| Ike blasts Turks and Caicos as Category 4 storm (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:26 AM CDT  AP - Hurricane Ike roared across the Turks and Caicos on Sunday as a ferocious Category 4 storm, as people sought refuge from its howling winds in emergency shelters or in their homes.
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| Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:25 AM CDT  AP - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. At the local jail, emaciated inmates waited for food to stave off starvation.
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| Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35 (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2008 02:52 AM CDT  AP - The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.
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| US holds off on civilian nuclear pact with Russia (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:12 AM CDT  AP - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
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| Thai leader dismisses talk of military coup (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2008 02:01 AM CDT  AP - Thailand's embattled prime minister denied a rift with the army Sunday and dismissed the possibility of a coup when he travels to the U.N. General Assembly in New York later this month.
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| Urgent inquiry as more personal data missing (AFP) Posted: 06 Sep 2008 11:21 PM CDT  AFP - An urgent inquiry was underway on Sunday after a disc containing the personal details of 5,000 justice staff went missing in yet another embarrassing data loss blunder.
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| Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24 (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2008 10:02 PM CDT  AP - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said.
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| Fierce Hurricane Ike approaches Turks and Caicos (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2008 07:21 PM CDT  AP - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike is roaring toward the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm.
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| Rebels: Government assault in Darfur thwarted (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:20 AM CDT  AP - A Darfur rebel group says it has successfully repelled a government assault in North Darfur, but the Sudanese government denies it carried out any operations in the area.
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| Fresh clashes in Indian Kashmir (AFP) Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:34 AM CDT  AFP - Indian police clashed with stone-throwing protesters in the Kashmiri summer capital on Sunday, a day after a demonstrator died in similar anti-India rallies.
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| Power in Australia's biggest state on knife-edge after poll (AFP) Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:08 AM CDT  AFP - Government in resource-rich Western Australia state, the driver of the national economy, remained on a knife-edge Sunday after no political party secured a majority in elections, officials said.
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