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AFP - Hong Kong's justice secretary said the government was mistaken in originally ruling the territory's chief executive must serve a five-year term.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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Reuters - Israel's handover of a
second West Bank city, intended as a gesture to strengthen
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, may be delayed after talks
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Reuters - The U.S. Senate unanimously passed
legislation on Sunday aimed at prolonging the life of a
brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo, in an extraordinary
intervention by Congress to move the Florida case into the
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AP - Julius Hodge scored on a slashing drive through the lane with 4.3 seconds left to break a 62-all tie and send North Carolina State past second-seeded Connecticut 65-62 Sunday in the second round of the NCAA tournament.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - Naomi Watts ran rings around the competition as her horror sequel "The Ring 2" took in $36 million to debut as the top weekend movie.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - John Z. DeLorean, an automotive innovator who left General Motors Corp. to develop a radically futuristic sports car only to see that venture crash spectacularly as he fought federal drug charges, has died at age 80.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday sought further help from China in getting North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks and aired U.S. concerns about Beijing's bellicose rhetoric on Taiwan.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - Gas prices jumped nearly 13 cents in the past two weeks, reaching record levels as retail prices began to catch up with soaring crude oil prices, an industry analyst said Sunday.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - Baseball players and owners agreed Sunday to drop the possibility of fines for steroid use, leaving suspensions as the only discipline.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on world leaders Sunday to approve the most sweeping changes to the United Nations since it was founded 60 years ago, so it can tackle conflicts and terrorism, fight poverty and put human rights at the forefront of its work in the 21st century.{br}{br}Vi | In
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Reuters - Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara
said on Sunday his country was doing everything necessary to
pull its troops out of neighboring Lebanon.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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washingtonpost.com - BEIJING, March 20 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sternly warned European allies on Sunday that they "should do nothing" that alters the military balance of power in Asia through sales of sophisticated weapons to China, suggesting that those arms ultimately could | In
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AP - A footbridge loaded with villagers on their way to a religious festival collapsed, sending four people to their deaths in the rocky river ravine below, authorities and witnesses said Sunday.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - The Greek Orthodox Church is investigating the reported sale of sensitive Jerusalem property to Jewish organizations, a church official said Sunday, as Palestinian Christians staged a protest.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - Pressing his hand to his head and pounding a lectern in apparent frustration, Pope John Paul II made a brief but silent appearance at his apartment window after missing his first Palm Sunday Mass in 26 years as pontiff.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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Reuters - Two U.N. peacekeepers
were shot and killed in Haiti on Sunday in gunfights with rebel
former soldiers who control parts of the Caribbean nation and
led a revolt that ousted its president last year.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
pressed China to make North Korea return to talks on scrapping
its nuclear arms after warning that the United States would not
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Reuters - Investigators hunted for clues on Sunday
to any possible al Qaeda involvement in the suicide bomb attack
by an Egyptian on a Qatar theater that killed a Briton, the
first such attack in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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Reuters - An al Qaeda-linked suicide bomber
assassinated the top anti-corruption police officer in the
northern city of Mosul on Sunday, and U.S. troops said they
killed 24 insurgents in a battle on the outskirts of Baghdad.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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Tony Christie's Is This The Way To Amarillo tops the UK singles chart, 34 years after its first release.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, March 20 -- Iraq and Jordan recalled their top diplomats from Amman and Baghdad Sunday in a deepening dispute over the alleged involvement of a Jordanian citizen in a suicide bombing last month.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} | In
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AP - Iraq and Jordan engaged in a tit-for-tat withdrawal of ambassadors Sunday in a growing dispute over Shiite Muslim claims that Jordan is failing to block terrorists from entering Iraq, while U.S. forces killed 24 insurgents in a clash south of Baghdad.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br} |
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