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• US official notes China's military gains AP - 39 minutes ago

  KADENA AIR BASE, Japan - While the U.S. has been tied up in Iraq, China is modernizing its military and its air defenses are now nearly impenetrable to all but the newest of American fighters, the senior U.S. military official in Japan said.

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  Political stardom profitable for Obama AP - 42 minutes ago

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Barack Obama has two best-selling books, a nice salary as a senator and a wife with a handsome income. Earlier this year he reported assets of up to $1.14 million in addition to his Chicago home.

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  Oprah Winfrey is TV's richest celebrity AP - 25 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey keeps topping Forbes' rankings of the rich and famous.

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  Civil War-era letters to be auctioned AP - 24 minutes ago

  COLUMBIA, S.C. - Thomas Willcox tooled around for months in his sport utility vehicle as 11 manilla folders full of documents plucked from his parents' closet shared the space with his hunting rifles and other clutter.

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  Cubs beat Reds to clinch NL Central AP - 40 minutes ago

  CINCINNATI - With their two biggest investments paying off Friday night, the Chicago Cubs are back in the playoffs. Alfonso Soriano hit another leadoff homer, Carlos Zambrano kept his cool and the Cubs clinched the NL Central with a 6-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

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  U.N. envoy flies into Myanmar maelstrom Reuters - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago

  YANGON (Reuters) - United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari flew into Myanmar on Saturday carrying worldwide hopes he can persuade its ruling generals to use negotiations instead of guns to end mass protests against 45 years of military rule.

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  U.S. confirms Baghdad air strike Reuters - 2 hours, 12 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday it carried out an air strike in the Doura district of southern Baghdad on Friday, saying it had targeted men firing mortars into a neighboring area.

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  Iran sanctions action delayed Reuters - Sat Sep 29, 1:37 AM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's major powers agreed on Friday to delay a vote on tougher sanctions on Iran until late November at the earliest, depending on reports by the U.N. nuclear watchdog and a European Union negotiator.

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  Suicide bomb on Afghan army bus kills 30 in Kabul Reuters - 3 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 28 Afghan troops and two civilians on Saturday in an attack on an army bus in Kabul, the Afghan president said.

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  North Korea nuclear talks shift focus to energy Reuters - 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

  BEIJING (Reuters) - Talks on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions shifted focus on Saturday to U.S. energy aid for the impoverished state as delegates circulated a text of a proposed joint statement.

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  Myanmar apologizes for journalist's death: Kyodo Reuters - Fri Sep 28, 11:33 PM ET

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan strongly protested to Myanmar over the killing of a Japanese video journalist during an anti-government rally, and Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win offered apologies, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.

• U.S. carries out successful missile defense test Reuters - Fri Sep 28, 9:36 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. interceptor missile on Friday shot down a dummy warhead replicating an incoming North Korean missile in the seventh successful test of Boeing Co's long-range missile shield, the Pentagon said.

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  Hurricane Lorenzo hits Mexico, 3 dead Reuters - Fri Sep 28, 5:49 PM ET

  NAUTLA, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Lorenzo crashed into Mexico's Gulf coast on Friday, killing three people in a mudslide and knocking out power to 85,000 homes.

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  UN special envoy heads to strife-torn Myanmar to broker talks AFP - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

  YANGON (AFP) - A United Nations special envoy flew to Myanmar Saturday, as the ruling junta deployed an overwhelming security presence in the nation's biggest city in a campaign to choke off mass protests.

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  Kabul bus bomber kills 30 troops AFP - 44 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - A suicide bomber wearing an army uniform blew up an Afghan military bus in Kabul Saturday, killing around 30 people and wounding many more in one of the deadliest attacks of the Taliban's insurgency.

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  Pakistan president's nomination approved amid clashes AFP - 9 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani police fired tear gas at lawyers and journalists and beat them with batons as the election commission Saturday approved Pervez Musharraf's nomination for an October 6 presidential vote.

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  Taliban says Red Cross workers to be freed soon AFP - 46 minutes ago

  GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AFP) - Afghanistan's insurgent Taliban movement said four Red Cross workers, including two foreigners, would be freed Saturday after they were "mistakenly" kidnapped four days ago.

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  Blackwater case deepens as investigations multiply AFP - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - US and Iraq investigations into powerful private security group Blackwater USA are multiplying as more questions are raised about the firm's actions in a Baghdad shooting that left at least 10 Iraqis dead.

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  Iraqi civilian deaths part of war on terror: US military AFP - 32 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military on Saturday put down to its "war on terror" the deaths of civilians in a series of airstrikes in Baghdad and southern belts this week that also killed a senior Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader.

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  Strauss-Kahn named to lead IMF, pledges reforms AFP - Sat Sep 29, 3:53 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund appointed Dominique Strauss-Kahn its new chief Friday as the battered institution seeks to redefine itself in the face of increasing skepticism globally.

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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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  Film fanatic Kim Jong-Il looks forward to summit gifts: report AFP - Sat Sep 29, 5:06 AM ET

  SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il is a big fan of popular South Korean actress Lee Young-Ae and he will receive DVDs of her hit dramas and films as gifts at an upcoming summit, a report said Saturday.

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  Myanmar crowds taunt troops Reuters - Fri Sep 28, 6:17 PM ET

  YANGON (Reuters) - Crowds taunted and cursed security forces that barricaded central Yangon on Friday to try to prevent more mass protests against Myanmar's 45 years of military rule and deepening economic hardship.

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  Iranian firms feel the heat as sanctions bite Reuters - Wed Sep 26, 8:17 AM ET

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - When a Western bank suddenly suspended the account of her family freight firm, Nazila Noebashari revived a financial practice she thought long gone: she sent staff to the Afghan border to collect $50,000 by hand.