India demanded that Pakistan hand over suspected terrorists believed living in the country - including its most-wanted man - as diplomatic wrangling between the nuclear rivals intensified Tuesday following the deadly Mumbai attacks. A list of about 20 names was given to Pakistan's high commissioner ...
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Channel 7 television said an M79 grenade was fired from a flyover near the domestic airport, which has been occupied by the People's Alliance for Democracy since last Thursday, part of the escalating campaign to topple the six-party ruling coalition. An emergency services official said 17 of the ...
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CHICAGO -- Barack Obama announced a national security team Monday headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush -- striking choices by a president-elect who declared he wanted "strong ...
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TOKYO— Japan's Nikkei index tumbled more than 6 percent Tuesday as selling spread across the board on big losses on Wall Street amid growing gloom over the global economy. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average lost 533.53 points, or 6.35 percent, to close at 7,863.69. The broader Topix index fell ...
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WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama wanted to brush it off, the question about how he came to eat all the harsh words he said against Hillary Rodham Clinton during the heated Democratic primary. It was not too long ago that Obama was highly critical of Clinton, so naturally he was queried about this ...
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CHICAGO - Police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson yesterday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother, and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation. William Balfour was arrested at Stateville Correctional Center ...
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York hospital worker was suspended for failing to report the gunshot wound of NFL star Plaxico Burress, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN Monday. New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress arrives at the 17th police precinct in Manhattan on Monday. The spokeswoman, Kathy Robinson ...
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