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APNewsBreak: German diocese to examine choir abuse (AP)

2 hours 3 min ago

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also says he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir, but did nothing about it.  In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse published Tuesday March 9, 2010 , he said 'repeatedly administered a slap in the face' to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)AP - A spokesman for the Regensburg Catholic diocese in Germany says the diocese will investigate allegations of physical and sexual abuse that have swirled around a famed choir once led by Pope Benedict XVI's brother.


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Biden condemns Israeli settlement project (Reuters)

2 hours 9 min ago

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden arrive at Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv, March 8, 2010. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunReuters - Vice President Joe Biden publicly condemned on Wednesday Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jewish settlers, saying on a West Bank visit the project undermined Washington's peace efforts.


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Pope denounces 'atrocious' Nigeria bloodshed (AFP)

2 hours 12 min ago

AFP - Pope Benedict XVI denounced the "atrocious" bloodshed in Nigeria on Wednesday after a massacre of Christian villagers, as police said 49 people would be charged over the killings.


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US aid group attacked in NW Pakistan; 6 dead (AP)

2 hours 17 min ago

Map locates Mansehra, Pakistan, where a suicide bomber struck World Vision, a large Christian humanitarian groupAP - Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding several others, police and the organization said.


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Biden says Palestinians deserve 'viable' state (AP)

2 hours 30 min ago

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, talks as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, second from right, looks on, backdropped by a banner of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left and Mahmoud Abbas, top right, during their press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told the Palestinians that they deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory.


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Ahmadinejad mocks Gates on visit to Kabul (AFP)

2 hours 55 min ago

Iran's outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen here with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai in Kabul, has criticised Western troops as an obstacle to peace in Afghanistan and mocked the US defence secretary during their overlapping visits to the war-torn country.(AFP/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - Iran's outspoken president on Wednesday criticised Western troops as an obstacle to peace in Afghanistan and mocked the US defence secretary during their overlapping visits to the war-torn country.


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Google opens Web store for business applications (AP)

3 hours 12 sec ago
AP - Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet.
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Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)

3 hours 8 min ago

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP - President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.


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AP-GfK Poll: Obama more popular than Congress (AP)

3 hours 8 min ago

President Barack Obama speaks with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou during a ceremony honoring Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall.


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Senate to pass jobless aid, business tax breaks (AP)

3 hours 18 min ago
AP - Legislation blending help for the jobless with popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals is slated to pass the Senate Wednesday over protests from conservatives who say it adds too much to the $12.5 trillion national debt.
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Letterman: Case against producer handled properly (AP)

3 hours 55 min ago

FILE - This Nov. 10, 2009 file photo shows Robert 'Joe' Halderman outside Manhattan criminal court following his court appearance in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)AP - From the start, David Letterman made sure the story of a $2 million shakedown attempt over his sex life was one he narrated himself.


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Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early (AP)

3 hours 56 min ago

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, center, greets U.S. troops as he tours the training grounds of Camp Blackhorse, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.  (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.


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Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating (Reuters)

4 hours 21 min ago

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown gestures as he bids farewell to Jordan's King Abdullah (not pictured) on the steps of 10 Downing Street central London March 9, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew WinningReuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.


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First Iraq vote results expected by Thursday: U.N. (Reuters)

4 hours 48 min ago

An Iraqi soldier secures workers unloading boxes of parliamentary election ballots at a tally centre in Baghdad March 9, 2010. Iraq held their parliamentary election on Sunday. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said Wednesday.


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Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO-Afghan base (AP)

5 hours 13 min ago

Map locates Khost province, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber targeted a U.S.-Afghan base that killed NATO service membersAP - The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members.


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Indonesia confirms Bali bomb mastermind killed (AFP)

5 hours 41 min ago

An undated picture of the militant leader Dulmatin. The Al-Qaeda-trained bomber is the suspected mastermind of some of the region's most notorious attacks and the United States' Rewards for Justice programme had posted a 10 million US dollar bounty on his head.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Indonesia's president on Wednesday confirmed that a bombmaker believed to be behind the Bali bombings was killed in a Jakarta raid and vowed to keep hunting extremists in a landmark address to Australia's parliament.


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Behind the scenes, crafting the US no-fly list (AP)

5 hours 43 min ago

Graphic shows process of determining who gets on the Federal No-Fly listAP - It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home.


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Iceland opposition toughens on new "Icesave" talks (Reuters)

6 hours 8 min ago
Reuters - Iceland's opposition turned up the heat on the center-left government on Wednesday to hold out for a tough new "Icesave" debt accord with Britain and the Netherlands, after a referendum rejection of its previous deal.
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Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned' (AP)

6 hours 21 min ago

Driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in El Cajon, Calif. Sikes' 2008 Toyota Prius raced out of control on a San Diego freeway Monday. A California Highway Patrol officer helped him stop the car.  (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move.


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Gunmen storm US charity in Pakistan, kill five (AFP)

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Pakistani troops patrol through Hayatabad near the Khyber tribal agency. Militants stormed a building used by a US-based charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, sparking heavy clashes with police and killing at least five people, police and an aid worker said.(AFP/File/Tariq Mahmood)AFP - Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist insurgents.


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