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BEIJING - China has told local government leaders to be more responsive to people's complaints after several rural protests threatened to disturb the calm run-up to next month's Olympic Games, a government notice said Wednesday.
July 31, 2008
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By HENRY SANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A top U.S. diplomat heading to Geneva has no plans to meet separately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, but the mere presence of the Bush administration official at talks between the Iranian negotiator and representatives of other world powers will be a sharp break with past administration policy.
July 31, 2008
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By MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in ''no danger of failing.''
July 31, 2008
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By JEANNINE AVERSA
AP Economics Writer
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Washington
NEW YORK - Americans are raiding their already fragile retirement piggy banks to weather financial hardships such as unemployment, medical emergencies and buying a home.
July 31, 2008
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By CANDICE CHOI
AP Business Writer
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National
HENDERSON, Ky. - Newly released surveillance videos provide a glimpse of a shooting at a western Kentucky plastics plant that left five people and the gunman dead last month.
July 31, 2008
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The Associated Press
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National
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space station's two Russian astronauts stepped outside for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, taking a spacewalk that proved to be tame compared to last week's work with explosives.
July 31, 2008
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By MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
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National
RALEIGH, N.C. - If Barack Obama's historic campaign to become the first black president boosts black turnout as drastically as he predicts, he could crack decades of Republican dominance across the South.
July 31, 2008
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By MIKE BAKER
Associated Press Writer
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Campaign 2008
SYDNEY, Australia - While he didn't expect to travel much, Pope Benedict XVI is actually keeping pace with his globe-trotting predecessor John Paul II. The difference is their destinations.
July 31, 2008
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By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Police arrested Malaysia's leading opposition figure on Wednesday on suspicion that he sodomized a male aide - the second time in a decade he has faced the accusation that could send him to jail for 20 years and hobble his campaign to bring down the country's government.
July 31, 2008
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By VIJAY JOSHI
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
In the year ahead, you could travel more than is normal for you. These jaunts will not be of long distance or duration but of great interest and even quite adventuresome. All will add to the fun and excitement you will enjoy.
July 31, 2008
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By BERNICE BEDE OSOL
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Coffee Break
Yesterday I mentioned that when you have an unbalanced hand and a suit-fit with partner, do not worry much about point-count. You will win more tricks than two balanced hands with the same combined point-count would produce in no-trump.
July 31, 2008
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By PHILLIP ALDER
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Coffee Break
(Note: All information included in this report is taken from law enforcement incident reports and arrest records, which are public records and available for review at any and all local law enforcement agencies. Not every arrest leads to a conviction. Guilt or innocence is determined by the court system.)
July 31, 2008
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From Staff Reports
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Crime Report
MAILLE, France - For most of France, Aug. 25, 1944, was the joyous day that Allied troops liberated Paris from the Nazis. For this village in the Loire valley, it was a day of horror.
July 31, 2008
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By CHRISTIAN PANVERT
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. troops abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers this week and insurgents briefly overran the area, officials said Wednesday, underlining the difficulties faced by forces in the border region.
July 31, 2008
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By AMIR SHAH
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BERLIN - Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match.
July 31, 2008
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By PATRICK McGROARTY
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
