Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Feds strike ID deal over NY licenses AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and New York cut a deal Saturday to create a new generation of super-secure driver's licenses for U.S. citizens, but also allow illegal immigrants to get a version.

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  Vatican beatifies 498 martyrs AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Sunday staged its largest mass beatification ceremony ever, putting 498 victims of religious persecution before and during Spain's civil war on the path to possible sainthood.

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  Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' goes online AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

  MILAN, Italy - Can't get to Milan to see Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper?" As of Saturday, all you need is an Internet connection. Officials put online an image of the "Last Supper" at 16 billion pixels — 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera.

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  Report: Grand jury probing Copperfield AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  SEATTLE - A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that magician David Copperfield raped and threatened a Washington state woman at his estate in the Bahamas, a newspaper reported.

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  Dice-K leads Red Sox to 3-0 Series lead AP - 56 minutes ago

  DENVER - Mile high or sea level, these Boston Red Sox can't be stopped. The Red Sox made Coors Field their own pinball palace, spraying balls to every part of the park and moving within one win of another World Series sweep.

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  Turkey says it may launch Iraq incursion Reuters - 27 minutes ago

  CIZRE, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey said on Sunday that a military solution was still on the table to tackle Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, while Washington urged dialogue to avert an incursion it fears will destabilize the region.

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  U.S., Afghan forces kill some 80 insurgents: U.S Reuters - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed some 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle after an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

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  Darfur meeting pushes for wider rebel presence Reuters - 2 hours, 40 minutes ago

  SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Participants at Darfur peace talks are trying to persuade absent rebel chiefs to abandon a boycott and come to Libya to help efforts to end violence in the Sudanese region, rebels said on Sunday.

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  Protesters call for end to Iraq war Reuters - Sat Oct 27, 5:38 PM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-war demonstrators marched in a dozen U.S. cities on Saturday to call for an immediate end to the war in Iraq and a cut-off of funding by Congress.

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  Cooler weather aids California firefighters Reuters - Sat Oct 27, 7:50 PM ET

  SILVERADO CANYON, California (Reuters) - Cool weather and calm skies helped thousands of firefighters beat back Southern California wildfires on Saturday, although flare-ups in some places meant the battle was not yet over.

• Yemen says bomber of U.S. destroyer Cole still detained Reuters - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

  SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen denied on Sunday media reports that a man convicted over the al Qaeda bombing of the U.S. Navy ship Cole in 2000 had been set free.

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  Paulson: India should proceed with nuclear deal Reuters - Sun Oct 28, 2:22 AM ET

  AMTALA, India (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Sunday urged India to proceed with a civilian nuclear deal as soon as possible, but acknowledged that domestic political controversy over the deal must be resolved first.

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  Pakistan's Bhutto visits slain supporter's family Reuters - 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

  LARKANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Guarded by security personnel bristling with AK-47 and M-16 rifles, former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Sunday visited the family of a supporter slain in a bid to assassinate her October 19.

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  80 Taliban killed in Afghanistan AFP - 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - Around 80 Taliban fighters were killed when they tried to ambush a patrol of Afghan and international soldiers in the south of Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said Sunday.

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  Pakistan's Bhutto visits bomb blast victims AFP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  LARKANA, Pakistan (AFP) - Benazir Bhutto visited victims of the devastating October 18 suicide blasts on Sunday, as the former Pakistan premier kept up a tightly secured trip to her ancestral home.

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  Iran cool as Turkey says PKK strike possible AFP - 55 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (AFP) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan warned on Sunday that Turkey could launch an attack on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq but failed to win the support of neighbouring Iran for a military strike.

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  First lady the frontrunner in Argentina's presidential election AFP - 43 minutes ago

  BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Argentina went to the polls Sunday to choose a new head of state, with all signs pointing to First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becoming the country's first elected woman president.

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  NASA crew begin new space walk AFP - 31 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Astronauts stepped out on the second and most ambitious spacewalk of NASA's latest shuttle mission on Sunday, to arrange heavy hardware on an orbiting station hundreds of miles above Earth, NASA said.

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  Cancellations as Air France strike enters fourth day AFP - Sun Oct 28, 3:30 AM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - A strike by Air France flight attendants left frustrated passengers facing delays and cancellations for a fourth day Sunday, with long-haul flights among the hardest hit.

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  Indian Gap supplier using child labour: report AFP - 41 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - An Indian supplier to clothing retailer Gap has been found using child labour to produce items for Gap Kids branches in Europe and the United States, the Observer newspaper reported here on Sunday.

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  No end in sight for housing slump The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Oct 26, 4:00 AM ET

  New York - Home prices are now at 2005 levels.

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  Rice taps Clinton, Carter for Middle East advice Reuters - Fri Oct 26, 5:27 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year.

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  Arthur Kornberg, 1959 Nobel DNA winner, dies at 89 Reuters - Fri Oct 26, 11:50 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said.

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  Iraqi insurgents' clash with Qaeda kills 16 Reuters - Sat Oct 27, 10:14 AM ET

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A battle between al Qaeda in Iraq and a major Sunni Arab insurgent group killed at least 16 militants on Friday near the ancient city of Samarra, a senior security officer told Reuters on Saturday.

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  Yemen grants house arrest to Cole attack planner Reuters - Fri Oct 26, 3:37 PM ET

  SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has commuted to house arrest the prison term of a mastermind of al Qaeda's 2000 bombing of a U.S. Navy vessel after he surrendered to Yemeni authorities, his relatives said on Friday.