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    FBI probe latest setback for beleaguered Detroit (AP)

    Detroit City Council Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. leads the council during a meeting in Detroit, Monday, June 30, 2008. A mayoral text-messaging sex scandal, federal investigation into a City Council-approved $47 million sludge recycling deal, and poorly run and deficit-plagued public school system have dashed inroads toward respect and reopened Detroit to outside ridicule. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Auto industry cutbacks, double-digit unemployment and one of the nation's highest home foreclosure rates have left Detroit with a dreary economic future.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:47:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    U.S. marks Independence Day with fireworks, revelry (AP)

    Fireworks explode over the Manhattan skyline during the 32nd annual Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display,  Friday, July 4, 2008 in New York. Some 30,000 shells were  set off — more than 1,000 per minute.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The nation's largest fireworks display exploded in a spectrum of color over the East River, temporarily stealing the spotlight from New York's world-famous skyline and helping to create a brilliant end to a day of July Fourth celebrations nationwide.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:50:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Franken tries the switch from comic to Congress (AP)

    In this June 7, 2008 file photo, Al Franken, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senate from Minnesota, addresses delegates at the party's state convention in Rochester, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)AP - Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:56:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 (AP)

    File image of former Republican Senator Jesse Helms speaking at the Christian Coalition Annual Meeting. (file/Reuters)AP - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:45:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Twin fires raging along California central coast (AP)

    A firefighter uses a drip torch to start a backfire on a wildfire burn in Big Sur, Calif., Friday, July 4, 2008. The raging blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildfires, mostly ignited by lightning, that have scorched more then 770 square miles and destroyed 64 structures across northern and central California since June 20, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.  (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar)AP - Weary firefighters got no Independence Day reprieve from a pair of out-of-control wildfires that roared along California's central coast, chewing through opposite ends of an arid forest in the Los Padres National Forest.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:37:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Recognise me as Zimbabwe president or no talks: Mugabe (AFP)

    Supporters greet Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (R) upon his arrival at Harare Airport. Mugabe ruled out the prospect of talks with his opponents on ending Zimbabwe's political crisis Friday unless they acknowledged his victory in a one-man presidential election.(AFP/Alexander Joe)AFP - Robert Mugabe ruled out the prospect of talks with his opponents on ending Zimbabwe's political crisis Friday unless they acknowledged his victory in a one-man presidential election.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Freed hostage Betancourt gets hero's welcome in France (AFP)

    The dramatic rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and fourteen other hostages from FARC rebels prompted scenes of joy in France, where the plight of Betancourt had become a cause celebre. Duration: 02:13(AFPTV)AFP - Freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt said Friday she owed her life to France as President Nicolas Sarkozy gave her a hero's welcome to Paris, turning the page on her six-year hostage ordeal.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:13:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    G8 to tackle inflation, but concrete action elusive (Reuters)

    Police officers walk past an advertisement banner outside a pachinko pinball parlor reading 'Summit on Friday' in Sapporo on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, as part of the security measures ahead of the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit July 4, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - G8 leaders aim to present a united front against global inflation, driven by soaring oil and food prices, at a summit in Japan next week, but solving the problem requires more than just a strong message from rich nations.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:12:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Poland rejects U.S. missile shield offer (Reuters)

    Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk listens to a question from the media during a news conference at the Prime Ministers Chancellery in Warsaw July 1, 2008. (Peter Andrews/Reuters)Reuters - Poland spurned as insufficient on Friday a U.S. offer to boost its air defenses in return for basing anti-missile interceptors on its soil but said it remained open to talks with Washington.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:41:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Iran hands Solana nuclear offer response: report (Reuters)

    EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana attends a news conference at the German Ambassador's residence in northern Tehran June 14, 2008. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)Reuters - Iran responded on Friday to an incentives package offered by six world powers aimed at resolving a standoff over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear ambitions, the official IRNA news agency said.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:31:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Mugabe says opposition must drop claim to power (Reuters)

    Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe attends his inauguration at State House in Harare, June 29, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, defiant despite growing African condemnation of his re-election, said on Friday the opposition must drop its claim to power and accept that he was the rightful head of state.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:41:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Sarkozy greets Betancourt in Paris (Reuters)

    France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) points at reporters as he poses with French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt at the Elysee palace in Paris July 4, 2008. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)Reuters - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt landed in Paris on Friday to an emotional welcome from President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had made her release from captivity in the Colombian jungle a foreign policy priority.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:49:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Firefighters hold line on California wildfires (Reuters)

    The coastline of Big Sur is partially obscured by smoke from a massive wildfire in Big Sur, California July 3, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)Reuters - California firefighters held the line overnight on two wildfires burning along the California coast that threatened more than 4,000 homes and other structures, fire officials said on Friday morning.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:35:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 (Reuters)

    Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms is shown in this undated file image. (Robert Padgett/Reuters)Reuters - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, a die-hard anti-communist firebrand who championed a wide range of conservative causes in his 30 years in the Senate, died early on Friday, aged 86, his foundation said.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:09:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Federer, Nadal back in Wimbledon final (AP)

    Switzerland's Roger Federer celebrates his semifinal win over Russia's Marat Safin on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Friday, July 4 , 2008. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet in their third consecutive Wimbledon final after commanding semifinal victories Friday.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:13:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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