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Jets coach Herman Edwards said yesterday that Chad Pennington still has some discomfort in his right arm, lingering effects of a strained rotator cuff.
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AUSTRALIANS have been warned to stay away from international hotels and other places in Indonesia, including Bali, after advice terrorists may be planning a bomb attack over Christmas, possibly targeting a Hilton hotel.
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AFP - Indian and American navies will cooperate in the Indian Ocean for the first time when they join forces to coordinate relief for the victims of tidal waves, a report said.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Ben Roethlisberger passed for 183 yards and two touchdowns, Hines Ward scored twice and the Pittsburgh Steelers rolled to a convincing 27-3 victory over Philadelphia on Sunday for their second straight win against an undefeated opponent.
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General Electric Co. (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it would buy a fire detection systems business from SPX Corp.
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Crude oil prices in Asia reached US$ 52.23 as reports emerge of a possible strike in Nigeria and a sluggish revival of output in key Gulf of Mexico oilfields.
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Resi Stiegler, one of the most promising young ski racers in the United States, is an easygoing 22-year-old with an Olympic pedigree and an irrepressible fondness for powder skiing.
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Though candidates suggest adapting the health care program that covers Congress and offering it to millions of uninsured Americans, such a plan would be unlikely to cut costs.
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There's still some smoke, but the clash between the country's two largest makers of toy trains is nearly over.
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AFP - SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, may need an extra year to achieve its medium-term profit target of an operating margin of 30 percent, its chief financial officer said.
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Compare up to four lenders and lower your mortgage payment or get a new home mortgage. Find the lowest rate! Interest-only programs available. Home refinance and purchases. 1.096% APR.
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Defense and special teams keep Tampa Bay in it until an interception leads to the winning field goal. By RICK STROUD, Times Staff Writer.
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PEPSICO this week announced that it plans to acquire the Naked Juice Company as part of its effort to “expand into natural, healthy, good-for-you products” that “address growing consumer health and wellness needs.” (pepsico.com).
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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--China Resources Enterprise Ltd. (0291.HK) said it will issue 57.97 million new shares to its parent China Resources (Holdings) Co.
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. Grandi, who had never won in 12 years on the circuit before Sunday's victory in the Italian resort of Alta Badia, beat first-leg leader Didier Cuche of Switzerland by 0.15sec with a time of 2min 15.90sec.
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In a speech this afternoon, Senator Barack Obama is expected to call for a complete withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by the end of next year.
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AP - A congressional subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena former and current Food and Drug Administration investigators to testify about fraudulent clinical data that supported approval of the antibiotic drug Ketek.
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Two months after a judging error overshadowed one of the most stunning comebacks in Olympic history, Paul Hamm is no longer stuck in limbo.
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Venus Williams dispatched her second Russian opponent in as many days to book a spot in the semifinals of Wimbledon.
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Web metrics suggest that the software giant's Internet Explorer has been losing a significant number of users in the past nine months to open-source browser Mozilla and its offspring, Firefox.
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By Frances Williams in Geneva and Raymond Colitt in São Paulo. Developing countries in the World Trade Organisation remain split over what, if any action, the WTO should take to help smaller textiles producers
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By Rowlands, Chris In 2007, as Works Management turns 60 years of age, Spiderman 3 will be released in the cinema.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Injury is nothing new to Tennessee linebacker Kevin Simon, yet he hardly seems depressed or upset that another season has been cut short.
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Users of Wikipedia have described obvious mistakes in the design of the Web site’s logo.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Oil fell more than a dollar to around $68 a barrel on Monday, pulled lower by expectations that any sanctions against oil producer Iran were some way off and would not necessarily disrupt export flows.
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AP - Jim Furyk has the reputation of being a rock, so it was strange to see his eyes suddenly glass over with tears and his answers become short and direct. All because he was asked about Byron Nelson.
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Freshman Travis Dewire of Wellesley fired a round of 73 to earn medalist honors for the first time in his collegiate golf career to lead Babson College to a second-place finish at the 2004 Eastern College Athletic Conference Qualifying Tournament at the Hampden Country Club on Sept. 21.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on a visit to the Middle East Wednesday that his planned London conference on reform for Palestinians next year would help them become a real negotiating partner for peace.
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Reuters - There is room for American workers' wages to grow and reason to expect it, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Thursday told congressional critics who said pay wasn't keeping pace with profits.
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The Champions League group stages will take two of European football's biggest personalities - Jose Mourinho and Henrik Larsson - back to their old stomping grounds quicker than either might have expected.
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AP - Cynthia Jordan scored 26 points and Candice Dupree had 18 points and 12 rebounds to lead No. 24 Temple to its school-record 13th straight victory, a 72-64 win over George Washington on Thursday night.
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Cazenove and JP Morgan Chase & Co. unveiled a joint venture that effectively ends 181 years of independence for the UK stockbroker and gives a big boost to the US investment bank's UK presence.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose slightly on Thursday with oil companies gaining from higher crude prices and investors buying into big manufacturers and beaten-down pharmaceutical makers.
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PC World - In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group PLC announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube Inc.
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Two years after the Tibetan government-in-exile renewed negotiations with China, after a full decade, on the question of Tibet, a delegation of the Dalai Lama’s special envoys left for a tour of the Middle Kingdom on the weekend.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Responding to complaints that the United States is losing its edge to foreign markets, a panel set up by the nation's biggest business lobby has recommended structural changes at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the end of quarterly earnings guidance and a boost in the nation's retirement sa...
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Which is nice WiFi pioneer Boingo is passing the 100,000 hotspot mark, with a new WiFi service "providing international business travellers with access to more than 100,000 locations around the world for one low monthly cost with no roaming charges and no per-minute fees."

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AP - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are hoping that the thousands of zebra fish living in their Biomedical Science Tower South will one day help identify genes involved in human disease and development.
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SPACE.com - The end of January marks a somber time for NASA with the anniversary of the three major tragedies in the history of U.S. spaceflight.
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The UK economy grew by 3.1% in 2004 after accelerating in the final three months of last year, according to official figures.
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AFP - Former masters India have crashed out of the Asian Games men's field hockey as Pakistan and Japan played a goalless draw to keep Malaysia out of the semi-finals.
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A 2003 Soldier's Guide to the Republic of Iraq , issued by the Army on the eve of the U.S. invasion, tells troops that Arabs see "little virtue in a frank exchange."
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CALENDAR Monday, Dec. 11 After Lunch Bunch of the Topeka PC Users Club, 1:15 p.m., Classic Bean, 2125 S.W. Fairlawn. Information: 272-8444. Graphics SIG of the Topeka PC Users Club, 7 p.m., Jostens, 4000 SE Adams. Information: 267-1531. Thursday, Dec.
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AP - Count Lindsay Davenport among those who would prefer if tennis stayed away from instant replay or other electronic help for officials.
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President Vladimir Putin's government has played down revelations of terrorist involvement in the crash of two airliners, apparently not wanting to highlight an embarrassing security
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A little over a decade ago, the small working-class city of Gardena was having trouble getting liability insurance, like a lot of other California towns, and it decided to take the kind of entrepreneurial leap municipalities were being encouraged to
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc.'s YouTube has agreed to a breakthrough deal with major music label EMI Group Plc to give users of YouTube's video sharing site broad access to music videos by EMI artists.
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NEW YORK, November 30 (newratings.com) - Merck & Co (MRK.NYS) has adopted a new compensation plan aimed at retaining its senior management officials in case of a possible takeover.
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Dave Wannstedt is out in Miami and former Giants coach Jim Fassel said he's interested in replacing him. "First of all, I am looking for a head coaching job in this league," Fassel said yesterday from the Ravens offices.
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Roger Clemens will face a lawsuit if he says in a "60 Minutes" interview that his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee, was not truthful when he said he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, a lawyer hired by McNamee said yesterday.
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InfoWorld - Cable-modem service provider Comcast said Wednesday that it would welcome a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation into its broadband traffic management practices.
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THE REGION Home heating oil customers of Viking Oil in Winthrop should find alternative dealers and probably will not get deliveries they've already paid for, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly said. More than 1,000 customers could be affected and they could be out hundreds of thousands of dollars, Reilly aides said. "W...
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AP - A woman pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of threatening President Bush.
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WASHINGTON - After taking a rest in June, the nation's consumers were full of energy last month, boosting their spending by a strong 0.8 percent, a hopeful sign the economy may be emerging from a summer funk. The over-the-month increase in consumer spending, reported by the Commerce Department on Monday, marked a tu...
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Veteran financier Carl Icahn said he and a group of investors are willing to buy Mylan Laboratories Inc. for $20 per share, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Usually, when plunging December temperatures create the big chill at Lambeau Field, Brett Favre produces the big thrill. Favre, the game's ultimate cold-weather quarterback, put up big passing
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A leading Nigerian oil militant group asks President George Bush to help solve their dispute with the government.
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Microsoft issues a media alert saying Microsoft to make Business Division announcement, then kills the release. A source says unit head Raikes is busy on the mergers and acquisitions front, not sending out his resume.
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attempt: South African arms dealer Nick du Toit, for whom prosecutors want the death penalty. hall redesigned for the occasion and guarded by armed soldiers.
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AP - Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain rallied to beat Belarusian Anastasiya Yakimova 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday and advance to quarterfinals of the Tashkent Open.
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Europe's fossil fuel use is rising, but it's not making citizens any happier, an economic report concludes.
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Investigators in China have ruled out terrorism in the crash of a passenger plane Sunday that claimed the lives of 54 people. State media said Monday that investigators sent from Beijing hadn't determined
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THE age eligibility rules on the women’s tennis tour have made world-beating 16-year-olds less plentiful than they were a decade ago, but another announced her presence at the Swisscom Challenge yesterday.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two Chinese engineers working at a hydro-electric project in Pakistan have been kidnapped in a region where security forces have been hunting militants linked to al Qaeda, officials said Saturday.
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PORTLAND, ORE. - Hee-Won Han made a four-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to beat Lorie Kane and win the Safeway Classic on Sunday.
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Like millions of arthritis sufferers, she was a long-time user of Vioxx, the popular painkiller that was pulled from the market two weeks ago because of an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Maybe it's time for the city of Miami, which owns and operates the Orange Bowl, to install anti-aircraft batteries around the venerable stadium.
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University of Toledo junior quarterback Bruce Gradkowski didn’t get his act together until after he broke his right hand, until after he separated his left shoulder, until after
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Reuters - President Bush accused Democrat John Kerry on Monday of "new contradictions of his old positions on Iraq" and defended the U.S.-led invasion a day before addressing skeptical world leaders at the United Nations.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Top seeds Roger Federer and Andy Roddick reached the Thailand Open semi-finals with straight-sets wins on Friday.
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AP - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday refused to halt extradition proceedings against three British bankers wanted in the United States on Enron-related fraud charges.
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Russian officials say three policemen have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the deaths of more than 330 hostages seized by militants at a school in Beslan at the beginning of September.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Arizona Diamondbacks left-handed pitcher Randy Johnson was placed on the disabled list for the third time this season on Tuesday because of a sore lower back from a herniated disk.
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Your nest egg might not be big enough to serve your future.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Dwyane Wade beat the buzzer with a 20-foot jumper that bounced on the rim and went in to give the Miami Heat a 104-102 victory over the Utah Jazz on Saturday.
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BELFAST: IRA guerillas yesterday said they would never be "humiliated" by the photographing of their final acts of disarmament - the last sticking point in an Anglo-Irish drive for a Northern Ireland political settlement.
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Consumer prices in China unexpectedly rose more slowly in October than in any month since April, as a bountiful harvest led to less-rapid increases in food prices.
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AP - Daisuke Matsuzaka got as much support from slumping Julio Lugo on Tuesday night as he had gotten from the Red Sox in any of his six previous starts, pitching eight shutout innings to lead Boston to a 4-1 victory over Tampa Bay, the Devil Rays' ninth straight loss.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A terminal under construction at Dubai International Airport collapsed Monday, a Dubai Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said.
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AP - The Boston Bruins found an effective way to end their lengthy losing streak by facing a team that's stuck in a similar slump.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- In terms of beauty, Sunday's 20-3 Minnesota Vikings win had all the appeal of a glow-in-the-dark, velvet portrait of a group of dogs playing poker around a table.
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Reuters - India and Pakistan set up a dream final at the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa on Saturday, six months after their ignominious first-round exits from the 50-over version in West Indies.
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Roger Federer should be back in action at Wimbledon on Thursday after five days of inactivity.
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While the Jets are 7-5 and rising, the Giants are a middling 6-6 and, perhaps, two losses away from missing the playoffs.
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Brazil and India set targets to substantially increase trade, after meetings between Brazil's president and Indian leaders.
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Envy may be a sin in some books, but it is a powerful driving force in Silicon Valley, especially with talk of a second dot-com boom.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Medical officials in the ex-Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan confirmed the prime minister was poisoned after receiving death threats but said they have not yet identified the toxin.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retailer Kmart Holdings Corp. KMRT.O on Monday finalized a deal to sell 18 of its stores to Home Depot Inc. HD.N for $271 million.
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Employees in the southern Iraq oil company announced that the country's south oil pipeline was attacked on Sunday at dawn, just few kilometers from a position where 8 oil pipelines were attacked on Wednesday.
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Pfizer Inc. has begun pulling two television advertisements for its Viagra impotence drug after US officials said the "wild thing" ads made unsubstantiated claims about a return of sexual desire.
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A police official also said that security agencies investigating an attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have held at least 15 people for questioning.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Friday that a U.S. Senate subcommittee has asked it for information on stock-option grants to executives of Mercury Interactive Corp., which HP acquired last year.
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Though Alzheimer’s disease seems to suddenly strike in old age, scientists think it begins long before symptoms occur.
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The U.S. was slow to start creating intelligence networks and has had trouble developing informants because of death threats to Iraqis and their families.
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The US State Department's counter-terrorism co-ordinator, Cofer Black, has urged Bangladesh's government to bring to justice those responsible for a string of bomb blasts in the country.
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Koalas are considered in danger of extinction in parts of Australia, but in one southern state authorities plan to implant 2,000 of the furry marsupials with contraceptives to control their numbers.
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THE leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas has urged Iraqi militants to stop taking hostages and concentrate on fighting the US-led occupation of their country.
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AP - Chevon Troutman scored 25 of his career-high 29 points in the second half and Pittsburgh erased a 17-point deficit to upset No. 16 Connecticut 76-66 Saturday night.
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VILNIUS (AFP) - Right-wing opposition parties won Lithuania's parliamentary elections, narrowly ahead of the populist party of a Russian-born tycoon, preliminary results showed.
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KUALA LUMPUR - A preacher in mosques, a rebel backing street protests, a politician who was party to a patronage system he later criticised and a leader with many fans in Western governments.
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