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AFP - “Sidon’s mountain” bears no resemblance to the green mountains of Lebanon. It is rather an immense landfill that dumps its trash into the Mediterranean, polluting the coast of the ancient Phoenician port city.
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AFP - Israel pressed its assault against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with a series of strikes on Saturday, killing 10 Palestinians, including at least two children, medical officials said.
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Reuters - Prince Harry was due to arrive back in
Britain on Saturday after news leaked that he had been secretly
fighting on the frontline in Afghanistan for 10 weeks, defense
sources said.
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Reuters - Violent civilian deaths in Iraq rose by
36 percent in February from the previous month after a series
of large-scale bombings blamed on al Qaeda, Iraqi government
figures showed on Saturday.
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AP - A Broadway actor who played the beast in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail and three years’ probation for sexual encounters with a 15-year-old drama student.
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“Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I am a 12-year-old freshman at an all-girls school. Prior to this I was in the public school system. Today I was thinking about my experiences in both systems of schools, which inspired me to write the following poem. You can print it if you like.”
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“Larry Elder - Bookings to promote my new book, “Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card — and Lose,” have been difficult. Many media outlets — television, radio, magazines — flatly turn me down, because they find the title “offensive.” The unwillingness to offend, to avoid the appearance of racism, proves one of [...]

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AP - One of the cruelest ironies of living in Alaska is this: The state is awash in oil money, but many residents of remote villages are struggling to heat their homes because of fuel bills that are two or three times the national average.
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“Reuters - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton are deadlocked in Texas and Ohio heading into
potentially decisive presidential showdowns, according to a
Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Saturday.”
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AP - A federal judge told prosecutors Friday to redraft their indictment of Barry Bonds and made public his grand jury testimony, revealing a previously unpublicized drug test from seven years ago that showed an elevated testosterone level.
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