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The U.S. government says that an American detained by North Korea since November is being well cared for and has been permitted to speak to his family by phone. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday Swedish diplomats have visited Eddie Jun six times since March and were continuing at U.S. request to ask for regular consular access. Sweden looks after U.S. interests in the

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Malaysia will accept 800 asylum seekers who entered Australia illegally by sea in a groundbreaking deal between the two countries to tackle people smuggling. In return, Australia will resettle 4,000 registered refugees living in Malaysia, according to a joint government statement late Saturday. The political opposition in Australia slammed the plan. Australia has long attracted people from poor,

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five years and one financial crisis since the United States and China commenced regular high-level economic talks, fast-growing Beijing might have the upper hand this week in the latest round of discussions between the world's two biggest economies. China faces threats of penalties against goods shipped to its largest foreign market unless it does more to end what U.S.

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LONDON (AP) -- Pipe bombs, a targeted car crash, a lone gunman: Western intelligence officials said Friday they are seeing increased Internet and phone chatter about cheap, small-scale terror attacks to avenge the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. More than 100 protesters, meanwhile, gathered Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in London shouting, "USA, you will pay!" and warning of such

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NEW YORK (AP) -- In the boardroom, it's as if the Great Recession never happened. CEOs at the nation's largest companies were paid better last year than they were in 2007, when the economy was booming, the stock market set a record high and unemployment was roughly half what it is today. The typical pay package for the head of a company in the Standard & Poor's 500 was $9 million in 2010,

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BATH, Maine (AP) -- Engaged in a frenzied firefight and outnumbered by the Taliban, Navy Lt. Michael Murphy made a desperate decision as he and three fellow SEALs fought for their lives on a rocky mountainside in Afghanistan's Kunar Province in 2005. In a last-ditch effort to save his team, Murphy pulled out his satellite phone, walked into a clearing to get reception and called for

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Donald is giving up one race, perhaps so he can focus on another. Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Thursday he will not be the celebrity pace-car driver for the Indianapolis 500 on May 29, pulling out because it would be "inappropriate" given that "he may be announcing shortly his intention" to run for president. Trump, whose replacement driver could be four-time Indy

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- In life, Osama bin Laden was burned into the Muslim consciousness in countless ways: the lion of holy warriors, the untouchable nemesis of the West, the evil zealot who soiled their faith with blood and intolerance. In death, however, the voices across the Islamic world are now relatively muted in sharp counterpoint to the rage and shame - or hero-worship -

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ROME (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday she has "no idea" what she and the rest of President Barack Obama's national security team were watching at the precise moment that a photographer snapped what has become an iconic image of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. "Those were 38 of the most intense minutes," Clinton said of the raid on bin

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MISRATA, Libya (AP) -- Tripoli Street is a bullet-scarred wasteland - littered with charred cars and tanks, its cafes and offices shattered. Yet for Misrata's civilians-turned-fighters, the boulevard is a prized trophy, paid for in blood, won with grit and guile. It took five weeks of fierce street battles - on rooftops, in alleyways - for Misrata's inexperienced rebels to wrest control of their

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Businesses increased their demand for industrial machinery, computers and autos in March, lifting factory orders for the fifth consecutive month. Orders rose 3 percent in March after a 0.7 percent increase in February, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. A key category that signals business investment plans jumped 4.1 percent after a small increase in February and a big

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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI marked the holiest night of the year for Christians by stressing that humanity isn't a random product of evolution. Benedict emphasized the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily Saturday, saying it was wrong to think at some point "in some tiny corner of the cosmos there evolved randomly some species of living being capable of reasoning and

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee says if members of a Senate deficit group fail to come to grips soon with the deficit problem, "we won't be relevant to this discussion." But North Dakota's Kent Conrad declined in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" to say specifically where the so-called "Gang of Six" Democrats and Republicans stand in discussions on

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- United Continental Holdings Inc. lost $213 million during the first quarter, as a much larger fuel bill offset gains from fare increases. Its fuel bill for the quarter jumped $560 million even though flying increased only slightly. That was a 26.5 percent increase from a year earlier, and pushed fuel spending to $2.67 billion - making it the airline's single largest expense.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan has stepped up efforts to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent loans made by the embattled Kabul Bank, but so far just 5 percent of the $909 million being sought has been recouped, the nation's top banker said Wednesday. Afghan officials have been under heavy international pressure to resolve the problems at Kabul Bank, the nation's largest

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Soaring oil prices that threaten to worsen unemployment and poverty added a sense of urgency to talks Saturday among global financial leaders. They wrapped up three days of talks with pledges of closer cooperation and better surveillance of the global economy. However, it was uncertain just how far countries would be willing to go in reforming their domestic policies in

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The six-month day of remembrance] of the act of the health care overtake, a lot of the law's provisions will be effective. Most consumers, however, won't see any changes until after Jan. 1, when their new health insurance plan class gets. Meantime, employees will be driving prepare for drops "open registration" point, once they choice their health coverage for the coming class. Additionally,

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DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado man can sue two Secret Service agents who arrested him after he touched former Vice President Dick Cheney on the arm in 2006 and told him his Iraq War policies were "disgusting," a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling means Steven Howards can try to subpoena Cheney to testify about the incident, said David Lane, Howards' attorney. "I fully intend on deposing

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LONDON (AP) -- Frothy, film-inspired funfest "Legally Blonde: The Musical" won three big prizes at London's Laurence Olivier theater awards Sunday, while Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies" went home empty-handed despite seven nominations. "Legally Blonde" was named best new musical at Britain's equivalent of Broadway's Tonys. Star Sheridan Smith was crowned best actress in a musical, and

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has praised the leadership of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a meeting between the two men in Moscow. Biden told Mr. Medvedev that his personal leadership "proved the skeptics wrong" about improving U.S.-Russian ties over the past two years. Mr. Medvedev said Russia would like U.S. help in joining the World Trade Organization within the next year. Biden said

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DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- Yuta Ikeda received an e-mail in the middle of the night about a massive earthquake in Japan, followed by a devastating tsunami that slammed the eastern coast near the city where he went to college. He spent the next several hours watching television and trying to make phone calls to check on his family and friends. And then it was time to tee off Friday in a World Golf

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama smiled when he said his large ears and funny name once made him a target of school-yard harassment. But he was all seriousness Thursday when he told a White House conference on bullying that torment and intimidation must not be tolerated. Some 13 million students, about a third of all those attending school, are bullied every year, the White House said.

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) -- Carlos Beltran's progress is being hindered by his knees again - this time it's the left knee that will keep him off the field four or five days. Beltran has left knee tendinitis, a condition that has arisen because he's been compensating for his right knee. He was limited to just 64 games last season after right knee surgery in January 2010. He also missed 81 games

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LONDON (AP) -- Britain is blaming a misunderstanding for a bungled mission to contact Libya's opposition that ended with eight people detained and the U.K. ambassador's humbling apology broadcast on Libyan state television. Foreign Secretary William Hague - who authorized the operation - told lawmakers the diplomatic team and their military escorts had been briefly held by rebel forces after they

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Rebels fighting Ivory Coast's incumbent president say they have captured another key town on one of the main roads to Liberia. The fighting comes as African Union heads of state try to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Ivory Coast's rival presidents. Rebels opposed to incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo say they have captured the town of Toulepleu, which is less than 10 kilometers from the

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MCLAUGHLIN, S.D. (AP) -- Sheriff Keith Gall is known as the "singing sheriff" for his a cappella performances at weddings and funerals. But thanks to a judge, the gun-toting tenor now spends more time with a grunting, testy audience of some 6,000 bison that outnumber people in his South Dakota county. "I'm known as everything related to buffalo now," joked the 42-year-old Gall, who was elected

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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says rising food prices in Asia are hurting the poor but have yet to reach a crisis level. The U.N. body says if the price of oil continues to increase the region's food prices will follow suit. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says in Asia food prices have been affected by rising costs but not as dramatically as in other

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International efforts are underway to help thousands of foreigners evacuate from Libya and provide humanitarian aid to those who have sought refuge along the country's borders. U.S. President Barack Obama says he has approved the use of U.S. military aircraft to help evacuate Egyptians who have fled to the Libyan-Tunisian border. He also said Thursday that U.S. relief organizations are sending

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HELSINKI (AP) -- Europe's center-right leaders struggled Friday to show a united front amid stark divisions on how to tackle the debt crisis that has rocked the continent for more than a year. At a summit of the conservative European People's Party in Helsinki, some of Europe's most powerful decision makers made some progress on lowering the interest rates on Ireland's bailout and reiterated

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Federal agents are barely able to slow the river of American guns flowing into Mexico. In two years, a new effort to increase inspections of travelers crossing the border has netted just 386 guns - an almost infinitesimal amount given that an estimated 2,000 slip across each day. The problem came into sharp focus again last month when a U.S. Immigration and Customs

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DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- An open truck carrying a wedding party and a bus rolled into gorges in India's mountainous north, killing at least 40 people in two separate accidents, police said Thursday. The trucked flipped over at a curve in the road in Himachal Pradesh state's Chamba district on Wednesday night, said police officer Madhusudan. Rescuers recovered 33 bodies and took seven injured

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DETROIT (AP) -- In real life, Steven Demink didn't have children, a college degree or a lasting career. Online, prosecutors say, he presented himself as Dalton St. Clair, an attractive single father and psychologist - a fantasy image authorities say the Michigan man used to persuade mothers across the country to commit unspeakable acts on their children. Demink, 41, of Redford Township, preyed on

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Handcuffed and marched through Washington's Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking. That scene unfolded in March 2003, a year and a half after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. One of the four planes hijacked in 2001 took off from Dulles. "I could only assume that they thought I was a

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China has stepped up its policing of Internet usage in the country, temporarily blocking access to LinkedIn, the largest networking site for professionals, as well as searches for the name of the U.S. ambassador. The networking site went offline on Friday shortly after one user set up a forum discussing the idea of a Jasmine Revolution in China. The reference to the word jasmine is the name some

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TOKYO (AP) -- Nintendo's latest game machine, offering glasses-free 3-D images, went on sale in Japan on Saturday ahead of a global rollout, and analysts say it promises to be the world's first 3-D mass-market product. "I'm so excited," said 9-year-old Natsumi Miyasaka, clutching her brand new blue 3DS portable that her father bought for her. Lines formed outside Tokyo electronics stores,

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(CNN) -- Baby bottlenose dolphins are washing up dead in record numbers on the shores of Alabama and Mississippi, alarming scientists and a federal agency charged with monitoring the health of the Gulf of Mexico. Moby Solangi, the executive director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) in Gulfport, Mississippi, said Thursday he's never seen such high death numbers. "I've worked with

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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama has ordered the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and woman, according to a statement Wednesday from Attorney General Eric Holder. "The president has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of new homes fell significantly in January, a dismal sign after the worst year for that sector in nearly a half-century. New-home sales dropped to a seasonally adjusted rate of 284,000 homes last month, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That's down from 325,000 in December and less than half the 600,000-a-year pace that economists view as healthy. Bad winter weather

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday deplored the killing by Somali pirates of four Americans whose yacht was hijacked off the Somalia coast late last week. U.S. officials say the ultimate answer to the piracy problem lies in restoring security in Somalia. Obama administration officials are urging a tougher international response to Horn-of-Africa piracy in the wake of the killings, but

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An Egyptian scholar said a majority of people in the country are cautiously optimistic about the interim government's efforts to freeze foreign assets held by former President Hosni Mubarak and his family, reputedly a fortune worth billions of dollars. Said Sadek, professor of political sociology at the American University of Cairo, contends that the administration has not moved fast enough to

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Knicks ended the Carmelo Anthony trade saga and their quest for a second superstar with one blockbuster deal. The Knicks beat out the rival New Jersey Nets to win the Anthony sweepstakes by agreeing to a trade with the Denver Nuggets on Monday, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The deal that would finish the season-long trade speculation

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(CNN) -- Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw by English League One side Leyton Orient in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday. Arsenal, who recorded a famous 2-1 win over Barcelona in the Champions League in midweek, fielded a weakened side for Sunday's fixture and looked to have done enough to win when Tomas Rosicky headed home in the 53rd minute. But Leyton Orient battled on and were rewarded when

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MONKTON, Md. (AP) -- As an algae with a gross nickname invades pristine trout streams across the U.S., Maryland is about to become the first state to enforce a ban on a type of footgear the organism uses to hitchhike from stream to stream: felt-soled fishing boots. The state Department of Natural Resources plans to prohibit wading with felt soles starting March 21 to curb the spread of invasive

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New York (CNN) -- Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will be unable to withstand mounting U.S. pressure and their only option will be to break with al Qaeda and join a peaceful dialogue on the country's future, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday. "They cannot wait us out. They cannot defeat us. And they cannot escape this choice," Clinton said in a major address on U.S. policy in

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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- As the ninth day of protests left six wounded Saturday, Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed the roiling unrest on foreign agendas and a plot against Yemen's stability, according to the state-run Saba news agency. "Everybody has the right to express his views peacefully and has the right to have a say through media as there are many democratic means for the expression

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