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    U.S. and Japan to discuss next steps in six-party talks (Reuters)

    President George W. Bush speaks at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, July 3, 2008, about the rescue of hostages in Colombia. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)Reuters - President George W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will discuss the next steps in the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear status when they meet on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Japan, a White House official said on Saturday.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:31:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Israel to reopen Gaza border crossings (Reuters)

    Palestinians wait for their relatives to cross from Egypt to the Gaza Strip at the Rafah border crossing July 3, 2008. Israel was reopening some border crossings with Gaza on Sunday, an official said, after it closed them on Thursday following the launch of a rocket into the Jewish state by Palestinian militants. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - GAZA/Reuters)Reuters - Israel was reopening some border crossings with Gaza on Sunday, an official said, after it closed them on Thursday following the launch of a rocket into the Jewish state by Palestinian militants.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:43:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Afghan president orders probe into civilian deaths (Reuters)

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai interacts with the media members after a news conference in Kabul June 15, 2008. Karzai has ordered an investigation into a U.S.-led coalition airstrike that local officials say killed 15 civilians, but the U.S. military says killed only armed Taliban militants. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into a U.S.-led coalition airstrike that local officials say killed 15 civilians, but the U.S. military says killed only armed Taliban militants.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:38:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bush arrives in Japan for G8; oil, climate in focus (Reuters)

    U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush walk to Air Force One as they prepare to depart from Dulles Airport, near Washington, July 5, 2008. They are on their way to the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Japan on Sunday for the Group of Eight rich nations' meetings where North Korea's nuclear weapons program, soaring oil and food prices, and climate change top the agenda.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:35:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama "puzzled" by Iraq comment frenzy (Reuters)

    Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addresses a news conference after meeting with his foreign policy advisory panel of former Democratic U.S. government officials at a hotel in Washington June 18, 2008. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:19:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Finalists Federer, Nadal know each other well (AP)

    Switzerland's Roger Federer waves to the crowd after defeating Russia's Marat Safin, in their Men's Singles semifinal on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Friday, July 4 , 2008, to reach his sixth consecutive final. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - After moving within a victory of his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title, Roger Federer found time to catch only a few games of Rafael Nadal's semifinal. Federer does have a DVD of Nadal's match, but he wasn't exactly rushing to use it for scouting purposes before they meet for the Wimbledon championship Sunday.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:55:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Busch nips Edwards to win under caution at Daytona (AP)

    Kyle Busch waves to fans in front of the grandstand after winning the Coke Zero 400 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Saturday, July 5, 2008. Some fans not happy with the victory threw beer cans on the track. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Kyle Busch fell a lap down at Talladega and came back to win. So when a steering problem dropped him to the back of the field at Daytona, he didn't panic. He simply settled in for the long drive back to the front. And back to Victory Lane.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:48:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Ore. man completes flight of fancy - in lawn chair (AP)

    Kent Couch lifts off from his gas station in Bend, Ore., in his lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Couch, 48, is making his third cluster balloon flight and hopes to go more than 200 miles to Idaho before running out of daylight or helium. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:48:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    TV's 'The Bachelor' weds in California (AP)

    In this May 26, 2007 file photo, the star of the ABC-TV reality show 'The Bachelor',   Andrew Firestone, left, and Ivana Bozilovic pose for photos at the 10th annual Tiger Jam at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Firestone married Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic Saturday July 5, 2008, the couple told Usmagazine.com in a statement. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - "The Bachelor" is a bachelor no more. Andrew Firestone, star of the ABC-TV reality show, married Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic Saturday, Firestone's publicist Alisha Mahon told The Associated Press.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:47:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong' (AP)

    In this April 1, 2008 file photo, Joseph Barratt, 55, and others demonstrate outside a HOPE NOW home ownership preservation workshop at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  Demonstrators hoped to draw attention subprime mortgage crisis. The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. The Independence Day holiday is typically a time to honor all that we are as a nation, but the feeling is there's less to celebrate on this our 232nd birthday. Happy? It would seem not. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:46:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    U.S. removes uranium stockpile from Iraq (AP)

    In a Monday June 9, 2003 file photo, UN inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) work at the nuclear facility in Tuwaitha, Iraq, 50 kms east of Baghdad. The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday, July 5, 2008, to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, file)AP - The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:45:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Analysis: McCain struggles to regain footing (AP)

    US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain speaks during a press conference at the Federal Police building in Mexico City on July 3, 2008. White House hopefuls Barack Obama and McCain marked the US Independence Day holiday Friday with parades, picnics and odes to patriotism.(AFP/Alfredo Estrella)AP - John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:44:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown (AP)

    Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks to reporters in his campaign charter en route to St. Louis, Mo., Saturday, July 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:43:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    California wildfires strain state's resources (AP)

    A red sunset is seen in Pismo Beach due to the fires burning in the Santa Ynez Mountains and Big Sur, Calif., on Saturday July 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Phil Klein)AP - A wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:42:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bush: `Affront' to Chinese to skip Olympics start (AP)

    U.S. President George W. Bush, left, meets with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda during their bilateral talks at the G-8 summit on Sunday, July 6, 2008 in lakeside resort of Toyako on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Bush says he is going to the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics because skipping it would be an "affront" to the Chinese people.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:59:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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