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Israeli bread crisis averted after talks

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

JERUSALEM -- Israel's flour mills agreed to end a six-day work stoppage Sunday, reaching accord with the government for a 14 percent increase in flour prices and averting a nationwide bread shortage.

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Bush pledges support for victims

By Sandra Sobieraj · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Victims of violent crime, too often an afterthought in the courts, deserve a constitutional amendment guaranteeing their rights, President Bush said Tuesday. "The protection of victims' rights is one of those rare instances when amending the Constitution is the right thing to do," he said, endorsing a proposal introduced Monday in the Senate by Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.

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Israeli campaign halted

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

JENIN, West Bank -- With Israeli forces gone from most Palestinian cities in the West Bank, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Sunday that Israel has completed the latest stage of its "war on terrorism" and will turn to new tactics as it presses the campaign. Israel withdrew troops from Nablus, the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, and most of Ramallah, the Palestinian headquarters in the territory. But soldiers remained at two sensitive and volatile sites -- Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where armed Palestinians are holed up inside. The Israeli army also said its forces remain in several villages near Jenin, though Israeli forces Friday left Jenin city and the neighboring refugee camp, the scene of the heaviest fighting in three weeks of Israeli incursions aimed in the West Bank.

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Britain mourns Princess Margaret

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

LONDON -- Britons lined up at St. James's Palace Sunday to sign condolence books for Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's vivacious younger sister who died at 71. People also were encouraged to leave messages on the royal family's Web site in memory of the princess who, in the words of her nephew Prince Charles, "loved life and lived it to the full."

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Iranian president blasts Bush

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

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's pro-reform president, responding to President Bush's comments in support of the reform movement here, denounced the American leader on Sunday as a "warmonger" with a false view of events in this country. The sharp comments by President Mohammad Khatami came as another top reformist told Bush to stay out of the movement's struggle with hard-liner clerics, who have tried to prevent change in Iran's Islamic government.

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4 Western journalists missing, suspected dead in Afghanistan

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

JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- Four international journalists were missing and feared dead Monday after gunmen ambushed a convoy of reporters in a narrow mountain pass on the road to the capital, Kabul. The six gunmen stopped the cars and led the journalists away, then opened fire, witnesses said. Those missing included a television cameraman and a photographer working for the Reuters news agency; a journalist with the Spanish daily El Mundo; and a journalist with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.

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Powell: Iraq needs 'regime change'

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

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin Powell told members of Congress Wednesday that there must be a "regime change" in Iraq and he suggested that the United States "might have to do it alone." At a House hearing, Powell said President Bush was considering "the most serious set of options one might imagine" for dealing with President Saddam Hussein and his defiance of U.N. international weapons inspections.

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Shadowed Air India Jet lands

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

NEW YORK -- Canadian fighters shadowed a New York-bound Air India jetliner over the Atlantic Ocean Thursday after authorities determined that a suspicious passenger was aboard, U.S. government officials said. The commercial plane, flying from London to New York, landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4:45 p.m. It was believed to be carrying 378 passengers and 19 crew members. U.S. fighters had been expected to escort the plane once it entered U.S. airspace.

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Around The World

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

Scientists find gene defect involved in skin cancer Senators: Bush plan misses flaws in FBI and CIA Rumsfeld visits U.S. troops in Kuwait U.N. refugee agency out of money Tijuana installs cameras in police stations

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Wall Street braces for another hard week

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

NEW YORK -- Wall Street's hemorrhaging may not be over, much to the chagrin of investors who have watched stock prices plummet for nine straight weeks. Even after the 390-point plunge Friday that took the Dow Jones industrials to their lowest close in nearly four years, many analysts said a brief bounce higher on bargain hunting is the best the market is likely to get -- and more losses Monday were still a strong possibility.

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Flags return to full staff

By Nancy Benac · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

A solemn President Bush returned the American flag to full staff Sunday as the United States promised to lay out evidence making Osama bin Laden's guilt in the terrorist attacks "very obvious to the world." The administration scoffed at Taliban claims that he cannot be found. Secretary of State Colin Powell said the government would "put before the world, the American people, a persuasive case that ... it is al-Qaida, led by Osama bin Laden, who has been responsible."

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Unearthed skull may be oldest known

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

In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor -- a remarkably intact skull of a previously unknown species that walked upright as far back as 7 million years ago.

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President speaks to nation

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

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday night that tens of thousands of terrorists still threaten America, like "ticking time bombs, set to go off" and promised to stalk them across the globe. In his first State of the Union address, he pledged a battle of equal vigor to revive the ailing economy. "We will prevail in war, and we will defeat this recession," the commander in chief said, standing before Congress and the public with heroically high approval ratings. Nearly five months after the Sept. 11 attacks that shocked the world, Bush pledged to push the war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan to a dozen countries that are believed to be harboring terrorist camps.

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Rumsfeld likely to scale back jet patrols

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

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated Sunday he probably will scale back the continuous fighter jet patrols over U.S. cities. He raised the possibility of tying the intensity of the patrols to different levels of threats against the U.S., as assessed by the government. "My personal view has been that what we need to do is what we have always done historically, and that's to have different threat levels. And as we see changes in the threat condition, adjust up or down," Rumsfeld said.

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Rescuers carry on grimly

By Larry McShane · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

NEW YORK -- The gruesome search through the graveyard of the World Trade Center yielded no survivors as the death toll mounted Thursday and hopes dimmed for more than 4,700 missing souls. President Bush promised to visit New York to "hug and cry" with its shaken citizens. Two days after the trade center was hit and destroyed by two hijacked passenger planes, swirling dust kept visibility limited, and sanitation trucks waged a losing fight against the residue of the blast. Hundreds of family members searched for any sign of their loved ones.

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Defense chiefs want action

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

Iraq poses an increasing threat that must be met, the defense chiefs of the United States and Britain said Wednesday, showing growing impatience with Saddam Hussein.

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Bush administration will withhold U.N. funds

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

WASHINGTON -- In a policy reversal, the Bush administration will not pay $34 million it earmarked for U.N. family planning programs overseas, an initiative that conservative groups charge tolerates abortions and forced sterilizations in China.

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