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• Americans are steady in donations to charity AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  NEW YORK - Americans gave to charities last year at about the same rate they did the previous year, holding steady on their donations in the face of a housing-market meltdown and a crisis in credit, a study released Monday showed.

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  Stocks head for higher open after last week's drop AP - 51 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - U.S. stocks headed for a higher opening Monday, with investors looking to recover some of last week's steep losses but still wary about high oil prices.

• NBC service will show Olympic events via computer AP - 28 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Fans will be able to catch up on the Beijing Olympics on their laptops during their commute this summer.

• Australian in wheelchair gets drunk driving charge AP - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

  BRISBANE, Australia - A man found asleep in a motorized wheelchair on a highway in northern Australia was charged with drunk driving, police said Monday.

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  Teixeira hits 3 homers to lead Braves AP - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

  Mark Teixeira waited two years for his second career three-homer game. Cito Gaston waited much longer for another win managing the Toronto Blue Jays. Teixeira connected from both sides of the plate, leading the Atlanta Braves to an 8-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday. It was the first three-homer game for an Atlanta player at Turner Field.

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  Tsvangirai ready to negotiate if violence stops Reuters - 12 minutes ago

  HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Monday he was ready to negotiate with President Robert Mugabe's ruling party after his withdrawal from a presidential election, but only if political violence stopped.

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  John McCain to push new measures to lower auto emissions Reuters - Mon Jun 23, 3:03 AM ET

  PHOENIX (Reuters) - John McCain will push on Monday for car makers to build more environmentally friendly vehicles, threatening new legislation if they do not comply and proposing tax breaks to encourage consumers to buy "cleaner" cars.

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  Iran sees "common ground" with big powers' atom offer Reuters - 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it was encouraged by common points between its and world powers' separate proposals aimed at defusing a nuclear dispute, but again dismissed any suggestion of suspending uranium enrichment.

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  Hopes fade for Philippine ferry victims Reuters - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

  SIBUYAN ISLAND, Philippines (Reuters) - Rescuers held little hope on Monday of finding some 800 people missing from a capsized ferry in the Philippines as large swells prevented divers from drilling holes into the doomed vessel.

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  U.S.-led troops kill 55 Taliban after Afghan ambush Reuters - 1 hour, 21 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition troops killed some 55 Taliban insurgents who ambushed them in southeastern Afghanistan, close to the Pakistan border, the U.S. military said on Monday.

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  U.N. nuclear team to inspect bombed site in Syria Reuters - 2 hours, 55 minutes ago

  VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors headed on Monday for an alleged nuclear site in Syria that the United States says housed a secretly built reactor nearing completion when it was bombed by Israel nine months ago, a diplomat said.

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  Levees hold back cresting Mississippi River Reuters - Sun Jun 22, 1:02 PM ET

  CAHOKIA, Illinois (Reuters) - Walls and levees held back the cresting Mississippi River on Sunday as requests for government aid poured in from homeowners and businesses swamped by the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years.

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  Housing rebound to be prolonged: Harvard study Reuters - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Record foreclosures and limited access to credit will make it harder than usual to rebound from this U.S. housing market slump, the worst at least since World War Two, according to a Harvard University study on Monday.

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  Zimbabwe police raid opposition headquarters AFP - 47 minutes ago

  HARARE (AFP) - Police raided the headquarters of Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Monday, taking people out of the building and bundling them in a bus, an AFP journalist saw.

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  Desperate hunt for Philippine ferry survivors AFP - Mon Jun 23, 3:28 AM ET

  ABOARD THE BRP PAMPANGA, Philippines (AFP) - Philippine rescue teams battled furious seas and high winds Monday in a desperate hunt for more survivors of a ferry that sank in a typhoon with 862 people aboard.

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  Sarkozy urges halt to Jewish settlement activity AFP - 36 minutes ago

  JERUSALEM (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Monday for a halt to Jewish settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, telling the Israeli parliament this was the key to peace.

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  Whaling commission meet to debate hunting resumption AFP - 2 hours, 6 minutes ago

  SANTIAGO (AFP) - The International Whaling Commission, a treaty organization grouping 80 countries, was to meet on Monday in Chile to debate a possible resumption of commercial whale-hunting.

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  Hazard of old mobile phones under spotlight at UN meet AFP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

  NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) - The disposal of massive numbers of unwanted mobile phones will be a key focus of a five-day meeting on waste management which started Monday in Indonesia, organisers said.

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  Oil prices rally after Jeddah meet, Nigeria attack AFP - 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices rose towards 137 dollars on Monday after major energy producers ruled out further output despite consumers' fears that the world faces a tight supply situation.

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  High oil prices slash German business confidence: Ifo AFP - 2 hours, 21 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT (AFP) - Germany's key business climate index fell to an 18-month low point in June, with high oil prices pulling the rug from under the feet of Europe's biggest economy.

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  UN nuclear team to inspect bombed Syria desert site AFP - Sun Jun 22, 11:01 AM ET

  DAMASCUS (AFP) - Senior UN atomic experts are set to begin a three-day visit to Syria on Sunday to inspect a mysterious site bombed by Israel last year amid US allegations that it was a nuclear facility.

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  'Sesame Street' unites Kosovo youngsters AFP - Sun Jun 22, 2:38 AM ET

  PRISTINA (AFP) - "Sesame Street" characters Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie are succeeding where politicians have so far failed -- by bringing together children from Kosovo's divided ethnic communities.

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  Leaked Israeli drill seen as U.S. pressure on Iran Reuters - Sun Jun 22, 5:11 AM ET

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A U.S. leak of an Israeli air exercise reported to be practice for possible bombing of Iran's nuclear sites was seen in Israel on Sunday as a deliberate move to increase pressure on Tehran to halt sensitive atomic work.