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    Europe scrambles for bailout as Senate vote looms (Reuters)

    A police officer patrols an empty hall on Capitol Hill, September 30, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - A revised $700 billion U.S. financial bailout plan is significantly more likely to pass Congress, the White House said Wednesday, as European leaders scrambled to agree on their own bank rescue package.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:45:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Parents file lawsuit in China against dairy firm (AP)

    Chinese food safety personnel check on the fresh milk at a milk collection station in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. China's government named 15 more Chinese dairy companies for producing products contaminated with melamine after a new series of tests. The contaminated samples were mostly milk powder products for adults. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - The parents of a baby allegedly sickened by tainted infant formula are suing the dairy at the heart of China's contaminated milk scandal, state media reported, as 15 more companies were accused Wednesday of producing spiked products.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:45:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pakistan officials: 6 killed in US missile strike (AP)

    Department of Defense (DOD) file photo shows an unmanned Predator surveillance plane. A missile strike by a suspected US spy drone hit a house in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, killing at least four people and wounding nine, security officials said Wednesday.(AFP/DoD-HO/File/Jeffrey S. Viano)AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike on a Taliban commander's home in Pakistan killed six people, officials said Wednesday, a possible indication that Washington was moving ahead with cross-border raids despite protests from the new government.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:41:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Medvedev says Russia to leave areas of Georgia (AP)

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks at a meeting of the Council battling corruption in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. President Dmitry Medvedev sought Tuesday to strengthen his credentials in battling corruption, a major deterrent to long-term and strategic investors. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)AP - President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will fulfill its promise to withdraw troops from areas of Georgia outside two separatist regions.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:48:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    US combat hospital saving more wounded Iraqis (AP)
    AP - The U.S. military's main combat hospital in Iraq has increasingly switched to helping Iraqis. As the numbers of wounded American soldiers have fallen, the hospital is now saving the lives of a remarkable 93 percent of Iraqis who come with devastating injuries. -- read full article
    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:49:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Somalia: World can use force against the pirates (AP)

    This photo, supplied by th U.S.Navy, shows the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser monitors the pirated Ukrainian cargo ship Faina in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, while one of his helicopters provides aerial surveillance.  Several U.S. Navy ships are monitoring the situation. The ship is carrying a cargo of Ukrainian T-72 tanks and related equipment. The hijacked ship was attacked on Sept. 25 and forced to proceed to an anchorage off the Somali Coast. (AP Photo.U.S. Navy,Petty Officer 2nd  Class Jason R. Zalasky)AP - Somalia will allow foreign powers to use force if necessary against pirates who are holding a ship loaded with tanks for US$20 million ransom, raising the stakes for bandits who are facing off against the United States and soon Moscow on the high seas.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:21:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australian watchdog says it will not block BHP's bid for Rio (AFP)

    BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper and uranium operation at Roxby Downs in South Australia. Australia's competition watchdog has said it will not oppose BHP Billiton's proposed takeover of rival Rio Tinto, saying the deal would be unlikely to substantially lessen competition.(AFP/Ho/File)AFP - Australia's competition watchdog said Wednesday it will not oppose BHP Billiton's 120 billion US dollar takeover bid for rival Rio Tinto, saying the deal was unlikely to substantially lessen competition.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:52:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Two Koreas agree to military talks: defence ministry (AFP)

    North Korea soldiers march at the truce village of Panmunjom in mid September. South and North Korea have agreed to hold military talks this week amid a deadlocked nuclear disarmament deal, the South Korean defence ministry has said.(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)AFP - South and North Korea have agreed to hold military talks this week amid a deadlocked nuclear disarmament deal, the South Korean defence ministry said Wednesday.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:44:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Libyans savour joys of consumerism (AFP)

    Libyans shop in a hypermarket in the capital Tripoli on September 29. Libyans are shaking off years of deprivation caused by an iron-fisted socialist rule, international isolation and sanctions to savor the joys of their new market economy.(AFP/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - Libyans are shaking off decades of deprivation resulting from an iron-fisted socialist rule, international isolation and sanctions to savour the joys of their new market economy.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:49:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Cayman Islands to sink US ship to create reef (AP)
    AP - The Cayman Islands announced plans Tuesday to scuttle a decommissioned U.S. Navy ship to create an underwater attraction for scuba divers and snorkelers. -- read full article
    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:26:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,176 (AP)

    The scene of a car bomb placed in a car park in Baghdad on September 29. The number of Iraqi civilians and security personnel killed in insurgent and militia violence in September was 440, little changed from August, security officials said on Wednesday.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at least 4,176 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


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    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:32:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Cigarette packs to carry graphic picture warnings (AFP)

    One of a range of images issued by the Department of Health showing how smoking harms the body. This image, of a man with throat cancer, is just one of a series of gruesome picture which will be printed on cigarette packets from October 1 instead of the written health warnings.(AFP/HO/Department of Health)AFP - Smokers buying cigarettes will from Wednesday be confronted with a series of gruesome images printed on the packets showing how tobacco damages health.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:43:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Color, glitter enliven Saudi women's black abayas (AP)

    A Saudi woman wears an embroidered abaya in the old city of Jiddah, Saudi Arabia on Dec. 20, 2007.For years, the only thing sold openly in Saudi stores selling women's cloaks were of the all-black, drab covering variety. But now, streaks of vibrant color, bands of glittering crystal — and even sheaths of sexy leopard skin prints — are showing up on the racks. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - For years, the only thing sold openly in Saudi stores selling women's cloaks were of the all-black, drab covering variety. Now, streaks of vibrant color, bands of glittering crystal — even sheaths of sexy leopard skin prints — are showing up on the racks.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:04:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Canada opposition party accuses PM of plagiarism (AP)

    Liberal Foreign Affairs critic Bob Rae watches a video of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, screen right,delivering a speech that he says which nearly half of it matched word for word a 2003 speech by Australian Prime Minister John Howard,screen left, lending support to the Iraq War, during a campaign event in Toronto on Tuesday Sept. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Frank Gunn)AP - A senior campaign staffer for the governing Conservative Party resigned Tuesday after admitting he wrote a speech for Prime Minister Stephen Harper that plagiarized another leader's address urging support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:48:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Russian troops let EU monitors into buffer zone (AP)

    Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, right, speaks, while EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana listens during a joint news conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. Russian troops have allowed a group of European Union monitors to enter a buffer zone on the edge of Georgia's separatist province of South Ossetia, on Wednesday, Oct.1, 2008, despite an earlier warning to them to stay out of the area. (AP Photo/ George Abdaladze)AP - Russian troops have allowed a group of European Union monitors to enter a buffer zone on the edge of Georgia's separatist province of South Ossetia despite an earlier warning to them to stay out of the area.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:32:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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