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BBC News
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One of Turkey's best known singers, Bulent Ersoy, has gone on trial charged with attempting to turn the public against military service.
The charges were brought after she suggested it was not worth sacrificing soldiers' lives in Turkey's conflict with t..
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BBC News
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Israel has approved a ceasefire to end months of bitter clashes with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed.
Under the terms of the truce, which is set to begin on Thursday, Israel will ease its blockade on th..
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MSNBC
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Levee break threatens town
But inconvenience turned to frustration is some parts of Illinois Tuesday after one levee failed. Another 27 levees are in danger of overflowing, according to the federal government.
Interactive map: Rampaging rivers
Ri..
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MSNBC
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Strong defense of waterboarding
One of the most explosive memos was the account of the October 2002 Guantanamo Bay meeting in which the CIA's Fredman joined 10 Defense Department officials and lawyers to discuss how to extract better intelligence from..
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SF Gate
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The Justice Department overreached in prosecuting a former Bush administration official in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, a federal appeals court said Tuesday as it dismissed some charges and ordered a new trial on others.
The decision overturns t..
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SF Gate
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Attempts by conservative opponents to halt same-sex marriage in California before the November election failed Tuesday when both a state appeals court and a Sacramento trial judge refused to block local officials from issuing marriage licenses to gay coup..
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SF Gate
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The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll..
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SF Gate
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Marital bliss, same-sex style, has broken out at county clerk offices all over the Bay Area, with eager gay and lesbian couples exchanging vows the moment the offices opened this morning.
From Sonoma and San Mateo to San Francisco and Contra Costa, ebu..
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BBC News
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A US government aid agency has formed an alliance with a group headed by former UN chief Kofi Annan to try to boost African agriculture.
Mr Annan has called for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis.
The new partnership aims to invest in Afr..
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BBC News
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The American space shuttle Discovery has successfully touched down at the Kennedy space centre in the US state of Florida.
Nasa officials gave the go-ahead for the landing, saying it should not be affected by the earlier loss of a metal clip from Disco..
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BBC News
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Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said it is "far too early" to seek a solution to the Irish rejection of a European Union reform treaty.
He spoke ahead of talks by EU foreign ministers on how to respond to the Irish No vote on the Lisbon Treat..
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MSNBC
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But "there was always push back" from sales executives when he advocated more conservative lending, Zimmer said. Like most big lenders, well over half of the loans made by People's Choice came not from its own employees but from independent mortgage broke..
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MSNBC
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is recommending approval of the $5 billion merger between the nation's two satellite radio broadcasters in exchange for concessions that include turning over 24 channels to noncommercial and minority p..
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BusinessWeek
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Amid high demand for Firefox 3, Mozilla prepares its open-source software to take on Microsoft, Google, and a world of cell-phone confusion
When Mozilla releases its Firefox 3 browser update June 17, it hopes to set the first-ever Guinness world record..
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SF Gate
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Same-sex weddings are being held around the state starting this evening. Here are officials' plans:
Alameda County: The county clerk's office will stay open late tonight - until 8 p.m. - and is one of a handful of offices statewide to wed couples today..
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SF Gate
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Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media reported Monday.
People were forced to flee their homes across nine provinces, including Sichuan, still reelin..
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BBC News
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An advanced satellite that will improve greatly the ability of UK military forces to communicate around the globe has been launched into space.
The Skynet 5C platform rode into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana...
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BBC News
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Plutoid" is the word of the moment for astronomers.
It is the new classification that has been sanctioned for the object that was formerly known as the "ninth planet".
It is nearly two years since the International Astronomical Union (IAU) stripped..
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BBC News
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People in the Irish Republic are voting in a referendum on whether to ratify the European Union reform treaty, in a poll anxiously watched across the EU.
All other 26 member states have left the issue to their parliaments, but Ireland is obliged to hol..
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MSNBC
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It is the year of the tween. Coming off a massive concert tour, a hit 3-D movie — and a risqué picture in Vanity Fair — pop star Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) leads a slew of young stars onto Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the world's ult..
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