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At least 13 Palestinians killed, dozens wounded in attacks

By Alyson Brodsy and Ibrahim Barzak · Tuesday, Sept. 7,2004 1:30 a.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli helicopters attacked a Hamas training field early Tuesday, killing at least 13 Palestinians and wounding 25 in the bloodiest strike in Gaza in months, officials from both sides said. Most of the casualties were members of the anti-Israeli militant group. The attack came a week after Hamas carried out a double suicide bombing in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, killing 16 Israelis and breaking a six-month lull in major violence against the Jewish state.

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New York returning to normal after RNC leaves

By Josh Sanburn · Monday, Sept. 6,2004 2:35 a.m.

NEW YORK -- After more than a week of press, protests and politics, many New Yorkers will return to the city today since the Republican National Convention has left town. While some in New York weathered the Republican storm, many took a week or more off work to escape the more than 50,000 people who visited the city for the convention.

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Russian school standoff ends in tragedy

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 6,2004 2:01 a.m.

BESLAN, Russia -- Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town Sunday, and the region's top police officer offered his resignation in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left at least 350 people dead.

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Hoosier basks in spotlight of RNC

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Monday, Sept. 6,2004 1:22 a.m.

NEW YORK -- All Jenna Friederick needed was time. She needed time to figure things out, time to step back and look at what she wanted, time to focus. Time is what she has taken. After taking three semesters off, the IU senior was in New York this week working at the Republican National Convention.

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From The Floor

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 3,2004 12:30 a.m.

Journalists get to party, too NEW YORK -- While there is a party somewhere in New York City each night for the delegates, the politicians or both, the media has its own space to relax next to Madison Square Garden. Barneys New York Loft, which opened this week in the Farley Media Center exclusively for members of the media, offers journalists a lounge with complimentary beer, billiards, manicures, chair-massages, makeovers, mini-facials and waxing, all at no charge.

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Miller's speech upsets Dems

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Friday, Sept. 3,2004 12:24 a.m.

NEW YORK -- For Democrats, last night was a slap in the face. One of their own stood in front of a packed house at Madison Square Garden and not only hailed the president, a Republican, but slashed apart his own party and its presidential nominee. Sen. Zell Miller's, D-Ga., speech didn't sit well with the Indiana Democratic Party.

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VP Cheney accepts GOP nomination

By Josh Sanburn · Thursday, Sept. 2,2004 1:43 a.m.

To a crowd chanting "four more years," and following a raucous keynote speech by Democrat Zell Miller, Dick Cheney accepted the nomination for vice president of the United States Wednesday night.

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Diner turned into media hub

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Thursday, Sept. 2,2004 1:43 a.m.

NEW YORK -- ESPN has its Zone. The Internet has its cafes. Now, CNN has its -- diner? The Cable News Network has turned the Tick Tock Diner into the CNN Diner for the Republican National Convention.

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Israel holds Syria responsible for suicide bombings, official says

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Lavie · Thursday, Sept. 2,2004 1:12 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- Israel holds Syria responsible for a double suicide bombing that killed 16 people, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday in a warning that implied possible retaliation. The militant Islamic group Hamas claimed the attack Tuesday in the desert city of Beersheba, when two bombers from the West Bank city of Hebron blew themselves up seconds apart in two buses.

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From The Floor

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 2,2004 1:12 a.m.

Youth Convention sparks controversy NEW YORK -- The Bush sisters, actress Angie Harmon, St. Louis Rams defensive back Jason Sehorn and MTV's "Stand Up and Holla!" winner Princella Price were among the many who addressed the crowd Wednesday afternoon at the Youth Convention at the Republican National Convention.

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Militants hold Russian school, children hostage

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 2,2004 1:09 a.m.

BELSAN, Russia -- More than a dozen militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people -- half of them children -- and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As many as eight people have been reported killed, one of them a student's parent.

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Republicans shift to domestic issues

By Josh Sanburn · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 3:07 a.m.

NEW YORK -- If Monday night was all about national security and Sept. 11, the Republican National Convention certainly took a shift toward domestic issues Tuesday, featuring first lady Laura Bush, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Secretary of Education and IU alumnus Rod Paige.

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Campaigns cater to student votes

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 3:07 a.m.

NEW YORK -- With the general elections only 62 days away, politicians are heating up their campaigns and keeping college students in sight. Tuesday saw the arrival of Indiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitch Daniels to the Republican National Convention. Daniels had the opportunity to speak at the convention but didn't pursue it. He said doesn't make that much of a difference.

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New regulations could change overtime pay

By Mike Malik · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 2:47 a.m.

New changes made by the George W. Bush administration to the regulations in the Fair Labor Standards Act are affecting workers all across the nation, and IU employees are no exception. The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector as well as in federal, state and local governments.

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State of Iraqi oil conflicted

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 2:16 a.m.

FAW, Iraq -- The status of Iraq's crucial oil exports was mired in confusion Tuesday, with government and industry officials giving contradictory statements about whether oil was flowing or whether there were even oil tankers at the main offshore terminal near Faw. Two top officials with the state-run South Oil Co. said Tuesday that oil shipments from southern Iraq -- which account for 90 percent of the country's exports -- remained halted after weekend attacks on pipelines and oil fields.

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Moscow subway station attacked in bombing

By Alyson Brodsy and Steve Gutterman · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 2:04 a.m.

MOSCOW -- A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station Tuesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 in the second terrorist attack to hit Russia in a week, officials said. Seven days earlier, almost to the hour, two Russian jetliners crashed within minutes of each other in what officials determined were terrorist bombings.

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