Toughest test coming up for health care overhaul (AP)

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AP — Keep going. You don't have to fix all of it now. Just please don't let it stall.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Roadside bomb kills 11-year-old in north Iraq (AP)

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AP — Authorities say a roadside bomb has killed an 11-year-old boy and wounded his two friends in the violence-plagued city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Russia may ease foreign access to energy projects (Reuters)

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Reuters — Russia will discuss relaxing laws regulating foreign participation in offshore energy projects to attract investment from abroad, Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev told Reuters on Saturday.

Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back

Fracture healed by US forces, Afghan boy goes home (AP)

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AP — The Afghan father left the mountains on foot, carrying his 2-year-old son, but the health clinic could not treat the skull fracture that blinded the toddler and immobilized his left side. By chance the next day, two American medics stopped by the clinic in Day Kundi Province to check on another patient.
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SAfrica track chief apologizes for runner sex test (AP)

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AP — South Africa's top track official apologized Saturday for denying knowledge of gender tests done on runner Caster Semenya in the country, saying he lied to protect her privacy.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Mosquito-borne African virus a new threat to West (Reuters)

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Reuters — The United States and Europe face a new health threat from a mosquito-borne disease far more unpleasant than the West Nile virus that swept into North America a decade ago, a U.S. expert said on Friday.

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Pakistan police raid US-contracted security firm (AP)

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AP — Pakistani police raided a local security firm that helps protect the U.S. Embassy on Saturday, seizing dozens of allegedly unlicensed weapons at a time when unusually intense media scrutiny of America's use of private contractors has deepened anti-U.S. sentiment.
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Obama rolling into week of high diplomatic stakes (AP)

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AP — The unrelenting global troubles confronting Barack Obama are about to converge on him all at once, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president who has pledged to «change the world.»

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Taliban leader Mullah Omar takes aim at Obama (Reuters)

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Reuters — Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar issued a statement Saturday telling people of the West not to listen to U.S. President Barack Obama's justifications of war and vowing to defeat NATO troops like other invaders of history.

Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back

SA athletics chief admits lying about Semenya tests (AFP)

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AFP — South Africa's top athletics official said Saturday a gender test was done on Caster Semenya before the World Athletics Championships in Berlin last month, and apologised for earlier denying knowledge of the test.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

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