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AP – The Iranian government approved a plan Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of U.N. demands it halt the program.
Read More: Iran approves building 10 enrichment sites
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AP – Israel’s defense minister on Sunday ordered his office to triple the number of construction inspectors in the West Bank to enforce a new settlement freeze declared by the government, while settler leaders vowed to defy the edict.
Read More: Israel to beef up enforcement of settlement freeze
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AP – Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a Sunday vote on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam, projections by a widely respected polling institute showed.
Read More: Projection: Swiss vote to ban new minarets
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AP – Elections in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday were certain to extend the 30-year rule of Teodoro Obiang Nguema, a man accused of draining his nation’s oil wealth to fabulously enrich family and cronies while his people suffer in slums.
Read More: Eq. Guinea vote to reinstall leader denying graft
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McClatchy Newspapers – KOLK, Afghanistan — When the improvised bomb exploded in a mud-walled compound about 300 yards from a new traffic checkpoint, the six Afghan police officers at the post just looked at one another.
Read More: Trainers of Afghan police have work cut out for them
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AP – A plain-talking socialist who once led an armed revolutionary movement and now rejects the “stupid ideologies” of the 1970s was favored to win Sunday’s Uruguay’s presidential run-off and keep a center-left coalition in power for another five years.
Read More: Ex-rebel likely to be Uruguay presidential winner
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AP – Money on the table — perhaps $10 billion a year or more — could help close a deal in Denmark next month and keep climate talks moving toward a new global treaty in 2010. But if poorer nations see too little offered up front, the U.N. conference could end in discord.
Read More: Upfront money needed to ease UN climate deal
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Reuters – Canada may make minor adjustments to its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions before climate talks in Copenhagen next month, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Sunday.
Read More: Canada may tweak emissions goals before Copenhagen
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AP – Afghan officials said Sunday that 26 militants were killed in a gun battle with border security guards along the Pakistan frontier. NATO also reported that an Afghan woman was killed when she was struck by an international forces vehicle in Kabul.
Read More: Afghan gov't: 26 militants killed along border
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AP – The couple who crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner are peddling their story to broadcast networks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a television executive says.
Read More: Exec: Obama dinner crashers shopping interview
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AP – CBS News producer Bernard Birnbaum, who helped shape the public’s view of issues ranging from poverty to the Watergate scandal while working alongside Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt, has died, the network said.
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AP – A television executive says the couple that crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner is offering to talk to broadcast networks about it for a payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Read More: News exec: Dinner crashers shopping interview
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AP – “Pulp Fiction” co-screenwriter Roger Avary has been removed from a prison work furlough program and locked up, authorities say.
Read More: 'Pulp Fiction' writer taken off jail furlough
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AFP – Golf superstar Tiger Woods was expected to finally break his silence on Sunday more than two days after crashing his car into a fire hydrant and a tree near his home in Florida.
Read More: Woods expected to break silence on mystery crash
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AP – Roman Polanski is expected to trade the confines of a Swiss jail this week for house arrest in a luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will await a Swiss decision whether to extradite him to the United States.
Read More: E-mail and a view: Polanski heads for house arrest
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AP – Security experts on Saturday started preparing Roman Polanski’s Alpine chalet for the movie director’s house arrest while Swiss authorities consider whether to extradite him to the United States.
Read More: Swiss ready Polanski's chalet for house arrest
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AP – Five people died from swine flu during the hajj, Saudi Arabia said Sunday, a relatively small number considering the event is the largest annual gathering in the world and is seen as an ideal incubator for the virus.
Read More: Saudi official: 5 dead from swine flu at hajj
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AP – A school district near Cincinnati is suing a plastics plant, accusing it of continuing to release chemicals in the air that exceed government safety standards.
Read More: Ohio school district sues over air pollution
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AP – Maybe you’ve been reading the health care bill in your spare time. Then perhaps you can answer this question:
Read More: Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul
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AP – When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus.
Read More: America wages new war in Vietnam – on AIDS
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