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Stem cell process spares embryos

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:15 a.m.

NEW YORK -- In an innovative move, a biotech company has found a new way of making stem cells without destroying embryos, touting it as a way to defuse one of the country's fiercest political and ethical debates.

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Iran agrees to nuclear talks

By Alyson Brodsy and Ali Akbar Dareini · Tuesday, Aug. 22,2006 11:48 p.m.

Tehran, Iran -- Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that Tehran was ready to enter "serious negotiations" over its disputed nuclear program but did not say whether it was willing to suspend uranium enrichment -- the West's key demand.

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JonBenet suspect heads to Colorado

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Aug. 22,2006 11:15 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- John Mark Karr waived extradition Tuesday and agreed to be sent to Colorado to face first-degree murder charges in the slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.

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Flash floods kill 100 in Ethiopia

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 6,2006 6:42 p.m.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- More than 100 people were killed by flooding Sunday in a town in eastern Ethiopia, a government official said. As many as 10,000 people fled Dire Dawa and surrounding areas after flash floods tore through the town early Sunday, said Sisay Tadesse, a spokesman for the government-run Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency. Heavy rains in Dire Dawa, 180 miles east of the capital, Addis Ababa, swelled nearby rivers, which overflowed their banks and flooded the town, Sisay said.

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Elian Gonzalez wishes Castro well

By Alyson Brodsy and Anita Snow · Sunday, Aug. 6,2006 6:40 p.m.

HAVANA -- Elian Gonzalez sent a note Sunday wishing a speedy recovery to "my dear grandpa Fidel," and Cuba's vice president said the world's longest-serving leader is recuperating well after surgery. Former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrived in Havana, telling Cuban state media, "I am sure that we will soon have Fidel resuming his functions and leading his people." Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle with family members in Miami six years ago, published a letter in the Communist Youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, signed with "little kisses" from him and his half-siblings and cousins. "We send you this letter to let you know that we are worried about your health," Elian, now 12, wrote. "We hope for your speedy recovery and take the opportunity to wish you a happy birthday, may you have many more." The ailing leader turns 80 on Aug. 13. Vice President Carlos Lage said in Bolivia Saturday that media reports that Castro had abdominal cancer were false.

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Iraqi forces lift curfew in Mosul after rounding up 62 suspects

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 6,2006 6:40 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities lifted a partial curfew in the country's third-largest city Sunday after repulsing a series of attacks and rounding up dozens of suspects. Ten people were killed elsewhere in the country in ongoing sectarian and political violence, police said, while several U.S. Marines were injured in a suicide bomb attack. Heavy fighting erupted in Mosul Friday between security forces and insurgents, killing a police colonel and raising concern that insurgents were regrouping there.

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Hezbollah rockets kill 11 in Israel; Israel strikes south Lebanon as fighting intensifies

By Joseph Panossian · Sunday, Aug. 6,2006 6:39 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding 14, while Israeli bombardment killed a dozen people in Lebanon as fighting intensified despite a draft U.N. cease-fire resolution. Israeli jets fired six missiles into Beirut's southern suburbs Sunday afternoon, Lebanese security officials said. Loud explosions shook the capital, and a column of white smoke rose over the horizon. Hezbollah and its allies rejected the U.S.-French text of the U.N. resolution, saying its terms for a halt in fighting did not address Lebanon's demands -- in a signal that the nearly 4-week-old battle would burn on.

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Afghan insurgents attack NATO forces

By Alyson Brodsy and Noor Khan · Wednesday, Aug. 2,2006 5:59 p.m.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents attacked a Danish camp in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, seriously wounding one soldier in the third assault on Denmark's contingent since it deployed to the volatile region last week. A Taliban ambush in the same province Tuesday killed three British soldiers and seriously wounded a fourth. They were the first NATO deaths since the alliance assumed military control of southern Afghanistan from a U.S.-led coalition Monday.

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Haditha investigation supports accusations against Marines

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert Burns · Wednesday, Aug. 2,2006 5:59 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Evidence collected on the deaths of 24 Iraqis in Haditha supports accusations that U.S. Marines deliberately shot the civilians, including unarmed women and children, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. Agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service have completed their initial work on the incident last November, but may be asked to probe further as Marine Corps and Navy prosecutors review the evidence and determine whether to recommend criminal charges, according to two Pentagon officials who discussed the matter on condition of anonymity.

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Castro tries to reassure Cubans his health is stable

By Alyson Brodsy and Vanessa Arrington · Wednesday, Aug. 2,2006 5:58 p.m.

HAVANA -- The Cuban government sought to reassure citizens after Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power for the first time in 47 years, releasing a statement from the world's longest-serving head of government saying his health is stable, his spirits good and the defense of the island guaranteed. His brother and designated successor, Raul Castro, remained silent and out of sight, issuing no statements of his own. Despite the affirmations that all was well, there appeared to be an increase in police patrols in some working-class neighborhoods and coastal areas.

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Israeli commandos, Hezbollah clash in northeastern Lebanon

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Wednesday, Aug. 2,2006 5:56 p.m.

BOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon -- Israel pressed the first full day of a massive new ground attack, sending 8,000 troops into southern Lebanon on Wednesday and seizing five people it said were Hezbollah fighters in a dramatic airborne raid on a northeastern town. Hezbollah retaliated with its deepest strikes yet into Israel, firing a record number of more than 160 rockets. Diplomatic efforts faltered, with France saying it will not participate in a Thursday U.N. meeting that could send troops to help monitor a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.

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Iraqi leader addresses U.S.

By Alyson Brodsy and Anne Plummer Flaherty · Wednesday, July 26,2006 7:52 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki insisted Wednesday that Iraq is a front line in the war on terrorism and said those behind the rampant violence in Iraq are perverting the Islamic faith. "I know some of you question whether Iraq is part of the war on terror," al-Maliki told a joint meeting of Congress, where some lawmakers have been critical of the new Iraqi leader's position on the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah militants. "Let me be very clear," al-Maliki said. "This is a battle between true Islam, for which a person's liberty and rights constitute essential cornerstones, and terrorism, which wraps itself in a fake Islamic cloak." Several Democrats critical of al-Maliki attended and participated in standing ovations as the Iraqi leader spoke. It was not immediately clear whether any lawmakers made good on a threat to boycott the address.

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Bush pushes surveillance bill

By Alyson Brodsy and Andrew Taylor · Wednesday, July 26,2006 7:48 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- As debate continues over the legality of President Bush's domestic spying program, the administration pressed Congress Wednesday to ease Internet age surveillance restrictions. Technological advances and a shift in adversaries from Cold War rivals to terrorists mean the 1978 law covering such monitoring -- the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) -- is now behind the times, CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Hezbollah rocks Israeli soldiers in raid

By Alyson Brodsy and Sam F. Ghattas · Wednesday, July 26,2006 7:47 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Hezbollah inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli troops as they battled for a key hilltop town in southern Lebanon for a fourth day Wednesday, with as many as 14 soldiers reported killed. Lebanese officials, meanwhile, confirmed that four U.N. observers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their post Tuesday night. With Israel facing fiercer resistance than expected in its campaign against the Islamic militants, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel wants to establish a 1.2 mile-wide strip in south Lebanon that will be free of Hezbollah guerrillas -- ruling out a larger occupation.

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