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Shiite Power Struggle Divides Iraqis
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:48:00 -0400
The Shiite power struggle in Iraq is further dividing the war-torn country. Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's American-backed crackdown on the Mahdi Army is dividing some Shiite families. There are family members who are split between loyalists to Muqtada al Sadr and the Ayatollah Hakim's Badr Brigades.
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Delicate Cease-Fire Holding in Sadr City
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:47:00 -0400
The fragile cease-fire in Sadr City, the large Shiite section of Baghdad, appears to be holding. But people there are cautious because the matter at the root of the violence hasn't been resolved.
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U.S. Postal Rates Go Up a Penny
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:42:00 -0400
U.S. postal rates go up a penny Monday. The number of letters being mailed is down, but costs are up, especially for gasoline.
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Fighting Subsides in Lebanon
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:41:00 -0400
After five days of fighting, Lebanon is largely quiet Monday. The streets of Beirut, which have been the focus of bloody sectarian clashes between Sunnis and Shiites, have been largely deserted. The violence has done nothing to resolve Lebanon's long-running political crisis.
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Volcanic Eruption Forces Evacuations in Chile
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:37:00 -0400
Volcanic ash is raining down on Chile, 10 days after an eruption occurred for the first time in thousands of years. People in the area were evacuated. The volcano eruption has turned lakes and rivers white and coated plants in a dense layer of ash.
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Tornado Devastates Oklahoma Superfund Town
Mon, 12 May 2008 08:35:00 -0400
Picher, Okla., was once among the nation's largest Superfund sites. It was a town prone to cave-ins, from years of overzealous mining. The federal government was in the process of buying out the people who hadn't left yet. Over the weekend, Pitcher was destroyed by a tornado, and it's unlikely anyone will rebuild.
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Quake in China Felt Thousands of Miles Away
Mon, 12 May 2008 08:29:00 -0400
The death toll is expected to rise following an earthquake Monday that struck Southwest China. The state news agency says thousands of people have been killed. An NPR reporting team in Sichuan province, site of the quake's epicenter, reports from the scene.
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Chavez's terrorist ties raise oil prices
Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:42 -0500
The price of oil jumped to $126 a barrel on news that Venezuela President Hugo Chavez may have closer ties than initially suspected with the Columbian terrorist group FARC -- raising fears of U.S. sanctions on his oil-rich nation. Dan Grech reports.
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Wealthy nations buying up land for food
Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:47 -0500
Nations such as Saudi Arabia are seeking to ensure their future food supplies by buying up productive agricultural land in other countries. Sam Eaton reports.
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Drug's victims seek more compensation
Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:51 -0500
Victims left deformed when their mothers took the drug Thalidomide are in Germany to launch the latest stage in a multibillion-dollar campaign to get more compensation from the company that marketed the drug 50 years ago. Stephen Beard reports
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Week on Wall Street
Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:54 -0500
Stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson chats with host Tess Vigeland about what happened on Wall Street this week and what may lie ahead.
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Food crisis hits middle class here, abroad
Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:59 -0500
It's not just the poor who are suffering from the global food crisis. More middle-class people are having trouble feeding themselves. Sean Cole visits a family in Minnesota. Then, Gretchen Wilson reports from South Africa where home gardening is a necessity.
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Cable TV firm wins US newspaper
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:31:30 GMT
Cablevision buys US paper Newsday for $650m, after Rupert Murdoch's News Corp withdraws its bid.
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McCain aides quit over Burma ties
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:53:44 GMT
Two aides to Republican John McCain resign over ties to lobbyists who represented Burma's military junta.
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US court allows apartheid claims
Mon, 12 May 2008 16:01:32 GMT
The US Supreme Court says it cannot consider a lawsuit brought by victims of apartheid against a number of firms.
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Hacker leaks 6m Chileans' files
Mon, 12 May 2008 00:04:27 GMT
A computer hacker in Chile posts confidential data belonging to six million people on the internet.
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Top Mexican policemen killed
Sun, 11 May 2008 02:32:30 GMT
Three top Mexican police officials are shot dead in as many days as the fight against drug gangs continues.
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Bush daughter in private wedding
Sun, 11 May 2008 01:52:26 GMT
President Bush's daughter Jenna gets married in a private ceremony at the family ranch in Texas.
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Rapper on animal, drugs charges
Sun, 11 May 2008 10:38:37 GMT
US rapper DMX is arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty and drug possession following a raid on his home, police say.
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'The Changing World': The My Lai tapes
Thu, 01 May 2008 04:16:00 -0400
Recently declassified recordings reveal the U.S. Army's investigation into the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
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'The Takeaway' on the economy of oil
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:13:00 -0400
Why the U.S. government is stockpiling oil at a time when oil prices are at all-time highs.
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Policing the United Nations
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:22:00 -0400
The BBC reports on evidence of a UN cover-up of the activities of some of its peacekeepers in the Republic of Congo.
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'America Abroad: The Taiwan Dilemma'
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:24:00 -0400
Taipei?s occasional gestures towards independence have stroked the ire of China, and the US has backed its democratic ally.
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A Troubled Global Economy
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:27:00 -0400
'To the Point' looks at how a globalized economy means that America's financial problems could spread to the rest of the world.
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America, Democracy, and the World
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:14:00 -0400
'America Abroad' takes a look at America's attempts at democracy promotion around the world.
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The Kids who Ran Iraq
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:58:00 -0400
The BBC takes a look at the young recruits enlisted to administer the rebuilding of Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
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