president? (AP)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:29:37 +0000

Has Clinton closed door on running for president?
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AP – BANGKOK Hillary for president, again?

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Clinton pushes for NKorea denuclearization (AP)

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Clinton pushes for NKorea denuclearization
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AP – North Korea must completely and irreversibly end its nuclear weapons program or face further isolation and “the unrelenting pressure” of international sanctions, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.

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Clinton pushes for NKorea denuclearization (AP)

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Clinton pushes for NKorea denuclearization
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Clinton pushes for NKorea denuclearization (AP)

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Clinton pushes for NKorea denuclearization
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Thune’s pro-criminal gun amendment (Politico)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:35:39 +0000

Thune’s pro-criminal gun amendment
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,Politico – In an Ideas piece, the former GOP representative says the Thune amendment would empower criminals.

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Global health officials mull how to slow swine flu (AP)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:50:01 +0000

Global health officials mull how to slow swine flu
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AP – Some Muslim countries are advising pregnant women not to attend the hajj pilgrimage. China is quarantining any visitor suspected of having a fever, while priests in New Zealand have been banned from placing Communion wafers on worshippers’ tongues.

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Hague court to rule on Sudan’s oil-rich Abyei (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:49:53 +0000

Hague court to rule on Sudan’s oil-rich Abyei
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Reuters – An international court rules on Wednesday on the legality of the boundaries of the disputed oil-rich Abyei area claimed by both north and south Sudan.

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Mumbai gunman describes indoctrination in Pakistan (AP)

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Mumbai gunman describes indoctrination in Pakistan
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AP – An Indian court that heard a stunning confession from the lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai terror attacks put a gag order on his latest testimony a message to his handlers in Pakistan and a description of the indoctrination he received before coming to India.

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Clinton concerned by NKorea-Myanmar military links (AFP)

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Clinton concerned by NKorea-Myanmar military links
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AFP – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed concerns Tuesday about possible military cooperation between Myanmar and nuclear-armed North Korea, warning that it could destabilise the region.

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UN debate on genocide asks: protect or intervene? (AP)

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UN debate on genocide asks: protect or intervene?
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AP – Out of genocides past and Africa’s tumult a controversial but seldom-used diplomatic tool is emerging: The concept that the world has a “responsibility to protect” civilians against their own brutal governments.

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Global health officials mull how to slow swine flu (AP)

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Global health officials mull how to slow swine flu
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UN chief condemns looting of Somali offices (AP)

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UN chief condemns looting of Somali offices
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AP – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned the looting of two United Nations offices in southern Somalia and pledged to continue to help the war-ravaged country emerge from decades of violence.

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Slovakia temporarily takes in Palestinian refugees: UNHCR (AFP)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:49:34 +0000

Slovakia temporarily takes in Palestinian refugees: UNHCR
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AFP – Slovakia will temporarily take in 98 Palestinian refugees who have spent six years stuck in an Iraqi camp near the Syrian border, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.

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