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A Reporter's Quest for Osama bin Laden, the Unholy Grail
New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNS As reporting opportunities go, few can have been more
spectacularly flubbed than the one that came my way on a long-ago spring
day in the former Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. The year was
1989; the location a cramped room at ...
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In Nevada, search for missing Canadian man resumes
The Associated Press
RENO, Nevada (AP) — Sheriff's deputies searching for the husband of a
Canadian woman who survived for seven weeks on water and trail mix in their
stranded van in remote mountains near the Nevada-Idaho border were holding
out hope against all odds on ...
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Huntsman: Why I served Obama
Politico
COLUMBIA, SC — Jon Huntsman marked his return from China to the United
States with a sweeping address calling young Americans to serve their
country — even if it's by working for the president of a different
political party. "Serve [America], if asked. ...
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London demo against Syria's Assad
BBC News
Hundreds of people have demonstrated against President Bashar al-Assad
outside the Syrian embassy in London. They called for President Assad and
Libya's embattled leader Colonel Gaddafi to step down. On Friday, Foreign
Secretary William Hague welcomed ...
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Singapore's Lee Retains Power With Smallest Margin Since 1965
BusinessWeek
By Shamim Adam and Weiyi Lim May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong's People's Action Party retained power with the smallest
margin of popular votes since independence amid a record turnout that
tripled the number of opposition ...
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The Untamable Mississippi River
New York Times
The rain-swollen Mississippi River crested to an all-time high last week as
it surged past Cairo, Ill., exceeding the 1937 record by 2 feet. Government
engineers were left with two choices: Let Cairo flood or explode a levee to
save the town. ...
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Taliban launch wave of attacks in Afghanistan's Kandahar |
Reuters
By Ismail Sameem KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents,
including at least six suicide bombers, hit government targets in southern
Afghanistan's Kandahar on Saturday, triggering gunbattles that killed two
people in what the militants ...
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Three-day standoff in Manchester, NH, ends when suspect is shot
Boston Globe
By Ursula Munn, Globe Correspondent A three-day standoff in Manchester, NH
between an unidentified man and authorities ended this morning when the man
was shot and killed, according to a statement released this afternoon by
Attorney General Michael A. ...
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Border issues affect ASEAN credibility: leaders of Thailand, Cambodia
Xinhua
JAKARTA, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his
Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen both said here Saturday that their border
issues affect ASEAN's credibility. Hun Sen said, in his speech at the first
session of the ongoing 18th ...
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