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ANKARA, Turkey - Iran's foreign minister said Friday that he expects weekend talks with the United States to produce agreements on opening an American diplomatic outpost in Tehran and restoring direct flights between the two nations.
August 02, 2008
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By SUZAN FRASER
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI told representatives of Islam and other faiths that they must unite to combat religion's role in ''sinister and indiscriminate'' violence.
August 02, 2008
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By ROHAN SULLIVAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Israeli investigators have arrested six men suspected of trying to set up an al-Qaida-linked terror network, including one who wanted to shoot down President Bush's helicopter, the Shin Bet security service said Friday.
August 02, 2008
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By MATTI FRIEDMAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BEIJING - Airlines are being told to stay away from Beijing's airport during the opening ceremony of the Olympics and further scrutiny is being applied to foreign entertainers in the latest security moves ahead of next month's games.
August 02, 2008
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By HENRY SANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
COMBAT OUTPOST COPPER, Iraq - It's quiet around here in farm country, south of Baghdad where al-Qaida once held sway. Just months ago U.S. foot patrols through the wheat fields nearby would regularly draw fire - if the soldiers managed first to elude al-Qaida-planted roadside bombs.
August 01, 2008
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By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
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Associated Press
NEW DELHI - What does it take to secure the vote of an Indian lawmaker these days? Six million dollars, says a top politician. And that's not all that's being offered.
August 01, 2008
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By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BAGHDAD - They fan out across Baghdad in summer's scorching heat - men in blue overalls picking up trash, mowing the sparse grass in parks, and standing on ladders to paint highway underpasses and prune palm trees.
August 01, 2008
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By SALLY BUZBEE
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Thursday that police arrested him for alleged sodomy because of a personal vendetta among the top brass, and insisted they have no case against him.
August 01, 2008
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By JULIA ZAPPEI
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BAGHDAD - Kuwait on Thursday named its first ambassador to Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War, in a major step toward healing the two countries' painful past and boosting regional ties with Baghdad's post-war government.
August 01, 2008
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Lawyers representing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cross-examined an American businessman Thursday, hoping to undermine his allegations that Olmert illicitly accepted cash-stuffed envelopes from him to help fund a luxurious lifestyle.
August 01, 2008
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By AMY TEIBEL
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
NAHARIYA, Israel - Thousands of mourners turned out Thursday for the burials of two Israeli soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas, laying to rest the young men whose unknown fate had riveted the Jewish state for two years.
August 01, 2008
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By TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia - Cambodia and Thailand escalated their troop buildup Thursday in disputed territory near a historic border temple despite their agreement to hold talks next week to defuse tensions, a Cambodian general said.
August 01, 2008
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By SOPHENG CHEANG
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Five militants freed in a prisoner swap with Israel prayed and laid wreaths at the grave of a slain Hezbollah commander Thursday, vowing to fight Israel as supporters showered them with rice.
August 01, 2008
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By ZEINA KARAM
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Five Lebanese militants freed from prisons in Israel in exchange for the bodies of two captured Israeli soldiers strode down a red carpet Wednesday to a boisterous welcome from hundreds of cheering spectators in southern Lebanon.
July 31, 2008
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By ZEINA KARAM
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
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
