Twenty-two hours down, two to go. “24” (search) plans to end its fourth heart-stopping season with a bang Monday night — a two-hour finale filled with suspense and surprises. “It’s my favorite season-ender — it’s just been the most fun and, I think, the most surprising end. I’m not gonna …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – Signaling the breakup of the anti-Syrian coalition, Christian leader Michel Aoun (search) split with his Muslim opposition allies Tuesday and announced he will field his own candidates in upcoming parliamentary elections. Aoun, a hardline former army commander, said he will also run for a seat in the …
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea (search) said Wednesday it has completed removing spent fuel rods from an atomic reactor, enabling it to harvest more weapons-grade plutonium. It was the communist state’s latest provocation amid deadlocked talks over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said the country …
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UNITED NATIONS – Two European politicians received millions of barrels of Iraqi oil in exchange for their support of Saddam Hussein’s regime, a U.S. Senate committee probing corruption in the U.N. Oil-for-Food program found. The report, released late Wednesday, accused British lawmaker George Galloway (search) and former French Interior Minister …
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BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio – On the morning he was to graduate from high school, Scott Moody (search) walked a half-mile to his grandparents’ farmhouse and began what authorities say was the first stop in a gruesome murder-suicide that ended in six deaths. Moody’s family had been troubled recently, according to published …
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Suspected Taliban (search ) militants on Wednesday ambushed and shot to death five Afghans working on a U.S.-funded project to help end opium farming in the south of the country, officials said. A man claiming to have kidnapped an Italian aid worker in the Afghan capital threatened …
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MEXICO CITY – President Vicente Fox (search) on Sunday defended his commitment to minorities and human rights on a U.S. radio program, in his first public response to his controversial comment that Mexicans take the U.S. jobs that “not even” blacks want. U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson (search) pressed …
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NEW YORK – A man has been charged with possessing an illegal cache of about 1,000 counterfeit law enforcement badges, authorities said Tuesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Sergio Khorosh on Monday at his Bronx home after he accepted delivery of about 100 fake U.S. Marshals Service (search) …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – A former Wall Street trader who rejoined the Marines after the Sept. 11 attacks will not be tried on murder charges for killing two suspected Iraqi insurgents, a Marine general decided Thursday. The decision by Maj. Gen. Richard Huck, commander of the 2nd Marine Division based at …
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SEATTLE – After a year and a half of failed negotiations and months of arbitration, Alaska Airlines (search) and its pilots have a new contract, the company announced. Arbitrator Richard Kasher handed the agreement to the airline and the Air Line Pilots Association (search) on Saturday, company spokesman Lou Cancelmi. …
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