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The United Nations, take 3

By Cameron Thibos · Monday, April 4,2005 12:27 a.m.

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is not pleased with his organization, and it is easy to see why. Member states make empty pledges of aid, Annan's own son is at the center of the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, and Libya, of all countries, oversees the U.N. human rights division. Thus, Annan has decided to clean house.

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Iraqi officials elect Sunni as speaker

By Alyson Brodsy and Traci Carl · Monday, April 4,2005 12:25 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Lawmakers broke days of rancorous stalemate Sunday and reached out to Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority for their parliament speaker, cutting through ethnic and sectarian barriers that have held up selection of a new government for more than two months since the country's first free elections in 50 years.

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Pope John Paul II dies at 84

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Monday, April 4,2005 12:24 a.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II, a dynamic preacher who traveled the world, battled communism and proclaimed his moral code, set an example of how to live life. In his later years, crushed by sickness that slowed his vigorous gait and silenced his powerful voice, he became an example of how to suffer and how to die.

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Pope John Paul II dies

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Saturday, April 2,2005 3:52 p.m.

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II, the Polish pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century and became history's most-traveled pope, died Saturday night in his Vatican apartment. He was 84.

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Pope rumored to have received last rites

By Alyson Brodsy and Frances D'Emilio · Friday, April 1,2005 1:59 p.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II developed a high fever Thursday because of a urinary tract infection and was being treated with antibiotics at the Vatican, his spokesman said. The latest health setback for the 84-year-old pontiff came one day after he began receiving nutrition through a feeding tube.

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Pope's doctors insert nasal feeding tube

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Thursday, March 31,2005 12:26 a.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II is getting nutrition from a tube in his nose, the Vatican said Wednesday, shortly after the frail pontiff appeared at his window in St. Peter's Square and managed only a rasp when he tried to speak.

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Earthquake death toll estimated to be 1,000

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 30,2005 11:46 p.m.

GUNUNG SITOLI, Indonesia -- Firefighters freed a man trapped in a crumpled house on remote Nias island on Wednesday, 36 hours after he was buried in rubble. As the first foreign military help arrived, officials said an estimated 1,000 people had died in the region's latest large earthquake. Later, a magnitude-6.3 quake

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Court denies Schiavo family request

By Alyson Brodsy and Ron Wood · Wednesday, March 30,2005 11:12 p.m.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- With time running out for Terri Schiavo, a federal appeals court Wednesday rejected her parents' latest attempt to get the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reconnected.

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Quake toll expected to rise

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 30,2005 12:11 a.m.

GUNUNG SITOLI, Indonesia -- Indonesians searched through smoldering rubble for survivors on Nias island Tuesday and relatives wept over the bodies of the dead after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake hammered the region, triggering a tsunami scare and killing at least 330 people. Some officials said the death toll could rise as high as 2,000.

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Teen arrested in Minnesota shooting

By Alyson Brodsy and Amy Forliti · Tuesday, March 29,2005 11:26 p.m.

RED LAKE, Minn. -- The chairman of the Red Lake band of Chippewa confirmed Monday that his son was arrested in connection with last week's deadly school shootings but maintained that the teen is innocent.

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Iraqi parliament breaks down

By Alyson Brodsy and Mariam Fam · Tuesday, March 29,2005 11:26 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's fledgling parliament failed Tuesday to agree on who would be its speaker, with the interim prime minister and president storming out of the chaotic session that exposed deep divides among the National Assembly's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish members.

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Annan cleared in oil-for-food inquiry

By Alyson Brodsy and Edith M. Lederer · Tuesday, March 29,2005 11:25 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq said Tuesday there was not enough evidence to show that Secretary-General Kofi Annan knew of a contract bid by his son's Swiss employer. However, they criticized the U.N. chief for not properly investigating possible conflicts of interest in the matter.

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Earthquake strikes Indonesia

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael Casey · Tuesday, March 29,2005 12:15 a.m.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A powerful earthquake struck late Monday off Indonesia's west coast, killing nearly 300 people whose homes collapsed on them and spreading panic across the Indian Ocean that another killer tsunami was on the way.

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Particles

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 28,2005 11:52 p.m.

Seven paralyzed patients near Stuttgart, Germany, have been surfing the Internet and writing letters to friends from their homes. And at labs in several universities, monkeys operate mechanical arms with just their brains.

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