Reuters – President Hugo Chavez said he will need radiation treatment for cancer in the run-up to Venezuela’s October presidential poll, though he insisted there was no metastasis after the removal of another tumor.
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Chavez faces more cancer treatment before Venezuela vote
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AP – Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school returned to class Friday, a day after charges were filed in juvenile court against the 17-year-old suspect.
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Classes resume at Ohio high school after shooting
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Reuters – Iranians voted on Friday in a parliamentary election likely to reinforce Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s power over rival hardliners led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Iran parliament vote seen bolstering Supreme Leader
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The Christian Science Monitor – Andrew Breitbart, the Internet agitator who gave a powerful voice to the right-o-sphere’s unrest and disenchantment with liberal institutions, invoked the spirit of the âhappy warriorâ to wage quixotic battles against the mainstream media and liberal bromides â often to great, but controversial, effect.
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Andrew Breitbart, a ‘happy warrior,’ rallied the right and vexed the left
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Reuters – North Korea agreed on Wednesday to stop nuclear tests, uranium enrichment and long-range missile launches, and to allow checks by nuclear inspectors, in an apparent policy shift that paves the way for resuming long-stalled disarmament talks.
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North Korea agrees to nuclear moratorium, IAEA inspections
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AP – The Nasdaq composite index briefly cracked 3,000 on Wednesday for the first time since the meltdown in dot-com stocks more than a decade ago. The stock market sank but was still on its way to closing its best February in 14 years.
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Nasdaq cracks 3,000; stocks dip as Bernanke speaks
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The Christian Science Monitor – T.J. Lane, the teenager held as a suspect in a fatal shooting outside a Cleveland-area high school on Monday, appeared in juvenile court Tuesday, where a judge determined that he will remain in custody pending trial. Whether the 17-year-old will face trial as a juvenile or an adult will be determined next month, but Ohio is a state where minors charged with serious crimes are routinely transferred to adult court.
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Ohio school shooting: State likely to seek adult trial for teen suspect
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AP – A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into the gates of a NATO base and airport in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, triggering a blast that killed nine Afghans, officials said. The Taliban claimed the attack was revenge for U.S. troops burning copies of the Quran.
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Reuters – A suicide car bomber killed nine people in an attack on a military airport in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, the latest bloodshed since copies of the Koran were burned at a NATO base last week.
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U.S. cites "heightened threat"; 9 killed in Afghan airport bomb
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The Christian Science Monitor – As attacks on allied forces in Afghanistan continued Sunday in the wake of Quran burnings by American troops, US officials reaffirmed their commitment to the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and to preventing Al Qaeda advances in the country.
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US officials urge ‘stay the course’ in wake of Afghan violence
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