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    <title><![CDATA[   Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow ]]></title>
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        Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting &quot;death to the dictator&quot; and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   2 men and a mediator: Can Arias help Honduras? ]]></title>
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        Talks to resolve the leadership crisis in Honduras began without a breakthrough Thursday, as both rivals emerged from meetings with a mediator showing no signs of relinquishing their claims to the presidency following a divisive coup.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Worst violence since US pullback hits Iraq ]]></title>
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        Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Pakistani officials: Jets strike militants ]]></title>
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        Pakistani jets killed 12 suspected militants in South Waziristan on Thursday, a day after suspected U.S. missile strikes killed up to 45 insurgents in twin strikes in the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, intelligence officials said.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Chinese try to heal psychological wounds of unrest ]]></title>
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        Construction worker Zhang Binkun was seething over the death of his mother, whom he believes was killed by a mob of Uighurs with sticks and stones.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Afghanistan changes rape law ]]></title>
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        K&amp;ensp;ABUL | Afghanistan&amp;rsquo;s government has revised a law that stirred an international outcry because it essentially legalized marital rape, officials said Thursday. The new version no longer requires a woman submit to sex with her husband. The changes, which parliament is expected to approve, likely reflect a calculation by President Hamid Karzai that his reputation as a reformer is more important than support from conservative Shiites who favored the original bill.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   World powers disagree on emissions at G8 summit ]]></title>
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        L&amp;ensp;&amp;rsquo;AQUILA, Italy | The failure to agree on swift, concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the summit meeting of the world&amp;rsquo;s most advanced economies pointed to hard bargaining ahead on global warming &amp;mdash; especially on the politically sensitive issue of who should go first. President Barack Obama and his counterparts in the Group of Eight, who on Wednesday began two days of meetings in this central Italian mountain town, announced broad agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat rising global temperatures over the next four decades.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Taliban escape in burqas ]]></title>
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        K&amp;ensp;ABUL | U.S. Marines trapped Taliban fighters in a residential compound and persuaded the insurgents to allow women and children to leave. The troops then moved in &amp;mdash; but discovered that the militants had slipped out, dressed in women&amp;rsquo;s burqa robes. The insurgents, who may owe their lives to the new U.S. commander&amp;rsquo;s emphasis on limiting civilian casualties, were among hundreds of militants who have fled the offensive the Marines launched last week in southern Helmand province.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Obama appeals to Russians ]]></title>
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        MOSCOW | After reaching out to the Islamic world in speeches in Turkey and Egypt, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought once more to speak directly to a hostile audience &amp;mdash; the Russian public. Obama said Tuesday that America and Russia &amp;ldquo;share common interests&amp;rdquo; in building a secure, free and flourishing world.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Obama, Medvedev approve missile cuts ]]></title>
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        MOSCOW | Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev on Monday agreed to cut up to a third of the nuclear warheads in their strategic arsenals but acknowledged that disagreements linger about a proposed U.S. missile defense shield. Obama and Medvedev stressed that the proposal marked a turn away from post-Cold War lows of the past few years.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Uighur women in China protest arrest of family members ]]></title>
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        URUMQI, China | Ethnic Uighurs scuffled with armed police today in a fresh protest in Xinjiang, where at least 156 people have been killed and more than 1,400 people arrested in western China&amp;rsquo;s worst ethnic violence in decades. Most of the group of about 200 Uighurs were women protesting the arrests of their husbands in the crackdown on members of the Muslim minority by Chinese authorities since the violence was sparked Sunday in the Xinjian provincial capital.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Ousted Zelaya's airplane is turned away as he tries to return to Honduras ]]></title>
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        TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras | Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the main Honduras airport Sunday because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers, some of them clashing with a crowd of thousands outside. His Venezuelan pilots circled the airport and decided not to risk a crash.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Former leaders gain in Mexico ]]></title>
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        MEXICO CITY | The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades appeared to be making a comeback in Sunday&amp;rsquo;s midterm congressional elections, scoring big with voters for the first time since it lost the presidency in 2000. Early returns with about a fifth of the ballots counted showed the Institutional Revolutionary Party winning about 35 percent of votes for the lower house of Congress, against about 27 percent for President Felipe Calderon&amp;rsquo;s conservative National Action Party.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Temperature, not Taliban, is the main enemy on march across southern Afghanistan ]]></title>
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        NAWA, Afghanistan | Taliban militants were nowhere in sight as the columns of U.S. Marines walked a third straight day across southern Afghanistan. But the desert heat proved an enemy in its own right, with several troops falling victim Saturday to temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The Marines carry 50-100 pounds on their backs. But because they are marching through farmland on foot, they can&amp;rsquo;t carry nearly as much water as their thirst demands.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Swine flu shows signs of resurgence ]]></title>
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        C&amp;ensp;ANCUN, Mexico | Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico. World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan and health ministers from around the globe huddled Thursday in Cancun for a two-day summit to design strategies for battling the pandemic. Nations attending include the United States, Canada, China, Britain and Brazil.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Taliban rebels kidnap U.S. soldier ]]></title>
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        KABUL, Afghanistan | A U.S. soldier who inexplicably walked off his barren military base earlier this week was captured by Taliban militants hours later, military officials said Thursday. It&amp;rsquo;s believed to be the first time insurgents here have captured a U.S. serviceman in the almost-eight-year war.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Marines suffer first casualties of expanded Afghan mission ]]></title>
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        NAWA, Afghanistan | U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   U.S. forces launch Afghan operation ]]></title>
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        Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys early today. The operation represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. military&#39;s new counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.      
    
  

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        TEHRAN, Iran | In fresh displays of defiance, Iran&amp;rsquo;s opposition leader told supporters Wednesday &amp;ldquo;it&amp;rsquo;s not yet too late&amp;rdquo; to push for their rights. Embattled opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi defied warnings from Iran&amp;rsquo;s leaders that no further protests would be tolerated following official certification of the results that declared victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.      
    
  

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        TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras | Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated Wednesday for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who vowed to fly home this weekend despite a warrant for his arrest. Meanwhile, thousands more rallied in favor of the military-backed government.      
    
  

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        The Pentagon said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras to protest a coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a move that suggests the U.S. could further curtail dealings with the new Honduran government.      
    
  

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        Elia Quiroz was about to go to bed in his home near the railroad station in this Tuscan seaside town when the train rumbled by. His kitchen table started shaking.      
    
  

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        EDITOR&#39;S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.      
    
  

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        M&amp;ensp;ORONI, Comoros | Teams searching the Indian Ocean after the crash early Tuesday of a Yemeni passenger jet rescued a girl who appeared to be the sole survivor of the 153 people on board. The jetliner &amp;mdash; an aging Airbus 310 flying the last leg of a Yemenia airlines flight &amp;mdash; crashed as it attempted to land amid severe turbulence and howling winds.      
    
  

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        BAGHDAD | Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad&amp;rsquo;s background track.      
    
  

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        Riot police deployed outside Myanmar&#39;s main prison Friday as the trial of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi resumed, a week after the ruling generals blocked efforts by the U.N. chief to save her from a possible five-year prison term.      
    
  

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        A moderate earthquake rocked southwest China killing one person, injuring at least 324 others and collapsing some 18,000 homes, state media said.      
    
  

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        Pakistani fighter jets killed 24 insurgents close to the Afghan border while security forces arrested 40 militants in raids in another northwestern region, officials said Friday.      
    
  

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        A truck filled with explosives that police believe may have been destined for Kabul blew up on a highway Thursday, killing 25 people - more than half of them children walking to school. Two American soldiers died in combat as the U.S. military reported the number of roadside bombs in Afghanistan last month was nearly three times the figure for Iraq.      
    
  

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        North Korean leader Kim Jong Il&#39;s latest public appearance is spurring fresh speculation that his health might be worsening, almost a year after he reportedly suffered a stroke.      
    
  

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