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INDIA TRAIN FIRE

66 killed in a bombing in India

By Abdullah AlShihri and Muneeza Naqvi · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2007 12 a.m.

DEWANA, India – Two bombs exploded on a train headed from India to Pakistan, sparking a fire that swept through two coaches and killed 66 people in an attack that officials said Monday was aimed at undermining the peace process between the rivals. Witnesses described a scene of horror as panic-stricken passengers were trapped in one of the burning cars even after the train stopped, just before midnight Sunday in a rural area in northern India. The screams of the victims filled the night, then were drowned out by the roar of the flames. Most of the dead were Pakistani, said Railway Minister Laloo Prasad. Dozens were injured.

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Stranded climbers rescued

By Abdullah AlShihri and Sarah Skidmore · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2007 12 a.m.

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. – Three climbers stranded on Mount Hood after a fall were rescued Monday after spending the night amid ferocious winds and blowing snow. “Their condition is very good at this time,” Russell Gubele, coordinating communications for the rescue operation, told CNN.

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8 U.S. troops killed, another 14 injured in helicopter crash in Afghanistan

By Abdullah AlShihri and Noor Khan · Monday, Feb. 19,2007 12 a.m.

A U.S. helicopter suffered a “sudden, unexplained loss of power” and crashed Sunday in southeastern Afghanistan, killing eight American troops, the military said. Fourteen people on board survived. A NATO spokesman denied the helicopter had been shot down, saying the pilot had radioed ahead to report engine problems. It was the deadliest U.S. crash in Afghanistan since last May. The CH-47 Chinook helicopter was carrying 22 U.S. service members under overcast skies when there was a “sudden, unexplained loss of power and control and crashed,” U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. David Accetta said. The 14 survivors suffered injuries.

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By Abdullah AlShihri · Monday, Feb. 19,2007 12 a.m.

The U.S. and Israel agreed not to work with any new Palestinian government that does not renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept existing peace agreements, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday. The U.S. and Israel agreed on the decision ahead of a three-way meeting with the Palestinians.

IRAQ CAR BOMB

Twin car bombs kill 56 in Baghdad

By Abdullah AlShihri and Brian Murphy · Monday, Feb. 19,2007 12 a.m.

Two car bombs exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 56 people and injuring scores in the deadliest attack since U.S. and Iraqi forces began a major security push around the capital last week.

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Friday, Feb. 16,2007 12:14 p.m.

An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.

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Wednesday, Feb. 14,2007 11:13 p.m.

State Farm Insurance is suspending sales of any new commercial or homeowner policies in Mississippi starting Friday. State Farm cited in part a wave of litigation it has faced after Hurricane Katrina. Mike Fernandez, vice president of public affairs, said the state's "current legal and political environment is simply untenable. We're just not in a position to accept any additional risk in this homeowners' market."

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Bush: Iranian government supplying weapons in Iraq

By Terence Hunt · Wednesday, Feb. 14,2007 11:09 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said on Wednesday he's certain the Iranian government is supplying deadly weapons used by fighters in Iraq against U.S. troops, even if he can't prove that the orders came from top Iranian leaders. More important, Bush said in his first news conference of the year, is the need to protect American forces against the new weapons and technology, including sophisticated new roadside bombs.

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Chrysler to cut 13,000 jobs, close plants

By Tom Krisher · Wednesday, Feb. 14,2007 11:08 p.m.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- In the next three years, 13,000 Chrysler workers will lose their jobs under a wrenching restructuring announced Wednesday that eventually may lead to a DaimlerChrysler divorce. The Chrysler unit of the German-American automaker announced its long-awaited plan at its Auburn Hills headquarters, saying it would cut 16 percent of the U.S. division's worldwide work force, a move it hoped would return its U.S. operations to profitability next year.

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Tuesday, Feb. 13,2007 10:07 p.m.

Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran for 72 hours as part of the drive to secure and pacify Baghdad, the Iraqi commander of the crackdown said Tuesday, hours after a suicide bombing in a mainly Shiite neighborhood killed at least 15 people.

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House members debate Iraq war policy

By Anne Flaherty · Tuesday, Feb. 13,2007 10:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- House members fiercely debated Iraq war policy Tuesday in an emotional and historic floor faceoff over a conflict that Speaker Nancy Pelosi lambasted as a U.S. commitment with "no end in sight."

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Monday, Feb. 12,2007 10:22 p.m.

House Democratic leaders circulated a nonbinding resolution Monday saying that Congress "disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush ... to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq." The measure, expected to come to a vote by Friday, also says that "Congress and the American people will continue to support and protect the members of the United States armed forces who are serving or who have served bravely and honorably in Iraq."

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Iran rejects U.S. accusations it armed Shiite insurgents in Iraq

By Ali Akbar Dareini · Monday, Feb. 12,2007 10:21 p.m.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran on Monday rejected U.S. accusations that the highest levels of Iranian leadership have armed Shiite militants in Iraq with armor-piercing roadside bombs. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a televised interview that his country was opposed to conflict and bloodshed in Iraq and that problems in Iraq should be solved with dialogue, not by force.

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Gates to Putin: 'One Cold War is enough'

By Lolita C. Baldor · Sunday, Feb. 11,2007 11:55 p.m.

MUNICH, Germany -- Pentagon chief Robert Gates responded Sunday to Vladimir Putin's assault on U.S. foreign policy by saying "one Cold War is enough" and that he would go to Moscow to try to reduce tensions.

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Sunday, Feb. 11,2007 6:33 p.m.

At least five people were killed Sunday in Somalia during a march that drew thousands in support of peacekeepers. Thousands had marched through Kismayo, Somalia, 260 miles southwest of the capital, Mogadishu, to support a proposed peacekeeping mission for the country.

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U.S.: Iranian government delivering bombs to Iraq

By Steven R. Hurst · Sunday, Feb. 11,2007 6:32 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- High-tech roadside bombs that have proved particularly deadly to American soldiers are manufactured in Iran and delivered to Iraq on orders from the "highest levels" of the Iranian government, a senior intelligence officer said Sunday.

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Thursday, Feb. 8,2007 11:59 p.m.

The name "Taiwan" would soon replace "China" on the island's stamps, a move likely to anger Beijing, Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-bian, said Thursday. Labels and titles are sensitive issues in both Taiwan and China, which split amid civil war in 1949.

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