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BEIJING, Sept 21 (Reuters) - China's President Hu Jintao may lay down a "carbon intensity" target for his country at a top level United Nations summit on Tuesday, experts said, as he seeks to show Beijing's commitment to ...

Eyes on China at high stakes UN climate meet

AFP

UN climate chief says China poised to take lead

The Associated Press

Gap Holds Between Climate Stances of Rich and Poor

New York Times

Bloomberg -guardian.co.uk -Christian Science Monitor

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Reuters

CANBERRA, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Developing economies shouldn't be locked into carbon lowering targets under a new global climate pact, Australia said on Monday, outlining a deal it hopes will avert failure at make-or-break talks in Copenhagen. ...

Backgrounder: Major parties' stances on climate talks

Xinhua

Climate deal in peril, says Brown

BBC News

Obama to shift focus to climate change

Los Angeles Times

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AFP

GAZA CITY — Two Palestinian men were killed by Israeli tank fire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said, with one of them identified as an Islamist militant. The shelling in eastern Gaza came hours after the army said ...

Israel kills 2 Gaza militants

Reuters India

2 Hamas men killed by IDF fire in north Gaza

Ynetnews

Entering Gaza: The Hard Way in from Egypt

TIME

Ha'aretz -Jerusalem Post -Xinhua

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Washington Post

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New York Times

NEW HAVEN — Prosecutors do not have to know a motive to win a conviction, but it does not hurt. It also helps the public make some sense of the senseless. Annie Le's body was found stuffed behind a w »</nobr>

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Chamber of Commerce on Friday offered companies new guidelines for coping with the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, warning that employers could face crippling absenteeism as the US flu season takes hold. ...

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Baltimore Sun

WASHINGTON - Trying to dodge a building conservative firestorm, the House and Senate made clear in separate and highly lopsided votes Thursday that the beleaguered community-based nonprofit advocacy organization ACORN is persona non ...

The Acorn 75

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New York Times

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Times Online

One in three votes cast for President Karzai in Afghanistan's presidential elections were faked with the independent watchdog condoning the massive fraud, EU election observers said today. Around 1.1 million votes in favour of Mr Karzai met ...

Full preliminary results expected from Afghan vote

The Associated Press

EU observer says 1.5 mln Afghan votes "suspicious"

Xinhua

EU Says 1.5 Million Afghan Votes May Be Fraudulent, AFP Reports

Bloomberg

CNN International -New York Times -AFP

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The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — President Barack Obama urged Pennsylvania voters on Tuesday to support the re-election bid of Sen. Arlen Specter in a personal appearance here for the Republican-turned-Democrat who represents an important test of the White House's ...

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New York Daily News

NEW HAVEN - A crime scene investigator in a white haz-mat suit emerged from the red brick lab building to fetch something from a white truck parked on Amistad St. He returned inside to collect more evidence for another kind of lab, evidence in the ...

Yale student's killing 'completely senseless,' roommate says

CNN

Friends remember Annie Le's humor and intelligence

Los Angeles Times

Yale boosts security, seeks to calm fears after grisly slaying

Boston Globe

WLOS -Newsday -FOXNews

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Washington Post

Jody Powell, 65, a key public relations specialist for Jimmy Carter who helped orchestrate the obscure Georgia governor's rise to the White House in 1976 and then served as his press secretary, died Sept. ...

Former Carter press secretary Jody Powell dies

The Associated Press

Jody Powell, Aide to Carter, Dies

New York Times

Jody Powell Dead at 65

CBS News

NPR -Helena Independent Record -CNN Political Ticker

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Reuters

OSLO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Norway's centre-left coalition received a fresh opinion poll boost on Monday as a general election got underway, the latest sign that voters have approved of the government's handling of the economy. ...

Norwegians Are Divided as Voting Starts, Polls Show

Bloomberg

Norway Votes as Coalition Finds Itself on Defensive

New York Times

Norwegians vote in tight election

BBC News

AFP -euronews -Monsters and Critics.com

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Washington Post

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CNN International

(CNN) -- Nobel laureate Norman E. Borlaug, an agricultural scientist who helped develop disease-resistant wheat used to fight famine in poor countries, died Saturday. He was 95. Norman Borlaug received a Congressional Gold Medal from ...

Nobel-winning agricultural scientist Borlaug dies

Reuters

Agriculture pioneer Borlaug dies

BBC News

Nobel laureate, Iowa native Borlaug dies

DesMoinesRegister.com

The Associated Press -KCCI.com -Rocky Mount Telegram

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The Associated Press

KAMPALA, Uganda — Scores of soldiers and police patrolled the streets of Uganda's capital in pickup trucks and on foot Saturday following riots that have killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens of others. A sense of order returned to Kampala, ...

Riots erupt in Uganda for third day

CNN International

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Fort Worth Star Telegram

LOS ANGELES — Gertrude Baines, who lived to be the world's oldest person on a steady diet of crispy bacon, fried chicken and ice cream, died Friday at a nursing home. She was 115. Baines, who remarked last year that she enjoyed life so much she ...

Obituaries in the news

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World's oldest person dies in California at 115

Reuters

World's oldest person dies at 115

BBC News

Sky News -LiveScience.com -Los Angeles Times

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