Strong earthquake slams eastern Turkey, kills 51 (AP)

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In this image from TV,  showing emergency workers and local people as they work to clear rubble to reach victims in Elazig Province, eastern Turkey, following a strong earthquake Monday March 8, 2010.  A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday,  knocking down many stone or mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages in Elazig Province, an official said. (AP Photo / DHA TV)AP – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said.


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Gates meeting with military, political leaders (AP)

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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, listens to U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 8, 2010. Gates arrived in Afghanistan early Monday as coalition forces continue to restore order in the town of Marjah, the first major test of the U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency strategy since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 new American troops to blunt the Taliban's momentum. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP – Preparations have begun for a crucial campaign to assert Afghan government control over Kandahar, spiritual home of the Taliban, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said Monday.


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AbitibiBowater gets tentative deal with union (Reuters)

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Reuters – AbitibiBowater Inc has reached a tentative labor deal affecting about 4,000 workers, bringing the newsprint maker closer to emerging from bankruptcy protection, the company and union said on Sunday.

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South African minister is nominated for UN post (AP)

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AP – The South African president’s office has announced the nomination of its tourism minister for the United Nations’ top climate post.

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Iraqi PM's coalition seen leading vote (AP)

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Ballot boxes are stacked at a counting center in Basra, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010. The conclusion of Sunday's vote does not spell an immediate end to Iraq's political uncertainty, as it could be days until results come in and with the fractured nature of Iraqi politics, months to form a government. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP – Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties predict a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will take the lead in the parliamentary race.


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Elephant calf dies during labour at Sydney's zoo (AFP)

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File photo of a young male elephant calf born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo last year. An elephant calf has died during days of labour at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, where its mother was a part of a programme to breed endangered Asian elephants, officials said Monday.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP – An elephant calf has died during days of labour at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, where its mother was a part of a programme to breed endangered Asian elephants, officials said Monday.


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UK justices hear detainees' torture appeal (AP)

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In this photo of a sketch by a courtroom artist, and reviewed by the U.S. military, family members of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, (R) observe courtroom proceedings during hearings for the five alleged September 11 co-conspirators, inside the courthouse at the Camp Justice compound for the U.S. war crimes commission, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, July 16, 2009. REUTERSJanet Hamlin/PoolAP – Lawyers for six former Guantanamo detainees on Monday appealed a ruling that the British government can use secret evidence to fight a claim that it was complicit in their abuse.


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Pakistanis say they arrested al Qaida's American mouthpiece (McClatchy Newspapers)

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McClatchy Newspapers – ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials Sunday said they’d arrested the American face of al Qaida, a key militant propagandist, which if it’s confirmed would be the first high-profile capture of a leader of the terrorist group since Pakistan’s civilian government was elected in February 2008.

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Afghan president to host April peace conference (AP)

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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left,  walks with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai  during a press conference at The Presidential Palace in Kabul on  Monday March 8, 2010. (AP  Photo/Jim Watson/Pool)AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that an action plan to reintegrate low- to mid-level insurgent fighters into society and negotiate with the Taliban’s top echelon will be crafted at a springtime peace conference aimed at ending the war.


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World could soon shield "all newborns from HIV" (AFP)

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A laboratory assistant is seen with a blood sample collected for testing for malaria. Within five years the world could shield all newborns from HIV, while making strides in reducing deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight the three diseases said.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)AFP – Within five years the world could shield all newborns from HIV, while making strides in reducing deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight the three diseases said Monday.


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New Prostate Cancer Guidelines Aim to Empower the Patient (HealthDay)

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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — New American Cancer Society
guidelines on prostate cancer screening mean that many men will be faced
with a cascade of decisions, with a growing responsibility for those
decisions falling on their shoulders.

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UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015 (AP)

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A file picture shows a woman as she takes part in a HIV / AIDS march in the streets of Harare. Of the 1.6 million Zimbabweans with HIV, 55 percent of are women, according to government statistics.(AFP/File/Str)AP – The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned.


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Modern Etiquette: Do the obese really deserve contempt? (Reuters)

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Reuters – Disgust. Pity. Contempt.

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HIV Hides Out in Bone Marrow Cells (HealthDay)

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HealthDay – SUNDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) — Medications can reduce the
level of the AIDS virus in the blood to zero, but HIV doesn’t disappear
and often roars back when patients stop taking their pills. Now, research
is giving scientists new insight into how the virus manages to hide and
avoid the killing powers of medicine.

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Increasing Soda Consumption Fuels Rise in Diabetes, Heart Disease (HealthDay)

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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) –Increasing consumption of
sugary soft drinks contributed to 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000
new cases of heart disease and 50,000 more life-years burdened with heart
disease in the last decade, a new U.S. study finds.

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Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow (AP)

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AP – The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.

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Database can crack missing person cases — if used (AP)

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FILE- In a photo made March 17, 2007, Janice Smolinski poses in her Cheshire, Conn., home where a photo of her son, Billy, is visible in the foreground. Billy disappeared from his Waterbury, Conn. home in Aug. 2004 and Smolinski believes a Justice Department database program will someday help find her son who was 31 when he vanished. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, File)AP – A new online database promises to crack some of the nation’s 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.


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Suicide Blast Rocks Lahore – Voice of America

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Suicide Blast Rocks Lahore
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A powerful suicide car bomb attack in eastern Pakistan has left at least 12 people dead and more than 60 wounded. Women and children are among the victims. Authorities blamed the attack on al-Qaida-linked Taliban militants. Local police say the bomb
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Nigeria violence in Jos: Q&A – BBC News

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Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in Nigeria's Plateau State in clashes between Muslims and Christians. The latest violence is apparently revenge for similar clashes in January. More than 2000 people have been killed in communal
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Pakistan: American al-Qaida suspect nabbed – The Associated Press

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Pakistan: American al-Qaida suspect nabbed
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD — An American member of al-Qaida was picked up in a raid in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, Pakistani officials said Monday, but reversed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network's US-born spokesman.
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