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BBC News
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The US Supreme Court is expected to deliver a ruling shortly that could have a far-reaching effect on gun control laws in the United States.
The nine justices have been considering whether a 32-year-old ban on handguns in Washington DC is unconstitutio..
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BBC News
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A suicide attacker has killed at least 12 people at a tribal council meeting in a government building in Karma, a town near Falluja, Iraqi police said.
More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added.
Karma is in the mainly Sunni Mu..
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BBC News
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Nepal's interim Prime Minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, has announced that he has resigned.
Correspondents say the move paves the way for the former rebel leader, Prachanda, who heads the Maoist party, to succeed Mr Koirala.
The Maoists emerged as the..
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BBC News
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The secretary general of Zimbabwe's opposition party has been granted bail, a day before a controversial presidential poll run-off.
Tendai Biti, of the Movement for Democratic Change, was held earlier this month on treason charges, which his party says..
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BBC News
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North Korea has handed over a long-awaited account of its nuclear programme to China, diplomats said.
The declaration, which is six months overdue, is expected to detail North Korea's plutonium enrichment efforts.
But analysts say it is not expected..
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MSNBC
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Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments and could add to terrorism, all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence..
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MSNBC
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He has long supported the death penalty while criticizing the way it is sometimes applied.
As an Illinois legislator, he helped rewrite the state's death penalty system to guard against innocent people being sentenced to die. The new safeguards include..
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MSNBC
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In 2005, when Denise Bolds was looking to refinance her four-bedroom Victorian home in the Hudson Valley town of Poughkeepsie, she was intrigued by a mailing that said she'd been "pre-selected" for a loan program that could lower her monthly payments...
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MSNBC
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Mr. Obama said Wednesday that he would not send out e-mail to his small-dollar donors asking them to send money to Mrs. Clinton. “Their budgets are tighter,” he said. “They know that I’m going to be working with Senator Clinton, and if they want t..
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MSNBC
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Mandela boosts international condemnation
The elderly Mandela, revered by many across the world for his role in ending apartheid in South Africa, rarely speaks on political issues these days but used a speech at a dinner in London to condemn a "tragic..
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MSNBC
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The North proved it could build a working nuclear bomb when it carried out an underground nuclear test blast in October 2006. Details on the bombs, however, will be left to the next stage of the talks, when Pyongyang is supposed to abandon all its nuclear..
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BusinessWeek
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A court order against a Web site that gave away test questions could land some B-school students in hot water
More than 1,000 prospective MBA students who paid $30 to use a now-defunct Web site to get a sneak peak at live questions from the Graduate Ma..
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BusinessWeek
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Funds from the Amazon founder and Spark Capital will help the "stressing" microblogging outfit rebuild its technology
When the news broke on June 24 that microblogging sensation Twitter picked up new venture investors, including Amazon (AMZN) founder J..
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BusinessWeek
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Prosecutors are probing whether two hedge fund managers misled banks as well as investors
Federal prosecutors may not be done with former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, who were charged on June 18 with lying to invest..
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BusinessWeek
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The minority stakeholder is poised to help the ailing automaker raise billions for a restructuring
The last time billionaire Kirk Kerkorian knocked on Detroit's door, he tried to force General Motors (GM) into an alliance with Renault-Nissan—an idea..
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BusinessWeek
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In awarding the contract for refueling planes, the Air Force told Boeing one thing, then did another, and made crucial math errors, an auditor's report says
A new, fuller account of the June 18 auditor's ruling that gives Boeing (BA) another shot at a..
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SF Gate
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A member of a notoriously violent street gang was arrested and booked Wednesday on three counts of murder in the shootings of a San Francisco father and two sons in the city's Excelsior district that police believe stemmed from a minor traffic incident, a..
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SF Gate
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Nine teenagers and two adult guides who were missing on an adventure trip in the Sierra south of Yosemite National Park were found safe this afternoon, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department said. Three of the people are from the Bay Area.
Four girls,..
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SF Gate
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Three women pleaded not guilty Wednesday to child abuse and other charges involving a 5-year-old boy who was burned, starved and beaten.
A Superior Court commissioner received the pleas in an abuse case against the boy's mother, 24-year-old Starkeisha..
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SF Gate
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For more than two years, Neil Entwistle told the same story: He came home from running errands and found his wife and baby daughter cuddled in bed, dead from apparent gunshot wounds.
Never did Entwistle suggest who might have killed his wife, Rachel, a..
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