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Female Pershmerga, the Kurdish security force, perform during a handover ceremony from U.S. forces to the Kurdish regional government in the northern city of Irbil, a city in the Kurdish-controlled north 217 miles north of Baghdad. (Photo by Ahmad Al Rubaye / AP)

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Global search for 80 who sat near passenger with TB

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Bloomberg

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U.S. warning over TB flights

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BBC

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Do you have TB?

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CBS News

Ex-KKK member on trial over murders of civil rights activists

A former member of the Ku Klux Klan went on trial overnight charged in connection with the brutal murders more than 40 years ago of two young black civil rights activists in Mississippi.

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Melbourne Herald Sun

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KKK deaths go on trial

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BBC

Suicide bomber kills 25 in Falluja police recruit line

A suicide bomber killed as many as 25 people at a police recruiting center in Falluja, police said, and the U.S. military reported one dead and eight wounded.

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CNN

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7 die in U.S. copter crash in Afghanistan

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CNN

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Waiting for the Taliban

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U.S. spars with Iran before nuclear talks

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said it was time for Iran to change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran remained defiant hours ahead of talks on the issue with the European Union.

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Reuters

Chavez threatens another TV station

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called opposition news channel Globovision an enemy of the state and said he would do what was needed to stop it from inciting violence.

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New Zealand Herald

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Chavez's crackdown on criticism

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ABC News

Litvinenko suspect blames British spies

The man charged with murdering former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko denied involvement, saying British intelligence and a Russian multi-millionaire were more likely suspects.

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Reuters

NATION

Abbas seeks Palestinian cease-fire

The U.N. Security Council called for an "immediate end" to the fighting between rival Palestinian factions in Gaza and welcomed efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to arrange a cease-fire.

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Daily Star

Turkey masses troops at border with Kurdish Iraq

Turkey has sent large contingents of soldiers, tanks, guns and armored personnel carriers to reinforce its border with Iraq.

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International Herald Tribune

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Turkish buildup on Iraqi border

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Reuters

Death camp museums call for right to charge for entry ticket

Some of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, now run as museums, could soon demand an entrance fee from visitors to help to finance educational facilities.

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Times

POLITICS

President Bush attacks critics of immigration reform bill

President George W. Bush cranked up his campaign for immigration reform, accusing detractors of picking apart a compromise bill and of denouncing the legislation without reading it.

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Newsday

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Taking sides on immigration bill

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CNN

Obama, Clinton target drugs, insurers in health plans

For the leading Democratic presidential hopefuls, making health care more affordable is a tale of two villains. Barack Obama is targeting drugmakers, while Hillary Clinton is taking aim at insurers.

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Bloomberg

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Villaraigosa ready to endorse Clinton

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CBS News

BUSINESS

IBM to cut almost 1,600 more jobs

Marking a second round of layoffs this month, IBM announced that it will cut 1,566 jobs from its global workforce, primarily in its U.S. strategic outsourcing services business.

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CNET News

BP snares huge Libyan gas fields

At a time when major oil companies are struggling to gain access to good new exploration acreage, BP signed a gas deal with the Libyan National Oil Company.

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BusinessWeek

SPORTS

35 former NFL players qualify for Alzheimer's assistance

Gene Upshaw was taken aback when he first saw the list of retired NFL players applying for financial help under a new program to help those with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

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Sports Illustrated

Kobe Bryant seeks trade from L.A. Lakers

Kobe Bryant asked to be traded from the Lakers after calling the team's front office "a mess." He said there was nothing the Lakers could do to change his mind.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Will Kobe be a Laker next year?

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ESPN

EDUCATION

Will buying educational toys make your kid a genius?

Every year more and more American parents snap up the latest kid-centric luxuries, convinced they can provide their children with a head start. But do they help?

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Slate

U.S. student pleads innocent to NY terrorism charges

The first person extradited by Britain to the United States on terrorism charges pleaded not guilty to supporting al-Qaeda in federal court.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Oddball planet puzzles astronomers

Astronomers have discovered an orb more than 13 times the mass of Jupiter that whips around its parent star in fewer than four days and is considered an "oddball" planet among its exoplanet relatives.

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LiveScience

Apple debuts songs online free of copying restrictions

Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store started selling thousands of songs without copy protection, marking the company's latest coup.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Google deal draws scrutiny

The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick.

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San Jose Mercury News

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GOOD NEWS

Woman rescued from Everest

Usha Bista nearly died on Mount Everest. The Nepalese mountain climber got sick about 2,000 feet below the summit. But Meagan McGrath, a 29-year-old Canadian, saved her.

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CBS News

Boy's balloon finds pen pal: the Queen

A 4-year-old British boy who released a balloon with a message hoping to find a pen pal in a foreign land ended up having a correspondence with the Queen.

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Reuters

NATION

LA police admit riot 'mistakes'

The head of the Los Angeles Police Department, William Bratton, has admitted that his officers made serious mistakes at the end of a May Day rally.

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BBC

Fourth prisoner suicide at Guantanamo

A Saudi Arabian prisoner died of an apparent suicide at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the U.S. military said. He is the fourth detainee to die of apparent suicide at the detention camp.

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The Age

U.S. accepting 59 refugees from Iraq, plans for 7,000

The United States plans to receive its first 59 refugees from the Iraq conflict in the coming weeks, the first step to accepting up to 7,000 refugees, officials said.

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Earth Times

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U.S. to admit more Iraq refugees

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ENVIRONMENT

Whales' enriching diversion ends

The two humpback whales that took a wrong turn and swam into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta were spotted in the Pacific Ocean outside the Golden Gate, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Cyclones could save oceanic conveyor belt from global warming

The ferocious winds of tropical cyclones churn up ocean water as they spin over the surface, significantly affecting the transport of heat in the ocean, a new study finds.

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LiveScience

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Canada sued for abandoning Kyoto climate commitment

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Environment News Service

China city suspends chemical plant after uproar over pollution

Chinese citizens alarmed about pollution won a rare victory when a city froze a chemical project after angry residents joined in opposition through a flood of mobile phone text messages.

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San Diego Union Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' dress sells for more than $265,000

A dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" sold at auction for $192,000 - more than six times what the auctioneers expected.

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New Zealand Herald

NY may give scalpers free rein

New York's Assembly passed a bill that removes the cap on how much tickets to sports, cultural and entertainment can be resold for. The Senate is expected to follow suit.

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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

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Scalpers about to drop hammer on average fan

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HEALTH

Bush seeks $30 billion for AIDS program

President Bush urged Congress to authorize an additional $30 billion to fight AIDS in Africa over five years, doubling the current U.S. commitment.

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Guardian

Scientists find bird flu antibody

Antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans have been isolated by an international team of scientists.

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BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Malaysian woman loses religion case

Malaysia's top civil court rejected a woman's appeal to be recognized as a Christian, in a landmark case that tested the limits of religious freedom in this moderate Islamic country.

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Guardian

Islam taking root in Turkey's bureaucracy

A subtle shift toward increasingly public religiosity has gone hand-in-hand with the ascent of the party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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International Herald Tribune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

3 charged over London bombings

Three men arrested by police last month will be charged in the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks on London's transit system that killed 52 people.

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Valencia player David Villa from Spain, right, duels for the ball with Villarreal player Gonzalo Rodriguez from Argentina, left, during their Spanish league soccer match at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia, Spain. (Photo by Fernando Bustamante / AP)

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