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  Courts stall inmate's desire to die AP - 59 minutes ago

  LIVINGSTON, Texas - The first letter, neatly handwritten on lined paper, arrived at the federal courthouse in Dallas nearly a year and a half ago with a simple address: U.S. District Clerk's Office.

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  Clinton advances renewable energy ideas AP - 57 minutes ago

  FERNLEY, Nev. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton turned the spotlight on a key Western issue, saying the resource-rich region can help lead the U.S. in the development of renewable energy.

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  Envoy, Musharraf hold face-to-face talks AP - 56 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Washington's No. 2 diplomat met with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Saturday after talking by phone overnight with one of the military ruler's chief rivals, a bit of face-to-face diplomacy aimed at convincing the general to move back toward democracy.

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  China calls for quick reforms in Myanmar AP - 55 minutes ago

  YANGON, Myanmar - China called on Myanmar to speed up democratic reforms, state media reported Saturday — an unusual move for Beijing, which has traditionally refrained from criticizing the military regime.

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  Bonds' lawyers to question steroid test AP - 55 minutes ago

  SAN FRANCISCO - "I've never seen these documents," Barry Bonds said. He was testifying before a federal grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, and had just been shown what prosecutors say was a positive steroid test conducted on a player named Barry B.

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  Pakistan's Musharraf warns on nuclear weapons Reuters - 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - President Pervez Musharraf, defending his decision to declare emergency rule, has said Pakistan's nuclear weapons could fall into the wrong hands if elections led to disturbances.

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  Bangladesh cyclone toll nears 1100 Reuters - 39 minutes ago

  DHAKA (Reuters) - Military ships and helicopters were trying on Saturday to reach thousands of survivors of a super cyclone that killed nearly 1,100 people and pummelled impoverished Bangladesh with mighty winds and waves.

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  Trial set for highest-ranking Marine in Haditha case Reuters - Fri Nov 16, 6:01 PM ET

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The highest-ranking U.S. Marine charged in connection with the 2005 shooting deaths of two dozen unarmed men, women and children in the Iraqi town of Haditha was ordered on Friday to face court martial in April.

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  State Department official and brother queried on Blackwater Reuters - Fri Nov 16, 10:59 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department's top investigator and his brother will both be asked to testify to a committee of Congress about the brother's link to the Blackwater security firm, the committee announced on Friday.

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  Palestinians seek pre-conference settlement freeze Reuters - 16 minutes ago

  RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinians have told the United States they will accept nothing less than a total freeze in Jewish settlement building ahead of a conference on statehood, a top Palestinian official said on Saturday.

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  New Hampshire investigating anti-Romney calls Reuters - Fri Nov 16, 5:24 PM ET

  BOSTON (Reuters) - The New Hampshire attorney general's office said on Friday it was investigating suspicious telephone calls to voters highlighting Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's Mormon faith in an apparent effort to erode his support.

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  U.S.-led troops kill 23 militants in Afghanistan Reuters - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition forces killed 23 militants during weapons searches in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

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  Clinton seeks to convince voters she won debate Reuters - Fri Nov 16, 3:19 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's camp tried to convince voters on Friday that she had put a bad two-week stretch behind her and emerged strong from her debate performance in Las Vegas.

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  Bangladesh fears thousands killed by cyclone AFP - 4 minutes ago

  JHALOKATI, Bangladesh (AFP) - Bangladesh said Saturday it feared thousands of corpses were littering its southern coast after the worst cyclone in years tore through the impoverished and low-lying area.

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  UN chief demands climate 'breakthrough' after key report AFP - 26 minutes ago

  VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon demanded that politicians next month smash the deadlock on tackling global warming, saying a report issued on Saturday by a Nobel-winning climate panel "has set the stage for a real breakthrough."

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  Emergency rule to stay for now, Pakistan leader tells US: aide AFP - 10 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf told a top US diplomat Saturday that he would only end his emergency rule when the security situation improves, a senior presidential aide told AFP.

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  Kosovo votes in general election AFP - Sat Nov 17, 4:57 AM ET

  PRISTINA, Serbia (AFP) - A tense Kosovo voted Saturday to elect a government that would lead the troubled province to independence as demanded by majority Albanians but fiercely resisted by Serbs.

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  Dolly the Sheep pioneer drops cloning with embryos: Telegraph AFP - Sat Nov 17, 12:26 AM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - A British scientist who led researchers who created Dolly the Sheep is to abandon cloning using embryos for a rival method which makes stem cells without them, the Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.

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  Divided OPEC meets for summit AFP - 46 minutes ago

  RIYADH (AFP) - OPEC heads of state converged on Riyadh for a rare summit opening Saturday with the organisation divided over the falling US dollar and attempts to give a political impetus to the oil-exporting cartel.

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  French transport strike moves into a fourth day AFP - 49 minutes ago

  PARIS (AFP) - France's railway strike moved into a fourth day Saturday, despite a call from one of the main unions for its suspension to allow talks to get underway.

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  China deals blow to Western efforts to punish Iran Reuters - Fri Nov 16, 2:11 PM ET

  LONDON (Reuters) - China has dealt a blow to Western efforts to increase diplomatic pressure on Iran over its nuclear program by dropping out of a meeting to discuss tougher sanctions against Tehran.

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  Quake hits Peru-Ecuador border Reuters - Thu Nov 15, 11:55 PM ET

  QUITO (Reuters) - A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck along the border between Peru and Ecuador on Thursday night, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

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  Barry Bonds lied about steroid use: indictment Reuters - Thu Nov 15, 6:15 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Baseball home-run king Barry Bonds used steroids to fuel his success and then lied about it, prosecutors said on Thursday in charging him with perjury and obstruction of justice.

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  State Department official and brother queried on Blackwater Reuters - Fri Nov 16, 4:43 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department's top investigator and his brother will both be asked to testify to a committee of Congress about the brother's link to the Blackwater security firm, the committee announced on Friday.

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  Opium windfall fuels Afghan insurgents: U.N. Reuters - Fri Nov 16, 9:38 AM ET

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Profits from opium fuel the Taliban insurgency, the United Nations said on Friday, in a new call on NATO to tackle Afghanistan's burgeoning drugs trade.