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Congress considers war an option with Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy and Calvin Woodward · Monday, Aug. 5,2002 12:08 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- War against Iraq is likely, said a senator exploring U.S. options, and other lawmakers joined him Sunday in pressing the Bush administration to make the case to Congress before any attack. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., led hearings last week that highlighted both the gravity of the threat posed by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the difficulty of replacing him with stable leadership.

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Bush to provide aid to Uruguay

By Alyson Brodsy and Martin Crutsinger · Sunday, Aug. 4,2002 11:42 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will provide an emergency $1.5 billion loan to Uruguay to help the country deal with an economic crisis that forced its banks to close last week, officials said Sunday.

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U.N. chief refuses Iraq visits

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 4,2002 9:05 p.m.

CAIRO -- The United Nations chief arms inspector said he will not go to Iraq for technical talks until Baghdad approves the return of weapons inspectors.

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Faculty discuss, debate effect of new corporate reform bill

By Garv Machhar · Wednesday, July 31,2002 11:34 p.m.

A major accounting firm convicted of obstructing justice. A leading brokerage caught misleading its clients. Arrogant chief executives falling like flies. Huge corporations tumbling into bankruptcy. Business pages that reflect crime stories. "The events that occurred during the last six months is just the beginning of other corporate frauds to be uncovered as the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and Congress prepare to broaden and deepen their investigation," IU corporate finance professor Shreenivas Kamma said. "It is just that the magnitude of the effect won't be so huge."

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More corporate reforms needed

By Alyson Brodsy and Jennifer Loven · Wednesday, July 31,2002 11:17 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan chorus of critics on Wednesday questioned the extent of President Bush's support for protecting corporate whistle-blowers who expose cooked books or mislead investors.

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Bomb blast kills 7 at Hebrew University

By Alyson Brodsy and Greg Myre · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:36 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- A bomb hidden in a bag ripped through a busy cafeteria at Hebrew University, killing seven people Wednesday as it shattered the academic peace and left behind pools of blood in one of the few places where young Jews and Arabs still mixed freely.

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Miners emerge safely

By Alyson Brodsy and Larry Neumeister · Sunday, July 28,2002 11:28 p.m.

SOMERSET, Pa. -- One of the miners pulled from a cramped, flooded shaft where he and eight others were trapped for three days said Sunday he thought he was going to die. "I didn't think I was going to see my wife and kids again," a teary-eyed Harry B. Mayhugh told reporters, several hours after being pulled out of the Quecreek Mine in western Pennsylvania.

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Ukrainian jet crash takes at least 83 lives

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 28,2002 10:38 p.m.

LVIV, Ukraine -- Hundreds of tearful relatives waited anxiously outside an overcrowded morgue Sunday while forensic officials tried to identify the mangled remains of victims of a Ukrainian military jet crash that killed at least 83 people at an air show.

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Senator attacks Bush's request on bill

By Alyson Brodsy and Scott Lindlaw · Sunday, July 28,2002 10:32 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's insistence on winning broad personnel powers over the proposed Homeland Security Department is an insult to unionized government employees, the chief Senate sponsor of legislation that would establish the agency said Sunday.

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Powell travels to Pakistan, India

By Alyson Brodsy and Kathy Gannon · Sunday, July 28,2002 10:31 p.m.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Secretary of State Colin Powell refused Sunday to back the claim by Pakistan's president that his government had stopped militant Muslims from crossing the disputed Kashmiri border into India, but said tensions between the rivals have eased.

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Alliance claims advances

By Abdullah AlShihri and Steven Gutkin · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Backed by heavy U.S. bombing, Afghan opposition forces claimed the capture Tuesday of several key towns on the road to Mazar-e-Sharif in their first reported significant advance against Taliban defenses.

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Economic gains still in question

By U Jae Kang · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

In the midst of pessimistic economic expectations, rising unemployment rates and sluggish capital spending, the government is trying to find ways to boost consumer expenditure and investment in business. Republicans and Democrats are wrangling over the details of the fiscal stimulus package. But since the federal government has a major budget surplus, the stimulus package is expected to be relatively large and would have a huge impact on the economy.

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Exit polls show France's conservatives take control of parliament

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

PARIS -- Exit polls showed French Socialists had lost control of the nation's parliament on Sunday, with the mainstream right winning a landslide election that would give conservative President Jacques Chirac more power than at any time in the last five years. Chirac's Union for the Presidential Majority, a coalition of rightist parties, captured between 360 and 378 seats, winning control of the 577-seat National Assembly, France's lawmaking body, exit polls showed.

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Space tourist lands, urges others to make trip

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

ASTANA, Kazakstan -- The Russian capsule carrying the world's first paying space tourist landed successfully Sunday on the steppes of Kazakstan, ending American Dennis Tito's multimillion-dollar adventure in the cosmos.

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Friends mourn L.A. shooting victims

By Alyson Brodsy and Paul Wilborn · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Friends and relatives gathered on Sunday to mourn the two people killed in the July 4 shooting at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, which was condemned by some as an act of terrorism.

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United States offers troops to Afghan village

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

KAKARAK, Afghanistan -- The United States may station troops in the area where a recent American airstrike killed scores of civilians in a move to encourage local development and improve community relations, the commander of U.S. forces said Sunday. Lt. Gen. Dan K. McNeill flew to this village in Uruzgan province less than a week after an attack that Afghans say killed 48 people, including 25 members of an extended family attending a wedding. Another 117 people were reportedly wounded in the attack last Monday.

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