AP - A smattering of Hamas-affiliated security forces, many of them bearded and dressed in blue camouflage uniforms, fanned out on both sides of the breached Gaza-Egypt border Sunday to jointly police the crossing with Egyptian guards.
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Hamas polices Gaza border with Egypt (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 8:18pm EST
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Prince Charles will not attend Olympic games: Tibet rights group (AFP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 8:15pm EST
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AFP - Prince Charles will not be attending the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic Games in Beijing, he told a group that campaigns against human rights abuses in Tibet in a letter disclosed Monday.
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Blair wants Mideast peace in 2008 (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 8:08pm EST
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AP - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the final session of the World Economic Forum on Sunday that he wants an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal and a pact on climate change by the end of 2008.
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Kenya death toll near 800 in a month (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 7:46pm EST
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AP - Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800.
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US military deaths in Iraq at 3,934 (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 7:30pm EST
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AP - As of Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, at least 3,934 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,200 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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Protests in Lebanon leave 7 dead (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 6:15pm EST
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AP - Protesters angry about electricity rationing clashed with Lebanese troops Sunday in Beirut's worst riots in a year, leaving seven people dead, hospital and security officials said.
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Survivors detail Suharto-era massacres (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 5:02pm EST
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AP - Hiding out in the dense, humid jungle, Markus Talam watched Indonesian soldiers herd manacled prisoners from trucks, line them up and mow them down with round after round of automatic weapons fire.
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Iraqi army reinforcements reach Mosul (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:28pm EST
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AP - Iraqi soldiers reached the northern city of Mosul on Sunday for an operation against al-Qaida in Iraq, days after some 40 people were killed in a house explosion followed by a suicide attack against a senior police official.
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Region faces 'doom and gloom' if Taliban prevail: Karzai (AFP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:24pm EST
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AFP - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said his country along with Pakistan faces "gloom and doom" from Taliban insurgents, and called for the world to "join hands" to defeat the Islamist rebels.
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Brazil carnival star eyes surgery record (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:18pm EST
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AP - Brazilian model Angela Bismarchi will dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in next month's Carnival parade, hoping her sculpted beauty as a "percussion queen" will lead her samba group to the championship.
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Indonesia's ex-dictator Suharto dies (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:08pm EST
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AP - Former Indonesian President Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday. He was 86.
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Kenya death toll near 800 in a month (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:58pm EST
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AP - Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800.
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Merkel's party suffers heavy losses in key state election: exit polls (AFP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:45pm EST
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AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party lost a key state election Sunday after a bitterly divisive campaign dominated by crime and immigration, exit polls indicated.
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Women lose in Mexico Indian rights gain (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:35pm EST
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AP - Women in this Indian village high in the pine-clad mountains of Oaxaca rise each morning at 4 a.m. to gather firewood, grind corn, prepare the day's food, care for the children and clean the house. -
Mozambique to forcibly evacuate 10,000 from floods (Reuters)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:19pm EST
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Reuters - Mozambique will forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied calls to leave areas at risk of flooding, the government said on Sunday as an advancing tropical cyclone threatened to swell floodwaters. -
French bank accuses trader of hacking (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 12:07pm EST
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AP - Societe Generale said Sunday that a trader who evaded all its controls to bet $73.5 billion more than the French bank's market worth on European markets hacked computers and "combined several fraudulent methods" to cover his tracks, causing billions in losses.
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Shark bites man on deck off Australia (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 10:22am EST
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AP - A 200-pound mako shark attacked a fisherman on his boat deck, biting him on the leg after the man reeled it in while fishing off Australia's east coast Sunday, an official said. -
Egypt tries to control Gaza border chaos (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 10:06am EST
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AP - Egyptian forces brandishing electrified batons stopped Gaza cars from crossing the breached border Sunday and tightened security at checkpoints to try to confine Palestinians who moved freely into Egypt for a fifth straight day.