Olympic ticket sale in Beijing starts stampede
By HENRY SANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
BEIJING (AP) -- Thousands of eager fans who had waited for up to two days swarmed sales windows Friday for the final batch of tickets to next month's Olympic Games, knocking people to the ground and bend ...
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Suicide bomber kills 8 US-allied Sunnis in Iraq
By KIM GAMEL
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A female suicide bomber blew herself up near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baqouba, killing at least eight of the guards and wounding 24 other people Thursday ev ...
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US envoy says Iraq insurgency has lost its clout
By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The insurgency that bedeviled U.S. forces for years and killed thousands of Iraqis and Americans has withered to the point where it is "not even much of a challenge any more" to Iraq's future, ...
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Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations
By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York.
Police say a hulking basketball player from Serbia beat a fellow college student to a bloody pulp and fled to his home ...
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Ecuador assembly backs draft constitution favoring leftist president, referendum pending
By GONZALO SOLANO
Associated Press Writer
MONTECRISTI, Ecuador (AP) -- A special assembly on Thursday approved a new draft constitution granting Ecuador's leftist president broad powers, including the abi ...
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Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear arms probe
By GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Iran signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year ...
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Iraq banned from Beijing Olympics amid feud
By BRIAN MURPHY
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Just two weeks before the start of the Olympics, Iraq was told Thursday it's not welcome in Beijing because of a political feud in Baghdad that angered the games' guardians and exiled a country ...
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Former Argentine army chief sentenced to life in 'dirty war' trial
By NICHOLAS KUSNETZ
Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of ...
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Motorsport boss Max Mosley wins lawsuit against British tabloid over orgy story
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) -- Motor racing boss Max Mosley won a closely watched privacy-invasion lawsuit Thursday over a British tabloid's claims he took part in a Nazi-themed orgy, and t ...
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Libya halts oil shipments to Switzerland to protest arrest of Gadhafi's son
By KHALED AL-DEEB
Associated Press Writer
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Libya has halted all of its oil deliveries to Switzerland and barred Swiss ships from its ports to protest the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Geneva ...
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Karadzic's secret life enthralls his fellow Serbs
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and KATARINA KRATOVAC
Associated Press Writers
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Radovan Karadzic sent word he plans to defend himself against U.N. genocide charges, but his fellow Serbs were more enthralled with details that emerge ...
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Powerful earthquake hits Japan, dozens injured
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP) -- A powerful earthquake rattled parts of northern Japanese early Thursday, injuring nearly 100 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of people, officials said.
Japan's ...
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Karadzic hid in plain view to elude capture
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
Associated Press Writer
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- For more than a decade, the world's most-wanted war crimes fugitive displayed a talent for eluding international justice. His secret? Hide in plain sight.
In a ruse worthy of any ...
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Palestinian attacks using construction vehicle
By LAURIE COPANS
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian attacker turned a construction vehicle into a fearsome weapon in downtown Jerusalem just hours before Barack Obama's visit Tuesday, ramming a bus, overturning a car and inju ...
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Rice says Iran not serious at weekend nuke talks
By MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press Writer
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran on Monday of not being serious at weekend talks about its disputed nuclear program despite the presence of a senior ...
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Extradition to UN tribunal looms for Karadzic
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
Associated Press Writer
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- A judge finished interrogating former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic early Tuesday, the first step in a procedure to hand over the accused mastermind of Europe's worst m ...
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Guantanamo war crimes trial opens with exclusion of evidence from 'coercive' interrogations
By MIKE MELIA
Associated Press Writer
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Monday that interrogators obtained f ...
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Haiti food aid lags, hunger deepens
By JONATHAN M. KATZ
Associated Press Writer
DESCHAPELLES, Haiti (AP) -- Every inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin. The 18-month-old had been crying for so long in the hospital malnutrition wa ...
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Zimbabweans use blogs, text messages for info
By SABRINA SHANKMAN
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- The photographs of the tortured body of an opposition official are blurry but chilling.
Posted on the "This is Zimbabwe" blog, they show charred, lacerated limbs and ...
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Pope meets with clergy abuse victims in Australia
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Monday with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests, ending a pilgrimage to the country with a gesture of contrition ...
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