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Brazil tries to curb crime wave

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
Some 400 extra policemen are deployed in the streets of Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, to deal with a wave of robberies at bars and restaurants.
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VIDEO: Clashes as Russian fans march in Poland

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
Russian and Polish football fans in Warsaw have clashed ahead of a Euro 2012 match between the two teams.
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WHO's cancer agency: Diesel fumes cause cancer

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
LONDON (AP) -- Diesel fumes cause cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency declared Tuesday, a ruling it said could make exhaust as important a public health threat as secondhand smoke....

WHO's cancer agency: Diesel fumes cause cancer

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
LONDON (AP) -- Diesel fumes cause cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency declared Tuesday, a ruling it said could make exhaust as important a public health threat as secondhand smoke....

WHO's cancer agency: Diesel fumes cause cancer

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
LONDON (AP) -- Diesel fumes cause cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency declared Tuesday, a ruling it said could make exhaust as important a public health threat as secondhand smoke....

WHO's cancer agency: Diesel fumes cause cancer

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
LONDON (AP) -- Diesel fumes cause cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency declared Tuesday, a ruling it said could make exhaust as important a public health threat as secondhand smoke....

Walker angers temperance union by serving beer

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker can't avoid union troubles, even when he's trying to be bipartisan....
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Lawyer: Mubarak fears prison doctors want him dead

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
CAIRO (AP) -- Hosni Mubarak's condition stabilized Tuesday but his lawyer said the 84-year old former president does not trust his doctors in the prison hospital and fears they are out to kill him....

Average price of 4-year university up 15 percent

AP - Politics - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock....

Average price of 4-year university up 15 percent

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock....
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Chavez makes energetic start in re-election bid

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo is releasing a lengthy plan to deepen his socialist policies as he officially launches his campaign to win another six-year term in October....

Assistant McQueary takes stand in Sandusky case

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary has told jurors at Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial about seeing the former coach with a boy in a campus shower....
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VIDEO: 'A day of sodden, soaking misery'

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
Persistent rain has caused serious flooding across large parts of southern England.
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Michelle Obama gets daughters approval on new book

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama gets a rare thumbs up from her adolescent daughters for publishing her first gardening book....
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Obama doesn't dwell on first-term issues this time

AP - Politics - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) -- Dealing with a slow-moving economy, President Barack Obama is imploring voters to stick with him through tough times while promising that better days lie ahead. He's trying to energize supporters and raise money Tuesday in Maryland and in Philadelphia....

Mass. mobster's lover gets 8 years in prison

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 04:44
BOSTON (AP) -- The longtime girlfriend of Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for helping him stay on the run for 16 years....
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ING agrees to forfeit $619 million

Amsterdam-based ING Bank N.V. agreed Tuesday to forfeit $619 million to the Justice Department and the New York County District Attorney´s Office for conspiring to illegally move billions of dollars through the U.S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned Cuban and Iranian entities.

It is the largest ever forfeiture against ...

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