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Iran charges three detained Americans with spying

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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has charged three detained U.S. citizens with espionage, the official IRNA news agency quoted a prosecutor as saying on Monday, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there was no evidence to back the charges. Read more

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Berlin celebrates fall of the Wall

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1989: EUROPE’S REVOLUTION THE FALL OF THE WALL Berlin celebrates World leaders mark 20th anniversary of the wall’s fall Historic night when people took control Your memories of the end of the Wall Gavin Hewitt: The world remembers How a blunder finished off the Wall Where is the Wall now? A taste for the old [...]

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Dow hits 13-month high (Reuters)

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A broad rally for U.S. stocks sent the Dow industrials to a 13-month high on Monday after the Group of 20 pledged to keep aid flowing to the world economy, strengthening investors’ desire for risk. Read more

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Iran accuses 3 detained Americans of espionage (AP)

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Play Video ABC News  – New Video of U.S. Hikers Detained in Iran Slideshow:American hikers detained in Iran Play Video Video:Raw Video: Hikers in Iraq before capture in Iran AP Play Video Video:Proof of Innocence? FOX News AP – FILE – This undated file photo, released by freethehikers.org, Aug. 20, 2009, shows Americans Shane Bauer, … By ALI AKBAR [...]

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Germans mark the day world changed forever

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TWENTY years to the day since the Berlin Wall was first breached, the city will today play host to a celebration of the momentous changes brought about by the fall of a monument to a repressive regime. Read more

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Detained Americans Accused of Spying

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Three young Americans who were arrested after straying into Iran from Iraq are accused of espionage by a senior prosecutor in Tehran — a signal the trio may be put on trial. The timing of the allegations raises the possibility Iran is using the case for leverage in negotiations with the United States over its [...]

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Thugs aged six ‘threatened to shoot paramedics trying to treat severely burned toddler’

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Boys as young as six threatened to shoot paramedics treating a toddler suffering from severe burns, forcing them to call for police back-up before they could take her to hospital. Read more

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Alleged gunman tied to mosque of 9/11 hijackers

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WASHINGTON – The family of the alleged Fort Hood military base shooter held his mother’s funeral at the same mosque that two September 11 hijackers attended in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Read more

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World's Worst Earthquakes

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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]

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World's Worst Earthquakes

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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]

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Hurricane Ike Heads for Gulf Coast

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The Gulf Coast is bracing for Hurricane Ida in, compared to recent years, what has felt like a slow storm season for those along America’s south and eastern coastlines. The season used to end on Halloween, according to the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, but has gradually been stretched to encompass June 1 to Nov. [...]

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Dugan punts

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Evidently serial sex killer Brian Dugan is taking a pass on the opportunity to testify at his own sentencing hearing. Tsk. After he tried so hard to speak out at one of his court dates, after he had a note slipped to the media, after he tried to arrange for a TV interview. Read more

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Hurricane Floods Kill 124 In El Salvador

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8:19am UK, Monday November 09, 2009 David Williams, Sky News Online At least 124 people have been killed and more than 60 declared missing in flooding and mudslides triggered by a hurricane [...]

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‘RB3′ to improve musical ability?

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Rock Band contributor Dhani Harrison has revealed that the next instalment in the rhythm action series could teach gamers how to play real instruments. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, the son of the late George Harrison admitted that he is working on a new controller for Rock Band 3 that will improve users’ [...]

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Brown to mark fall of Berlin wall

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Gordon Brown is to join other world leaders in Germany for the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Read more

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Fans flee Brit’s synching ship

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Oops, she faked it again! Hundreds of angry fans stormed out of a Britney Spears concert in Australia on Friday night, complaining that the singer lip-synched her way through a lackluster performance. Some of the concert-goers were so livid they asked for their money back, and that the debacle has renewed calls for [...]

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Abortion flares again

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Pro-choice groups are up in arms over passage of the “Stupak” amendment, by Michigan Democrat Bart Stupack, which would expand a ban on government funded abortions by banning abortion coverage in any… Read more

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Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’

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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]

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Brown rebukes Karzai’s government on corruption

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LONDON — Facing a sudden surge in public opposition to the war in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the government in Kabul, threatening to withhold additional British troops if it did not act swiftly to combat widespread corruption. Read more

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