Obama campaign: McCain flubs on Iraq timeline |
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Dolly becomes hurricane, set to hit Tex-Mex border |
| | | Rain started to fall along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Dolly -- upgraded in force from a tropical storm -- closed in on towns straddling the Texas-Mexico border. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Angry Serb nationalists protest Karadzic arrest |
| | | Serb nationalists skirmished with riot police in the capital Tuesday, lashing out against the new Western-leaning government that captured war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic. Karadzic's lawyer vowed to appeal Serbia's plan to extradite the former Bosnian Serb chief to a U.N. war crimes court. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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House to vote Wednesday on foreclosure rescue |
| | | The government would help struggling homeowners get new, cheaper loans and be allowed to offer troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a cash infusion as part of legislation that aims to calm the chaotic housing market. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Obama grilled on whether "surge" cut Iraq violence |
| | | Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was pinned down on Tuesday on whether he credits an increase in U.S. troop levels in Iraq -- known as the "surge" -- for helping stabilize the country. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Obama's West Bank trip raises hope, skepticism |
| | | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to tell Barack Obama on Wednesday that he must immediately turn his attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if he is elected U.S. president, or risk losing gains made in peace talks with Israel. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Opponents form alliance against Indian government |
| | | Several key Indian political parties announced an alliance to oppose the government Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a confidence vote that paves the way for a landmark nuclear deal with the United States. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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BIW parent reports 25 percent earnings increase |
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Collision closes Mississippi River at New Orleans |
| | | The Coast Guard says 19 miles of the Mississippi River at New Orleans are closed after a tugboat pushing a barge and a 600-foot tanker crashed, causing diesel to leak into the water. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Priest pleads guilty to abusing teens in Mass. |
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Mass. Mid-Day Numbers |
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RI cops arrest man with 0.491 blood alcohol level |
| | | State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent -- the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Rice to press North Korean envoy on nukes |
| | | Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks with Asian officials here Wednesday before meeting North Korea's top diplomat in what will be the Bush administration's highest-level contact with the Stalinist state in four years. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Etiquette guide: What not to ask Olympic visitors |
| | | Questions about salaries are out. Ditto queries about the age of a foreigner visiting Beijing for the Olympics. And an inquiry about someone's love life? Forget it. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Peugeot-Citroen 1H net up 49 percent |
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Reports: Starving bears eat 2 men in Russia |
| | | A pack of enormous bears searching for food killed and ate two men at mines in Russia's Pacific Kamchatka region and have kept hundreds of geologists and miners from reaching the mine, news agencies reported Wednesday. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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A look at key parts of congressional housing bill |
| | | The housing bill Congress is preparing to send President Bush would: --Give the Federal Housing Administration $300 billion in new lending authority and relax standards to provide affordable, fixed-rate mortgages to debt-ridden homeowners. Any losses would be covered by an affordable housing fund financed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , the government-sponsored companies that finance mortgages. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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'eBay' Child Porn Smuggler Jailed |
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PM: Incentives For Electric Cars |
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Obama's great-uncle recalls liberating Nazi camp |
| | | Charles T. Payne had his first close brush with history at the end of World War II, when his infantry division liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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