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| 9 Inmates Reported Killed At Syrian Prison At least nine inmates were killed at a Syrian prison Saturday when guards fired during a riot by Islamist prisoners, Human Rights Watch said. ... More |
| Rice To Sign Czech Anti-Missile Deal U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to sign a treaty allowing the installation of an anti-missile facility, Czech Republic officials said Saturday. ... More |
| 3 U.S. Hostages Thank Colombian Government Three U.S. contractors released this week after five years as hostages of left-wing guerrillas in Colombia said Friday they are overwhelmed with emotion. ... More |
| Critics Decry Montana Land Deal The White House is preparing to ease the way for the United States' largest private landowner to convert huge tracts of forestland to residential subdivisions. ... More |
| Teachers Cheer, Boo Obama Barack Obama got a few boos Saturday when he told the National Education Association convention in Washington he supports merit pay. ... More |
| Japan Beefs Up Security For G-8 Summit The leaders of the G-8 nations begin arriving in Japan Sunday, and in the run-up to the meeting security is being tightened not only in Hokkaido but also in Tokyo... ... More |
| Bush: Thank U.S. Troops For Freedom In his weekly radio address, the president said U.S. troops are continuing a "proud tradition of defending liberty." ... More |
| Khan: Musharraf Approved Nuclear Sale Abdul Qadeer Khan, once honored in his country as the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb and now under house arrest, told reporters Friday the army was involved in... ... More |
| Wildfire Focus Shifts To Santa Barbara Called the Gap fire, a blaze near Goleta, Calif., has forced residents of 1,800 homes to flee and those in 1,400 more were ordered to pack in case they... ... More |
| Tropical Storm Bertha Getting Bigger At 4 a.m., the National Hurricane Center said the storm system was moving west-northwest at a speedy 21 mph, about 750 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. ... More |
| Salmonella Probe Shifts To Jalapenos Officials close to the investigation told CNN the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Saturday was preparing to halt Mexican shipments of jalapenos and other... ... More |
| Suspect Held In French Student Slayings Scotland Yard told The Daily Telegraph that officers arrested a suspect on a street in southeast London early Saturday morning and was questioning him about... ... More |
| Coaltion Kills At Least 12 Afghan Fighters U.S.-led coalition troops responded to mortar fire with a ground and helicopter assault assault and two vehicles carrying fleeing fighters were destroyed, CNN reported. ... More |
| London Deputy Mayor Quits Johnson, a conservative member of parliament elected mayor this year, said he accepted Ray Lewis' resignation with "extreme reluctance," the BBC reported. ... More |
| Quake Felt Off Russia's Far East Coast Local officials in the Kamchatka peninsula reported no injuries or tsunami threat associated with the quake, with struck at 2:10 a.m. Moscow time... ... More |
| McCain Tells Mexico: Border Security First McCain ended a visit to Colombia and Mexico Thursday, The Arizona Republic reported. ... More |
| Lady Liberty's Crown May Reopen To Public The agency posted a request June 24 for bids for studies on what steps would be needed to make the crown safe, the New York Daily News reported. ... More |
| Man Allegedly Let Son, 10, Drive The boy drove into a parked car Wednesday night, Newsday reported. The boy's 9-year-old cousin was also in the car. ... More |
| Dad Convicted For Feeding Kids Vegan Diet Blair Parker of Scottsdale could be sentenced to as much as 16 years in prison following Thursday's verdict, The Arizona Republic reported. ... More |
| Poll: Many Clinton Backers Not Switching The poll -- conducted by Opinion Research for CNN and released Friday -- found that only 54 percent of those surveyed said they would not vote for Obama for president. ... More |
| Student, Instructor Killed In Crash Officials said Larry Anderson, an assistant fire chief with the Fremont Fire Department, witnessed the crash. ... More |
| Mother Wants Information On Son's Death In an interview with the Irish broadcaster RTE, Dorothea Hanlon said the Silverton (ore.) Police Department had given her little information about the Monday night... ... More |
| Castro Chides FARC For Taking Hostages Castro, who has dropped his public duties, said at the end of a historical article in the Cuban official newspaper Granma he was "gladdened" by news of Betancourt's... ... More |
| Alert Issued For Smoldering Volcano The warning issued by the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Bandung was the highest... ... More |
| Man rips head from Hitler wax figure in Berlin BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said. ... More |