Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Data recorders found in Thai plane crash AP - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

  PHUKET, Thailand - Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from a plane that crashed and killed 89 people — mostly foreigners — on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, while an airline official said wind shear may have doomed the flight.

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  Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 8 AP - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber on foot entered a government office and blew himself up Monday in the volatile south, killing eight people, including four policemen, officials said.

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  GM, UAW negotiate until 3 a.m. AP - 50 minutes ago

  DETROIT - Bargainers for General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers took a break early Monday amid optimism that they are getting closer to reaching a critical contract agreement.

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  `Sopranos' wins Emmy for best drama AP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Gone but not forgotten by voters, "The Sopranos" claimed its final Emmy as best dramatic series. Winners in other top categories were scattered across the prime time landscape like the bodies of the show's fallen characters across New Jersey.

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  Patriots rout Chargers 38-14 AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  Even while they are at the center of a spying storm, the New England Patriots stay calm. The Patriots followed a week of distractions in which their coach and organization was fined and will lose a draft pick or two by routing the San Diego Chargers 38-14 on Sunday night. It never was close.

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  Bush to nominate Mukasey as attorney general Reuters - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen retired New York judge Michael Mukasey as his choice for attorney general, a senior U.S. official said.

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  O.J. Simpson held without bail in Las Vegas robbery Reuters - Mon Sep 17, 12:45 AM ET

  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former football star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, was arrested and held without bail on Sunday in connection with a suspected armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room last week.

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  Microsoft suffers stunning EU antitrust defeat Reuters - 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

  BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Microsoft suffered a stunning defeat on Monday when a European Union court backed a European Commission ruling that the U.S. software giant illegally abused its market power to crush competitors.

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  General Musharraf plans to become civilian president Reuters - 57 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf plans to quit as army chief to become a civilian leader, removing a main objection to his proposed re-election in October, a senior ruling party official said on Monday.

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  Waging "war on terrorism" 30 squares at a time Reuters - Sun Sep 16, 11:37 PM ET

  GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Ringed by cells where bearded men pace back and forth behind windowed doors, a U.S. sailor in camouflage fatigues stood by a metal table with a roll of toilet paper, portioning out strips of 30 squares each.

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  Greenspan clarifies Iraq war, oil link Reuters - Mon Sep 17, 2:51 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clarifying a controversial comment in his new memoir, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he told the White House before the Iraq war that removing Saddam Hussein was "essential" to secure world oil supplies, according to an interview published on Monday.

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  Thai rescuers retrieve bodies from plane wreck Reuters - 5 minutes ago

  PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai rescue workers dragged the last bodies on Monday from the charred wreckage of a budget airliner that crashed while trying to land in a fierce monsoon storm on the resort island of Phuket, killing 89 people.

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  U.S. Iraq envoy blasts pace of refugee process: report Reuters - Mon Sep 17, 2:11 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, warns that nearly 10,000 Iraqi refugees seeking to enter the United States may have to wait as long as two years because of bureaucratic bottlenecks, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

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  Microsoft loses landmark EU antitrust case AFP - 23 minutes ago

  LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - A top European court on Monday handed Microsoft a surprise defeat in its epic antitrust battles, backing the European Commission's 2004 record fine of 497 million euros (690 million dollars) against the software giant.

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  Investigators probe Thai air disaster AFP - 32 minutes ago

  PHUKET, Thailand (AFP) - Crash investigators sifted through the charred debris of a Thai jet Monday as anguished relatives desperately sought news of loved ones after Thailand's worst air disaster in a decade.

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  Bush to name retired judge Mukasey attorney general AFP - 3 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush will announce Monday that he has decided to name retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as his new attorney general, a senior administration official said.

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  Iran 'war' warning overshadows UN nuclear talks AFP - 45 minutes ago

  VIENNA (AFP) - A French warning that the Iran nuclear crisis could lead to war heightened diplomatic tensions and overshadowed a key UN atomic watchdog meeting here Monday.

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  Greek ruling conservatives see majority cut in election AFP - 1 hour, 41 minutes ago

  ATHENS (AFP) - Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Monday claimed a "clear mandate" for his reform agenda even after his conservative New Democracy party saw its majority cut in an election.

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  Greenspan memoir links Iraq war to US thirst for oil AFP - 2 hours, 10 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, for years an inscrutable seer on the economy, is causing a stir by alleging in his new memoir that "the Iraq war is largely about oil."

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  Northern Rock customers grab savings as bank's shares tumble AFP - 12 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - Panicky depositors converged on British branches of Northern Rock for a third day Monday to grab savings from the beleagured mortgage lender, the latest victim of a global credit crunch.

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  Gates rejects Greenspan claim war is about oil Reuters - Sun Sep 16, 1:14 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday rejected former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's statement that the Iraq war "is largely about oil."

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  Former Fed chair Greenspan criticizes Bush in book Reuters - Sat Sep 15, 6:23 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in a memoir to be released on Monday criticized President George W. Bush and congressional Republicans for abandoning fiscal discipline and for putting politics ahead of sound economics.

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  Civil U.S. presidential race not so good for voters Reuters - Sun Sep 16, 9:28 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama may joke about preparing for debates by riding bumper cars, but the 2008 campaign has been fairly civil so far -- and that's not necessarily good for U.S. voters.

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  Sadr's movement pulls out of Iraq alliance Reuters - Sat Sep 15, 3:23 PM ET

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The political movement loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr quit Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Alliance on Saturday, leaving Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition in a precarious position in parliament.

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  O.J. Simpson held without bail in Las Vegas robbery Reuters - Mon Sep 17, 12:45 AM ET

  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former football star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, was arrested and held without bail on Sunday in connection with a suspected armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room last week.