| Iraqi judge orders Baath party plot suspects freed (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2008 03:04 AM CST  AP - An Iraqi judge ordered nearly two dozen officials freed after determining there was no evidence that they conspired to bring back Saddam Hussein's banned Baath party, Iraq's interior minister said.
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| Israeli strike kills Gaza militant (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2008 02:58 AM CST  AP - An Israeli air strike Saturday against a Gaza rocket squad killed a Palestinian militant, the first death since Hamas militants formally declared an end to a six-month truce with Israel.
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| History, dissent cloud Pakistan's Mumbai reaction (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2008 09:30 PM CST  AP - The black-and-white flag of Jamaat-ud-Dawa still flutters over a relief camp for survivors of an earthquake that hit a remote corner of Pakistan in October.
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| Former German terrorist released after 26 years (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2008 01:54 PM CST  AP - Throughout the 1970s, the Red Army Faction was the scourge of capitalist West Germany and Christian Klar one of its most notorious leaders the force behind a murder spree that included the slayings of a federal prosecutor, an industrialist and the chief of a major bank.
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| Mugabe says 'Zimbabwe is mine,' won't be toppled (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2008 01:52 PM CST  AP - President Robert Mugabe declared Friday that "Zimbabwe is mine," saying only Zimbabweans can remove him from power and that no African nation is brave enough to wrest it from him.
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| Don't destabilize Russia, Putin warns foes (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2008 12:39 AM CST  Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Russia's foes on Friday against trying to destabilize a country facing broadening economic crisis, Russian news agencies reported.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2008 07:05 PM CST AP - As of Friday, Dec. 20, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. |
| Mexico plane crash injures officials, reporters (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2008 11:01 PM CST  AP - An official says a small plane carrying government officials and television reporters crashed in northern Mexico and all five people on board are in serious condition.
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| UN says Darfur conflict shows no sign of ending (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2008 07:15 PM CST  AP - As the conflict in Darfur enters its sixth year, there is still widespread violence in the region, no sign of a political settlement and millions of civilians living in camps on lifesaving international aid, the U.N.'s peacekeeping chief said Friday.
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| Pakistanis more gloomy about prospects: poll (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2008 02:59 AM CST  Reuters - Pakistanis are becoming increasingly pessimistic about prospects for their country and for themselves, a U.S.-based group that promotes democracy found in a poll.
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