More Saudi flights from US revealed Houston Chronicle
Newly released government records reveal previously undisclosed flights from Las Vegas and elsewhere and point to a more active role by the FBI in aiding some Saudis in their departure just after Sept. 11, 2001.
New Details on FBI Aid for Saudis After 9/11 New York Times
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Schwarzenegger pitches redistricting plan in radio speech KESQ
SACRAMENTO Governor Schwarzenegger is using both his weekly radio address today and his official Easter Sunday message to promote changes in the way Californians select their representatives and govern their state.
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Toyota looks to learn from Scion unit Financial Times
When Toyota launched its Scion division three years ago, the Japanese carmaker's primary goal was to grab the attention of the twentysomething American car buyer.
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Movie Gallery may soon own Oregon chain Birmingham News
Movie Gallery's bid to become the second-largest US video rental chain came closer to happening Friday. Blockbuster Inc., the largest video-rental chain, abandoned a $929 million bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp.
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Signs of a Pumped-Up Economy Washington Post
It's hard to complain about a US economy that, almost alone in the industrialized world, is creating new jobs and growing at a rate of more than 4 percent, even in the face of record high energy prices.
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Jury orders Toshiba to pay more TechSpot
A jury has ordered Toshiba to pay more in the Lexar Case, where Toshiba was found guilty of breach of fiduciary duty and theft of trade secrets. The two companies were previously business partners, but Lexar has sued Toshiba because the Japanese company used its relationship with Lexar to gain access to the company's business plans and technology while simultaneously working with SanDisk, a major rival of Lexar, on similar flash memory technology.
Lexar won a Digital Battle Express Newsline
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Civil war grows closer as Kyrgyz leaders fall out over parliament Times Online
KYRGYZSTAN’S new leaders appeared to have fallen out over the composition of their country’s parliament yesterday, raising fresh fears of a civil war after the removal of President Akayev last week.
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Pope, too ill to speak, gives Easter blessing International Herald Tribune
VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul II made a relatively long appearance before tens of thousands of worshipers here on Easter Sunday, but when he tried to speak, only an inaudible whisper came out of his mouth.
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US slams Beirut blast and calls for improved security Daily Star - Lebanon
BEIRUT: Washington condemned Saturday's massive bomb blast east of Beirut and called on Lebanon's government to provide security for its people.
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Abbas Chides US, Israel on Settlements Guardian
The Palestinian leader criticized Israel and, indirectly, the United States over Jewish settlements Sunday, and Israel's defense minister warned he would send troops into Gaza ...
Israel delays West Bank handover Daily Times
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Ebola-like virus death toll rises BBC News
People have been warned against travel to Angola after the death toll from the Ebola-like Marburg bug rose to 121. The virus, which first broke out in the northern Uige province last October and causes fever ...
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New uncertainty over Kyrgyz future CNN International
The speaker of Kyrgyzstan's new parliament said Monday that the country's ousted president must be consulted before elections to chose a successor can be held and vowed lawmakers would review the legality of last week's ...
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Rhetoric heats up in Mideast Kansas City Star
The Palestinian leader on Sunday criticized Israel and, indirectly, the United States over Jewish settlements, and Israel's defense minister warned he would seize Palestinian anti-aircraft missiles.
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Seoul Wants to Help Pyongyang Fight Bird Flu Korea Times
Seoul wants to help Pyongyang fight bird flu as the communist country is struggling to control the deadly avian virus, the first confirmed outbreak in North Korea, the South Korean government said Monday.
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Australia's famous drummer Paul Hester dies Xinhua
Australia's former Crowded House drummer Paul Hester has been found dead in a park in Brighton, Victoria. Earlier reports on Monday said that Hester, 46, the father of two girls, took his own life.
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Lebanon vows to end violence AZ Central.com
BEIRUT - Pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud pledged on Sunday to fight the violence gripping his country after three bombings in eight days raised fears of renewed sectarian bloodshed, while Syria withdrew more troops from Lebanon in line with ...
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Hezbollah should keep arms, leader says Seattle Times
Lebanon's most prominent anti-Syrian opposition leader said yesterday that Hezbollah, the Syria-backed Shiite Muslim group, should keep its weapons until Israel withdraws from Shebaa Farms, a tiny disputed border enclave on the border between Lebanon ...
Cairo Police Arrest 100, Blocking Rally by Opposition New York Times
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Vendors sold on Chuck-Camilla New York Daily News
Some things just go together: bacon and eggs, strawberries and cream; royal weddings and commemorative refrigerator magnets. That's the view anyway of souvenir sellers who are ...
Bishop Calls for Prince Charles Apology ABC News
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Canada helps Angola with fatal virus Globe and Mail
Canada has dispatched one of the world's foremost experts on hemorrhagic fevers to Angola to help tackle the ever-worsening outbreak of Marburg virus in the impoverished African country.
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Marburg virus death toll rises to 120 Xinhua
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Religion thwarting Iraqi lawmakers Philadelphia Inquirer
Frustration grows as legislators debate the role of religion in the new government. Also, a new video claimed to show an official's execution.
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Family considers civil action against alleged IRA killers ABC Online
The family of a murdered Northern Ireland man is considering taking civil action against his alleged IRA killers. Robert McCartney was stabbed and beaten to death in January after a row at a pub in Belfast.
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Knesset to decide on Gaza pullout referendum ABC Online
Israel's Parliament will vote today whether to hold a referendum on the Government's plans to pull out from the occupied Gaza Strip later this year.
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Koizumi, Chirac split on arms to China Washington Times
The leaders of Japan and France have failed to change each other's minds on the European Union lifting its arms embargo on China.
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Ahmed Zaki, acclaimed Egyptian actor, dies of lung cancer at 55 Macleans
Acclaimed Egyptian actor Ahmed Zaki, who portrayed former Egyptian presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, died Sunday of cancer, doctors said.
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Audrey's death 'the end of Jim's world' ic Wales
THOSE who knew James Callaghan best realised that his wife's death just over a week ago signalled the end of his world. For 66 years, Jim and Audrey were a devoted couple who enjoyed a "fantastic" marriage.
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11 Killed, 17 Hurt in Kashmir Al-Jazeerah.info
A grandmother, mother, and her infant daughter were shot dead after the child’s father, a former Kashmiri fighter, surrendered to Indian security forces, police said yesterday.
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Ready to let her go Newsday
The parents of Terri Schiavo appeared to be moving yesterday toward resigned acceptance that their daughter would die, urging protesters to lift their vigil ...
Cremation uproar New York Daily News
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Slain teacher felt needed on reservation MSNBC
BEMIDJI, Minn. - English teacher Neva Rogers finally had found a place where she felt needed, where she could give opportunities to poverty-stricken children who struggled with teen pregnancies, drugs and alcohol.
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Cincinnati's main airport shut down after security breach Seattle Times
Part of Cincinnati's main airport was temporarily shut down yesterday after a passenger passed through a security checkpoint with what appeared to be a gun in a carry-on bag, authorities said.
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Quick thinking & church fire's put out New York Daily News
A Queens church got an unexpected Easter gift yesterday when an off-duty firefighter attending Mass helped extinguish a blaze smoldering behind the altar.
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Social Security's war of words tough to decode Charlotte Observer
Social Security's war of words tough to decode Can you tell by title which groups oppose, favor private accounts? Got your No.
First, deal with bigger problems Miami Herald
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Rights of Foreigners on Death Row Examined ABC News
The Supreme Court is considering whether Texas and other states can execute 51 Mexicans who say they were improperly denied legal help from their ...
Clash Over Foreign Law Due in High Court Today New York Sun (subscription)
Texas Accuses Bush of Trampling Its Autonomy in Death Penalty Case Washington Post
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Plane crash kills noted RI philanthropists, family Boston Herald
Always at the forefront of charitable and business endeavors, the members of two Rhode Island families killed in a plane crash Saturday in Pennsylvania are being mourned as generous philanthropists who died too soon.
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Georgeanna Jones Dies at 92; In Vitro Fertilization Pioneer Washington Post
Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, part of the husband-and-wife team whose Norfolk clinic produced the first baby via in vitro fertilization in the United States, died March 26 of cardiac arrest at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
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Catholics defy church with Natick celebration Boston Herald
Hundreds of area Catholics openly defied the Vatican and the Archdiocese of Boston yesterday on the holiest day of their faith. Former parishioners of Sacred Heart Church in Natick gathered ...
Churches on vigil celebrate Easter Masses Boston Globe
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Suspect cuffed in fatal Boston beating Boston Herald
A Roslindale man turned himself in to police Saturday and was arrested after apparently implicating himself in the murder four months ago of a man from his neighborhood, according to Boston police.
Mayor backs scientific lab ordinance Boston Globe
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Forget about Social Security Newsday
There's a crisis brewing in a vital government entitlement program. It's just not the one that barnstorming White House officials are talking about.
Wrong crisis, wrong remedy Wilmington Morning Star
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Governor's backers, foes scramble to make ballot San Diego Union Tribune
California's most influential business and labor interests already are drawing battle lines over the special election Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to call for this fall.
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As war stretches on, recruiters scramble USA Today
LAUREL, MD. - It was no surprise when Bruce Ziegler enlisted in the National Guard. After six years in the Army and two tours abroad in Afghanistan and Iraq, Sergeant Ziegler had come to a conclusion about ...
What we owe our soldiers Denver Post
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Counterterrorism Policies In Conflict, Report Says Washington Post
President Bush's executive order last August that established the new National Counterterrorism Center and the intelligence reform legislation that he signed in December have created conflicts ...
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Report on US Weapons Intelligence Is Said to Be Critical New York Times
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Local church-goers celebrate Easter The Express Times
Dressed in pastel colors and carrying small bouquets, the youngest members of the Presbyterian Parish of Bangor and Roseto on Sunday filed one-by-one to the center of the church's pulpit.
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Man Slain Outside NW Dance Party Washington Post
A New Jersey man was stabbed to death and two others were seriously injured after a fight early yesterday outside a Northwest Washington dance party sponsored by George Washington University, police said.
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Senate panel urges boost in higher education funds Berkshire Eagle
A Senate task force is calling for an unprecedented investment over the next decade to prop up the state's public higher education system, which the task force says is suffering ...
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Following return to birth mother, Tamia christened in Chicago Kansas City Star
Baby Tamia, the 6-month-old girl at the center of an interstate adoption feud that brought on the pleas of the governor for her return, was christened in front of hundreds of South Side parishioners on Easter Sunday.
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Do-It-Yourself Border Patrol TIME
Less than 10 miles from the Mexican border, a vacant lot in Sierra Vista, Ariz., looks like a trash dump. Between the chaparral and scrub oaks are backpacks, sweatshirts, jeans, sneakers, used toilet paper and water bottles filled with urine.
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SunGard agrees $11bn takeover Times Online
The board of SunGard Data Systems, the American software group, last night approved a $11.3 billion (£5.5bn) takeover bid for the company from a consortium of investment funds led by Silver Lake Partners.
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Mani Shankar Aiyar to discuss pipeline with Pakistan Reuters India
Indian oil minister Mani Shankar Aiyar plans to travel to Islamabad in May to hold talks to build a $4 billion pipeline to carry Iranian natural gas through Pakistan to South Asia.
India to seek Saudi help in building oil reserves Financial Express
Indian minister to visit Pakistan for energy talks Xinhua
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SEC said to subpoena 12 AIG execs CNN
Part of expanding probe into accounting problems at insurer; Greenberg may go, according to report. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission has sent subpoenas to as many as 12 executives at American International Group Inc.
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Barclays hit by ATM crash Scotsman
MILLIONS of Barclays Bank customers were left without cash after a computer meltdown paralysed half of the bank’s 3000 ATMs across southern England.
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US aviation regulators order inspection of rudders on Airbus jets New Ratings
The US federal aviation administration Friday ordered US-based airline companies to inspect the rudders of certain Airbus jets being used by them.
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