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  Sept. 11 anniversary marked overseas AP - 35 minutes ago

  KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan marked the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Tuesday by watching in silence as an American flag was lowered to half-staff at a U.S. base.

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  FCC chair promotes post-digital TV rule AP - Tue Sep 11, 5:42 AM ET

  WASHINGTON - Here's the pitch from the cable TV industry: One way or another, all subscribers will still be able to tune in their favorite shows when broadcasters shift to digital-only transmission in 2009.

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  Pregnant smokers may suffer depression AP - Tue Sep 11, 5:44 AM ET

  WASHINGTON - More than one in 10 pregnant women smoke, and new research suggests many of them also may suffer from depression, making kicking the habit even harder.

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  Harshest words saved for Britney's body AP - Tue Sep 11, 5:40 AM ET

  NEW YORK - The consensus is clear: Britney Spears performed like she was sloshing blindfolded through mud at MTV's Video Music Awards. No one disputes that the troubled pop princess royally mangled her much-heralded comeback. But what about the nastiest comments of all — those about her body? "Lard and Clear," read Monday's headline in the New York Post. "The bulging belly she was flaunting was SO not hot," wrote E! Online. And so on.

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  Bills' Kevin Everett may be paralyzed AP - Tue Sep 11, 5:39 AM ET

  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Kevin Everett sustained a "catastrophic" and life-threatening spinal-cord injury while trying to make a tackle during the Buffalo Bills' season opener and is unlikely to walk again, the surgeon who operated on him said Monday.

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  Remembering Sept. 11 Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers are doing all they can to preserve the way Sept. 11 is commemorated, and with it falling on a Tuesday for the first time since 2001, the day is another trigger of tragic memories.

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  Bin Laden eulogizes 9/11 hijacker in new tape Reuters - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

  DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden eulogizes a September 11 hijacker as a rare and magnificent man in a tape released on Tuesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the United States.

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  Iraqi govt welcomes Petraeus report Reuters - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government on Tuesday welcomed long-awaited testimony to Congress by the U.S. commander in Iraq and said it would have less need for foreign forces to carry out combat operations in the "near future."

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  Turkish police foil bomb attack in capital Reuters - 18 minutes ago

  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police foiled a bomb attack in Ankara on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the United States, averting what officials said would have been a disaster for the capital.

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  Pakistani ex-PM's party turns to Supreme Court Reuters - 11 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Supporters of former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif petitioned the Supreme Court on Tuesday saying their leader was illegally deported, and setting up a showdown between the court and the government.

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  U.S. team enters North Korea for nuclear survey Reuters - Mon Sep 10, 11:15 PM ET

  SEOUL (Reuters) - A team of U.S. officials and nuclear experts crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on Tuesday on a rare visit to survey the communist state's nuclear facilities.

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  Gazan rocket hits Israeli army base Reuters - Tue Sep 11, 4:31 AM ET

  ZIKKIM, Israel (Reuters) - A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded 30 soldiers in Israel, an attack likely to increase pressure on Israeli leaders to crack down on the Hamas-controlled territory.

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  Time magazine to fight Suharto libel ruling Reuters - 2 hours, 44 minutes ago

  JAKARTA (Reuters) - Time magazine will fight an Indonesian Supreme Court libel ruling in favor of former President Suharto which ordered the U.S. weekly to pay more than $100 million in damages and print apologies, Time's lawyer said on Tuesday.

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  Bin Laden praises hijacker on 9/11 anniversary AFP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

  DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden praised as a "champion" one of the September 11 hijackers in a new video released on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of the devastating attacks on the United States.

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  Iraq sees reduced combat role for US troops AFP - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (AFP) - Baghdad said on Tuesday it expects US forces to cut back on combat duties in the near term after the top American general in Iraq signalled the start of a troop reduction from this month.

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  Sharif's expulsion challenged in Pakistan court AFP - Tue Sep 11, 4:47 AM ET

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf faced a new standoff with the Supreme Court Tuesday after the opposition launched a legal challenge against the deportation of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

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  OPEC splits over output, previous mistakes haunt ministers AFP - 58 minutes ago

  VIENNA (AFP) - The ghosts of Asia's 1997 financial crisis haunted an OPEC meeting here on Tuesday as members of the oil cartel split about whether to raise output to help cool surging crude prices.

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  Leading Mugabe critic forced to resign as archbishop AFP - 3 minutes ago

  HARARE (AFP) - A leading critic of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe resigned Tuesday as archbishop of Bulawayo after accusations of adultery appeared in state media.

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  Oil prices stable ahead of OPEC output decision AFP - 41 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices steadied on Tuesday amid uncertainty over whether OPEC will decide to hike its crude output or leave the cartel's quotas unchanged at its meeting taking place in Vienna.

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  China's inflation, trade surplus soar AFP - Tue Sep 11, 5:07 AM ET

  BEIJING (AFP) - China's inflation hit its highest rate in almost 11 years in August while the nation's trade surplus soared again, official data showed Tuesday, signalling more interest rate hikes ahead.

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  In 9/11 remembrance, a turning to good deeds The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Sep 10, 4:00 AM ET

  NEW YORK - On Sept. 11, Jacob Sundberg of San Antonio has pledged to make eye contact and smile at everyone he meets. Kaitlin Ulrich will bring goody baskets to the police and fire departments in and around Philadelphia. And 100 volunteers from New York – 9/11 firefighters and family members among them – are going to Groesbeck, Texas, to rebuild a house destroyed by a tornado last December.

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  Singapore transsexual battles culture of shame AFP - Mon Sep 10, 2:07 AM ET

  SINGAPORE (AFP) - She loves children and her lifelong dream is to be a wife and a mother, but the raspy voice and masculine frame betray the fact that Leona Lo was born a man.

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  Bullet-proof helicopters play key border role Reuters - Sun Sep 9, 9:10 PM ET

  TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) - Pilot Rich Rouviere gazes through night vision goggles as he speeds the Black Hawk helicopter to where a high-tech drone far above has pinpointed 11 intruders from Mexico.

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  Texas oilman accused of paying Iraq kickbacks Reuters - Mon Sep 10, 3:37 PM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors promised on Monday to prove that Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government, earning him a privileged position in Iraq.

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  In pure Arctic air, signs of China's economic boom Reuters - Mon Sep 10, 8:10 AM ET

  ZEPPELIN MOUNTAIN, Norway (Reuters) - From a remote snowcapped mountain in the European Arctic you can detect China in the haze.