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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran hosted Holocaust deniers from around the world Monday at a conference examining whether the Nazi genocide took place, a meeting Israel's prime minister condemned as a ''sick phenomenon.''
December 26, 2006
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By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press Writer
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Nation
WASHINGTON - Teenager Michelle Rome can't imagine life without instant messaging. Baby boomer Steve Wilson doesn't care that it even exists.
December 22, 2006
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By WILL LESTER
Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON - It has not been a pretty sight on Capitol Hill in the waning hours of Republican control.
December 22, 2006
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press Writer
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CAIRO, Egypt - Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.
December 22, 2006
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By SALAH NASRAWI
Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON - President Bush gave a chilly response to the Iraq Study Group's proposals for reshaping his policy Thursday, objecting to talks with Iran and Syria, refusing to endorse a major troop withdrawal and vowing no retreat from embattled U.S. goals in the Mideast.
December 22, 2006
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By TERENCE HUNT
AP White House Correspondent
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LOS ANGELES - New photographs from space suggest that water occasionally flows on the frigid surface of Mars, raising the tantalizing possibility that the Red Planet is hospitable to life, scientists reported Wednesday.
December 21, 2006
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By ALICIA CHANG
AP Science Writer
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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. - Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least three dozen people in three states.
December 21, 2006
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By ANGELA DELLI SANTI
Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's policy in Iraq ''is not working,'' a high-level commission said Wednesday in a blunt, bleak assessment that called for an urgent diplomatic attempt to stabilize the country and allow withdrawal of most U.S. combat troops by early 2008.
December 21, 2006
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By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY and DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writers
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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. - All 11 Taco Bells implicated in an E. coli outbreak in New York and New Jersey used the same food distributor, the restaurant chain said Tuesday as health officials tried to pinpoint the source of the dangerous bacteria that sickened at least three dozen people.
December 20, 2006
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By ANGELA DELLI SANTI
Associated Press Writer
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NEW YORK - Yes, said Toni Lewis, as she caught a quick dinner on the run at McDonalds before her child's piano lesson. Maybe New York City IS going too far telling people what they can and can't put into their stomachs. But you know what?
December 20, 2006
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By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
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WASHINGTON - Robert Gates won approval by a Senate panel Tuesday to be the next defense secretary after telling the senators the U.S. is not winning the war in Iraq and there could be a ''regional conflagration'' if the country is not stabilized.
December 20, 2006
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By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister reversed course Tuesday and said his envoys will talk with Iraq's neighbors about the possibility of a regional conference on quelling the violence here, despite opposition to the plan by some key political allies.
December 20, 2006
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and THOMAS WAGNER
Associated Press Writers
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JACKSON, Miss. - For Mississippian Rick Looser, the last straw came on an airline flight a couple of years ago when a 12-year-old Connecticut boy sitting next to him asked: ''Do you still see the KKK on the streets every day?''
December 19, 2006
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By HOLBROOK MOHR
Associated Press Writer
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NEW YORK - Many companies are starting to sound like moms: They're pushing employees to eat their vegetables and go outside and play. And they're not being gentle about it.
December 19, 2006
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By ELLEN SIMON
AP Business Writer
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four U.S. Marines died when a Sea Knight helicopter plunged into a lake in volatile Anbar province, the military said Monday, raising to 13 the number of American troops killed during a bloody weekend in Iraq.
December 19, 2006
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By KIM GAMEL
Associated Press Writer
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