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Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hasan Al-Majid, also known as "Chemical Ali," stands in court as he is sentenced to death by Chief Judge Mohammed Oraibi Al-Khalifa, unseen, during a trial in Baghdad, Iraq. Ali Hasan Al-Majid was found guilty for his role in the use of chemical weapons in an offensive said to have killed some 180,000 people during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. (Photo by Joseph Eid / AP)

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U.S. expects N. Korea to shut reactor within 3 weeks

The United States expects North Korea to shut down the reactor at the heart of its atomic arms development within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said.

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Reuters

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Reactor deal

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Yahoo! News

U.S. judge chides Bush for wiretaps without warrants

A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Houston Chronicle

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Cheney refuses executive order

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MSNBC

Chemical Ali sentenced to death for genocide of Kurds

Chemical Ali, the cousin of Saddam Hussein who masterminded the brutal campaign of genocide against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s, was sentenced to death by a court in Baghdad.

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Times Online

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Iraq roadside bombings, attacks kill 7 U.S. troops

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BBC

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Coalition: 80 Taliban killed in Afghanistan

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London Independent

Pregnant woman's body found

Authorities arrested the boyfriend of a missing nine-month pregnant woman on murder charges and said they recovered a body believed to be hers.

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Iran: Sanctions could derail talks

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Al Jazeera

Lebanon 'bomb' kills U.N. soldiers

At least five soldiers serving with the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) died when their vehicle was hit by an explosive device.

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BBC

NATION

Brown takes over Labour from Blair

Gordon Brown, the British finance minister, has taken over as leader of the country's governing Labour party from Tony Blair, the man he will officially succeed as prime minister later this week.

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Al Jazeera

Karzai critical of ‘indiscriminate attacks’

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has condemned "indiscriminate and imprecise" operations by NATO and U.S.-led forces that he says have killed 90 civilians in just over a week.

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Telegraph.co.uk

'50,000 Iraqi refugees' forced into prostitution

Iraqi women and girls, many alarmingly young, who fled the chaos at home are being further betrayed after reaching 'safety' in Syria.

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London Independent

POLITICS

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Bush says immigration bill stresses enforcement, strengthens border

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Bloomberg

The silent influence of Dick Cheney

The vice president leaves few tracks as he pushes his policy views in nearly every area of the executive branch.

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Star Tribune

Veterans defend right to question war

Critics -- including some groups that have been the most supportive of the war -- say the crackdown on veterans critical of the war constitutes a blatant attempt to quiet dissension in the armed forces.

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Akron Beacon Journal

BUSINESS

Tax rate threat for U.S. fund partners

U.S. private equity and hedge fund partners would see the tax rate on a major part of their income more than double under legislation introduced in the House of Representatives.

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Financial Times

Putting optimism to the test

Economic data to be released this week will be a microcosm of recent trends, and therefore an important opportunity to test the current optimism that the economy has picked itself off the floor.

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MarketWatch

SPORTS

A 'dream' realized: Blackhawks grab Nigerian forward at NHL draft

Getaway day at the NHL draft ended up being the highlight of Akim "The Dream" Aliu's young life.

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Yahoo! News

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America's Cup video

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Versus

Racing's nasty secret: horse slaughter

Congress is considering a bill that would ban the export of horses for slaughter for meat, a move that would seal the fate of an industry dominated by three foreign-based corporations.

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News Journal

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cyber attack on Pentagon e-mail

A hacker has managed to penetrate one of the Pentagon's e-mail systems, leading officials to take up to 1,500 accounts offline.

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BBC

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U.S. on guard against computer attacks

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San Francisco Chronicle

New SIDS research to study protein link

An Australia-first study led by the University of Adelaide could help identify the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), one of the world’s most tragic medical mysteries.

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EDUCATION

Antioch faculty explore legal action to keep college open

Faculty at Antioch College are exploring the possibility of legal action to stop the college's closing. Antioch said it plans to close the college and if they can obtain funding will reopen in 2012.

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Washington Business Journal

DA: Student who drove Halberstam during crash will be charged

A graduate student who was driving Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam to an interview in April caused the crash that killed the writer by running a red light while making an illegal turn.

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San Diego Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

New treatment promising for Parkinson's

An experimental treatment for Parkinson's disease seemed to improve symptoms — dramatically so, for one 59-year-old man — without causing side effects in an early study of a dozen patients.

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Houston Chronicle

Man’s wallet found ... after 43 years

A California man who lost his wallet more than 40 years ago finally got it back when construction workers renovating a movie theater discovered the billfold in the metal casings of a radiator.

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MSNBC

NATION

Alaska wildfire destroys dozens of homes, cabins

An enormous forest fire started by tool sparks has destroyed dozens of homes and cabins on the scenic Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage.

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CNN

Fewer blacks joining military

The number of blacks joining the military has plunged by more than one-third since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars began, as other job prospects soar and relatives of potential recruits discourage them.

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Star Tribune

The end game for Guantanamo

The cancellation of a discussion of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo from a scheduled White House meeting appears to be another example of the conflict inside the Bush Administration.

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TIME

ENVIRONMENT

100-foot deep Andes lake disappears

A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why.

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CNN

Rising seas to destroy U.S. beaches

You may have to kiss that summer trip to the beach goodbye later this century, thanks to rising sea levels and more intense tropical storms, scientists predict.

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LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Second place for Brian Williams

One of the small indignities of a high-paying television job is rising after getting home from Texas at 3:05 a.m. for a conversation about why your ratings are going south.

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CBS News

Michael Moore comes calling on Cigna

H. Edward Hanway and his turnaround team at Cigna have been on quite a roll, but filmmaker Michael Moore and the growing debate over health care may soon help put an end to that.

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BusinessWeek

HEALTH

U.S. predicts diabetes epidemic will go on unchecked

By 2050, an estimated 48 million Americans will have type 2 diabetes as the epidemic continues unabated, according to new federal projections.

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Health Day

Mother's blood sugar threatens fetus

Blood sugar levels previously thought normal for pregnant women may signal problems for their babies, an international study shows.

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WebMD

Wine may curb cavities

Even with the alcohol removed, red wine and white wine may fight bacteria that cause cavities, an Italian study shows.

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CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholics ponder Muslim coexistence

It was the challenge of Christian coexistence with Muslims that formed the focus of this week's gathering in Venice of 15 Catholic leaders and scholars from Islamic-majority countries.

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TIME

Black clergy get family initiative

A black Baptist leader is urging black churches to set goals for reducing by 25 percent the rates of divorce, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, murder and HIV infection by 2012 in their communities.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Israelis ask what they have gained since Six-Day War

In the months before the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was in a spiral of self-doubt, the 19-year experiment of an independent Jewish state looking shaky.

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International Herald Tribune

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Emirates Team New Zealand sails during race two of the 32nd America's Cup off the coast of Valencia, Spain. Emirates Team New Zealand and Swiss Defender Alinghi raced in the best of nine series for the America's Cup Trophy. (Photo by Rob Griffith / AP)

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