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2-week bike trek supports freedom

By Rami Chami · Monday, April 12,2004 3:06 a.m.

Tibetan monks, youths and supporters gathered Saturday in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest China's 45-year occupation of Tibet. The demonstrators listened to speeches, chanted slogans and sang nationalistic songs calling for Tibetan independence.

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Around The Nation

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 12,2004 2:54 a.m.

Bush satisfied with pre-Sept. 11 probes CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush insisted Sunday he was satisfied federal agents were on top of the terrorist threat after reading a pre-Sept. 11 briefing detailing Osama bin Laden's intentions on U.S. soil.

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Cheney meets with Japanese PM

By Alyson Brodsy and Tom Raum · Monday, April 12,2004 2:52 a.m.

TOKYO -- Vice President Dick Cheney was pledging U.S. support to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in pressing ahead with plans to double Japan's noncombat forces in Iraq despite the furor over the abduction of three citizens, U.S. officials said Sunday.

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U.S. attack helicopter downed in Baghdad; 2 dead

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 12,2004 1:33 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen shot down a U.S. attack helicopter near Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, killing two crew members. A fragile cease-fire was held between Sunni insurgents and Marines in the city of Fallujah, Iraq, while the U.S. military suggested it is open to a negotiated solution in its showdown with a radical Shiite cleric in the south.

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Search for blast victims continues

By Alyson Brodsy and Steve Gutterman · Monday, April 12,2004 1:32 a.m.

OSINNIKI, Russia -- The coal-blackened faces of exhausted rescuers and the red-rimmed eyes of anxious relatives told a grim story of disappearing hope Sunday, a day after a methane blast tore through a Siberian mine, killing at least 42 miners. Five miners remained missing in the latest disaster to strike Russia's hardscrabble coal country. "Most likely, they will all be corpses," said the head of a commission dealing with the disaster.

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Marines fire rocket at mosque

By Alyson Brodsy and Bassem Mroue · Thursday, April 8,2004 2:14 a.m.

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- U.S. Marines in the third day of a battle to pacify the Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, Iraq, fired a rocket and dropped a 500-pound, laser-guided bomb on a mosque compound Wednesday. Witnesses said as many as 40 people were killed. Moreover, Shiite-inspired violence spread to key cities in Iraq. The fighting in Fallujah and neighboring Ramadi, Iraq -- just east of Baghdad -- has killed 15 Marines since Monday and was part of an intensified uprising involving other Sunni towns in northern and central Iraq, and Shiite population centers south of the capital.

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Only 9-11 suspect ever convicted freed

By Alyson Brodsy and David Rising · Thursday, April 8,2004 12:24 a.m.

HAMBURG, Germany -- The only Sept. 11 suspect ever convicted walked out of jail Wednesday smiling and laughing, freed less than two and a half years into a 15-year sentence after judges ruled the evidence was too weak to hold him pending a retrial.

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Defectors condemn North Korea

By Obaid Khawaja · Wednesday, April 7,2004 1:40 a.m.

Little progress was made at the recent six-nation talks concerning North Korea's nuclear program, but an event at IU tried to bring about change to a different issue -- North Korea's human rights violations. Author Soon Ok Lee and her son Daniel Choi -- both survivors of North Korea's prison camp system -- were among guest speakers

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2 TV crews held hostage by inmates

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 7,2004 1:24 a.m.

QUITO, Ecuador -- In the midst of a national strike by prison guards, inmates in Quito's women's prison took two television news crews hostage Tuesday to press their demands for shorter sentences and better living conditions.

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Violence against U.S. spreads to several Iraqi cities

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Wednesday, April 7,2004 1:23 a.m.

NAJAF, Iraq -- Insurgents and rebellious Shiites mounted a string of attacks across Iraq's Shiite south and U.S. Marines launched a major assault on the turbulent Sunni city of Fallujah Tuesday. Up to a dozen Marines, two more coalition soldiers and at least 66 Iraqis were reported killed.

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Warrant issued for Iraqi cleric

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Tuesday, April 6,2004 2:14 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. administrators in Iraq declared a radical Shiite cleric an "outlaw" Monday and announced a warrant for his arrest, heightening a confrontation after battles between his supporters and coalition troops killed at least 52 Iraqis and nine coalition troops, including eight Americans.

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Flash flood sweeps through Mexican city, leaving 25 dead

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 6,2004 12:28 a.m.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico -- Torrential rains swelled a tributary of the Rio Grande River by 25 feet early Monday, causing a flash flood that swamped a Mexican border city, killing at least 25 people and forcing hundreds more into shelters. Dozens more people are missing, and the death toll is expected to rise. Mexico declared a state of emergency in the area.

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IU to hold human rights conference

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 6,2004 12:19 a.m.

A conference examining the human rights crisis in North Korea will be held tonight at 7 p.m. in the Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union. Author Soon Ok Lee and her son, Daniel Choi, both survivors of North Korea's prison camp system, will be among speakers scheduled for the event.

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Spain arrests new bomb suspect

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 6,2004 12:18 a.m.

MADRID, Spain -- Authorities announced another arrest in the Madrid, Spain, terror bombings Monday and sent police to patrol subway and bus stations, as a newspaper said a group linked to al Qaeda threatened to turn Spain into "an inferno."

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8 U.S. troops killed in Iraqi riots

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 5,2004 2:09 a.m.

NAJAF, Iraq -- Supporters of an anti-American cleric rioted in four Iraqi cities Sunday, killing eight U.S. troops and one Salvadoran soldier in the worst unrest since the spasm of looting and arson immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

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Around The Nation

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 5,2004 12:35 a.m.

9-11 panel to query Rice on flaws WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The commission looking into the Sept. 11 attacks will ask Condoleezza Rice why governmental bureaucracy became so flawed as to allow the terrorist strike and how the Bush administration plans to fix the problems, panel members said Sunday.

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Alleged ringleader of Spain bombings dies in explosion

By Alyson Brodsy and Mar Roman · Monday, April 5,2004 12:34 a.m.

MADRID, Spain -- The apartment house suicide blast that killed the alleged ringleader of last month's Madrid, Spain, train bombings and four other terror suspects has left the core of the terror group either dead or in jail, Spain's interior minister said Sunday.

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Desserts display student diversity

By Rick Newkirk · Monday, April 5,2004 12:32 a.m.

Add two eggs, one-half cup of sugar and some caramel and you've got flan. Add tapioca pearls, coconut milk and palm sugar and you've got Malaysian tapioca. Add phyllo dough, walnuts and cinnamon and you've got baklava. Add flan, Malaysian tapioca and baklava and you've got "Desserts from Around the World," an international dessert festival uniting different people with the common interest of desserts.

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