“AP - A man who held a grudge against a worker at the hospital where his mother died shot and killed the wrong person, investigators testified Monday, citing a confession to the slayings of three people.”
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AP - President Idriss Deby on Monday pardoned six French aid workers convicted of trying to smuggle 103 children out of Chad.
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AP - Several Japanese movie theaters canceled showings of a documentary about a controversial war shrine after at least one theater received threats, a cinema official said Monday.
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AP - San Francisco is challenging U.S. census figures after a study found the federal government undercounted city residents by almost 100,000.
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AP - IBM Corp. has been temporarily banned from new federal contracts as prosecutors examine interactions between employees of the company and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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AFP - A German hacker group on Monday threatened to publish Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fingerprints as part of a campaign against the government’s use of biometric data in new passports.
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“AP - A Finnish tourist was detained after allegedly stealing a piece of volcanic rock from one of the massive Moai statues on Easter Island.”
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“It seems like some new technology has allowed a club in Amsterdam to power itself using urine. What’s more, Amy Winehouse is being paid $700K to open the club.I don’t quite know what to think about it…”
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AFP - The Olympic torch headed for Kazakhstan Tuesday on the first leg of an epic world tour designed to drum up enthusiasm for the Beijing Games, but also certain to draw anti-China protests.
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Reuters - A gold necklace found near Lake
Titicaca in Peru dates back more than 4,000 years and is the
oldest gold artifact found in the Americas, researchers said on
Monday.
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