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Forty-two-year-old mother of three, Kamilya Mohammedi Tuweni, left, sits with her brother Sabry Abdullah in her house in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Kamilya said she was held incommunicado, without charges or due process for more than two and a half months in jails in Kenya, Somalia and finally Ethiopia. (Photo by Nousha Saimi / AP)

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AP: U.S. agents visit Ethiopian secret jails

CIA and FBI agents have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.

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Guardian

Pelosi arrives in Syria, tours old Damascus

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured the old city of Damascus after arriving in Syria for a meeting with President Bashar al-Assad which the White House had described as a bad idea.

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Reuters

Richardson to lead N. Korea delegation

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will travel to North Korea next week to discuss the return of the remains of American servicemen missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War, the White House announced.

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Yonhap News

British officials meet with Iran negotiator

British officials spoke for the first time with Iran's chief international negotiator about 15 captured British sailors and marines, and called for direct bilateral talks to end the 11-day-old dispute.

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Globeandmail.com

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New images released of seized Britons

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CNN

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Iran's president to talk about British sailors

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Reuters

Forecasters: Hurricane season will be 'very active'

Batten down the hatches: A "very active" Atlantic hurricane season is brewing, and at least one major storm is likely to strike the U.S. coastline, experts said.

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National Geographic

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Hurricane season warning

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CBS News

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Battle between Bush and Congress has familiar ring

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International Herald Tribune

Medical identity theft can threaten lives

Andrew Brooke’s family knew something was screwy when they got a collection notice for unpaid bills for treatment of his work-related back injury.

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NATION

Rebels add to Darfur's chaos

There is a growing sense that Darfur's divided and increasingly perplexing rebel groups are as big an obstacle to peace as the Sudanese government and its militias.

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Toronto Star

Ukraine rivals in tense stand-off

Ukraine's PM Viktor Yanukovych has called the president's decision to dissolve parliament a "fatal mistake".

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BBC

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Orange Revolution rivals summon people’s armies for power struggle

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Times

Q&A: Ukraine political crisis

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BBC

British hacker loses extradition appeal

A British hacker who broke into U.S. military computers looking for evidence of UFOs lost another extradition appeal in London's High Court.

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PC World

POLITICS

Women's equality measure faces long odds

Democrats face long odds in their effort to revive an Equal Rights Amendment that failed three decades ago, even if unisex bathrooms are no longer much of a fear factor.

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AOL News

Bush: No Iraq funding bill by mid-April will affect troops

President Bush warned Congress that if it fails to send him an acceptable Iraq war funding bill soon, it will threaten U.S. military equipment and training.

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Bush criticizes Democrats on war funding

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Yahoo! News

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Bush success vs. al Qaeda breeds long-term worries

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Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

Oil prices fall as Iran tensions diffuse

Oil prices fell amid signs that the standoff between Iran, a major oil producer, and Britain over Tehran's detention of 15 UK sailors and Royal marines may be resolved.

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Telegraph

Nasdaq to create China index to court international listings

Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. will introduce an index tracking Chinese companies traded in the U.S. as part of an effort to lure more international listings.

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Bloomberg

SPORTS

Florida wins second straight college basketball title

The Gators were too much to handle once again, keeping their stranglehold on the college basketball world with an 84-75 victory over Ohio State for their second straight national championship.

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Sports Illustrated

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NCAA college basketball championships

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Devils GM follows form, dumps coach of winning team

The New Jersey Devils' Lou Lamoriello lived up to his reputation as the NHL's most aggressive general manager as he fired coach Claude Julien even though the team is second in the Eastern Conference.

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USA Today

HEALTH

Some flu viruses resist drugs

Some flu viruses appear to resist the antiviral flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, report Japanese researchers.

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WebMD

Two medications treat migraines better than one

Combining two commonly used medications can provide faster, long-lasting relief of migraine pain than using either drug alone, concludes a new study.

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Health Day

EDUCATION

Testing service cancels plans for new GRE exam

The makers of the GRE graduate school entrance exam have scrapped an extensive makeover of the test, citing concerns they wouldn't be able to accommodate enough students centers.

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CNN

British schools drop Holocaust lessons

Schools have avoided teaching the Holocaust and the Crusades in history lessons because they are concerned about causing offense to Muslim pupils, government research has found.

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Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

IBM gives feds $45M in translation tech

To honor an employee's son who was badly wounded in Iraq, IBM Corp. plans to give the U.S. military $45 million worth of Arabic-English translation technology.

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Hartford Courant

Boeing's 787 orders top 500

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner program has tallied more than 500 orders three months ahead of its rollout, a pace of orders unprecedented in any previous jet program.

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NY Academy of Medicine receives $9.5M to address workforce shortage

The Social Work Leadership Institute at The New York Academy of Medicine has been awarded more than $9.5 million in grants to address the rising demand for care for the nation’s aging population.

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NATION

Millions of toys recalled for lead dangers

About 4 million Groovy Grabber children’s bracelets, manufactured by A&A Global Industries, have been recalled because the paint on the metallic part of the bands contains high levels of lead.

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MSNBC

'Outrage' over medical care of U.S. veterans may spur quick fix

Anger is fueling the special panel, headed by Shalala and former Senator Robert Dole, to investigate reports of substandard care for wounded veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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Bloomberg

1 person confirmed dead after CNN Center shooting

One person has died following a shooting at the CNN Center complex, in what Atlanta police called a "domestic situation."

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CNN

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Bleeding woman on floor, suspect at gunpoint

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ENVIRONMENT

Seafood poisoning on the rise as oceans become warmer, more polluted

Bowls of piping hot barracuda soup were the much-anticipated treat when the Roa family gathered for a casual and relaxing meal. Within hours, all six fell deathly ill.

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Environmental News Network

Tuscan countryside yields 4-million-year old whale skeleton

The skeleton of a 10-meter-long (33-foot) prehistoric whale in the Tuscan countryside found by Italian researchers could shed light on the ancient environment of the sea, officials said.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Expat film maker charts Baghdad's dying past

Iraqi film director Basim Kahar says the homeland he remembers in two films set for release this month is no longer recognizable to his generation of secular artists.

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Reuters

'Knight Rider' Trans Am up for sale

KITT, the flame-throwing, river-jumping, talking muscle car from the `80s TV show "Knight Rider," is up for sale, offered at almost $150,000.

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ABC News

Young people do like newspapers - online

While newspaper circulation continues to slide, readership is growing, especially with younger readers - when taking online newspaper sites into consideration.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Skeleton holds key to origin of man

A skeleton of a possible hybrid between modern and more ancient humans has been found in China, which challenges the theory that modern man originated in Africa.

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Telegraph

Microsoft patches Windows curser vulnerability

Microsoft Corp. patched the already-exploited Windows animated cursor vulnerability with a critical out-of-cycle security update that also fixed six other flaws.

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France celebrates train's new speed record in Champagne

A French TGV train broke a world speed record as it hurtled down a newly built track at 357 miles per hour in the country's Champagne region.

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CNET News

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A timeline of train speed records

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International Herald Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope indicates support for canonization

Pope Benedict XVI said he can already hear the voice of John Paul II among the saints, indicating on the second anniversary of his predecessor's death that he is in favor of canonization.

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City of David claim reinforced by find

A recently found wall from the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem has given strength to a claim of where King David's palace existed, an archaeologist says.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Iraq war's statistics prove fleeting

The U.S. war in Iraq is entering its fifth year. That, and 3,197 U.S. military deaths reported by the Pentagon, are among the few certainties in a war characterized by confusion and misuse of key data.

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MSNBC

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Tiger Woods watches his shot to the 4th hole during practice for the 2007 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. First round play begins on Thursday. (Photo by Rob Carr / AP)

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