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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 1:23pm EDT
Actor Michael Douglas presents Kofi Annan with award recognizing his efforts to rid the world of land mines.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 1:16pm EDT
The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday for using the Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage girl, authorities said.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 11:55am EDT
Swollen with melting snow and heavy rain, the Red River is rising around a small town in Minn.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 11:42am EDT
Three winners of February's record Powerball jackpot donated $6,000 to a homeless shelter.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 11:41am EDT
The assassination of a Sinn Fein official who had admitted spying for the British will make a new power-sharing deal in Northern Ireland more difficult, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told lawmakers Wednesday.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 10:25am EDT
Dutch prosecutors concluded Wednesday that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack and was not killed while in U.N. custody, countering allegations by his family that he was slain.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 10:00am EDT
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 9:48am EDT
Elementary school teacher charged with having sex with minor, allowing friend to watch and distributing alcohol to a minor, authorities said.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 9:12am EDT
The new Hamas-led Palestinian government has prepared an emergency plan for its first three months of rule.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 9:12am EDT
Russian officials have not yet decided whether to release a Briton and an American who have been confined to a remote eastern village after crossing the frozen Bering Strait by foot.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 7:08am EDT
University cancels remainder of season after allegations that three players raped an exotic dancer at a party.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 6:53am EDT
A poor-quality video posted on the Internet Wednesday in the name of an extremist group claimed to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the burning body of a U.S. pilot on the ground after the crash of an Apache helicopter.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 6:24am EDT
Tape from United Airlines Flight 93 has never before been played in public.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 6:09am EDT
The new Hamas-led government is broke and missed the April 1 monthly pay date for tens of thousands of Palestinian public workers, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 5:56am EDT
About 100 homes were being evacuated Wednesday morning as a small earthen dam in Calaveras County in northern California weakened by an overnight thunderstorm threatened to break.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 4:51am EDT
France's biggest trade unions set a 10-day deadline Wednesday for the government to revoke a divisive jobs law, threatening more protests and strikes that have spiraled into a national crisis.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 4:28am EDT
Venezuelan authorities found the bullet-ridden bodies of three Canadian boys who had been kidnapped more than a month ago in the South American country, the justice minister said.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 3:55am EDT
Iran's state-run television says it successfully test-fired a "top secret" missile, the third in a week.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 3:16am EDT
Twenty-one people were in custody Wednesday after they apparently let themselves out of a 40-foot cargo container used to smuggle them from China, officials said.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 2:47am EDT
Doctors put back a piece of skull in eighth operation for former Israeli prime minister.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 2:36am EDT
Former Iraqi dictator is cross-examined for the first time in the trial for the killings of Shiites in 1982.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 2:29am EDT
Without directly responding to international demands that it recognize Israel and renounce violence, the foreign minister for Hamas-led Palestinian gov't tells U.N. it looks forward to living side by side with its neighbor nation.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 2:17am EDT
A baby shower erupted into a fight among guests in which one man was shot and several other people, including the seven-months-pregnant guest of honor, were beaten with a stick, police say.
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 2:07am EDT
New Yorkers were treated to a last gasp of winter Wednesday as big snowflakes fell on the metro area.