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    Israeli minister: It's OK to kidnap Iran president (AP)
    AP - An Israeli Cabinet minister and onetime spy who helped kidnap Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann and bring him to trial thinks the same tactic could be used on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. -- read full article
    Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:04:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Shell agrees landmark $4 bln gas deal with Iraq (AFP)

    The Shell logo. Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a joint venture deal worth up to four billion dollars (2.8 billion euros) to capture gas in Iraq.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AFP - Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a joint venture deal worth up to four billion dollars (2.8 billion euros) to capture gas in Iraq, the Financial Times said Tuesday.


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    Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:32:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Death spreads to storm shelters in Haiti (AP)

    A man pulls the body of a person floating in floodwaters with a rope in Gonaives, Haiti, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008.  Four storms have killed more than 300 people in Haiti in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Nine people died in shelters in this marooned city desperate for relief supplies, even as waters from Hurricane Ike receded and a U.S. Navy ship dispatched amphibious boats to deliver food.


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    Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:13:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Tamil Tiger rebels attack army base in north (AP)

    An ethnic Tamil boy looks at the damage to his house after a pre-dawn aerial and ground attack by Tamil Tiger separatists at a military base in the northern city of Vavuniya September 9, 2008 . Sri Lankan jets shot down a Tamil Tiger plane after the rebels launched a pre-dawn bombing raid on a military base near the northern frontline on Tuesday, the military said. REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA)AP - Tamil Tiger rebels launched an air and ground assault on a military complex in northern Sri Lanka early Tuesday, the military said. Eleven troops, one civilian and 10 rebels were killed.


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    Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:36:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pakistan's Zardari sworn in as president (AP)

    Supporters of the Pakistan People's Party cheer in the street with posters of President-elect Asif Ali Zardari and his slain wife Benazir Bhutto during a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto became Pakistan's new president Saturday after winning a landslide election victory that makes him a critical partner of the West against international terrorism. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - The widower of assassinated former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto took office as the country's new president Tuesday, facing immediate pressure to crack down on Islamic militants and address daunting economic problems.


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    Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:38:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Hurricane Ike kills 4 in Cuba, takes aim at Havana (AP)

    A car sits under rubble after Hurricane Ike hit the area in Holguin, Cuba, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Ike, which raked the Bahamas and worsened floods in Haiti that have killed 321 people, made landfall on Cuba as a Category-3 hurricane, then weakened Monday to Category-2 as it ran along the length of the Caribbean's largest island.  (AP Photo)AP - Hurricane Ike roared toward Cuba's densely populated capital of fragile historic buildings after forcing 1.2 million people to evacuate, killing at least four and ravaging homes elsewhere on the island nation.


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    Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:07:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    U.S. drones kill 23 in missile attack in Pakistan (Reuters)

    Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed at least six people on Monday in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, witnesses said. (Graphics/Reuters)Reuters - Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed 23 people, mostly relatives of a Taliban commander close to Osama bin Laden, in a region of Pakistan near the Afghan border on Monday, witnesses and intelligence officials said.


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    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:52:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Mbeki meets Zimbabwe parties in Harare (Reuters)

    South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki attends the opening of the summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Johannesburg, August 16, 2008. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)Reuters - South African President Thabo Mbeki met with Zimbabwe's rival parties on Monday, amid growing doubts over his chances of securing a power-sharing deal to end the political crisis.


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    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:27:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Panama's ruling party picks woman for president (AP)
    AP - Panama's ruling party has chosen a female former Cabinet minister as its presidential candidate for elections in May, party officials said Monday. -- read full article
    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:55:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Al-Qaida new tape blasts Iran for working with US (AP)

    Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri speaks in a grab from a video released September 20, 2007. REUTERS/via InternetAP - Al-Qaida marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with an hour and a half video message Monday summarizing the state of jihad, or holy war, around the world and slamming Iran for collaborating with the United States.


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    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:33:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    McDermott leaves Newcastle after Keegan quits (AFP)

    Newcastle assistant manager Terry McDermott(R) with former coach Kevin Keegan in April 2008. McDermott and reserve team coach Adam Sadler have both left the Premier League club following the Keegan's last week departure.(AFP/File/Ian Kington)AFP - Newcastle assistant manager Terry McDermott and reserve team coach Adam Sadler have both left the Premier League club following the departure last week of manager Kevin Keegan.


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    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:24:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Russia vows Georgia pullout when EU sends monitors (AP)

    From left, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and French President Nicolas Sarkozy meet, in Medvedev's residence outside Moscow, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana began the difficult mission on Monday of trying to persuade Russia to honor its pledge to withdraw troops from Georgia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged Monday to withdraw Russian troops from key areas of Georgia after 200 European Union monitors are deployed later this month.


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    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:43:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Videos show dead Afghan children after US raid (AP)

    Afghan men prepare graves for people killed in a U.S. airstrike at Azizabad village in Herat province, east of Kabul on August 23, 2008. The US military said Monday that an attack by coalition forces in Afghanistan last week which allegedly killed dozens of civilians was a AP - The bodies of at least 10 children and many more adults covered in blankets and white shrouds appear in videos obtained by The Associated Press on Monday, lending weight to Afghan and U.N. allegations that a U.S.-led raid last month killed more civilians than the U.S. reported.


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    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:45:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    3 guilty in London plot that caused airline chaos (AP)

    In this undated image taken from video and released by Britain's Metropolitan Police Monday Sept. 8, 2008, Tanvir Hussain, 27, is seen. A British jury has found three men, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain, guilty of conspiracy to murder thousands by plotting to down at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States in the summer of 2006. The video footage was shown to the jury during the trial. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police, HO)AP - Three men were convicted Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign, but the jury could not reach a verdict on allegations they plotted to use liquid explosives to down trans-Atlantic airliners.


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    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:55:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    US finds clues in bakery to foil Iraqi terror plot (AP)

    In this photo released by the U.S. Army, a tunnel dug from a bakery across from Iraqi government buildings is seen after being discovered by U.S. Army troops in Mosul, Iraq on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. The U.S. military believes insurgents planned to tunnel underneath the compound's blast walls and blow up the headquarters building. The casualties from such a blast would have been catastrophic. (AP Photo/Lt. Chris Hanes, US Army)AP - Lt. Christopher Hanes knew something was wrong as soon as he stepped into the Friends bakery. The oven was unused, the water tank was empty and a large concrete bin was full of dirt that the two employees claimed was used to cool cakes.


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    Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:45:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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