| German police suspect chat room posts were faked (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 04:14 PM PDT  AP - The psychological profile of a teenager who went on a shooting spree at his former school and killed 15 people began to take shape Thursday, as investigators described a withdrawn young man from an intact family who broke off psychiatric treatment for depression.
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| Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 02:27 PM PDT  AP - A court convicted an Iraqi journalist of assault Thursday for hurling his shoes at George W. Bush and sentenced him to three years in prison, prompting an outburst from his family and calls for his release from Iraqis who consider him an icon for a nation decimated by war.
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| Pope: Vatican made errors in Holocaust denial case (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 12:49 PM PDT  AP - Pope Benedict XVI has made an unusual public acknowledgment of Vatican mistakes and turmoil in his church over an outreach to ultraconservatives that led to his lifting the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop.
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| Pakistani police stop opposition protest convoy (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 12:37 PM PDT  AP - Club-swinging police blocked the way out of Pakistan's biggest city Thursday, scattering hundreds of demonstrators as the government sought to contain a protest movement that is emerging as a major challenge to its shaky one-year rule.
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| Fat Duck restaurant reopens after food scare (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 09:28 AM PDT  AP - Lovers of snail porridge, mustard ice cream and jelly of quail, rejoice.
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| Seven arrests after Amsterdam 'terrorist' threat (AFP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 03:31 PM PDT  AFP - Dutch police arrested seven people Thursday on suspicion of planning a "terrorist" attack in Amsterdam after a threat that caused shop closures and the cancellation of a rock concert.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,257 (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 04:36 PM PDT  AP - As of Thursday, March 12, 2009, at least 4,257 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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| Mexico extradites ex-Border Patrol agents to US (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 02:38 PM PDT AP - Mexico has extradited two former U.S. Border Patrol agents accused of taking bribes from migrant smugglers. |
| Gunmen kidnap foreign aid workers in Darfur (AFP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 01:44 PM PDT  AFP - The kidnappers of three foreign aid workers in Darfur have demanded a ransom for their release, a Sudanese official said on Thursday amid security fears following the arrest warrant against Sudan's veteran president.
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| Officials: Obama's Afghanistan goals due soon (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 04:31 PM PDT  AP - The Obama administration expects to announce new objectives for the flagging war in Afghanistan as soon as next week that place an onus on next-door Pakistan to contain extremism, defense and administration officials said Thursday.
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| Iraq wants big Australian wheat import boost: officials (AFP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 09:28 AM PDT  AFP - Iraq wants a huge increase in Australian wheat imports previously slashed after a scandal over bribes paid to the regime of former president Saddam Hussein, officials said Thursday.
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