Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Stock futures up on strong retail sales AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  NEW YORK - Wall Street headed toward a higher open on Monday as sales reports indicated a strong start to the holiday shopping season and seemed to ease investor concerns about consumer spending.

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  Thanksgiving travelers face little delay AP - 2 hours, 14 minutes ago

  ATLANTA - Holiday travelers heading home after a long weekend of turkey, leftovers and holiday shopping found heavy crowds but most didn't find the delays they feared most.

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  Airbus to sell 160 jets to China AP - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago

  BEIJING - Airbus said it signed contracts Monday to sell 160 commercial passenger jets to China in a deal worth around $14.8 billion.

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  Striking TV writers to resume talks today AP - 54 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Striking TV and movie writers kept up the pressure on studios by picketing and intensifying an Internet campaign that uses the very medium at issue in the contentious negotiations. Both sides were set to resume contract talks Monday. The Writers Guild of America went on strike Nov. 5 over payment for work aired on the Web. Writers want more money when TV shows and films are sold on Internet sites such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes.

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  Pats go 11-0 despite scare from Eagles AP - 57 minutes ago

  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The New England Patriots are still perfect but the Philadelphia Eagles gave them a scare. The Pats rallied for a 31-28 win in New England's closest win of its 11-0 season. Laurence Maroney's 4-yard TD run with 7:20 left capped a 10-play, 69-yard game-winning drive for New England.

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  Bush launches drive for Mideast peace Reuters - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush meets Palestinian and Israeli leaders on Monday in a drive for Palestinian statehood before he leaves office in 14 months.

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  Sharif to register for Pakistani vote Reuters - 26 minutes ago

  LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Back in Pakistan from exile, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was due to file nomination papers on Monday for polls in January, but he may not take part unless President Pervez Musharraf ends emergency rule.

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  Putin slams "foreign interference" in Russia vote Reuters - 31 minutes ago

  ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin accused Washington on Monday of plotting to undermine December parliamentary elections seen widely as a demonstration of his power in Russia.

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  Sarkozy tackles Hu on yuan and human rights Reuters - 2 hours, 13 minutes ago

  BEIJING (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy brought his trademark directness to China on Monday, publicly urging President Hu Jintao to let the yuan rise more swiftly and cajoling Beijing to do more to respect human rights.

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  Iraq government wants to pay neighborhood police units: U.S. Reuters - 22 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government wants to start paying the wages of U.S.-backed neighborhood security units that have been credited with helping cut violence in the country, a U.S. general said on Monday.

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  U.S. aircraft join Bangladesh storm relief effort Reuters - 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

  DHAKA (Reuters) - U.S helicopters and a C-130 aircraft flew in supplies of food and water for survivors of Bangladesh's worst cyclone in a decade as a military-led relief operation kicked into high gear on Monday, ten days after the storm struck.

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  Serbs, Albanians totally opposed on Kosovo Reuters - 8 minutes ago

  BADEN, Austria (Reuters) - Serb and Albanian leaders clashed over the future of Kosovo on Monday even before sitting down to negotiations and mediators said compromise between the sides seemed impossible.

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  Minorities hit hardest by housing crisis Reuters - 30 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In May, Alvin Clavon received a foreclosure notice on the simple, Spanish-style house in South Los Angeles that he shares with his wife and three boys.

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  Ex-premier Sharif joins Pakistan's election battlefield AFP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

  LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - Former premier Nawaz Sharif applied to stand in Pakistan's general elections Monday and vowed that he would never work in government under President Pervez Musharraf.

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  Bush launches biggest Mideast peace bid AFP - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush launches Monday the biggest Middle East peace initiative of his two terms in office ahead of a conference which has raised hopes and recriminations in the Arab world.

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  Putin accuses US of undermining parliament polls AFP - 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

  SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the United States of attempting to "discredit" Russia's upcoming parliamentary elections, claiming Washington had pressured international monitors to boycott the polls.

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  Colombia, Venezuela in crisis over Marxist rebels AFP - Mon Nov 26, 4:51 AM ET

  BOGOTA (AFP) - Colombia and Venezuela faced Monday the worst crisis in their bilateral relations in years after the Colombian president accused his Venezuelan counterpart of seeking to install a Marxist government in Bogota and Caracas "froze" relations between the two countries.

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  Minister says Japan to spearhead global health drive during G8 presidency AFP - 42 minutes ago

  TOKYO (AFP) - Japan will use its G8 presidency next year to spearhead a health drive aiming to get the world back on track in meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals, the foreign minister said Sunday.

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  Sarkozy clinches 30 bln dlrs in trade deals with China AFP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

  BEIJING (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday oversaw the signing of about 30 billion dollars in aviation, nuclear and other deals in what he described as an unprecedented day of trade with China.

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  Airbus announces 160-plane deal in biggest-ever China contract AFP - Mon Nov 26, 3:51 AM ET

  BEIJING (AFP) - China agreed on Monday to buy 160 Airbus planes in a 17.4-billion-dollar deal that the European aerospace giant said was its biggest with the Asian nation.

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  World Anglican leader launches attack on U.S. Reuters - Sun Nov 25, 11:38 AM ET

  LONDON (Reuters) - Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leader of the world's Anglicans, has launched an attack on the United States, saying it has lost the high moral ground since the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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  Russian police detain 50 anti-Putin protesters Reuters - Sun Nov 25, 4:23 AM ET

  ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian riot police beat opposition activists on Sunday, detaining about 50 people ahead of a march against President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg, a Reuters reporter said.

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  UN rights chief calls for end to violence against women AFP - Sat Nov 24, 4:14 PM ET

  GENEVA (AFP) - The top United Nations human rights official urged states worldwide to take more action against rape, domestic abuse and all other forms of violence against women.

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  Bolivian protesters clash with police, storm jail Reuters - Sun Nov 25, 8:19 PM ET

  SUCRE, Bolivia (Reuters) - Demonstrators opposed to efforts by Bolivian President Evo Morales to overhaul the constitution on Sunday torched police stations and stormed a jail, freeing 100 inmates, while on the streets protesters clashed with police and one officer was killed.

• Quake hits off coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Reuters - Sat Nov 24, 10:30 PM ET

  JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake with a 6.2 magnitude hit off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the country's meteorological agency said on Sunday.