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Pakistan’s Chief of Army Fights to Keep His Job
Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan’s army chief, the most powerful man in the country, is fighting to save his position in the face of seething anger from top generals and …

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Nuclear Plant Safety Rules Inadequate, Group Says
Nuclear safety rules in the United States do not adequately weigh the risk that a single event would knock out electricity from both the grid and from emergency generators, …

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Ayman al-Zawahiri Succeeds Bin Laden as al-Qaeda’s Leader
Islamabad - Al Qaida moved Thursday to fill the leadership vacuum caused by the death of Osama bin Laden, announcing that his deputy has taken over. …

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News in Brief: GOP Cuts to Food Assistance Equal One Day of Bush Tax Cuts, and More
GOP Cuts to Food Assistance Equal One Day of Bush Tax Cuts

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Wisconsin Court Reinstates Law on Union Rights
The Wisconsin Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for significant cuts to collective bargaining rights for public workers in the state, undoing a lower court’s decision that Wisconsin’s …

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Greeks Walk Off the Job in Austerity Protest
Athens - Thousands of Greeks joined a nationwide strike on Wednesday against sharp cuts to government spending as Parliament debated another round of painful austerity measures intended to secure …

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Unrest Pushes Yemen to Brink of Humanitarian Disaster
Sanaa, Yemen - Even before demonstrators began demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh five months ago, Yemen's future looked bleak. A third of its people …

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Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., …

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Judge Rejects Conservative Activists’ Case Against Proposition 8
Supporters of the effort to repeal Prop 8 gather in front of the Phillip J. Burton Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on June 16, 2010. Chief District Judge James …

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Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants in Bin Laden Raid
Washington - Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the …