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Holiday Bombings Kill 27 in Baghdad
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By SAM DAGHER and MUHAMMED AL-OBAIDI BAGHDAD - Five bomb attacks struck Baghdad on Sunday, three of them aimed at civilians who were out holiday shopping and strolling.
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Somalia Is the Middleman in Global Trade!

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Tensions Rise Over Ship Hijacked Off Somalia
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN NAIROBI, Kenya - Tensions increased Sunday over what to do about the arms-carrying cargo ship hijacked off the coast of Somalia, as the pirates vowed to fight to the death, a hostage died and Somali officials urged the American ...
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Top Afghan policewoman shot dead Afghanistan's most prominent policewoman is shot dead outside her house in the southern city of Kandahar, officials say. Taleban grow more brazen Insurgents at Kabul's doorstep

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GWB AWOL - Again!

A World of Risk Beyond Wall Street
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
By Jim Hoagland NEW YORK -- George W. Bush governs by crisis interspersed with long periods of not governing at all. Only when disaster threatens or arrives does this president summon himself, Congress and the nation to act -- in haste and extremis ...

SEC Chief Says Deregulation Fueled Crisis
New York Times - 35 minutes ago
By STEPHEN LABATON WASHINGTON— Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a longtime proponent of deregulation, acknowledged on Friday that the voluntary supervisory program of Wall Street’s largest investment banks had ...
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McCain Wins Debate?

McCain Wins Debate?
International Business Times, NY - 1 hour ago
"McCain Wins Debate" ads that appeared on Wall Street Journal on Friday morning ahead of tonight`s presidential debate.

Tony Alamo

Evangelist Alamo faces charges in child sex probe
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
By JON GAMBRELL AP LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Evangelist and convicted tax evader Tony Alamo says the age of consent is puberty and there's a mandate in the Bible for girls marrying young.
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