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    Passenger trains running again in Channel tunnel (AP)

    Eurostar passengers coming from Paris wait for the departure of their shuttle bus at the rail station in Calais, France, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Eurostar travelers have to cross the Channel by ferry as the Channel tunnel service is suspended after a fire broke out on a freight train Thursday. Rescuers evacuated dozens of people from the Channel Tunnel after a fire on a freight shuttle injured 14 people and forced the closure of the key transport link. Six people suffered smoke inhalation and eight were slightly injured after the blaze took hold on a truck being carried from Britain to France. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - Eurostar passenger trains are running again through the tunnel under the English Channel two days after an undersea fire suspended service.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:19:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Chinese dairy knew of milk contamination (AP)

    In this photo released by China's Xihua News Agency, two babies with kidney stones receive medical treatment under the care of their fathers at a military hospital in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. So far this year, Gansu Provincial Health Department has seen 59 kidney stone cases in infants, and at least one baby died as a result of kidney stones. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhu Guoliang)AP - A dairy that sold milk powder linked to kidney stones in infants and one death knew in August it was tainted with a banned chemical, weeks before it ordered a recall, the Health Ministry said Saturday.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:00:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pope draws huge crowd in Paris (AP)

    Priests wait for the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI for the celebration of an outdoors mass on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. Tens of thousands of faithful have turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass in Paris, his only public appearance Saturday before he flies to Lourdes to make a pilgrimage to the shrine which draws millions of pilgrims each year. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - More than 200,000 people turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass on Saturday — an outpouring of faith for a traditionally Roman Catholic country that has witnessed a sharp decline in churchgoing among Catholics.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:44:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Georgia: Russia meets partial pullout deadline (AP)

    Camp wait : A Georgian refugee from the South Ossetia conflict zone stands in a tent in Gori . (AFP/Vano Shlamov)AP - A Georgian official says Russia has fulfilled its commitment to withdraw forces from several positions in western Georgia.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:48:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pakistan claims killing 72 militants in 3 days (AP)

    Pakistani Islamist activists burn U.S. flag to condemn alleged strikes in Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghan border, during a protest in Multan September 12, 2008. (Asim Tanveer/Reuters)AP - Pakistan's military said Saturday it killed at least 72 militants in three days of fighting near the Afghan border, where Taliban and al-Qaida militants are believed to be hiding.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:47:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Bomb kills Afghan governor, 3 others (AP)

    Afghan policemen talk near the site where the vehicle belonging to Afghanistan's Logar province governor was hit by a blast in Paghman, west of Kabul, September 13, 2008. An Afghan provincial governor, who was also a former cabinet minister, was among four people killed in an apparent Taliban suicide bomb attack near Kabul on Saturday, Afghan police said. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN)AP - A remote control bomb that witnesses said was set off by two men on a nearby hilltop ripped through an Afghan provincial governor's vehicle on Saturday, killing the governor and three others, officials said.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:06:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australia denies China blocking uranium to India (AFP)

    Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee (L) shakes hands with his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith before a meeting in New Delhi on September 12. Smith on Friday shot down claims that China is pressing Canberra not to supply Beijing's rival India with uranium for nuclear fuel.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)AFP - Australia's foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Friday shot down claims that China is pressing Canberra not to supply Beijing's rival India with uranium for nuclear fuel.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:08:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Malaysian opposition lawmaker, 2 journalists held (AP)
    AP - Police arrested a Malaysian opposition lawmaker and two journalists on Friday under a law that can keep them detained indefinitely without trial, sparking fears of a major government crackdown on dissent at a time the opposition is trying to seize power. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:49:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Mugabe to keep major powers under deal (Reuters)

    Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe attends the funeral service of the late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa in Lusaka, September 3, 2008. (Mackson Wasamunu/Reuters)Reuters - President Robert Mugabe will keep his job and head the cabinet under a power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe, but the opposition will have more senior ministers than his ZANU-PF party, an opposition senator said on Friday.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:32:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    U.S. accuses Venezuelans of aid drug traffickers (AP)

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talks to supporters outside Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.  Chavez said that U.S. ambassador Patrick Duddy is no longer welcome, just as his close ally Bolivia expelled the American envoy from La Paz a day earlier. (AP Photo/Howard Yanes)AP - The United States on Friday accused three members of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's inner circle of aiding Colombian rebels by supplying arms and helping drug traffickers. Washington also expelled Chavez's ambassador as a diplomatic clash intensified.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:38:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    UN: 4 new cholera cases confirmed in Iraq (AP)
    AP - Iraqi and U.N. officials say four cholera cases have been confirmed in Karbala, a holy Shiite city south of Baghdad that draws masses of pilgrims. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:39:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    2 US soldiers to face court-martial in Iraq deaths (AP)
    AP - Two American soldiers will face a court-martial in Germany for the alleged slaying of four prisoners in Iraq, the Army announced Friday. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:49:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    `Chunnel' fire a reminder of UK's ties to Europe (AP)

    A British traffic policeman on a motorcycle escorts two lorries past long lines of trucks parked on the M20 motorway in the Dover direction lanes at Ram Lane, England, Friday Sept. 12, 2008. The traffic built up after a fire broke out Thursday afternoon on a truck aboard a 30-car shuttle train traveling from England to France using the Channel Tunnel, injuring 14 people.  A French official says firefighters have extinguished a blaze in the tunnel under the English Channel, but undersea train traffic remains suspended for a second day.  Gerard Gavory, deputy head of the Calais regional administration, told reporters the main fire was put out Friday morning, though firefighters were still putting out some flames. (AP Photo/ Max Nash)AP - Above ground, the fire would have been minor. Breaking out deep below the English Channel, it has stranded thousands of travelers, imperiled millions of dollars in trade and starkly demonstrated the importance — and fragility — of Britain's only land link to Europe.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:16:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Worries simmer over absent North Korean strongman (AP)

    South Koreans watch TV reporting on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. North Korea denied that Kim Jong Il is seriously ill, rejecting media reports questioning the leader's health as a 'conspiracy plot,' a news report said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - The "Dear Leader" is ill and out of sight — at a time when North Korea is backtracking on a pledge to abandon its nuclear ambitions and is building a missile base that analysts say could put U.S. territory within range.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:58:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Will Iraq squander the gains of the surge? (AP)

    An Iraqi police officer watches an armored vehicle belonging to the 320th Military Police Company on patrol on the outskirts of the city of Tikrit, some 180 kms north of Baghdad. A suicide bomber slammed his explosives-filled truck into the police station of the central Iraqi town of Dujail on Friday, killing at least 28 people, officials said.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AP - The U.S. troop surge did what it aimed: Calm Iraq down. But now, an increasing number of U.S. officials are worried that the hard-won drop in violence may be only temporary.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:07:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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