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NYABIONDO, Congo -- The couple had spent three hard years in a militia camp deep in the forests around this eastern Congolese village when they finally decided to escape. Droselle Uwonkunda's husband, a militiaman, left first, and a few weeks ago she followed him --...(more)
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Senior U.S. officials converged on South Asia yesterday, hoping to persuade India and Pakistan to lower the tensions between them after the Mumbai attacks, and to avoid an escalation that could jeopardize U.S. war efforts in neighboring Afghanistan. Their most urgent message is directed toward...(more)
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BAGHDAD -- A couple of months after Capt. Jonathan Heavey, a Walter Reed Army Medical Center physician, arrived in Baghdad, an Iraqi doctor handed him the medical file of a 2-year-old boy with a life-threatening heart ailment. The doctor said the boy couldn't get the...(more)
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State legislators brought bleak budget projections to officials in Northern Virginia yesterday, increasing the anxiety of local governments scurrying to find spending cuts. Senate revenue projections show the state's fiscal picture darkening since October, when Gov. Timothy M. Kaine projected a $2.5 billion drop-off in...(more)
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China will send additional police officers to liaison with security forces in countries facing major terror threats, in a bid to boost cooperation and head off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday.
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President-elect tells a gathering of 48 state chief executives that he wants their input on a national economic recovery plan. The nation's governors came to tell tales of financial woe, but President-elect Barack Obama was already sold on them playing a role in the national economic...(more)
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The $326bn rescue of Citigroup was, some investors hoped, a turning point. It prompted a concerted rally on Wall Street last week as shareholders were reassured that the US authorities would not allow another major bank to collapse.The Dow Jones gained more than five straight days...(more)
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A Philadelphia Traffic Court judge charged in April with passing the hat for campaign donations among a group of bikers while promising favorable consideration faces punishment after a state panel found him guilty of four counts of misconduct.
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It took the better part of two decades and cost $621 million, but Congress has finally solved one of the great problems of our time: smelly tourists on Capitol Hill. "In the summertime, because of the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you...(more)
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What we have here is a standoff worthy of a spaghetti western. The players in this high-stakes confrontation are the domestic auto companies, their creditors, their unions, their dealers and elected officials in Washington. Each party seeks advantage by pointing the equivalent of loaded guns...(more)
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AP - A Somali minister in the semiautonomous northern region of Puntland says pirates have freed a Yemeni cargo ship and its eight crew members without receiving any ransom.
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The D.C. Council voted unanimously yesterday to give preliminary approval to legislation that would require gun owners to renew their registrations every three years and to notify police annually whether they still own guns. The Fire Arms Registration Amendment, which would also ban assault weapons,...(more)
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