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Family renting home in foreclosure; no water since May
lohud.com — No one can track down the owner of the house, which is in foreclosure. The family renting it hasn't had water since May. When officials tried to reach the owner in his Florida house, they found that was also in foreclosure. The latest victims in the foreclosure crisis: Renters.More… (World News)
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Hole in Qantas jet forces emergency landing
cnn.com — A Qantas flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne made an emergency landing in the Philippines on Friday after a hole appeared in the fuselage and the cabin lost pressure suddenly.More… (World News)
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King0007Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, has died.
post-gazette.com — Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose final lecture inspired millions, has died of pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch, 47, who turned the lecture into a book, said that no one would have been interested in his words of wisdom were he not a man in his 40s with a terminal illness.More… (World News)
US Helping Upgrade Pakistan Fighter Fleet - Cost 230 Million
news.yahoo.com — The White House confirmed Thursday that it planned to shift 230 million dollars in aid to Pakistan from counter-terrorism programs to upgrading Islamabad's aging F-16 fighter jets.More… (World News)
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Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?
nytimes.com — The Taliban are not the only ones benefiting from the opium trade. Drug-related corruption pervades the Afghan government. A former Bush administration counternarcotics official explains the war within the war.More… (World News)
dagorretACLU: Memos authorized CIA torture
rawstory.com — The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday said it had obtained internal Bush administration documents it says authorizes the CIA to torture detainees. “These documents supply further evidence, if any were needed, that the Justice Department authorized the CIA to torture prisoners in its custody,” said the ACLU's Jameel Jaffer.More… (World News)
Russian plans to station nuclear bombers in Cuba
current.com — The story broke earlier this week, when Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted an un-named source from within the Russian military: “While they are [Bush administration] deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba.” The question is if another Cuban crisis is imminent? More… (World News)
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Navy official: 9/11 Flight 93 was shot down
rawstory.com — Interesting statement indeed during Gitmo war crimes trial...More… (World News)
Obama: Iran a "grave threat" and "no options off the table"
news.yahoo.com — SDEROT, Israel (AFP) - US presidential hopeful Barack H. Obama said on Wednesday that a nuclear Iran would pose a "grave threat" and that the world must prevent it from obtaining the atomic bomb. "I will take no options off the table in dealing with this potential Iranian threat," Obama said.More… (World News)
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No Mistranslation In Maliki Interview: He Endorsed Obama
salon.com — Contrary to claims made by people trying to downplay the impact of the Iraqi prime minister's statement in support of Barack Obama's Iraq plan, it's now clear the translation was correct.More… (World News)
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World's Biggest Aircraft Model Unveiled at Heathrow
telegraph.co.uk — The world's biggest aircraft model - a replica Airbus A380 - has been unveiled at the approach to Heathrow.More… (World News)
MediaSightLA Times-Officer Involved Shootings Renew Anger In Inglewood
latimes.com — Separate slayings by a single officer erode hopes that a new police chief would transform a troubled department. This week the department and City Hall are once again under intense criticism from residents and civil rights activists after a fatal shooting Monday involving an officer already under investigation in the killing of a man two months agoMore… (World News)
Key Benazir Bhutto Assassination Witness Shot Dead
telegraph.co.uk — The bodyguard of Benazir Bhutto, who was to be a key witness in an investigation into her assassination, has been shot dead. More… (World News)
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