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    Bush, Sarkozy seek united front against Iran (Reuters)

    France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) welcomes President George W. Bush at the Elysee Palace in Paris, June 13, 2008. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Saturday that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a threat to peace, as they sought to end tension over Iraq and forge a common front against Iran.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:47:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Suspended NASCAR officials accused of harassment (AP)

    NASCAR chairman Brian France speaks to the media after a news conference at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Wednesday, June 11, 2008. France denied Wednesday that a former official complained to her supervisors about racial and sexual discrimination, claims she alleged led to her eventual firing. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - Two officials suspended by NASCAR are accused in a $225 million lawsuit of exposing themselves to a former co-worker, the Associated Press has learned.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:27:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bonnaroo fest opens with Metallica, Chris Rock (AP)

    Metallica lead singer James Hetfield performs at the Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tenn., Friday, June 13, 2008.  (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - Bonnaroo began in earnest Friday with the rarest of double bills: Chris Rock followed by Metallica.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:48:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Saudi oil chief to address reports of oil increase (AP)

    In this March 21, 2008, file photo, a Saudi man fills his tank at a gas station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  Saudi Arabia says it will call for a meeting of oil producing countries and consumers to discuss soaring oil prices and work to prevent unjustified rise in prices. Information and Culture Minister Iyad Madani said Monday, June 9,  the kingdom will work with OPEC to 'guarantee the availability of oil supplies now and in the future.' (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)AP - Saudi Arabia's oil minister on Sunday will address reports that the world's largest oil-producing country is set to raise production by about 500,000 barrels per day, his adviser said.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:42:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Part I: Dad recounts preemie twins' struggle (AP)

    In this photo provided by Ron Wall, Lori and Jaime Aron visit their son Jake, May 17, 2002 at Medical City Hospital in Dallas, as he prepares for a life-or-death bowel operation on his sixth day of life. Jake and his twin brother Josh were born 17 weeks premature, each weighing 1 lb., 2 oz. Josh already has overcome heart surgery that wasn't serious enough for doctors to allow his parents to touch him. Because Jake's prognosis is grim, Lori and Jaime are encouraged to touch their tiny baby. (AP Photo/Ron Wall)AP - The speech I was holding should only have been a backup. I knew the words by heart because I'd lived them.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:33:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bush recalls Russert as 'thorough, decent man' (AP)

    ** In this Feb. 7, 2004, file photo provided by The White House President Bush is interviewed by NBC's 'Meet the Press' moderator Tim Russert, left, in the Oval Office of the White House, the first network television interview of Bush since he was elected to be President of the United States in 2000. Russert, 58, renowned political journalist and NBC News Washington bureau chief, collapsed and died, while at work at the NBC bureau in Washington Friday, June 13, 2008. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)AP - President Bush mourned NBC correspondent Tim Russert at a news conference Saturday with France's president, calling the veteran newsman who died of a heart attack "a hard-working, thorough and decent man."


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:46:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Shuttle returns to Earth after 14-day mission (AP)

    Space shuttle Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, June 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Bruce Weaver, POOL)AP - Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion-dollar science lab.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:51:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bush, French president united against Iran (AP)

    U.S. President George W. Bush, center, with WWII  Veterans Alexander Tesich, left, and John Davis, right, are seen during a wreath laying ceremony at Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial on the outskirts of Paris, Saturday, June 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Iran rejected a six-nation offer of incentives to stop enriching uranium on Saturday, prompting President Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to jointly warn Tehran anew against proceeding toward a nuclear bomb.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:07:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama says he would cut taxes for middle class (AP)

    Presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) gestures during a town hall meeting at the Radnor Middle School in Wayne, Pennsylvania, June 14, 2008.  REUTERS/Tim Shaffer  (UNITED STATES)  US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - Democrat Barack Obama told voters Saturday he would push an aggressive economic agenda as president: cutting taxes for the middle class, raising taxes on the wealthy, pouring money into "green energy" and requiring employers to set up retirement saving plans for their workers.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:36:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Afghan official: 870 inmates escaped from prison (AP)

    Afghan soldiers are seen, left, in front of the damaged shops near the prison, unseen, which was attacked by Taliban militants in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 14, 2008. More than 600 prisoners escaped during a brazen Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan that knocked down the front gate and destroyed a two-story police checkpoint, a police official said Saturday. At least nine police were killed. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - U.S. and NATO troops aided Afghan forces with reconnaissance in a hunt Saturday for 870 inmates who escaped prison after a sophisticated Taliban assault that even NATO conceded was a success for the militants.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:04:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    At least 24,000 people flee Iowa river flooding (AP)

    Sarah Neumann (L) is hugged by Vickie Ray after both lost their homes to rising floodwaters on June 11, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Rising flood waters swamped this central US river city on Friday, forcing residents to flee their homes and officials to abandon city hall amid a wider crisis that has left 20 dead.(AFP/Getty Images/David Greedy)AP - Days after it rose out of its banks on its way to record flooding in Cedar Rapids, the Cedar River has forced at least 24,000 people from their homes, emergency officials said Saturday.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:02:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    EU's Solana to offer Iran nuclear deal (AFP)

    EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana was on Saturday to present defiant Iranian leaders with a new offer from world powers aimed at ending a six-year crisis over Iran's nuclear programme.(AFP/File)AFP - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana was on Saturday to present defiant Iranian leaders with a new offer from world powers aimed at ending a six-year crisis over Iran's nuclear programme.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:11:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Desperate hunt for 1,100 who fled Afghan jail in Taliban raid (AFP)

    US soldiers in Kandahar. Most of the 1,100 inmates of a prison in southern Afghanistan, including militants, escaped during a Taliban suicide bomb attack on the building,(AFP/File/Hamed Zalmy)AFP - A desperate hunt was under way Saturday for more than 1,100 prisoners who escaped a jail in southern Afghanistan when Taliban rebels blasted it open, killing 15 guards, officials said.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:51:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Three Ohio men guilty in Iraq-linked terrorism case (Reuters)
    Reuters - Three residents of the state of Ohio were convicted on Friday of plotting attacks on Americans overseas, including the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the Department of Justice said. -- read full article
    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:41:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    G8 frets over commodity prices (Reuters)

    Delegates of the G8 Finance Minister Meeting attend the outreach dinner at Japanese restaurant Yodogawatei in Osaka, western Japan June 13, 2008. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Finance ministers from the world's richest nations warned on Saturday surging commodity prices threatened economic growth, but shrank from any talk of new controls on volatile oil and currency markets.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:53:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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