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  China launches 1st lunar probe AP - 56 minutes ago

  BEIJING - China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday, an initial step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to Earth.

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  Wall Street headed to lower open AP - 35 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - U.S. stocks pointed toward a lower open Wednesday as Wall Street showed caution after results from Merrill Lynch & Co. revealed big credit-related losses.

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  Goulet sedated while awaiting transplant AP - 58 minutes ago

  LAS VEGAS - Singer and actor Robert Goulet is heavily sedated and breathing through a respirator in a Los Angeles hospital while he awaits a lung transplant, his wife told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "He can hear me but he can't respond," Vera Goulet said of the 73-year-old crooner.

• Cell phone message warns train gropers AP - 20 minutes ago

  TOKYO - Did you just grope me? Shall we head to the police? That's the message women are flashing on their cell phones with a popular program designed to ward off wandering hands in Japan's congested commuter trains.

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  World Series opens tonight in Boston AP - 59 minutes ago

  BOSTON - The Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies square off in the Game One of the World Series at Fenway Park tonight. Both teams enter the Fall Classic after altering the starting rotations they used in the championship series.

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  California's wildfires rage into fourth day Reuters - 46 minutes ago

  SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Relentless wildfires forcing the largest evacuations in California's modern history raged into a fourth day on Wednesday as 10,000 exhausted firefighters hoped for a break in the hot winds whipping the flames.

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  Turkey masses more troops, raids in Iraq confirmed Reuters - 59 minutes ago

  CIZRE, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes and troops have attacked Kurdish rebels inside Iraq and forces were being built up on the border, but Ankara was holding back from any major strike for now, military sources said on Wednesday.

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  Twelve years and counting for Myanmar's Suu Kyi Reuters - 20 minutes ago

  CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia slapped financial sanctions on Myanmar's generals and their families on Wednesday as supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 12 years in captivity with protests in 12 cities across the world.

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  U.S. envoy: Japan must stay in anti-terrorism fight Reuters - Wed Oct 24, 3:54 AM ET

  TOKYO (Reuters) - A failure by Japan to extend a naval mission supporting U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan would send a "very bad message to the international community and to terrorists," the U.S. ambassador to Japan said.

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  South Korea spy unit admits kidnapping Nobel winner Reuters - Wed Oct 24, 4:10 AM ET

  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's spy agency confessed on Wednesday to the most notorious kidnapping in the country's history, saying that in 1973 it snatched opposition leader and later Nobel laureate Kim Dae-jung in Tokyo.

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  China launches moon orbiter with patriotic blast Reuters - 30 minutes ago

  XICHANG, China (Reuters) - China launched its first moon orbiter on Wednesday amid a blaze of live-to-air patriotic propaganda celebrating the country's space ambitions and technological prowess.

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  Iran says U.N. decisions on atomic plans worthless Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not abandon its atomic goals because of U.N. sanction resolutions that are "just a pile of papers," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.

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  U.S. navy names two women sailors killed in Bahrain Reuters - Wed Oct 24, 2:24 AM ET

  MANAMA (Reuters) - The U.S. navy identified two female sailors on Wednesday killed in a shooting incident in Bahrain two days earlier and said a critically wounded third sailor had what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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  More than half a million flee California wildfires AFP - 6 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES (AFP) - More than half a million people were ordered to evacuate their homes in southern California as wind-driven wildfires raged for a fourth day Wednesday, razing communities and threatening to overwhelm exhausted firefighters.

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  Myanmar activists launch day of demos AFP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

  BANGKOK (AFP) - Myanmar activists protested Wednesday outside China's embassy in Bangkok to demand freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi, kicking off a day of rallies planned worldwide in support of the detained democracy leader.

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  President of Iraqi Kurdish region urges end to rebellion AFP - Wed Oct 24, 4:32 AM ET

  ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) - The president of Iraq's northern Kurdish region on Wednesday urged the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to end its more than two-decade armed struggle against Turkey.

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  US to push NATO allies for Afghan reinforcements AFP - Wed Oct 24, 5:20 AM ET

  NOORDWIJK, Netherlands (AFP) - The United States was to press its European allies Wednesday to provide more troops and equipment to combat the insurgency in Afghanistan, at NATO defence ministers' talks in the Netherlands.

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  Asia's space race heats up as China heads for moon AFP - 36 minutes ago

  BEIJING (AFP) - Asia's space race heated up on Wednesday as China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed by the world's most populous nation as a milestone event in its global rise.

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  Morgan Stanley to buy 35 percent of China fund manager AFP - Wed Oct 24, 3:28 AM ET

  SHANGHAI (AFP) - US investment bank Morgan Stanley will buy 35 percent of Chinese fund manager Jutian for 64.7 million yuan (8.6 million dollars), a statement to the Shenzhen stock exchange said Wednesday.

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  GlaxoSmithKline profits slip in third quarter AFP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday that third-quarter profits fell owing to fierce competition from generic drugs and sliding sales of controversial diabetes drug Avandia.

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  13th century Koran fetches record price at auction AFP - Tue Oct 23, 6:19 PM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - A 13th century Koran was sold on Tuesday for a world record price of 1,140,500 pounds (2,320,917 dollars, 1,632,055 euros), auction house Christie's said.

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  Wildfires sweep southern California, troops called Reuters - Mon Oct 22, 6:46 PM ET

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fast-moving wildfires roared across California on Monday and engulfed large swaths of San Diego County, where 250,000 people were told to evacuate as state officials called in National Guard troops.

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  No brothel visits when on duty, Belgian police told Reuters - Tue Oct 23, 9:24 AM ET

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Police patrolling the red-light district of the Belgian capital have been ordered to stop visiting brothels and drinking in bars when on duty.

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  Magnetic game pieces sold at Target recalled Reuters - Tue Oct 23, 2:02 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 110,000 magnetic game pieces that accompanied "Cars" themed backpacks sold at Target Corp retail stores have been recalled because the toys can be swallowed by young children, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday.

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  U.S. cannot account for billion-dollar Iraq contract Reuters - Tue Oct 23, 12:26 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department does not know specifically what it received for a billion-dollar contract with security firm DynCorp International to provide training services for Iraqi police, a U.S. watchdog agency said on Tuesday.