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Sharon fights for life after massive stroke

By Alyson Brodsy and Ravi Nessman · Thursday, Jan. 5,2006 10:50 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- Doctors said Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be kept in a coma-like state for up to three days to prevent further damage from a massive stroke. His sons held a bedside vigil and state media broadcast mournful songs.

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Death toll in Nigerian plane crash up to 107, mostly children

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Dec. 20,2005 8:50 a.m.

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- Four people died after being pulled from the wreckage of a Nigerian jetliner that crashed while landing in a storm, state television said Sunday, raising the number killed to 107, most of them schoolchildren coming home for Christmas. The victims included an American aid worker.

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Former senator, '68 presidential candidate dies

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 12,2005 1:44 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89.

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Iraq government prepares for elections

By Alyson Brodsy and Bassem Mroue · Monday, Dec. 12,2005 1:43 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The Iraqi government announced Sunday it will close all borders, extend curfew hours and ban travel across provincial boundaries as part of stringent security measures to protect voters during this week's parliamentary elections. Meanwhile, assailants blew up an electoral center Sunday in a town 12 miles south of Samarra and opened fire on a Turkoman political party office in Mosul, wounding three people, police said.

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Jetliner hits car, kills 6-year-old in Chicago

By Alyson Brodsy and Carla K. Johnson · Friday, Dec. 9,2005 12:28 a.m.

CHICAGO -- A jetliner trying to land in heavy snow slid off a runway at Midway International Airport, crashed through the boundary fence and slid into a busy street, hitting one vehicle and pinning another beneath it. No injuries were immediately reported on the plane, but a six-year-old child was killed in the vehicle, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.

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Congress reaches Patriot Act extension agreement to extend Patriot Act

By Alyson Brodsy and David Espo · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 10:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Key Republicans from the House and Senate reached a White House-backed compromise Thursday to renew the broad powers granted to law enforcement agencies in the days after the 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil. GOP leaders pledged to pass the Patriot Act extension for President Bush's signature by the holidays, although bipartisan criticism flared. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., threatened to filibuster a bill he said lacked adequate safeguards to protect constitutional freedoms.

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Iraqi suicide bomber strikes bus headed for Shiite city

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert H. Reid · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 10:05 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide bomber detonated explosives Thursday inside a packed bus bound for a southern Shiite city, killing 32 people and wounding 44, police said. The blast pushed the three-day death toll from suicide attacks in the capital to at least 75. Meanwhile, a statement posted on the Internet in the name of the Islamic Army in Iraq claimed to have killed an American hostage. The statement did not name the hostage or provide photos, but the group earlier identified its captive as Ronald Alan Schulz and threatened to kill him unless all prisoners in Iraq were released.

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Bush defends Iraq war, says citizens have seen 'tangible progress in their lives'

By Alyson Brodsy and Deb Riechmann · Wednesday, Dec. 7,2005 8:48 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Defending his strategy in Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday that reconstruction has been "uneven" but spreading economic progress is giving people hope for a democratic future. In particular, Bush cited Najaf, 90 miles south of Baghdad, and Mosul in northern Iraq -- once the sites of some of the bloodiest battles of the war -- as two cities where headway is being made, giving Iraqis more of a stake in their country's future.

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Saddam absent from court

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Wednesday, Dec. 7,2005 8:48 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants was adjourned Wednesday until Dec. 21 after two witnesses testified in a truncated session that the ousted president did not attend. After two prosecution witnesses described beatings and torture by the regime, Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin adjourned the proceedings and said the court would reconvene six days after the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.

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Victory in Iraq is an oxymoron

By Alyson Brodsy and David A. Nosko · Tuesday, Dec. 6,2005 12 a.m.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once said: "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war." It seems he was right. As the U.S. soldier death count continues to climb -- more than 2,100 thus far in Iraq -- some Americans and congressional leaders have continued their plea for President Bush to offer a timetable to withdraw the U.S. military from Iraq.

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Rice defends U.S. terrorism policies

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 5,2005 11:59 p.m.

BERLIN -- Fighting terrorism is "a two-way street" and Europeans are safer for tough but legal U.S. tactics, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday in response to an outcry among allies about reports of secret CIA prisons and detainee mistreatment. The top U.S. diplomat went further than others in the Bush administration to insist that Americans do not practice torture or lesser forms of cruel treatment.

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Judge upholds charges against DeLay

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 5,2005 11:59 p.m.

AUSTIN, Texas -- A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge Monday against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the far more serious allegations of money laundering, dashing the congressman's hopes, for now, of reclaiming his post as House majority leader. Texas Judge Pat Priest, who is presiding over the case against the Republican, issued the ruling after a hearing late last month in which DeLay's attorney argued that the indictment was fatally flawed.

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Earthquake jolts east Africa, at least 2 confirmed dead

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 5,2005 11:58 p.m.

KINSHASA, Congo -- A powerful earthquake Monday toppled dozens of homes and buried children in rubble in eastern Congo, killing at least two people in a region already beset by chronic violence and grinding poverty. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, struck at 2:20 p.m. (7:20 a.m. EST) and was centered beneath Lake Tanganyika on the Congo-Tanzania border, about 600 miles southwest of Nairobi, Kenya, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.

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First witness in Saddam trial testifies before court

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Monday, Dec. 5,2005 11:57 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The first witnesses in the Saddam Hussein trial offered chilling accounts Monday of killings and torture using electric shocks and a grinder during a 1982 crackdown against Shiites, as the defiant ex-president threatened the judge and tried to intimidate a survivor One witness said he saw a machine that "looked like a grinder" with hair and blood on it in a secret police center in Baghdad where he and others were tortured for 70 days. He said detainees were kept in "Hall 63." But defense lawyers questioned the reliability of witnesses who were only 15 and 10 at the time and walked out of the tumultuous session when the judge refused to allow former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to address the court on Saddam's behalf. They returned after the judge relented.

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