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    APNewsBreak: US asks to rewrite detainee evidence (AP)

    Attorney David Remes, who represents several Guantanamo detainees, is interviewed in his office in Washington, Friday, June 20, 2008.  (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - The Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, allowing it to shore up its cases before they come under scrutiny by civilian judges for the first time.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:27:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Ex-press secretary decries 'secretive' White House (AP)

    Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is sworn in to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 20, 2008, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing to investigate Vice President Cheney's precise role in the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity case. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said President Bush has lost the public's trust by failing to open up about his administration's mistakes and backtracking on a promise to tell all about the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:31:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Suicide attack on US convoy in Afghanistan kills 12 (AFP)

    Afghan soldiers patrol the Arghandab district of Kandahar on June 18. A suicide attack on a military convoy has killed a US-led soldier and 11 Afghans in southern Afghanistan, a day after a huge operation to drive Taliban rebels from a key stronghold.(AFP/File/Hamed Zalmy)AFP - A suicide attack on a military convoy killed a US-led soldier and 11 Afghans in southern Afghanistan Friday, a day after a huge operation to drive Taliban rebels from a key stronghold.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:40:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    EU gives Ireland more treaty time but Czechs block progress (AFP)

    EU leaders have agreed to postpone till October a decision on the bloc's Lisbon Treaty, rejected by Irish voters and further threatened by a eurosceptic Czech president, according to a draft deal.(AFP iactive)AFP - EU leaders have agreed to postpone till October a decision on the bloc's Lisbon Treaty, rejected by Irish voters and further threatened by a eurosceptic Czech president, according to a draft deal Friday.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:43:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Suicide blast kills 10 Afghan civilians: police (Reuters)

    Map locating the Arghandab district, where NATO and Afghan forces launched an operation against Taliban militants. A suicide attack on a military convoy has killed a US-led soldier and 11 Afghans in southern Afghanistan, a day after a huge operation to drive Taliban rebels from a key stronghold.(AFP Graphic)Reuters - A suicide attack on a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday killed 10 civilians and wounded some NATO soldiers, police and a NATO spokesman said.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:19:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    EU to set October review of treaty impasse: draft (Reuters)

    Czech Republic's Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek attends a news conference on the first day of a EU summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels June 20, 2008. (Thierry Roge/Reuters)Reuters - European Union leaders were set to call on Friday for a review in October of the impasse over Ireland's referendum rejection of the EU reform treaty, a draft final summit statement obtained by Reuters showed.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Judge urged to drop Guantanamo charge (Reuters)

    Omar Khadr is seen in this undated family portrait. (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A military defense lawyer urged a Guantanamo judge to help restore America's reputation by dropping attempted murder charges against an Afghan prisoner who was subjected to 14 consecutive days of sleep deprivation.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:52:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Spy bill to shield phone companies from lawsuits (Reuters)

    A telephone is seen in an undated file photo. (Catherine Benson/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. telephone companies that took part in President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program could be shielded from billions of dollars in lawsuits under a electronic spy bill finalized on Thursday by congressional and White House negotiators.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:26:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    OPEC hike unlikely at Jeddah emergency oil talks (Reuters)

    The opening ceremony of the 29th Annual Session of the OPEC Ministerial Council is seen here in this general view in the city of Isfahan, 450 km (280 miles) south of Tehran, June 17, 2008. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)Reuters - Eight-cylinder luxury cars will rumble along Jeddah's highways guzzling cheap Saudi gasoline as energy powers hold emergency talks in the Red Sea port this weekend to brake the free-wheeling rise in oil prices.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:16:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Israel appears to rehearse Iran attack: report (Reuters)

    An Israeli Air Force fighter jet takes off from Hazor base in southern Israel in a 2006 file photo. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. officials say Israel carried out a large military exercise this month that appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, The New York Times reported on Friday.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:43:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai may pull out of run-off: MDC (Reuters)

    Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai addresses journalists after attending the hearing of party secretary-general Tendai Biti at Harare magistrates courts June 19, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is considering pulling out of the June 27 presidential run-off election, a spokesman for his Movement for Democratic Change said on Friday.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:20:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Midwest floods near crest, levees at risk (Reuters)

    National Guard troops unload sandbags to a levee in Winfield, Missouri June 19, 2008. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)Reuters - Volunteers worked on Friday to fortify levees strained by the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years as the swollen Mississippi River moved toward an expected weekend crest after causing huge losses.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:21:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Doctors say Woods should recover from injuries (AP)

    In this June 13, 2008 file photo, Tiger Woods grimaces after hitting from the rough on the first fairway during the second round of the US Open championship at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego. Woods will miss the rest of the season because of a left knee that will require more surgery, a person with knowledge of the decision said Wednesday June 18, 2008.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)AP - Doctors who treat the kinds of knee and leg injuries that ended Tiger Woods' victorious season have one word for his U.S. Open victory — remarkable.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:17:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Scientists believe Mars lander exposed ice crumbs (AP)

    This color image released by NASA and acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on Friday, June 13, 2008, shows one trench informally called 'Dodo-Goldilocks' after two digs on June 12, by Phoenix's Robotic Arm. Shallow trenches excavated by the lander's backhoe-like robotic arm have turned up specks and at times even stripes of mysterious white material mixed in with the clumpy, reddish dirt.  (AP Photo/NASA/JPL/CalTech)AP - Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator said Thursday.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:59:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Friend: Jamie Lynn Spears gives birth to a girl (AP)

    In this Sept. 20, 2007 file photo, Jamie Lynn Spears arrives at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to a baby girl Thursday morning at a south Mississippi hospital, according to a friend of the Spears family. The friend, who asked not to be identified because the family had not yet announced the baby's birth, told The Associated Press that the baby was named Maddie Briann and weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:01:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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