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  Lawyer: Fake bomb charge an overreaction AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

  BOSTON - The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb.

• Baby cribs recalled after 3 deaths AP - 11 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - About 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs have been recalled after three children became entrapped and suffocated. The recall was announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Friday, more than two years after a California lawyer says he alerted the federal agency about a 9-month-old who died in a faulty crib.

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  GM-UAW close to retiree health care deal AP - 56 minutes ago

  DETROIT - A week after contract negotiations went past their original deadline, General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers are close to an agreement on a deal that would transfer the automaker's retiree health care costs to a trust managed by the union, a person who was briefed on the talks said.

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  George Clooney hurt in motorcycle crash AP - 5 minutes ago

  WEEHAWKEN, N.J. - George Clooney and a companion were injured on Friday when their motorcycle collided with a car on a narrow road across the Hudson River from New York City.

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  Giants won't bring Bonds back in 2008 AP - 1 hour, 48 minutes ago

  SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds is finished in San Francisco. The Giants told Bonds they will not bring him back next season, ending a 15-year run in which he set the single-season and all-time home run records and became a lightning rod for the steroids debate in baseball.

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  Iran warns West against attack Reuters - 2 hours, 6 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran told Western powers on Saturday that they would regret launching any attack over Tehran's nuclear activities and it rolled out a display of missiles and other hardware that underscored its warning.

• U.S. investigates Blackwater arms smuggling: report Reuters - Sat Sep 22, 12:34 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are looking into whether private U.S. security contractor Blackwater USA has shipped unlicensed automatic weapons and military goods into Iraq, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

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  Russia's Kudrin quits Putin tour as media abuzz Reuters - 42 minutes ago

  SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, widely respected by foreign investors for his prudent stewardship of Russia's huge oil wealth, could be dropped in a reshuffle, expected on Monday, media speculated.

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  Deal reached on cutting ozone-damaging emissions Reuters - Fri Sep 21, 10:39 PM ET

  OTTAWA (Reuters) - Delegates from almost 200 countries agreed late on Friday to eliminate ozone-depleting substances faster than originally planned, the United Nations said.

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  Qaeda-led group executes five Iraqi officers Reuters - Sat Sep 22, 5:03 AM ET

  DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi al Qaeda-led group, the Islamic State in Iraq, has shot dead five abducted Iraqi army officers and posted a video of the execution-style killings on the Internet on Saturday.

• U.S. admits nearly 10,000 from "terrorism" states Reuters - Fri Sep 21, 7:13 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 10,000 people from countries designated as sponsors of terrorism have entered the United States under an immigration diversity program with relatively few restrictions, a report released on Friday said.

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  Castro reappears to quash death rumors Reuters - Fri Sep 21, 8:23 PM ET

  HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared in his first television interview in more than three months on Friday, ending speculation that the ailing revolutionary had died or suffered a major relapse.

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  Record breaker Bonds to leave Giants Reuters - Fri Sep 21, 9:01 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Home run record holder Barry Bonds, the biggest name in baseball, will leave the San Francisco Giants at the end of this season, the player and team said on Friday.

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  Fujimori to be extradited from Chile to Peru AFP - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

  SANTIAGO (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was expected to be extradited from Chile to Peru on Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and the killing of 25 people by death squads during his rule.

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  Iran shows off new missile, taunts Israel AFP - 38 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Saturday showed off a longer-range missile in public for the first time and proclaimed a string of anti-Israel slogans, in a military parade held amid warnings of conflict with the West.

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  Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi greets Myanmar monks AFP - 26 minutes ago

  YANGON (AFP) - Stepping out of her home in tears, democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi greeted Buddhist monks Saturday in a landmark moment for a swelling protest movement against the military junta.

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  China observes 'Car Free Day' with the usual gridlock AFP - 48 minutes ago

  BEIJING (AFP) - More than 100 Chinese cities including Beijing staged a "Car Free Day" Saturday to fight congestion and pollution, but the streets of the capital remained defiantly clogged with traffic jams.

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  Fukuda ahead on eve of vote for Japan PM AFP - 1 hour, 49 minutes ago

  TOKYO (AFP) - Yasuo Fukuda, the front-runner to be Japan's next premier, vowed Saturday to restore trust in politics on the eve of a party vote expected to put him in charge of the world's second biggest economy.

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  Baby deaths spark US recall of million Chinese-made cribs AFP - 2 hours, 33 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - US authorities on Friday announced a recall of one million cribs made in China after at least two babies became trapped and died, and more than 60 other incidents were reported.

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  Britain said to lay claim to south Atlantic seabed AFP - Fri Sep 21, 11:18 PM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - Britain is seeking to legally annex stretches of the south Atlantic seabed in a bid to tap gas, mineral and oil wealth, in a move that could raise tension with Argentina, a newspaper reported Saturday.

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  Can't beat quality of life in Scandinavia, says world ranking AFP - Thu Sep 20, 11:18 AM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - Nordic countries take the greatest care of their environment and their people, according to a ranking published on Thursday by the publication Reader's Digest.

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  Study finds languages quickly dying out AFP - Wed Sep 19, 11:40 AM ET

  SYDNEY (AFP) - The world's native languages are dying out at an unprecedented rate, taking with them irreplaceable knowledge about the natural world, according to a National Geographic study.

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  Mattel apologizes to China for toy recalls Reuters - Fri Sep 21, 10:55 AM ET

  BEIJING (Reuters) - The world's largest toy maker, Mattel Inc, apologized on Friday for damaging China's reputation after recent massive recalls of its Chinese-made toys, admitting it targeted some goods that were actually up to scratch.

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  Czechs get chance to view rare medieval manuscript AFP - Thu Sep 20, 11:09 AM ET

  PRAGUE (AFP) - Czechs got the chance to examine the world's biggest medieval manuscript, the "Codex Gigas" or "Devil's Bible," for the first time in almost 359 years on Thursday when the precious work went on show as part of a four-month-long exhibition.

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  Tokyo's neon lights to dim as Japan ages Reuters - Thu Sep 20, 11:56 PM ET

  TOKYO (Reuters) - In a leafy Tokyo suburb, a landlord visits his tenant only to discover a skeleton inside the apartment. The tenant had died three years before.