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  Jena 6 defendant released on bail AP - Fri Sep 28, 3:59 AM ET

  JENA, La. - Mychal Bell exited the courthouse, free for the first time in 10 months. He was cheered by a crowd that included the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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  Iran strengthens ties with South America AP - Fri Sep 28, 4:06 AM ET

  CARACAS, Venezuela - The leaders of Iran and Venezuela cemented an alliance aimed at countering the United States while the Iranian president reached out to a new ally in Bolivia and declared that together, "no one can defeat us."

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  Bush seeks new image on global warming AP - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - Myth: The president refuses to admit that climate change is real and that humans are a factor. Myth: The U.S. is doing nothing to address climate change. Myth: The United States refuses to engage internationally.

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  LeBron James to appear on 'SNL' AP - Fri Sep 28, 4:59 AM ET

  LeBron James is treating his appearance on the 'Saturday Night Live' season premiere like a fast break.

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  7 NL teams chasing 4 playoff spots AP - Fri Sep 28, 4:53 AM ET

  How's this for a wild final weekend? With three games to go, seven teams were fighting for the National League's four playoff spots.

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  World powers seek to narrow differences on Iran Reuters - Fri Sep 28, 12:35 AM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's major powers will try to narrow their differences on tougher sanctions against Iran when they meet on Friday in New York, seeking to keep up pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear program.

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  Myanmar crowds taunt troops as crackdown draws outrage Reuters - 2 hours, 42 minutes ago

  YANGON (Reuters) - Crowds taunted soldiers and police who barricaded central Yangon on Friday to prevent more mass protests against Myanmar's 45 years of military rule and deepening economic hardship.

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  Bush under pressure at climate change conference Reuters - Fri Sep 28, 12:58 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush kicks off the second day of a conference on global warming on Friday under pressure from the world's major economies to accept binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases.

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  Pakistan court dismisses challenges to Musharraf Reuters - 31 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed on Friday challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's bid to seek re-election, clearing a major hurdle for the army chief's expected victory in an October 6 vote.

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  Health-care fix looms large over 2008 races Reuters - 35 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health care could undergo its biggest revolution in decades under the proposals of presidential hopefuls trying to fix a system that has left one in seven Americans without insurance.

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  Blackwater guard in Iraq said "stop shooting": media Reuters - Fri Sep 28, 4:41 AM ET

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Blackwater security guard screamed at colleagues to "stop shooting" in an incident that left 11 Iraqi civilians dead, enraged the government and sparked reviews of security firms in Iraq, U.S. media said on Friday.

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  U.S. details wiretap delays in Iraq kidnap case Reuters - 10 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities racing to find three kidnapped American soldiers in Iraq last May labored for nearly 10 hours to get legal authority for wiretaps to help in the hunt, an intelligence official told Congress on Thursday.

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  N. Korea urged to disable nuclear programs Reuters - Fri Sep 28, 4:53 AM ET

  BEIJING (Reuters) - Talks on disarming North Korea aim to lay out a roadmap for disabling the country's nuclear programs, the U.S. envoy said on Friday, conceding there was not yet agreement on even defining the term.

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  Shots fired to break up new Myanmar protests AFP - 56 minutes ago

  YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar security forces fired warning shots and launched baton charges on protesters again Friday, trying to quell the biggest demonstrations against the junta in 20 years.

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  Pakistan court rules Musharraf can contest elections AFP - 6 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled Friday that military ruler Pervez Musharraf can run in presidential polls next week while keeping his role as army chief, dealing a major blow to the opposition.

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  Thousands in Africa wait for aid amid catastrophic floods AFP - 2 hours, 49 minutes ago

  KAMPALA (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people awaited desperately needed relief supplies and faced the threat of epidemics on Friday as the death toll climbed in Africa's worst floods in three decades.

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  Turkey, Iraq sign deal to combat Kurdish rebels AFP - 52 minutes ago

  ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey and Iraq have signed an agreement aimed at combatting Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge in northern Iraq, the Turkish interior minister said Friday.

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  Georgia in political turmoil after opposition leader's arrest AFP - 42 minutes ago

  TBILISI (AFP) - Georgia plunged into political turmoil on Friday following the arrest of a former minister who made stinging accusations against the country's pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili.

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  Tate and Lyle share price dives by a quarter AFP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - Tate and Lyle, Europe's biggest sugar refiner, saw its share price tumble by more than a quarter in London morning trade on Friday after the group delivered a profits-warning, dealers said.

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  IMF poised to name Strauss-Kahn new chief AFP - 30 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund appears poised to name Dominique Strauss-Kahn managing director Friday, handing the Frenchman the helm of a struggling multilateral institution.

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  Border war over immigration comes to Midwest Reuters - Wed Sep 26, 2:58 PM ET

  KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A routine city hall appointment threatens to turn Kansas City into a new front in the U.S. debate over illegal immigration, even though the closest Mexico border crossing is hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.

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  Bush's fiscal legacy: bigger debt The Christian Science Monitor - Thu Sep 27, 5:00 AM ET

  WASHINGTON - Whatever happens over the next 16 months, President Bush will leave office having presided over one of the fastest accumulations of government debt in the history of the United States.

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  Palestinian cave dwellers defy creeping occupation AFP - Wed Sep 26, 9:39 AM ET

  AL-MUFAQARA, West Bank (AFP) - Mahmud Hamamda still lives in the cave his grandfather chiselled out of a rocky hillside in the remote hills of the southern West Bank more than 100 years ago.

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  Nine killed in Myanmar protest crackdown Reuters - Thu Sep 27, 7:06 PM ET

  YANGON (Reuters) - Soldiers and police fired into crowds of demonstrators in Myanmar's largest city and gave them 10 minutes to clear the streets or be shot on Thursday, with nine people killed in the second day of a crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years.

• Ten Things You Didn't Know About Mahmoud Ahmadinejad U.S. News & World Report - Wed Sep 26, 11:50 AM ET

  1. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pronounced mah-MOOD ah-mah-dih-nee-ZHAD) was born Oct. 28, 1956, three years after the CIA-sponsored coup that installed the pro-Western leader Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Iran's leader. A Shiite Muslim, he and his wife, a professor, have two sons and a daughter.