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BANGKOK, Thailand - Thousands of anti-government demonstrators pushed into the Thai prime minister's office compound and rallied outside several ministries Tuesday, and a violent masked mob from the same protest group forced a state-run TV station off the air.
September 10, 2008
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By SUTIN WANNABOVORN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A U.S. diplomat narrowly escaped an attempt on her life Tuesday when two men with AK-47s jumped in front of her armored vehicle and sprayed it with bullets, staging a brazen attack that raised fears other foreigners could be targeted.
September 10, 2008
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By RIAZ KHAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's opposition heckled Robert Mugabe in an unprecedented show of defiance when the president opened parliament Tuesday with traditional pomp and his familiar denunciations of the West.
September 10, 2008
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By ANGUS SHAW
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber with explosives hidden beneath his traditional robe blew himself up Tuesday in a crowd of Iraqis trying to join the police force, killing at least 25 people in the second major bombing in Iraq this week.
September 10, 2008
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By ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid.
September 10, 2008
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Stevens accused the Justice Department of trying to smear his character Monday as he prepared to defend his seat in a crowded Republican primary election.
September 10, 2008
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By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - The 27-year-old woman and her husband already had three children - all girls. They badly wanted a boy, and she had not conceived in five years, so doctors gave her hormones.
September 10, 2008
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By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya - Hijackers in Sudan's wartorn Darfur region seized a jetliner carrying nearly 100 people, including local Darfur officials, and forced it to land at a World War II-era airfield in the heart of the Sahara Desert in neighboring Libya, officials said.
September 10, 2008
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By KHALED EL-DEEB and MOHAMED OSMAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan - In a stark warning to U.S. forces, the Afghan government said it will try to regulate the presence of U.S. troops and their use of airstrikes, while the U.N. on Tuesday announced that ''convincing evidence'' exists that an American-led operation killed 90 civilians.
September 10, 2008
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By FISNIK ABRASHI
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Talk about animal magnetism, cows seem to have a built-in compass.
September 10, 2008
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
MOSCOW - Russia formally recognized the breakaway Georgian territories at the heart of its war with Georgia on Tuesday, heightening tensions with the West as the United States dispatched a military ship bearing aid to a port city still patrolled by Russian troops.
September 10, 2008
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By STEVE GUTTERMAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
September 10, 2008
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - The government on Monday recommended a speed limit for commercial ships along the Atlantic coast, where collisions with the endangered right whale threaten its existence.
September 10, 2008
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By DINA CAPPIELLO
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that ''God willing'' there could still be a Mideast peace agreement before the end of President Bush's term in office.
September 10, 2008
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By MATTHEW LEE and DALIA NAMMARI
Associated Press Writers
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Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. - Two weeks after a devastating revelation sent her husband into political exile, Elizabeth Edwards isn't getting the steady sympathy usually afforded to a woman scorned.
September 10, 2008
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By MIKE BAKER
Associated Press Writer
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National
