Iran reformists threaten presidential poll boycott Reuters.uk
Iran's main reformist party on Monday threatened to boycott June 17 presidential elections and denounced the disqualification of its candidate as an attempt by conservatives to strengthen their grip on power.
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Socialist win Mongolia presidential election AsiaNews.it
Mr Nambaryn Enkhbayar win Sunday’s presidential elections. He polled 53,4% or the more 900,000 votes cast.
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Mongolia seeks stability from new president Reuters.uk
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Insurgent attacks kill 7 Iraqis, 4 US troops Reuters
Guerrillas seeking to topple Iraq's new government exploded a suicide truck bomb outside a mayor's office and shot a security official on Monday, killing at least seven people in an escalating campaign of violence.
Shiite figure urges halt to violence San Francisco Chronicle
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Chileans lash out at army after blizzard Independent Online
Furious relatives of 45 soldiers thought to have frozen to death in the Chilean Andes have raged at military officers for leading dozens of ill-equipped teenage recruits into a blizzard.
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Iraq counter-insurgency chief assassinated - cabinet office Forbes
The commander of Iraq's new counter-insurgency headquarters was gunned down while driving to work in Baghdad this morning, a cabinet office statement said.
Senior Iraqi security official gunned down in Baghdad Boston Globe
Murdered Iraqi aide was top security Ireland Online
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12 killed in Pakistani border clash ABC Online
At least 12 people, believed to be members of the Taliban, have been killed in a clash involving Afghan and United States forces near the Pakistan border.
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Source: The Associated Press Myrtle Beach Sun News
Diplomacy | Iraq's government took the diplomatic offensive Sunday, joining the United States in its oft-repeated demands that Syria close its porous border to foreign fighters.
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Anti-US protest in Jakarta CNN International
Thousands of Indonesian Muslims marched in a well-planned and peaceful protest that concluded at the gates of the US embassy in Jakarta.
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US backs EU-Iran nuclear talks Sify
Washington: The United States, while backing European negotiations with Iran, has also kept up pressure to ensure they stay firm with Tehran, which wants to keep certain nuclear activities alive.
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Numerous Arrests for Muslim Brothers Zaman Online
The incarceration of members of the Muslim Brotherhood Organization continue ahead of the September presidential elections in Egypt.
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US Forces Kill 12 Rebels in Afghanistan ABC News
Afghan widows line up to get their monthly ration food stuff at a CARE International food distribution center in Kabul where Italian Clementina Cantoni worked on Sunday, May 22, 2005.
Humanitarian grabbed in Kabul Baku Sun
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Younger Indonesian twin now able to breathe on her own Channel News Asia
Indonesian twin Anjeli, who was separated from her conjoined twin on Saturday, has been taken off the ventilator. Doctors at Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore said this on Monday.
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Time Running Out For Judges Deal CBS News
(CBS/AP) The long Senate showdown over President Bush's federal court nominations is inching closer to a showdown. Senators from both parties have scheduled a meeting for Monday, hoping to reach a compromise that would head off the so-called "nuclear option" of changing the rules on judicial nominees, reports CBS News Correspondent Thalia Assuras. Among those holding out hope for a deal is Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman. "I would predict that the odds are better than 50-50 that there will be a centrist compromise that will avoid the nuclear option," Leiberman told CBS News' The Early Show.
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Sharon: Jerusalem isn't for negotiations Al-Bawaba
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, speaking at a meeting with Jewish leaders in New York, stated he would refuse to compromise on Jerusalem in a peace deal with the Palestinians.
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Kirk to get vote on stem cell research, but there's a catch Chicago Sun-Times
Here is the backstory to a vote expected Tuesday on a contentious House bill to allow more federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, the pivotal role played by Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.
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Police: 'Miracle' girl rescued after being buried alive CNN
Police said Monday it was a miracle that a missing 8-year-old girl was alive after being buried in an abandoned landfill in Lake Worth, south of West Palm Beach.
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Abortion Parental-Notification Law Gets US High Court Review Bloomberg
The US Supreme Court will decide whether states that require parental notification before a minor can get an abortion must make an exception when the procedure is needed to protect the girl's health.
High court to weigh parental consent on abortions Houston Chronicle
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Mass. Justice Defends Gay Marriage Ruling Washington Post
Judicial independence is vital to our nation, not a "problem to be solved," and leaders should steer away from anti-judicial rhetoric, the chief justice who wrote the decision legalizing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts told graduates.
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State calls for clamp on Viagra supply to sex offenders Newsday
State Comptroller Alan Hevesi said Sunday that he wants the federal government to stop allowing convicted, high-risk sex offenders to buy Viagra at taxpayers' expense.
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Warren Beatty Slams Schwarzenegger CBS News
In the latest salvo, the liberal actor and director told University of California graduates that his fellow thespian should raise taxes and drop plans for a special election.
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Koran story prompts Newsweek to curb use of unnamed sources Chicago Tribune
Responding to a week of criticism over a retracted story about the desecration of the Koran, Newsweek Chairman Richard Smith, said Sunday that the magazine is restricting its use of anonymous sources.
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Guards assault female inmates DetNews.com
Three years before prison guard Edmond Hook sexually assaulted and impregnated inmate T'Nasa Harris, officials at the Camp Brighton facility near Pinckney received an anonymous letter claiming he was a "sexual predator.
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Army Staff Sergeant’s Court-Martial Begins Monday At Fort Hood KWTX
The court-martial of 4th Infantry Division Staff Sgt. Shane Werst, who is charged with murder in the death of an Iraqi civilian, begins Monday at Fort Hood.
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Dean asserts DeLay `may end up in jail' Chicago Tribune
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Sunday that "there's a reasonable chance" House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) "may end up in jail.
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Atheists Gather in San Francisco Washington Post
To the uninformed, the gathering here may have seemed like a church revival, full of zeal and fervor. But worshipping God was most decidedly not part of the agenda.
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200 dead cats found at NJ animal shelter MSNBC
A woman who founded a “no-kill” animal shelter was charged with health code and animal welfare violations after 200 dead cats were discovered rotting in garbage bags in her backyard.
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She loses leg in hit & run New York Daily News
A woman lost half her leg yesterday when a luxury sedan speeding in reverse slammed into her on a Brooklyn sidewalk, then peeled away after witnesses lifted the car off her, police said.
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NH ice cream man jailed in sex rap Boston Herald
A jailed New Hampshire ice cream man is suspected of attempting to take advantage of more than just the one 14-year-old male customer he allegedly propositioned from his truck, police said yesterday.
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Mayor Picked by a Shrinking Electorate Los Angeles Times
Antonio Villaraigosa made history in a big way Tuesday, sweeping into office in a landslide that put an emphatic punctuation mark on the hard-fought Los Angeles mayor's race.
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Jealousy blamed in firebombing Detroit Free Press
Rivalry over a woman likely compelled a 19-year-old man to firebomb a Detroit home last week, killing two children but not the intended victim, according to court documents.
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Afghan President Declines to Blame US for Prisoner Abuse New York Times
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan met with President Bush today and said that he did not hold the United States to blame for the abuse of Afghan prisoners by American soldiers and that recent anti-American rioting in his country was aimed at destabilizing his government. Mr. Karzai and Mr. Bush smoothed over issues that have led to tension in the relationship between the two nations in recent weeks, including whether Afghan security forces should have a broader role in their nation's security and questions about whether Mr. Karzai was doing enough to end opium poppy production.
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Microsoft Faces EU Sanctions TechNewsWorld
The instructions of the European Commission require Microsoft to share under certain conditions its Windows server code with rivals to make the industry more competitive in the European marketplace.
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Oil prices climb to $49 per barrel BusinessWeek
MAY. 23 1:30 PM ET Crude oil futures rose Monday, after drifting down earlier in the day. Prices for unleaded gasoline slipped, however.
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Khodorkovsky trial verdict may be this week: lawyer Reuters.uk
Judges in Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's fraud trial could reach what is widely expected to be a guilty verdict this week, one of his lawyers said on Monday, signalling a change a pace in the lengthy case.
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Apple Rumor Propels Stocks Wired News
Stocks moved higher Monday as investors extended last week's rally and pushed Apple Computer higher on a report that it was in talks about using Intel microprocessors in the Macintosh computer line.
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Coca-Cola Plant Workers Go on Strike Los Angeles Times
Some 1,750 workers struck the Coca-Cola Co. bottling plant in Downey this morning in what the Teamsters Union said is a dispute over health insurance costs.
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Outsourcing, Layoffs, And No Stock Options? WebProNews
Thanks but no thanks, say students to the prospect of entering the computer field in college. According to the Computer Research Association, new enrollments in computer and engineering programs have dropped for four straight years.
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Video game wars: Microsoft's battle plan Punch Jump
Microsoft is ready for round two of the video game wars against Sony and Nintendo. The company is forging a plan to entrench its Xbox troops into a market that it has spent $1 billion trying to conquer.
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Yahoo! Catches Google, Targets Internet Phone Market National Ledger
A little more than four years ago, Yahoo was mired in the same dot-com quicksand that had engulfed Silicon Valley and removed billions of dollars in market capitalization from its technological firms.
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Firefox Developer Rips Netscape Personal Tech Pipeline
Responding to Netscape 8's release and immediate security gaffe last week, a lead developer of Firefox lambasted the rival browser -- which uses much of the same code as Mozilla's Firefox -- as "unsafe.
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NASA Postpones Move of Discovery ABC News
In this photo released by NASA a worker checks the recycling of space shuttle Atlantis' landing gear May 16, 2005 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Why Apple Won't Embrace Intel Forbes
NEW YORK - Reports of Apple Computer shifting to building its computers with Intel chips, moving away from using chips made by IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, usually surface around the time Apple is close to making an important change in its system.
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RAISING THE STATES John Edwards
Senator Edwards announced that One America Committee is launching a major project to help Democrats build and maintain majorities in state legislatures all across the country. State legislatures often decide whether issues like fighting poverty and working to move more Americans into the middle class are top priorities, and Edwards wants to help Democrats work from the ground up to address these important issues. Senator Edwards is attending events for Democratic state legislative caucuses in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maine, Wisconsin, Missouri, and South Carolina. Senator Edwards will also be attending events for additional Democratic state legislative caucuses later this year.

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AMD Chip for Consumer Devices Red Herring
The PC chip maker will compete with new and old rivals for a space in TVs, set-top boxes, and PVRs. Advanced Micro Devices on Monday introduced a chip that will be its new weapon for expanding its business in the consumer electronics market.
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Jobs demoed iTunes v4.9 Afterdawn.com
The next version of the iTunes is promised to be released within the next 60 days. Jobs called the next iTunes "Tivo for Radio for iPod2.
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The Center Holds Washington Post
THERE IS NO guarantee that the cease-fire in the judicial nominating wars negotiated by 14 US senators and announced last night will stick. How could there be? But the agreement by seven Republicans and seven Democrats, with Virginia's John W. Warner ® playing a leading role, nonetheless is a great achievement. It is a demonstration, in an era of increasingly bitter partisanship, of what can still be accomplished through negotiation and the proffer of a modicum of trust across the aisle. Interest groups on both sides railed against compromise and threatened its architects; Senate leaders of both parties and the president did more to obstruct a deal than to facilitate it. The 14 senators nonetheless managed to put principle above self-protection. "The first question that most of the media are going to ask us: Who won and who lost?" said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), one of the 14. "The Senate won, and the country won." The Senate had been poised today to vote on the "nuclear option," which would have eliminated the ability of the minority -- Democrats now; who knows in the future? -- to use the filibuster against judicial nominees. Instead, the Bipartisan Fourteen signed a memorandum of understanding that commits the Democrats to allow up-or-down votes on three of President Bush's most controversial judicial nominees; filibusters against two others will be permitted. The Democrats also pledged to refrain from future filibusters except under "extraordinary circumstances." The Republicans in return pledged to oppose the nuclear option.
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Bush rebuffs Karzai on US troop control Sydney Morning Herald (subscription)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has left the White House with no promise of more control over thousands of American troops in his country and with strains in bilateral relations on full display. The Afghan leader had a chummy side-by-side news conference with President George W Bush that was designed to showcase US support for Afghanistan's first democratically elected leader. But Karzai received no promise of the quick repatriation of Afghan prisoners now in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere.
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Schroeder trying to fix Germany's economy BusinessWeek
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder tried to revive Germany's hidebound economy by chipping away at social protections -- angering his base and causing his support to plummet.
German Surprise: Is Schröder Giving Up? New York Times
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BBC staff strike over job cuts Deccan Herald
An estimated 11,000 BBC staff have participated in the biggest strike in a decade that has resulted in the cancellation of key radio and television programmes put out by the world famous international broadcasting organisation.
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China unhappy at shrine visits, Japan annoyed Wired News
China vented anger on Tuesday over remarks by Japanese leaders on visiting a war shrine, a day after a top Chinese official abruptly called off a meeting with Japan's prime minister in an apparent snub to Tokyo. Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi canceled a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday, prompting a diplomatic stir over a trip that had raised hopes fences could be mended after violent anti-Japanese protests in April. "We believe a good atmosphere is needed for Wu Yi to visit ... The Japanese government, especially some leaders, do not have a correct understanding and unceasingly spread incorrect remarks regarding history," Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang told Reuters.
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