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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel, under international pressure, is considering a 48-hour halt to its punishing four-day air campaign on Hamas targets in Gaza to see if Palestinian militants will stop rocket attacks on southern Israel, Israeli officials said Tuesday.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistan suspended truck shipments of U.S. military supplies through the Khyber Pass after launching an offensive against militants who are trying to cripple Washington's war on a resurgent Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49-vote lead over Republican U.S. Senator Norm Coleman in Minnesota's Senate race but wrangling over inclusion of absentee ballots continued Tuesday and any final determination of a winner is still days or weeks away.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
BRUSSELS, Belgium - A new government took office in Belgium on Tuesday that is nearly a replica of the quarrelsome alliance of Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists that quit earlier this month in a bank bailout scandal.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
LONDON - Fantasy author Terry Pratchett has carved out a career as a best-selling author with tales of wizards and sorcerers.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
WASHINGTON - U.S. president-elect Barack Obama says he supports the decision by Senate Democrats to deny his vacated Senate seat to an appointee of embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel, under international pressure, is considering a 48-hour halt to its punishing four-day air campaign on Hamas targets in Gaza to see if Palestinian militants will stop their rocket attacks on southern Israel, Israeli officials said Tuesday.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
WASHINGTON - A U.S. federal judge awarded more than $65 million Tuesday to several men captured by North Korea aboard the spy ship USS Pueblo.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Tuesday expressed grave concern about the detention and interrogation in Iran of a prominent American academic, an incident that has led the National Academies of Science to suspend educational exchanges with Iranian institutions.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
LAS VEGAS - Nevada's lieutenant governor has pleaded not guilty to four felony charges accusing him of mishandling funds when he was state treasurer.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Workers digging to lay the foundation of a luxury apartment complex in Argentina uncovered a Spanish ship believed to be from the 18th century.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has refused to stop the U.S. government from taking DNA from a prisoner who claims the process would violate his religious beliefs.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
NEW YORK - Last New Year's Eve they were in Iowa. This year, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former president Bill Clinton will be in Times Square, helping Mayor Michael Bloomberg lower the glittery New Year's Eve ball.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin appeals court ruled today that a person who is voluntarily nude in the presence of another still has privacy rights against being secretly videotaped, in a decision that bolsters the state's video voyeur law.
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