AP - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto showed slight signs of improvement, doctors said Saturday, a day after he suffered organ failure and was placed on a ventilator with dangerous signs of infection in his lungs.
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Suharto suffers multiple organ failure (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 11:51pm EST
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Chavez irks Colombia by defending rebels (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 11:05pm EST
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AP - Clara Rojas, one of two hostages freed after years held captive by Colombian rebels, gave birth to her son nearly four years ago by kitchen-knife Caesarean and has not seen him since he was taken from the jungle at 8 months old.
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Change of command made at Guantanamo (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:05pm EST
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AP - The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, is leaving for a new assignment after six months at the U.S. naval station in Cuba, the Pentagon announced Friday. -
Former suspect's mom wants Aruba probe (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:59pm EST
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AP - The mother of a former suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of American teenager Natalee Holloway said Friday she hopes a probe will bring closure for all the families involved. -
Bush: US should have acted on Auschwitz (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:05pm EST
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AP - A teary-eyed President Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday at Israel's Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there.
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UN assails Sudan peacekeeper attack (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 8:52pm EST
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AP - The United Nations Security Council opened the door Friday to new economic, political or military sanctions against Sudan because of an attack by its troops on a U.N. peacekeeping convoy earlier this week.
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Kenya's violence strikes at its runners (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 1:48pm EST
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AP - When world marathon champion Luke Kibet goes running, he likes to focus on finishing first. But on one run during Kenya's postelection upheaval, the 25-year-old star had something else on his mind: staying alive.
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Chavez presses for more hostage rescues (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:29am EST
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AP - Basking in praise for winning the freedom of two hostages, President Hugo Chavez pressured Colombia's U.S.-allied leader to let him try to free more captives and perhaps even search for ways to end his neighbor's decades-long civil conflict.
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Militant group claims Nigeria tanker blaze (AFP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:28am EST
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AFP - A prominent militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta said it planted an explosive device that set a tanker on fire Friday in Nigeria's main oil hub, Port Harcourt.
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Correction: Queen of Spades review (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:26am EST
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AP - In an Oct. 28 review of the Vienna State Opera's new production of Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades," The Associated Press erroneously reported it was Neil Shicoff's first appearance on an opera stage in Austria since the summer, when he canceled performances at the Salzburg Festival. The AP also misspelled the name of set and costume designers Johannes Leiacker and Marie-Luise Strandt. -
Kenya opposition calls 3 days of protest (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:22am EST
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AP - Kenya's main opposition party said Friday it plans three days of mass rallies next week to protest President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, which has sparked waves of deadly violence across the East African nation. Police said they would not permit the protests.
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Commanders tout success of Iraq strikes (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:49am EST
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AP - One of the largest bombing campaigns of the war destroyed extremists' "defensive belts" south of Baghdad, allowing American soldiers to push into areas where they have not been in years, a top commander said Friday.
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Indonesia's Suharto has multiple organ failure (Reuters)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:43am EST
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Reuters - Indonesia's former president Suharto
has suffered multiple organ failure and is on a ventilator,
doctors said, while the Vice President had been summoned to his
bedside to witness the 86-year-old's death.
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Suharto suffers multi-organ failure (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:30am EST
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AP - Suharto suffered multi-organ failure and was placed on a ventilator Friday, doctors said, as family members rushed to the former Indonesian dictator's bedside. Physicians called his deteriorating health "alarming."
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Bush visits Kuwait to promote peace deal (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:24am EST
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AP - President Bush sought Arab support on Friday for a U.S.-backed Mideast peace deal, but the Bush administration said not to expect a "blinding flash" of Arab support for the restarted Israel-Palestinian negotiations.
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Bush: US should have bombed Auschwitz (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 6:07am EST
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AP - President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets with junta (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 5:08am EST
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AP - Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of Myanmar's ruling junta Friday for the first time in nearly two months, a government official said.
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Race-hate fears prompt Australian school security boost: official (AFP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 2:42am EST
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AFP - Jewish, Muslim and other schools in Australia at risk of race-hate attacks will receive millions of dollars in special funding to improve their security, the government said Friday.