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Russia accuses Nato of bias after the alliance warns Moscow that normal relations are impossible while its troops remain in Georgia.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy travels to Afghanistan to support his troops, a day after a deadly attack by Taleban fighters.
Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asks the UN war crimes tribunal to replace a judge in his genocide case, alleging bias.
Anti-government rallies in Bolivia turned violent as rival groups armed with sticks and shields fight each other in the streets.
At least 13 people are hurt in a fire at the upper house of the Egyptian parliament in Cairo, officials say.
Offcials in Zimbabwe say parliament will reopen next week, despite no power-sharing deal.
Paedophile Gary Glitter's return to the UK is delayed as he said he was having a heart attack at Bangkok airport.
Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa, a critic of violence in Zimbabwe, dies in a Paris hospital two months after suffering a stroke.
A bomb attack on a police college east of Algiers kills 43 people and injures 38, according to Algeria's interior ministry.
In what is thought to be a world first, a wild dolphin is apparently teaching others to tail-walk.
Rafael Nadal will be the top seed in a Grand Slam event for the first time in his career, in next week's US Open.
Killing of French troops shows more brazen Taleban
A woman's struggle to get to grips with Indian gender bias
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Hamas-Israel truce brings little relief to the Gaza Strip

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NBC AugustaStudents, school officials continue drinking age debate
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BY LAURA ALBANESE | laura.albanese@newsday.com While university presidents debate the wisdom of encouraging lawmakers to lower the legal drinking age to 18, college students seem equally divided on a subject that has inspired strong opinions on ...
100 college presidents support lowering drinking age NECN
College Presidents Call For Lower Drinking Age Boston Channel.com
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The Associated PressVeep short-listers mix positives and negatives
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Barack Obama shows up Saturday in Springfield, Ill., on his way to the Democratic Convention, he'll have his new running mate grinning beside him.
Democratic convention lineup Kansas City Star
Kaine to campaign with Obama on Thursday in Virginia CNN Political Ticker
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BBC NewsRussian Action in Georgia Shows Limits on West, NATO (Update1)
Bloomberg - 34 minutes ago
By Viola Gienger and Ken Fireman Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Almost a week after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Russia it couldn't roll back the clock to 1968 and invade its neighbors, the US and European allies are still trying to reverse the ...
NATO Ministers Warn Russia, No ?Business as Usual? New York Times
NATO pulls its punches on penalty against Russia The Associated Press
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Times OnlineThe Evening Wrap
Wall Street Journal - 57 minutes ago
Turmoil may go with the territory, but events in Afghanistan and Pakistan boded ill for the prospect of increased stability in the region.
Afghan militants kill 10 French, strike at US base The Associated Press
Resurgent Taleban kill 10 French troops and assault US base Times Online
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BBC NewsUS: Georgia Action Seriously Harms Russia's World Standing
Voice of America - 1 hour ago
By David Gollust The US State Department's top expert on the Caucasus region says Moscow's intervention in Georgia has done serious harm to its international standing.
Russia starts Georgia pullout Reuters
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WBTStates throw out costly electronic voting machines
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers.
Ohio Bans Home Storage of Voting Machines Washington Post
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WWLBush to highlight progress during New Orleans visit
Houston Chronicle - 1 hour ago
By JULIE MASON Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle CRAWFORD - While conceding "there is still much work to do" three years after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush Wednesday will tout hope and progress in his 17th trip to the region since the storm ...
Bush: New Orleans still struggling after Katrina The Associated Press
White House lifts curtain on Bush's Katrina speech, avoids ... Los Angeles Times
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LAistChick spoke to US agents in Delgadillo probe
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
LA city controller says she was interviewed about her effort to conduct an audit of the city attorney's office. Delgadillo's spokesman sees a 'political agenda' behind allegations against his boss.
Controller says she spoke to FBI about city attorney San Jose Mercury News
Criminal probe begun of LA city attorney San Francisco Chronicle
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Boston GlobeHP results top Street despite stronger dollar
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By Robert MacMillan and Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co results beat Wall Street targets as net profit rose 14 percent, subduing fears that slowing economies and a stronger dollar would weaken the world's biggest computer and ...
Hewlett-Packard Net Gains on Overseas, Notebook Sales (Update2) Bloomberg
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Wall Street JournalIntel Seeks to Boost Performance,
Wall Street Journal - 57 minutes ago
By DON CLARK Intel Corp. is accelerating efforts to boost computing performance without increasing power consumption, including a new "turbo" technology on forthcoming chips.
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BusinessDay.co.nzGoodyear to Close 92 Retail Stores
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By KERRY E. GRACE Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will exit 92 underperforming retail locations by the end of the year, eliminating about $9 million in annual losses.
Goodyear to close 92 US stores, cut jobs Reuters
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Bodog BeatFor Most, Obama's VP Likely a Blank Slate
Washington Post - 2 hours ago
Barack Obama's apparent short-list for the No. 2 slot contains names familiar to constituents and politicos, but little known nationwide.
The Obama Veepwatch, Vol. 9: Evan Bayh Newsweek
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Bloomington PantagraphObama VP tea leaves
Dallas Morning News - 3 hours ago
The Obama campaign just announced that the senator will hold a rally Saturday in Springfield, Ill., at the Old State Capitol -- where he kicked off his campaign on Feb 10, 2007.
Report: Obama to Campaign with Running Mate Saturday in Springfield Washington Post
Obama and Running Mate To Hold Join Event Saturday ABC News
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Voice of AmericaObama to Go On Offense at Democratic Convention
FOXNews - 4 hours ago
by FOXNews.com By Major Garrett RALEIGH, NC - Barack Obama?s campaign plans to use the four-day Democratic National Convention next week to relentlessly portray John McCain as a carbon copy of President Bush, in a strategic shift foreshadowed by two ...
Today on the presidential campaign trail The Associated Press
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Canada.comJudge lifts fare card hack gag order, punts on 1st Amendment
Ars Technica - 54 minutes ago
By Joel Hruska | Published: August 19, 2008 - 07:00PM CT In court today, Judge George O'Toole refused the Massachussetts Bay Transit Authority's request to impose an additional five-month gag order against five students the MBTA had accused of ...
Judge lifts gag on students over transit security The Associated Press
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AP - Barack Obama's newly minted running mate will join the Democratic hopeful onstage Saturday at a rally in this capital city where Obama launched his White House bid, a campaign official said.



AP - Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, gaining power and threatening — once again — to become a hurricane.



AP - Russia took the first steps toward a troop pullback from Georgia on Tuesday but at the same time paraded blindfolded and bound Georgian prisoners on armored vehicles and seized four U.S. Humvees.



AP - Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early Tuesday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border.



AP - Lolo Jones was supposed to take the Olympic 100-meter hurdles title. Other entrants knew it. Jones knew it. Even told herself so right before the start, mouthing, "I can win this race," when she was introduced to the crowd.



AP - Democrat Barack Obama challenged Republican opponent John McCain on Tuesday to stop questioning his "character and patriotism."



AP - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.



AP - A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. The study's limitations make more research necessary. And public water systems were on their way to meeting tougher U.S. arsenic standards as the data were collected.
AP - An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.

AP - Umpires want baseball to take another look at instant replay. Umps said their governing board voted Tuesday to boycott a conference call with management intended to discuss implementing replay and are angry that their concerns aren't being addressed.



Reuters - Speculation hit a fever pitch on the U.S. vice presidential sweepstakes on Tuesday, with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain nearing their choices of a No. 2 amid a flurry of sly hints and outright guesses.



Reuters - U.S. wholesale prices shot up in July at the fastest annual rate in 27 years, while home builders cut back on construction as they worked through a glut of unsold homes, government data showed on Tuesday.



Reuters - Russian troops will pull back from Georgia's heartland by the end of this week, the Kremlin said Tuesday, but NATO said it was freezing contacts with Moscow until all Russian forces were out of the country.



Reuters - Republican John McCain took his campaign high above the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, visiting an offshore oil and gas rig and predicting many more like it along the U.S. coasts if he is elected president.



Reuters - Jamaica's yam-powered Usain "Lightning" Bolt hopes to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double on Wednesday.




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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Speculation hit a fever pitch on the U.S. vice presidential sweepstakes on Tuesday, with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain nearing their choices of a No. 2 amid a flurry of sly hints and outright guesses.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale prices shot up in July at the fastest annual rate in 27 years, while home builders cut back on construction as they worked through a glut of unsold homes, government data showed on Tuesday.


GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russian troops will pull back from Georgia's heartland by the end of this week, the Kremlin said Tuesday, but NATO said it was freezing contacts with Moscow until all Russian forces were out of the country.


ABOARD THE CHEVRON GENESIS (Reuters) - Republican John McCain took his campaign high above the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, visiting an offshore oil and gas rig and predicting many more like it along the U.S. coasts if he is elected president.


BEIJING (Reuters) - Jamaica's yam-powered Usain "Lightning" Bolt hopes to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double on Wednesday.


BOSTON (Reuters) - A former hedge fund manager was ordered to pay nearly $300 million for having cheated clients by sending out fake account statements, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Tuesday.


NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to protesters arrested during a 2003 rally against the Iraq war who said their civil rights had been violated, lawyers for both sides said on Tuesday.


DETROIT (Reuters) - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co said it would close 12 percent, or 92, of its company-owned U.S. stores and cut 600 full- and part-time jobs as the U.S. economic downturn put more pressure on the company.


MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay swept into Florida from the Gulf of Mexico and soaked the state on Tuesday while growing strong enough that forecasters said it could become a hurricane before smacking Florida a third time.


ISSERS, Algeria (Reuters) - A bomb at an Algerian military academy killed 43 people and wounded 45 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, one of the bloodiest incidents in years in the OPEC member state.



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