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Obama says he regrets abortion answer

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:34:45 +0000

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he was probably too flip when he said it was “above my pay grade” to answer a question about when is a baby entitled to human rights.

Source:Obama says he regrets abortion answer

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Heavy teens run risk of severe liver damage

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:30:43 +0000

In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat and have even needed liver transplants.

Source:Heavy teens run risk of severe liver damage

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Bombs explode at Afghan police HQ

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:29:21 +0000

Two suicide attackers detonated bombs inside the police headquarters in Afghanistan’s second-largest city Sunday, killing six policemen, officials said.

Source:Bombs explode at Afghan police HQ

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Iraqi police: Bombs wound 14 in Baghdad

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:21:13 +0000

A series of roadside bombs wounded at least 14 people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital.

Source:Iraqi police: Bombs wound 14 in Baghdad

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Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:20:06 +0000

The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan’s militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto’s widower to take over as president.

Source:Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35

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Pakistan's Zardari prepares for presidency (AFP)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:10:14 +0000

AFP - Pakistan president-elect Asif Ali Zardari faced immediate pressure Sunday to tackle an upsurge in militant violence, as the toll from a suicide blast in the country’s troubled northwest reached 33.

Source:Pakistan's Zardari prepares for presidency
(AFP)

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Workers clear path to access Cairo rock fall site (Reuters)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:02:05 +0000

Reuters - Egyptian workers cut through a railway
embankment on Sunday to bring heavy earth-moving equipment to
the site of a rock fall which killed at least 34 people in a
Cairo shantytown.

Source:Workers clear path to access Cairo rock fall site
(Reuters)

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Toll in Haiti from Ike climbs to 600; Cuba evacuates half-million (AFP)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:01:20 +0000

AFP - Hurricane Ike took aim at Cuba Sunday after leaving 20 people dead in Haiti, where fatalities from a succession of powerful storms in the past few weeks now tops 600.

Source:Toll in Haiti from Ike climbs to 600; Cuba evacuates half-million
(AFP)

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Owner: Ride's over at Coney Island amusement park (AP)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:00:51 +0000

AP - When reports circulated over the weekend of a last-minute deal to keep Coney Island’s historic Astroland amusement park open for another year, owner Carol Hill Albert was not amused.

Source:Owner: Ride's over at Coney Island amusement park
(AP)

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McCain takes on GOP and Bush along with Obama (AP)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:00:02 +0000

AP - Barack Obama isn’t John McCain’s only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he’s running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.

Source:McCain takes on GOP and Bush along with Obama
(AP)

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