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Drones, computers new weapons of US shadow wars

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....
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Afghan death: UK soldier is named

BBC - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
A British soldier killed in Afghanistan on Friday has been named as Corporal Alex Guy from the 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment.
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No contact from Spurs, says Moyes

BBC - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
Everton manager David Moyes insists he has no contact from Tottenham Hotspur and that he is happy at Goodison Park.
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Obama proposal to raise dropout age falls flat

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's call for states to raise the minimum age at which students can drop out of high school seems about as popular as a homework assignment on Friday afternoon....
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40 years on, Watergate crime scene is forgotten

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the Watergate complex was built in the 1960s, it was just a group of buildings on the western edge of the nation's capital. Then, 40 years ago Sunday, police in Washington arrested five men breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee there....
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Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday....

Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday....

Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday....

Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday....

The 'vanishing ink' plot in Egypt vote

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
CAIRO (AP) -- Rumor had it a devious conspiracy was afoot: Egyptians voting for a new president Saturday were being tricked into using pens with disappearing ink so their choice on the ballot would vanish before it was counted....

The 'vanishing ink' plot in Egypt vote

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
CAIRO (AP) -- Rumor had it a devious conspiracy was afoot: Egyptians voting for a new president Saturday were being tricked into using pens with disappearing ink so their choice on the ballot would vanish before it was counted....

The 'vanishing ink' plot in Egypt vote

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
CAIRO (AP) -- Rumor had it a devious conspiracy was afoot: Egyptians voting for a new president Saturday were being tricked into using pens with disappearing ink so their choice on the ballot would vanish before it was counted....

Greek, Spanish savings flee eurozone crisis

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- In Europe's most economically stricken countries, people are taking their money out of banks as a way to protect their savings from the growing financial storm....

Romney diverts bus in Pennsylvania to avoid Dems

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Saturday tried to refocus on middle-class economic issues as his bus tour wound through Pennsylvania - though Democrats pushed the likely Republican presidential nominee off of his original itinerary....

4 presumed dead in Alaska after avalanche

One member of a Japanese climbing team survived and four others are presumed dead after an avalanche swept them off a hill during their descent from Mount McKinley.

U.S. National Park Service officials say five people were traveling as one rope team early Thursday morning as part of a Miyagi ...

Photos: Saving a Rosenwald school

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
Photos: Saving a Rosenwald school
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To save a school -- and history

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
The little white building with tall windows is off a main road, miles from the busier patches of town. This was the school where Marian Coleman sang nursery rhymes, the same school where her parents met when they were just kids.
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Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland....

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland....

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 21:50
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland....
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