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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s election rival Abdullah Abdullah will announce on Sunday whether he will take part in next week’s disputed run-off vote, his campaign said after speculation mounted he will pull out.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Saturday this week’s positive job and economic growth figures proved that his big spending efforts to stimulate the economy were working.

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ABU DHABI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday, launching a rapid series of meetings with Palestinian and Israeli officials to keep up pressure for a peace deal.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 60 Yemeni Jews have moved to the United States since July under a clandestine operation by State Department officials to escape anti-Jewish attacks in their homeland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

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LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed seven Pakistani soldiers in the northwestern Khyber region on the Afghan border on Saturday, hours after warplanes struck suspected Taliban positions in a neighboring tribal area, officials said.

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Gunmen killed fifteen people on an isolated ranch in northern Mexico, including a prominent farmworker leader, in the latest grisly attack in an area overrun by drug gangs, local police said on Friday.

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MANILA (Reuters) – The third typhoon to hit the Philippines in five weeks slammed into the main island of Luzon on Saturday, uprooting trees and toppling power lines, but there were no immediate reports of widespread damage.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. authorities seized nine failed banks on Friday, the most in a single day since the financial crisis began and the latest stark sign that substantial parts of the nation’s banking industry are being crippled by bad loans.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve officials are scheduled to meet with bank executives on Monday to discuss executive pay at large financial firms, a Fed spokesperson said on Friday.

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is preparing new aid for Afghanistan of up to $5 billion to be used to help former Taliban fighters find jobs and build roads, a big increase from previous commitments, the Nikkei newspaper said on Saturday.

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_nejire_ : my PC is sooo slow has added a photo to the pool:

Autumn/Winter is time for street photography

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tanji kun has added a photo to the pool:

i was looking for photographic frames around my depertment for photography course submission…………and that’s when i saw this frame.don’t know why……..but this pack of cigarettes just reminds me of loneliness………….it makes me think that somebody was sitting there alone trying to spend the time with cigarette…………some lonely soul…….may be………

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KABUL (AP) — Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah plans to boycott next week’s runoff against incumbent Hamid Karzai following a breakdown in talks on how to fix the country’s electoral crisis, two people familiar with the discussions said….
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. hopes of reviving Mideast peace talks appeared shaky Saturday after a senior Palestinian official said the Palestinians are unlikely to resume negotiations if Israel does not halt Jewish settlement building….
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A flotilla of rescue vessels continued its search Saturday for nine people feared dead at sea following an air collision between a Coast Guard aircraft and a Marine Corps helicopter….
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The TSSAA announced its playoff pairings today. But, they now are making fixes. Several classifications seemed to have problems.
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Ghost in the workplace can make scary earnings look like a cakewalk, say several Mid-South business owners and employees.
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Emmett Till is 8 or 9 years old in the black-and-white photo near the door.
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Now hip-hop, electronica, techno and house music finally get their turn as a game with DJ Hero, released this week.





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Roger Corman, the 83-year-old B-movie provocateur, has made his first foray into online video with “Splatter,” a three-part serial.





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