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NYTimes.com: ACLU Sues Over Border Patrol Stops in U.S. Pacific Northwest by Reuters:

The U.S. Border Patrol is unjustifiably stopping people based on their skin color in Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, just across the water from Canada, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.

Two Latinos and a black man - two of them prison corrections officers - said in the complaint filed in U.S. federal court in Seattle that they were subject to racial profiling. One of the officers was in his uniform when he was stopped, the lawsuit said.

Greece should not have joined the euro, a former head of the Bundesbank who was closely involved in eurozone policymaking tells the BBC.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A Texas man condemned for a robbery in which three people were shot, one fatally, apologized to a woman who survived the 2002 attack and family members of the slain man before receiving a lethal injection Thursday....

The United States agrees to move thousands of Marines based in Okinawa out of Japan to Hawaii, Guam and other locations in Asia.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to maintain sanctions on Ivory Coast for another year, including an arms embargo and a ban on importing rough diamonds from the West African nation....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to maintain sanctions on Ivory Coast for another year, including an arms embargo and a ban on importing rough diamonds from the West African nation....

BEIJING (AP) -- A blind legal activist who is a key figure in China's rights movement escaped the house arrest he has lived under for a year and a half, fleeing to an unknown location and angering his captors, fellow rights campaigners said Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the Asia-Pacific, including Hawaii, under a U.S.-Japan agreement announced Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the Asia-Pacific, including Hawaii, under a U.S.-Japan agreement announced Thursday....

Soaps are often seen as shallow and addictive melodramas, but there many examples that have set out to change society, and succeeded.

Under heavy pressure from farm groups, the Obama administration said Thursday it would drop an unpopular plan to prevent children from doing hazardous work on farms owned by anyone other than their parents.

The Labor Department said it is withdrawing proposed rules that would ban children younger than 16 from ...

Shares of the website of People's daily surge on their debut at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Lady Gaga has had her Seoul concert re-rated as only suitable for over 18s, by South Korea's Media Rating Board.

The US Secret Service is looking into allegations its employees paid for strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador ahead of a presidential visit.

On the day one of two suspects in his wife's death was arraigned, a deployed Marine said Thursday he was devastated but wanted to ensure her death was not in vain.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge Thursday denied a request to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos last year....

Senior Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes joins calls for an inquiry into whether Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt breached the ministerial code of conduct.

The European Space Agency is to launch a daring space mission to study the Sun, in order to get a new insight into how the star works.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the Asia-Pacific, including Hawaii, under a U.S.-Japan agreement announced Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Expanding the prostitution investigation, the Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it is checking whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama's visit last year to El Salvador....