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United States: news

Gamewatch: Henin-Hardenne v Camerin

Monday, August 28th 2006, 15:46
related countries: Italy

Justine Henin-Hardenne beat Italian Maria Elena Camerin in the first match on Arthur Ashe court at the US Open.
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US ends Somali banking blacklist

Monday, August 28th 2006, 13:06
related countries: Somalia

Somali banking company al-Barakat says all its overseas agents have been taken off a US terror list.
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Vietnam dissident 'to be freed'

Monday, August 28th 2006, 10:24
related countries: Vietnam

Vietnamese authorities are to free a prominent dissident ahead of a visit by the US president, diplomats are told.
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Five US soldiers killed in Iraq

Monday, August 28th 2006, 5:25
related countries: Iraq

Five US soldiers die in two separate roadside bomb attacks in Iraq, the US military says.
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Many dead in Kentucky plane crash

Monday, August 28th 2006, 5:22
related places: Kentucky

Only one person of the 50 on board survives a plane crash in Kentucky after it takes off from the wrong runway.
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Emmy best drama and actor for 24

Monday, August 28th 2006, 4:54

The thriller 24 wins best drama and actor Emmys and the US version of The Office nets best comedy.
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Obama draws crowds in slums

Sunday, August 27th 2006, 22:33
related countries: Kenya

US Senator Barack Obama addresses cheering crowds as he tours a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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US journalist on Sudan spy charge

Sunday, August 27th 2006, 17:07
related countries: Sudan
related places: Darfur

US journalist Paul Salopek, arrested earlier this month in Darfur region of Sudan, is charged with spying.
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US politics 'obsessed' with ads

Sunday, August 27th 2006, 16:50

US political parties care only about buying TV commercials, former US Vice-President Al Gore says.
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Annan to visit Iran amid dispute

Sunday, August 27th 2006, 14:24
related countries: Iran

UN chief Kofi Annan will visit Tehran days after a UN deadline for it to suspend uranium enrichment.
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Basketballl: USA crush Australia

Sunday, August 27th 2006, 13:28
related countries: Australia, Japan

The USA ease past Australia 113-73 to reach the last eight of the World Basketball Championship in Japan.
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US pins trade talk hopes on China

Sunday, August 27th 2006, 13:08
related countries: China
related places: Beijing

US trade representative Susan Schwab visits China in the hope that Beijing can revive WTO trade talks.
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Bush pledge on Katrina failures

Saturday, August 26th 2006, 19:34

US President Bush promises to learn from the mistakes made during Hurricane Katrina a year ago.
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Lightning delays Atlantis launch

Saturday, August 26th 2006, 18:56
related places: Atlantis, Sunday

Sunday's planned launch of the US space shuttle Atlantis is put back after a lightning strike, Nasa announces.
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US warns of 'build-up' in Darfur

Saturday, August 26th 2006, 18:39
related countries: Sudan
related places: Darfur

The US warns of a military build-up in Darfur as it sends an envoy in a bid to persuade Sudan to accept a UN force.
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Venezuela says US 'smuggling'

Saturday, August 26th 2006, 4:56
related countries: Venezuela

Venezuela accuses the US embassy in Caracas of importing cargo illegally after seizing diplomatic baggage.
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US sets hearing on stock options

Friday, August 25th 2006, 21:44

The US Senate is to investigate stock options and executive pay at a hearing in early September.
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US plane diverted over 'scare'

Friday, August 25th 2006, 20:39
related places: Manchester, Chicago

An American Airlines flight from Manchester to Chicago is diverted following a reported threat, the FBI says
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Former Ukraine PM is jailed in US

Friday, August 25th 2006, 20:11
related countries: Ukraine

The US jails former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko for nine years for fraud and other offences.
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Israel cluster bomb use probed

Friday, August 25th 2006, 17:42
related countries: Israel, Lebanon

The US State Department launches an inquiry into whether Israel misused US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon.
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Turk freed from Guantanamo

Friday, August 25th 2006, 12:55
related countries: Germany, Turkey

A German-born Turkish man is freed from US custody at Guantanamo Bay where he has been held since 2002.
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Hezbollah TV provider charged

Friday, August 25th 2006, 11:13
related places: New York

A US businessman is charged after offering broadcasts from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV to customers in New York.
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US-Irish flight in security alert

Friday, August 25th 2006, 9:59
related countries: Ireland

Passengers on a flight from the US to Ireland are questioned by police after a bomb threat, officials say.
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Protests over Survivor 'tribes'

Friday, August 25th 2006, 9:21

US reality show Survivor's division of contestants along ethnic lines prompts calls for it to be axed.
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US Army reviewing combat deaths

Friday, August 25th 2006, 4:54
related countries: Afghanistan, Iraq

The US Army reviews how hundreds of soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan following complaints by relatives.
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Venezuela in diplomatic bag row

Friday, August 25th 2006, 2:42
related countries: Venezuela
related places: Caracas

The US accuses Venezuela of illegally searching a diplomatic bag destined for its embassy in Caracas.
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Jet alert suspects 'to be freed'

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 17:46
related places: Amsterdam

The 12 men held after a security alert forced a US airliner back to Amsterdam will be freed, prosecutors say.
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US 'lacks Iran arms intelligence'

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 17:00
related countries: Iran

There are major gaps in US knowledge of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons capability, a congressional report warns.
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Fifteen killed in Iraq violence

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 15:54
related countries: Iraq

At least 12 Iraqis and three US soldiers are killed in attacks in Iraq, as a security clampdown continues.
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US backs morning-after pill sales

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 15:22

US health officials say women over 18 will be allowed to buy the morning-after pill, ending a three-year battle.
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Bolivia writer set for US embassy

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 14:00
related countries: Bolivia
related places: Washington

A campaigning journalist, Gustavo Guzman, is travelling to Washington to become Bolivia's US ambassador.
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Flight alert 'not terror related'

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 13:14
related countries: Netherlands

Passenger behaviour that led a US jet to divert does not seem to be terrorism related, says the Dutch justice minister.
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Kenya ready to fete Obama return

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 10:19

Kenyans prepare a hero's welcome for US Senator Barack Obama, who is to visit his father's homeland.
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Row over Afghan clash casualties

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 7:38
related countries: Afghanistan

Seven men and a child die in a raid in Afghanistan by US-led forces amid conflicting reports of who the adults were.
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'Ethical' stem cell lines created

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 4:30

A way of growing embryonic stem cells that could overcome ethical concerns is developed in the US.
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US renews offer on Cuba embargo

Thursday, August 24th 2006, 2:21
related countries: Cuba

The US renews an offer to lift the four-decade trade embargo on Cuba in exchange for democratic reforms.
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Baghdad security 'getting better'

Wednesday, August 23rd 2006, 20:27
related countries: Iraq
related places: Security

Security in Iraq's troubled capital is improving, according to Iraqi and US officials.
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Iran nuclear offer 'falls short'

Wednesday, August 23rd 2006, 20:00
related countries: Iran

Iran's offer of talks on its nuclear programme falls short of UN demands, Washington says.
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Dutch arrest 12 in flight alert

Wednesday, August 23rd 2006, 17:58
related countries: India
related places: Amsterdam

Dutch police arrest 12 passengers from a flight turned back to Amsterdam after a security alert.
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Ozone hole stable, say scientists

Wednesday, August 23rd 2006, 4:37
related countries: Antarctica

US scientists express optimism that the large hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has stopped widening.
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Inactive US marines face call-up

Wednesday, August 23rd 2006, 1:49

President Bush gives an open-ended authorisation for the US Marine Corps to call up inactive reservists.
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Prosecutors drop Quattrone case

Tuesday, August 22nd 2006, 22:02

US prosecutors say they will not put star banker Frank Quattrone on trial again for alleged obstruction of justice.
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Guilty Gatlin cuts deal over ban

Tuesday, August 22nd 2006, 21:26

World and Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin is suspended for up to eight years after accepting he committed a doping violation.
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'Terrorists' held in Afghan raid

Tuesday, August 22nd 2006, 6:50
related countries: Afghanistan

US-led forces in Afghanistan say they have detained three suspected 'terrorists' in the eastern province of Khost.
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N Korea slams US-South drills

Tuesday, August 22nd 2006, 6:13
related countries: North Korea

North Korea threatens to take pre-emptive action in response to US-South Korean military exercises.
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US holds Sri Lanka arms suspects

Tuesday, August 22nd 2006, 4:37
related countries: Sri Lanka

US police say they have arrested people on suspicion of conspiring to buy arms for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Bush rejects Iraq withdrawal

Tuesday, August 22nd 2006, 3:11
related countries: Iraq

US President George W Bush says withdrawing troops from Iraq would be a "huge mistake".
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US pledges $230m in Lebanon aid

Monday, August 21st 2006, 21:17
related countries: Lebanon

The US president pledges $230m in aid for Lebanon and urges the rapid deployment of a peace force.
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Court throws out Padilla charge

Monday, August 21st 2006, 20:17
related places: Padilla

A US court throws out one charge against Jose Padilla, a US citizen who was held as an "enemy combatant".
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JonBenet suspect lands back in US

Monday, August 21st 2006, 6:40
related countries: Thailand
related places: Los Angeles

A US man held in Thailand over the death of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey flies into Los Angeles.
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Police shot in Texas gun standoff

Monday, August 21st 2006, 6:09
related places: Texas

Three US policemen and a state trooper are wounded, with the gunman then killing himself in a standoff in Texas.
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JonBenet suspect back in US

Monday, August 21st 2006, 4:56
related countries: Thailand
related places: Sunday

A US man held in Thailand over the death of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey flies into Los Angeles.
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Tiger Woods claims USPGA title

Sunday, August 20th 2006, 23:01

World number one golfer Tiger Woods wins the US PGA championship for his 12th major career title.
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US joins Ethiopian flood battle

Sunday, August 20th 2006, 3:53
related countries: Ethiopia

US troops join rescuers in Ethiopia where floods have killed hundreds of people and left many people homeless.
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Donald & Woods share lead

Saturday, August 19th 2006, 22:57
related countries: United Kingdom

England's Luke Donald and American Tiger Woods will go into the final round of the USPGA tied on 14 under, two shots clear of the field.
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US critic 'well' after cancer op

Saturday, August 19th 2006, 14:48

Veteran US film critic Roger Ebert says he is recovering well but has had "no fun" during cancer treatment.
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Mexican held over serial murders

Friday, August 18th 2006, 21:29
related countries: Mexico

A man is held in the US over a 13-year wave of rapes and killings in a Mexican town that left 300 dead.
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Athletics: Powell ties 100m record

Friday, August 18th 2006, 19:07
related countries: Jamaica

Jamaican Asafa Powell equals his own 100m world record of 9.77secs he jointly holds with American Justin Gatlin.
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Ford to cut car production by 21%

Friday, August 18th 2006, 14:08
related places: Ford

Struggling US carmaker Ford is to cut its fourth-quarter North American output by 21% as part of cost-cutting efforts.
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'Early transfer' in JonBenet case

Friday, August 18th 2006, 12:37
related countries: Thailand

A suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder could be sent to the US as early as this weekend, officials say.
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Afghan bombing deaths probe

Friday, August 18th 2006, 10:43
related countries: Afghanistan

Afghan officials try to establish the identity of 12 people killed in US bombing on Thursday.
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Allies and scientists laud Singh

Friday, August 18th 2006, 10:13

India's nuclear scientists and Communist parties welcome PM Manmohan Singh's assurances on the controversial nuclear deal with the US.
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US judge rules wiretaps illegal

Friday, August 18th 2006, 8:36

A US government wiretap scheme breaches the constitution and should be halted at once, a judge says.
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Soldier killed in Afghan fighting

Friday, August 18th 2006, 7:01
related countries: Afghanistan

A US-led coalition soldier is killed and another wounded in a clash with insurgents in Afghanistan.
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No explosives in US airport alert

Friday, August 18th 2006, 3:28

Tests on suspect liquids that led to the evacuation of an airport in West Virginia show no explosives, officials say.
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Golf: Big two upstaged

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 23:16
related places: Medinah

American Ryder Cup candidates Lucas Glover and Chris Riley upstage the clash of golf's big two to lead the way at Medinah.
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Tobacco firms lose civil lawsuit

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 22:05

A US judge finds a number of top tobacco firms guilty of conspiring to defraud the public about smoking risks.
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US brushes off 'crap' accusation

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 21:45
related places: White House

The White House laughs off claims that John Prescott said the US was "crap" over the Middle East road map.
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US man guilty of Afghan abuse

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 19:45
related countries: Afghanistan

A former CIA contractor is found guilty of assaulting an Afghan prisoner who later died.
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Afghan police killed by coalition

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 19:37
related countries: Afghanistan

A bomb from a US-led coalition aircraft in south-east Afghanistan kills at least 12 policemen, officials say.
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Indian PM stands by nuclear deal

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 15:47
related countries: India

India will not accept US pressure to cap its atomic weapons programme, the PM tells parliament.
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Suspect speaks on JonBenet death

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 12:28
related countries: Thailand

A US man admits he was with child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey when she died in 1996 - but denies killing her.
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UK police get 'bomb plot' extension

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 10:12
related countries: United Kingdom

Police probing an alleged bomb plot targeting UK to US flights get more time to question 23 suspects, and one is released.
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US holds Mexico drug suspect

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 10:12
related countries: Mexico

The US says it has crippled a major Mexican drugs gang with the arrest on a boat of Javier Arellano Felix.
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JonBenet death accident, says man

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 8:40
related countries: Thailand

A US man arrested in Thailand says the death of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was an accident.
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Man detained over JonBenet death

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 6:08
related countries: Thailand

A man arrested in Thailand is held in connection with US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey's murder.
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Man held over JonBenet death

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 6:08
related countries: Thailand

A man arrested in Thailand is held in connection with US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey's murder.
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'Militants killed' in Afghanistan

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 5:43
related countries: Afghanistan

US-led forces in Afghanistan say they have killed eight insurgents who attacked them in the east of the country.
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Golf: US rivals head-to-head

Thursday, August 17th 2006, 2:02

Phil Mickelson will go head-to-head with world number one Tiger Woods when the USPGA gets under way on Thursday.
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UK-US flight in emergency divert

Wednesday, August 16th 2006, 16:49
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Boston, London

A flight from London to Washington diverts to Boston with a fighter escort after an on-board disturbance.
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Senator sorry for 'monkey' slur

Wednesday, August 16th 2006, 15:30
related countries: India

US Senator George Allen apologises for calling a man of Indian descent by a name that means monkey.
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UK-US flight in emergency divert

Wednesday, August 16th 2006, 14:52
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Boston, London

A flight from London to Washington DC diverts to Boston following a "passenger disturbance".
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Canadians hurt in Afghan attack

Wednesday, August 16th 2006, 12:43
related countries: Afghanistan

Six Canadian soldiers are wounded in a mortar attack in southern Afghanistan, Canadian officials say.
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US criticised for HIV aid effort

Wednesday, August 16th 2006, 9:59

US policy is undermining the efforts of African countries to fight the HIV epidemic, a leading UN figure has said.
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Tennis: Federer through in Ohio

Wednesday, August 16th 2006, 5:40
related places: Cincinnati, Ohio

Rafael Nadal loses the first set before beating American teenager Sam Querrey in Cincinnati.
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Clinton urges wider look at Aids

Wednesday, August 16th 2006, 4:04
related places: Toronto

Former US President Bill Clinton urges greater focus on Aids prevention, as he attends a Toronto summit.
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Ex-President Ford in hospital

Wednesday, August 16th 2006, 0:05
related places: Minnesota

Former US President Gerald Ford is taken to hospital in Minnesota for unspecified "testing and evaluation".
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Minorities rise in most US states

Tuesday, August 15th 2006, 21:35

The number of US immigrants increases to more than 35 million, says the US Census Bureau.
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US house market 'at 15-year low'

Tuesday, August 15th 2006, 20:25

Optimism among US house builders falls to its lowest level in 15 years, the latest sign the market is slowing.
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Iran and Syria applaud 'victory'

Tuesday, August 15th 2006, 16:57
related countries: Israel

Syria and Iran praise Hezbollah for what both countries say is the group's defeat of Israel in Lebanon.
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Gaza hunt for seized journalists

Tuesday, August 15th 2006, 11:24
related countries: Gaza Strip

Palestinian security forces launch a search for two foreign journalists kidnapped in the Gaza Strip.
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US recalls 300 soldiers to Iraq

Tuesday, August 15th 2006, 11:00
related countries: Iraq

Some 300 soldiers who had recently arrived home after a year in Iraq are ordered to return to the war zone.
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Toyota top of US motoring survey

Tuesday, August 15th 2006, 6:37

Toyota tops a survey gauging the satisfaction of US customers for the second year in a row.
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US 'knew of Israel bombing plan'

Monday, August 14th 2006, 23:17
related countries: Israel

The US knew of Israel's plans to attack Hezbollah well before the bombing campaign began, a US journalist claims.
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UK experts say Indian Coke 'safe'

Monday, August 14th 2006, 16:49
related countries: India

Coca Cola enlists the help of British government scientists to prove its soft drinks sold in India are safe to drink.
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US reporter recounts Iraq kidnap

Monday, August 14th 2006, 15:24
related countries: Iraq

The US journalist Jill Carroll, held captive in Iraq for 82 days, gives her first public account of her ordeal.
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Football: Lerner to take Villa

Monday, August 14th 2006, 6:08
related places: Villa

Aston Villa's board accept a £62.6m takeover of the club from American billionaire Randy Lerner.
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Prosecutors raise Enron boss fine

Sunday, August 13th 2006, 19:39

US prosecutors want ex-Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling to pay a higher fine, to include a fine owed by the late Ken Lay.
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Boxing: Maskaev is WBC champ

Sunday, August 13th 2006, 5:09

Oleg Maskaev stops Hasim Rahman in the last round to win the WBC world heavyweight title.
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UK police quiz terror suspects

Saturday, August 12th 2006, 14:37
related countries: United Kingdom

The UK's security threat level will stay at "critical" for now, after a plot to blow up flights to the US was disrupted.
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