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- Arctic ice at second-lowest level ever
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 09:02 AM -0700
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- Iraqi troops to take control of province
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 08:58 AM -0700
U.S.-led coalition troops are scheduled to hand over control of a onetime hub of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq to Iraqi forces on Monday, a senior American military official said.
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- Airline: Two hijackers of Sudan jet surrender
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 08:35 AM -0700
Two hijackers who commandeered a jetliner from Sudan and diverted it to a remote desert airstrip in southern Libya surrendered Wednesday after a 22-hour standoff, an airline official said.[more]
- Report: GIs say they executed Iraqis
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 08:25 AM -0700
Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.[more]
- Indian state erupts in violence after Hindu shot
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 08:15 AM -0700
The remote east Indian state of Orissa -- historically a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions -- erupted in violence this week after gunmen killed a Hindu leader and mobs burned churches in...[more]
- Swiss clear Europe's last executed witch
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 08:05 AM -0700
Anna Goeldi was executed for being a witch more than 220 years ago — the last witch beheaded in Europe. On Wednesday, the Swiss decided the least they could do was clear her name.[more]
- Dalai Lama cancels trips due to 'exhaustion'
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 07:48 AM -0700
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was suffering from exhaustion and has canceled two planned international trips to undergo medical tests, his office said Wednesday.[more]
- 20 killed in China blasts
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 07:38 AM -0700
The death toll from explosions that ripped through a chemical plant in southwest China rose to 20 on Wednesday, state media said.[more]
- Arrest warrants issued for Thai protest leaders
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 07:32 AM -0700
Arrest warrants for insurrection were issued today for leaders of the Thai protest movement whose members occupied the office compound of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej , seeking to topple his...[more]
- Gustav floods Haiti, kills 11, heads toward Cuba
Category: World News
Publish Date: 08-27-2008 06:56 AM -0700
Hurricane Gustav triggered flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people before weakening to a tropical storm, but forecasters said today it's still a major threat to the Caribbean and the...[more]
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