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    Military says US helicopter went down in Baghdad (AP)

    SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF MAP: map of Baghdad locates the Azamiyah section where U.S. forces killed a suspected al-Qaida leader;AP - The U.S. military says an American helicopter has gone down in Baghdad but it has no immediate information on casualties.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:56:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Man Utd keep up pressure as Gunners struggle in Premier League (AFP)

    Arsenal's midfielder Cesc Fabregas celebrates after heading a last minute goal during their Premier league football match against Sunderland at The Sadium Of Light in Sunderland. Fabregas claimed a vital injury-time equaliser as Arsenal escaped with a point from a dramatic 1-1 draw at Sunderland on Saturday.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Manchester United maintained the pressure on English Premier League leaders Chelsea and Liverpool on Saturday as Arsenal avoided another embarrassing defeat.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:49:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Developed countries push back vs. pirates (AP)

    In this picture released by U.S. Navy, Sunday,  Sept. 28, 2008, Somali pirates in small boats are seen alongside the hijacked 'Faina'. Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering vessels large and small and leaving the world's maritime powers frustrated about how to stop the seafaring bandits. Now, however, momentum is growing for coordinated international action to back up the sharp response after the stunning seizure late last month of a Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry  as the pirates quickly found themselves encircled by U.S. warships and receiving only silence to their demands for millions of dollars in ransom. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)AP - Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering vessels large and small and leaving the world's maritime powers frustrated about how to stop the seafaring bandits.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:26:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Battle kills 15 Turkish soldiers, 23 rebels (AP)

    Map locates Aktunun, Turkey and the portion of Turkey/Iraq border where cross-border fighting has occurred ;AP - Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkey's army and air force in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq killed 15 soldiers and at least 23 insurgents, the military said Saturday, in the deadliest battle between them in eight months.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:26:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Feeling Wall Street's pain, from Manila to Paris (AP)
    AP - Nearly 5,000 miles from Wall Street, Dmitry Zhiltsov's recruiting agency is bleeding clients, as investment banks that once hunted Russia's financial wizards succumb to the U.S. meltdown. Flipping on the morning news, he wonders: Who will fall today? -- read full article
    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:41:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Israel accuses NKorea of Mideast proliferation (AP)

    U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill answers reporters' question after meeting with his South Korean counterpart Kim Sook at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The chief U.S. envoy at six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament met with Kim Sook Friday after spending three days in the North trying to persuade it to resume dismantling its nuclear program. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of covertly supplying at least half a dozen Mideast countries with nuclear technology or conventional arms.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:26:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Report: NKorean leader watches soccer game (AP)

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-il returns a salute as he reviews a military parade in Pyongyang in this October 10, 2005 file photo. Kim made his first public appearance since reports surfaced last month that he may have suffered a stroke, according to a state news report on Saturday. REUTERS/Korea News Service/FilesAP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il watched a university soccer game, a state-run news agency said from Pyongyang on Saturday, reporting on the leader's first public appearance in nearly two months.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:44:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Protests greet Tata plan to scrap Indian cheap car plant (AFP)

    Indian policemen stand guard at the Tata Motors plant in Singur in September, 2008. Thousands of people blocked traffic in eastern India on Saturday to protest at the scrapping of a Tata Motors factory to make the world's cheapest car, a move trade groups said could hurt investment.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)AFP - Thousands of people blocked traffic in eastern India on Saturday to protest at the scrapping of a Tata Motors factory to make the world's cheapest car, a move trade groups said could hurt investment.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:53:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Somalia deaths climb, insurgents reject aid groups (AP)

    This file photo, originally supplied by the 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 - Help for hundreds of thousands of Somalis is in jeopardy, two international aid groups said Friday after Islamic insurgents forced one to suspend some operations and threatened the other.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:29:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Hurricane Marie drifts far off Mexico's coast (AP)

    This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM EDT shows cloudiness over the Great Lakes and the Northeast as a trough of low pressure instigates rain development. To the north, Tropical Storm Laura is located about 315 miles east of Cape Race Newfoundland. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Hurricane Marie formed off western Mexico and drifted through the Pacific Ocean on a path that forecasters said would keep it well away from land.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:33:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Analysis: Stable Iraq could influence Mideast (AP)

    A U.S. Army soldier from Ironhawk Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, patrols in Mosul, 360 kilometers (224 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - As violence in Iraq recedes, neighboring states are pondering how to deal with an unwieldy country that could re-emerge as a key player along with Saudi Arabia and Iran in one of the world's most strategic regions.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:54:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Paris summit seeks European response to crisis (Reuters)

    US Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) waves to reporters as he departs a meeting with fellow Republicans about a bill to provide a $700 billion bailout for the current financial and banking crisis, on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 3, 2008. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)Reuters - European leaders meet on Saturday for a summit French President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes will shore up confidence in a banking system hit by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:48:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Kurdish attack kills 15 Turkish soldiers (AP)
    AP - Turkey's military says 15 of its soldiers have been killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. -- read full article
    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:30:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Suspected US strikes kill 20 in Pakistan (AP)

    Pakistani men offer funeral prayers for those killed in a suicide attack in Charsadda, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. A blast on Thursday killed four people in a failed bid to assassinate a prominent anti-Taliban politician in the region. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles hit buildings in two Pakistani villages close to the Afghan border, killing 20 people, most of them alleged militants, officials said Saturday.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:34:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Rice lauds nuclear deal as key to US-India future (AP)

    Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, during a meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Indian capital Saturday to commemorate — but not put her signature to — a historic deal that opens up U.S. nuclear trade with the Asia giant.


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    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:04:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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