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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Tim Geithner, president of the New York Federal reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, an official close to the incoming chief...(more)
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AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he would like to add significant U.S. forces to the war in Afghanistan before national elections scheduled for next year, and that grim depictions of backsliding in the seven-year-old war are "far too pessimistic."
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Noe Ramirez Mandujano, who led an elite investigations unit, is the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be arrested. He allegedly tipped off the Beltran Leyva drug gang for $450,000. In a widening probe of corruption at top levels of Mexican law enforcement, authorities said today that...(more)
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GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Park rangers returned to a reserve that is home to nearly a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas Friday, more than a year after fighting forced them to abandon the area, a park chief said.
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Michael Jackson's nanny testified Friday that a Bahrainian prince wired her $1 million - because the singer didn't have a bank account.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 21 -- Thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated Friday against an agreement that would extend the U.S. military presence in Iraq, shouting "America out!" and burning an effigy of President Bush. The rally was held in Firdaus Square, where...(more)
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BAGHDAD - Tens of thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr packed a central Baghdad square Friday, where they protested a U.S.-Iraq security agreement and likened Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to fallen dictator Saddam Hussein.
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AP - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's plane made an emergency landing in Japan on Friday after her husband fell ill on board, airport police said.
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AFP - Authorities destroyed the home of leading Chinese rights activist Ni Yulan on Friday in front of her distraught husband who pleaded with the government to release her from jail.
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The falling gas price could hit investment in expensive renewable energy projects, said Cameron Hepburn, an environmental economist at Oxford University - but that outcome is not certain.
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The attack came within days of a Pakistani protest to the United States ambassador over missile attacks on its territory.
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The worlds car park is growing. It has become so big that the impact of emissions from todays road traffic on the global temperature in 2100 will be six times greater than that from todays air traffic.
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