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Prosecutors indict Taiwan's Chen on graft charges (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 03:39 AM CST AP - Taiwanese prosecutors indicted former President Chen Shui-bian on graft charges Friday, a stunning blow for a man who rode to power 8 1/2 years ago on promises to reform the island's corrupt political culture.

Suicide bombs tearing at ordinary Afghan families (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:53 AM CST AP - The 50-year-old father of eight died, shovel in hand, simply doing his job.

AP Interview: General says Iraq work far from over (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:49 AM CST AP - Iraq's security forces must develop intelligence, battlefield medicine and logistics before they can stand on their own, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said.

Suicide bomber kills 55 in packed Iraq restaurant (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:42 PM CST AP - A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Thursday in a packed restaurant near the northern city of Kirkuk where Kurdish officials and Arab tribal leaders were trying to reconcile their differences over control of the oil-rich region. The brazen attack — the deadliest in Iraq in six months — occurred at a time of rising tension between Kurds and Arabs over oil, political power and Kirkuk.

Official says 9 dead in Russian mine blast (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 12:53 AM CST AP - An explosion and fire ripped through a mine in northern Russia, killing at least nine workers, an emergency official said Friday.

Russian troops leave Georgian village: EU monitors (Reuters) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 03:36 AM CST Reuters - Russian troops have pulled back from a Georgian village near the de facto border with breakaway South Ossetia, European Union monitors said Friday, easing fears of confrontation in the area.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:27 PM CST AP - As of Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Mexico detains man in child-stripping case (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 11:08 PM CST AP - Authorities in central Mexico detained a master of ceremonies on Thursday who allegedly offered children money to strip in front of a crowd at a town fair last month.

Nigerian court upholds 2007 presidential election (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 03:38 AM CST AP - Nigeria's Supreme Court upheld the results of last year's presidential election on Friday, rejecting a bid by political opposition leaders in Africa's most populous country to annul the vote.

China coal fume victim wakes from 10-day coma (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 03:33 AM CST AP - A girl who survived carbon monoxide poisoning in her north China school dormitory while all 11 of her roommates died has come out of a coma, an education official said Friday.

US refuses Marshalls bid to use aid for nuclear victims (AFP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 12:06 AM CST AFP - The US has refused a request by the Marshall Islands to use grant money to compensate victims of the American nuclear weapons testing programme in the western Pacific atoll nation, officials said.

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