Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  2007 deadliest for US in Afghanistan AP - 31 minutes ago

  KABUL, Afghanistan - Six U.S. troops were killed when insurgents ambushed their foot patrol in the high mountains of eastern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. The attack, the most lethal against American forces this year, made 2007 the deadliest for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.

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  Officer a suspect in missing wife case AP - 30 minutes ago

  JOLIET, Ill. - Kathleen Savio tried to get someone to believe that her life was in danger. She told authorities, who charged her with domestic battery instead of her husband Drew Peterson. Savio told her family that if she died, no matter what it looked like, her death would be no accident.

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  Synagogue's hospitality rankles church AP - 30 minutes ago

  ST. LOUIS - The Archdiocese of St. Louis and a Jewish Reform congregation are on the same side when it comes to advocating for immigrants and the poor, often finding common ground in a zeal for social justice. But when the Central Reform Congregation offered its synagogue for Sunday's ordination of two women in a ceremony disavowed by the Roman Catholic church, it drew the ire of church officials and a pledge to never again partner with the congregation.

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  Man describes Simpson hotel room scene AP - 29 minutes ago

  LAS VEGAS - A man recruited to assist O.J. Simpson in seizing sports memorabilia from a hotel room testified at Simpson's preliminary hearing that he was pushed aside as others rushed in, followed by the former football great.

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  Yi vs. Yao draws millions of Chinese AP - 28 minutes ago

  BEIJING - The Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets game had a distinctly local flavor for NBA fans in China. Among the estimated 100 to 200 million TV viewers in China were more than 400 who packed a Beijing bar at breakfast time Saturday to watch a live televised broadcast of Rockets star Yao Ming against Bucks' rookie Yi Jianlian in the Chinese players' first NBA matchup.

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  Pakistan police block Bhutto Reuters - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Police blocked opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from visiting Pakistan's deposed chief justice on Saturday, as President Pervez Musharraf resisted U.S. calls to end emergency rule.

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  Author Norman Mailer dies aged 84 Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-times Pulitzer Prize winner who was a dominating presence on the U.S. literary scene across seven decades, has died, his editorial assistant said on Saturday.

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  Bush, Merkel to focus on Iran in Texas ranch visit Reuters - Fri Nov 9, 6:39 PM ET

  CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday to his Texas ranch where they will seek a common approach to deal with Iran's nuclear program.

• U.S. soldier found not guilty of Iraq murders Reuters - 2 hours, 15 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. solider has been acquitted of three murder charges after investigations into the unlawful killings of three Iraqis earlier this year, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

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  NATO and Afghan soldiers killed in ambush Reuters - Sat Nov 10, 4:23 AM ET

  KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents killed six troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and three Afghan soldiers in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan, an ISAF spokesman said on Saturday.

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  Most of Broadway darkened by stagehands' strike Reuters - Sat Nov 10, 4:03 AM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A strike by Broadway stagehands will shutter the majority of Broadway shows starting on Saturday, theater owners and producers said.

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  North Korea rebuts U.S. uranium charges: paper Reuters - Sat Nov 10, 3:52 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea is offering the United States evidence that it never intended to produce uranium for nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

• Celebrity Realtor's assistant charged with murder Reuters - Fri Nov 9, 5:42 PM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The personal assistant of high-profile New York Realtor Linda Stein, who once managed punk rock band the Ramones, has been charged with Stein's violent murder in Manhattan 10 days ago, police said Friday.

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  Pakistan's Bhutto leads protest against emergency rule AFP - 52 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's ex-premier Benazir Bhutto turned the screw Saturday on President Pervez Musharraf, addressing a protest against his emergency rule and demanding to see the chief justice he sacked.

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  UN rights expert due in Myanmar as groups demand prisoner release AFP - Sat Nov 10, 1:55 AM ET

  YANGON (AFP) - UN human rights expert Paulo Sergio Pinheiro was due Sunday to start his first visit to Myanmar in four years as rights groups demanded the ruling junta release all political prisoners.

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  Six NATO, three Afghan troops killed in Afghanistan AFP - Sat Nov 10, 2:12 AM ET

  KABUL (AFP) - Six NATO-led soldiers and three Afghan troops were killed in heavy fighting in eastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force announced Saturday.

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  US author Norman Mailer dead at 84: reports AFP - 27 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Provovacative US writer Norman Mailer, famed for his first novel "The Naked and the Dead," died overnight at the age of 84, US media reported Saturday.

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  China halts exports of suspected toxic toy beads AFP - Fri Nov 9, 11:44 PM ET

  BEIJING (AFP) - China's product safety watchdog halted the export of a toy suspected of containing toxic substances in the latest scandal plaguing the "made in China" brand, state press said Saturday.

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  Indian girl born with eight limbs stable AFP - Sat Nov 10, 12:17 AM ET

  BANGALORE, India (AFP) - A two-year-old Indian girl separated from her conjoined twin was doing well Saturday after regaining consciousness for the first time after a gruelling 27 hours of surgery.

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  US, EU team up to tell China to play by the rules AFP - Fri Nov 9, 9:30 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States and the European Union joined forces Friday in a bid to "convince" China that it would be in its best interest to abide by the rules of international trade.

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  Exploding piggy-bank aims to scare Japanese into saving AFP - Thu Nov 8, 10:19 AM ET

  TOKYO (AFP) - Greying Japan has a new weapon to scare people into saving for their retirement -- an exploding piggy bank.

• An Admissions Dean's Tips for Getting In U.S. News & World Report - Thu Nov 8, 9:36 AM ET

  What can applicants do to increase their chances of getting in to a good college? Colleges usually just tell applicants the same old generalities about wanting students with good grades and test scores and community service. But Peter Van Buskirk, a former admissions dean at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pa., has started spilling the beans about what really goes on behind those closed-door admissions meetings. Van Buskirk, author of Winning the College Admission Game, tells U.S. ...

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  As one mafia fades, Italy faces another The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Nov 9, 3:00 AM ET

  Rome - This past August, the fatal shooting of six Italian men exiting a restaurant in Duisburg, Germany, informed the world of what Italian authorities already knew: Italy's 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate had come of age as an international force.

• In trademarking its coffee, Ethiopia seeks fair trade The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Nov 9, 3:00 AM ET

  Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia - Nestled in the hills of southern Ethiopia lies a resource that could catapult this nation forward: coffee.

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  Pakistan political instability raises nuclear risk Reuters - Thu Nov 8, 5:16 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pentagon officials say Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is secure in military hands, but some U.S. lawmakers and experts warn that nuclear material and designs could leak out if political instability persists.