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Greeks test Beijing torch lighting, fear Tibet protests - 24, Mar 2008
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (Reuters) - Organizers of the Beijing 2008 Olympics torch lighting ceremony staged a dress rehearsal on Sunday, lighting the torch from a back-up flame as concerns over possible Tibet protests grew.
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Fatah and Hamas sign reconciliation deal - 24, Mar 2008
SANAA (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a Yemeni-sponsored deal on Sunday promising to revive direct talks after months of hostilities, but differences remained over the future of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
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Cloned cells treat Parkinson's in mice - 24, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who used cloned embryonic stem cells to treat Parkinson's disease in mice said on Sunday they worked better than other cells.
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Lebanon speaker says could call for crisis talks - 24, Mar 2008
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament speaker said on Sunday he would invite rival Lebanese leaders for direct talks if an Arab summit in Syria this week failed to find a solution to the country's political deadlock.
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Barrages hit Green Zone, gunmen kill seven - 24, Mar 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Baghdad's fortified "Green Zone" came under repeated rocket or mortar attack on Sunday, and police said up to 17 people had been killed by rockets falling short outside the government and diplomatic compound.
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Clinton and Obama rest up for long-haul race - 24, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama took a much-needed rest from their presidential campaigns on Easter Sunday as their tight race for the Democratic nomination looked set to drag on for months.
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Muslim's conversion conflict hits Vatican on Easter - 24, Mar 2008
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called in his Easter message on Sunday for an end to injustice worldwide and expressed joy at continuing conversions to Christianity hours after he baptized a prominent Italian Muslim convert.
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Cheney calls for painful concessions for Mideast peace - 24, Mar 2008
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace would require painful concessions from both sides.
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Gas prices hit record $3.26, diesel at $4.06 - 24, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The average price of a gallon of gas in the United States has risen to a record $3.26, and the cost of diesel fuel has soared to a record $4.06 a gallon, adding to pressure on consumers and the companies that deliver their goods.
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Light at end of tunnel or false dawn? - 24, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world economy may be in for a painful reality check this week, should a heavy slate of housing-related data point to more mortgage malaise.
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Visa offering not seen as elixir for U.S. IPO market - 24, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The blockbuster initial public offering of Visa Inc -- the largest ever in the United States -- will do little to revive the slowing IPO market, which has been dampened by investors spooked by the credit crisis.
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U.S. bank stocks may rise 10-20 pct in year: Barron's - 24, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of stronger U.S. banks and brokerages may rise 10 percent to 20 percent in the next year as panic over credit markets recedes and earnings improve, Barron's said in its March 24 edition.
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Finishing out a ferocious quarter - 24, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - This is the last full week of the first quarter, when markets are normally driven at least in part by window dressing as professional investors seek to make their quarterly or annual performance look good to clients.
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Bank of America may face $6.5 bln loan loss: analyst - 24, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp , the largest U.S. retail bank, may set aside a record $6.5 billion in the first quarter to cover possible future loan losses, including in its mortgage and home equity portfolios, according to a banking analyst.
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Q&A: Rocker Tankian spreads the word on social justice - 23, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Billboard) - A few days before the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, rock musician Serj Tankian is sitting in an Austin hotel room and ruminating on the costs of the endless battle. But Tankian isn't talking about dead soldiers or civilians; he
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Space shuttle astronauts to get day of rest - 23, Mar 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Space shuttle Endeavour astronauts were to rest on Sunday after the fifth and final spacewalk of a mission that brought the first piece of a Japanese laboratory and also a Canadian robot to the International Space Station.
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Penguins crush Devils to take top spot in East - 23, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pittsburgh Penguins may still be without Sidney Crosby but after hammering the New Jersey Devils 7-1 on Saturday they do have top spot in the Atlantic Division.
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Fish home run not a patch on Federer upset - 23, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Hitting a home run out of Shea Stadium was a defining moment for American Mardy Fish but even that fell way short of his stunning victory over Roger Federer at the Pacific Life Open on Saturday.
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Mambo pioneer Israel "Cachao" Lopez dies - 23, Mar 2008
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Cuban-born bassist, band leader and mambo pioneer Israel "Cachao" Lopez died on Saturday in Miami, media reports said. He was 89.
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China accuses Dalai Lama of taking Olympics "hostage" - 23, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has accused the Dalai Lama of plotting "terror" in Tibet and colluding with Uighur separatists in Xinjiang as it escalates a security and propaganda drive to stifle anti-Chinese unrest ahead of the Olympics.
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Hornets cool off Celtics with comeback win - 23, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New Orleans Hornets found a way to cool off the red-hot Boston Celtics on Saturday, coming from behind the beat the team with the best record in the NBA 113-106.
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Long road ahead before peace between Taiwan and China - 23, Mar 2008
TAIPEI (Reuters) - An end to the more than half a century of hostility and tension between Taiwan and China may be in the offing with the election of a more China-friendly president for the island, but progress will be slow and tortuous.
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Barrages hit Baghdad's Green Zone - 23, Mar 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two barrages of rocket or mortar fire pounded Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the Iraqi parliament and U.S. embassy, on Sunday, but there were no reports of casualties, officials said.
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Duke loses, UCLA survives in NCAA hoop play - 23, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On the same day the NCAA Tournament lost one of its four number two seeds, a number one barely escaped to advance to next weekend's Sweet 16.
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South Korean investors quit China over rising costs - 23, Mar 2008
QINGDAO, China (Reuters) - Scores of South Korean-owned factories are closing surreptitiously in eastern China as their owners flee rising costs, leaving behind embittered workers like Li Hua.
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Buyback programs turn electronic trash to cash - 23, Mar 2008
DENVER (Billboard) - Leave it to the gadget industry to turn concern over electronic waste into a sales opportunity. Simply put, they're offering to buy back old devices to recycle or resell, in return for cash or in-store credit.
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Dutch protest against Islam critic's Koran film - 23, Mar 2008
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - About one thousand people protested
in central Amsterdam on Saturday against right-wing lawmaker
Geert Wilders and the imminent release of his film expected to
be critical of the Koran.
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Q&A: Guster's Gardner puts eco-message into practice - 23, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Adam Gardner has come a long way since nicknaming his band's tour bus "the Earth Eater." Last October, the Guster guitarist/vocalist, who also co-founded environmental nonprofit organization Reverb, traveled from his home in Port
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Astronauts head outside for final spacewalk - 23, Mar 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two shuttle Endeavour astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Saturday to stow an inspection boom for the next shuttle crew and hook up a science experiment that bedeviled spacewalkers on a previous outing.
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Sharapova withdraws from Miami event with shoulder injury - 23, Mar 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - World number five Maria Sharapova has pulled out of next week's Sony Ericsson Open in Miami because of a shoulder injury, organizers said on Saturday.
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Buttle beats Joubert to win men's gold - 23, Mar 2008
GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - Canada's Jeffrey Buttle won the men's world championship gold on Saturday, with defending champion Brian Joubert rising from sixth place to take the silver in the final.
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Sci-fi "titan" Clarke buried in Sri Lanka - 23, Mar 2008
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Visionary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was buried on Saturday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, where the nation paused for an international "titan" it had adopted as its own.
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Bhutto party announces candidate for Pakistani PM - 23, Mar 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The party of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto nominated on Saturday former National Assembly speaker Yousaf Raza Gilani as its candidate for prime minister.
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West Virginia beats Duke in shocker - 23, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Duke's quest for a fourth national championship ended abruptly in the second round of the NCAA Tournament when West Virginia used an astonishing second-half rally to shock the Blue Devils 73-67 on Saturday.
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Fish stuns Federer, Djokovic upsets Nadal - 23, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - World number one Roger Federer was stunned by unseeded American Mardy Fish after Rafael Nadal's Pacific Life Open title defense came to an abrupt halt in Saturday's semi-finals.
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Pope baptizes famous Muslim convert - 23, Mar 2008
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict led the world's Catholics into Easter on Saturday at a Vatican service where he baptized a Muslim-born convert who is one of Italy's most famous and controversial journalists.
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Cheney: U.S. won't pressure Israel on security - 23, Mar 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney, starting a visit on Saturday to try to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said Washington would never pressure Israel to take steps that threaten its security.
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OPEC chief sees oil at $80-$110 for rest of 2008 - 23, Mar 2008
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Petroleum prices will range between $80 and $110 per barrel for the rest of 2008, OPEC President Chakib Khelil said on Saturday.
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BoE, Fed deny mortgage security buyout plan - 23, Mar 2008
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve and Bank of England denied a report on Saturday that they were in talks over possibly using public funds to make mass purchases of mortgage-backed securities to ease the global credit crisis.
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Gibson sues over "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" - 23, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gibson Guitar said on Friday that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Viacom Inc's MTV networks, Harmonix and Electronic Arts relating to the wildly popular "Rock Band" video game and Harmonix's previously developed game, "
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Sharapova considers time away from court - 22, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - A jaded Maria Sharapova said she might take another break from the game after being beaten 6-3 5-7 6-2 by fellow Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semi-finals of the Pacific Life Open on Friday.
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Astronauts ready for 5th spacewalk of mission - 22, Mar 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station prepared on Saturday for a spacewalk to store an extension boom and other tasks, the fifth and final outing during a busy visit by the shuttle Endeavour.
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British minister defends embryo research bill - 22, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government is right to push through hybrid human-animal embryo legislation after a Roman Catholic cardinal attacked the government for "endorsement of experiments of Frankenstein proportion", Health Minister Ben Bradshaw has
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Gov. Richardson backs Obama - 22, Mar 2008
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Sen. Barack Obama won a coveted endorsement from New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Friday while the State Department apologized that employees snooped into the Illinois Democrat's passport files and those of his two main Whit
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Over 100 anti-war protesters arrested at NATO HQ - 22, Mar 2008
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Around 100 anti-war protesters were arrested trying to force their way into NATO's headquarters in Belgium on Saturday, police said.
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Candidate for next Pakistani PM to be announced - 22, Mar 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The party of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, which is set to lead a coalition government, will announce its candidate for prime minister on Saturday, party officials said.
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China ups Tibet death toll, fears unrest may spread - 22, Mar 2008
KANGDING, China (Reuters) - China said 19 people died in riots in the Tibetan capital last week and official media warned against the unrest spreading to the northwest region of Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims bridle under Chinese control.
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Cheney heads to Israel to press peace talks - 22, Mar 2008
RIYADH (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Israel on Saturday to try to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, his spokeswoman said.
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Three U.S. soldiers die in Iraq, toll nears 4,000 - 22, Mar 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers in Iraq on Saturday, pushing the U.S. death toll closer to the 4,000 mark at the start of the sixth year of the war for U.S. troops.
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Taiwan's Ma wins election - 22, Mar 2008
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party won the presidential election by a landslide on Saturday, heralding improved ties with giant neighbor China which claims the self-ruled island as its own.
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Central banks in mortgage crisis talks: report - 22, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks on both sides of the Atlantic are in talks about the feasibility of mass purchases of mortgage-backed securities in a bid to solve the global credit crisis, the Financial Times (FT) said on Saturday.
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Astronauts test shield fix, inspect for shuttle damage - 22, Mar 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) -- After completing a spacewalk to test a shuttle heat shield repair technique, astronauts aboard Endeavour on Friday used a sensor-studded extension boom to make sure their ship was safe for next week's re-entry.
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Yankees name Wang as Opening Day starter - 22, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees on Friday named Wang Chien-ming as their Opening Day starting pitcher on March 31 against the Toronto Blue Jays, launching the last season at the old Yankee Stadium.
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Fish swims with top dogs at Indian Wells - 22, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Unfancied American Mardy Fish joined elite company by upsetting seventh-seeded David Nalbandian of Argentina 6-3 6-7 7-6 in the Pacific Life Open quarter-finals on Friday.
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Wiser Woods swinging his way to new heights - 22, Mar 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - World number one Tiger Woods believes improved understanding of his swing is the key factor behind his current domination of the game.
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Q&A: Stipe, R.E.M. take rougher-edged approach - 22, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Think fast. R.E.M. has banished the quiet, dream-like mood of their last two records and is about to unleash the hard, sharp-eyed "Accelerate," their first album in four years.
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James becomes Cavaliers' scoring king - 22, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - LeBron James became Cleveland's all-time leading scorer when he led the Cavaliers to a 90-83 home victory over the Toronto Raptors on Friday.
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Ovechkin scores 60th goal as Capitals rally - 22, Mar 2008
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Alex Ovechkin became the first NHL player in 12 years to score 60 goals in a season when he tallied twice in the Washington Capitals' 5-3 comeback win over the Atlanta Thrashers on Friday.
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Western Kentucky add to March Madness - 22, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The frenetic NCAA men's basketball tournament earned its March Madness moniker on Friday with upsets, overtimes and miracle finishes.
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Obama wins Gov. Richardson backing - 22, Mar 2008
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Sen. Barack Obama won a coveted endorsement from New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Friday while the State Department apologized that employees snooped into the Illinois Democrat's passport files and those of his two main Whit
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China ups death toll in Tibet riots - 22, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said 19 people were killed in riots in the Tibetan capital last week and official media warned against the unrest spreading to the northwest region of Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims bridle under Chinese control.
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IMF endorses wealth fund guide plan - 22, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Friday endorsed staff plans to develop best practice guidelines for sovereign wealth funds and said it would meet with wealth funds in April to start working on an initial draft.
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U.S. Justice Department launches probe of Alcoa - 22, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into whether Alcoa Inc , one of its subsidiaries and people connected with the unit committed fraud, corruption and bribery in its relations with customer Aluminum B
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Music fans prefer Wikipedia to MySpace - 22, Mar 2008
DENVER (Billboard) - Search for an artist on any of the popular search engines, and the top three results are practically guaranteed: the artist's official Web site, Wikipedia entry and MySpace page -- often in that order.
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Hamilton pips Massa in Sepang practice - 22, Mar 2008
SEPANG, Malaysia (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton squeezed in the fastest lap of the day in practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix on Friday, while Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen helped Ferrari put a turbulent week behind them.
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South African Otto takes five-shot Madeira lead - 22, Mar 2008
SANTO DA SERRA, Madeira (Reuters) - South Africa's Hennie Otto mastered buffeting gusts that interrupted the Madeira Islands Open second round for a time on Friday to surge into a five-stroke lead.
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Delobel and Schoenfelder clinch ice dance gold - 22, Mar 2008
GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - France's Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder won the ice dancing crown at the world figure skating championships on Friday with a flowing and ethereal free dance routine.
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France's Bernard shatters 100 freestyle record - 22, Mar 2008
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Alain Bernard snatched the 100 meters freestyle world record from Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband at the ailing Dutchman's home pool in the European swimming championships on Friday.
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Nuggets' Karl worried 50 wins may not be enough for playoffs - 22, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Denver Nuggets coach George Karl said on Friday that the NBA season was out of this world even though his team and its high-powered stars Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony could miss out on the playoffs.
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Afghans chant death to Danish, Dutch in protest - 22, Mar 2008
KABUL (Reuters) - Some 5,000 Afghans chanted "death to Denmark" and "death to the Netherlands" in Kabul on Friday, protesting against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers and a Dutch film on the Koran.
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Pope, eyeing China, reflects on persecuted Catholics - 22, Mar 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict reflected on the persecution of Catholics across the world during a Good Friday procession around Rome's Coliseum that threw the spotlight on suffering among China's faithful.
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Attorney General would consider spy bill deal - 22, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Friday he was open to compromise with Congress on renewing an anti-terrorism spy bill that has been deadlocked over whether telephone companies should be shielded from lawsuits.
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Floods sweep central U.S. - 22, Mar 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Swollen rivers flooded parts of the central United States on Friday and threatened to engulf a major interstate highway in Missouri, after violent rainstorms caused at least 16 deaths, according to reports on Friday.
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Governor Richardson backs Obama - 22, Mar 2008
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Sen. Barack Obama won a coveted endorsement from New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Friday while the State Department apologized that employees snooped into the Illinois Democrat's passport files and those of his two main Whit
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Goldman, Lehman outlooks cut to "negative" by S&P - 22, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's credit rating outlooks were cut on Friday by Standard & Poor's, which said volatile markets could result in lower profit and revenue.
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U.S. Treasury: Fed's Bear actions help all investors - 22, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's actions to lend billions of dollars to prop up and sell off ailing brokerage Bear Stearns will help all Americans by stabilizing capital markets, a senior U.S. Treasury official said.
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"Harry Potter", "Chocolate Rain" win YouTube awards - 22, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A puppet show version of "Harry Potter" featuring a naked Dumbledore and an enigmatic song called "Chocolate Rain" by a Minnesota graduate student were among the winners of YouTube's second annual video awards, the Web site said on
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Gibson sues MTV, EA over "Guitar Hero" - 22, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gibson Guitar said on Friday that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Viacom Inc's MTV networks and Harmonix as well as Electronic Arts relating to the wildly popular "Guitar Hero" video games.
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Music rights flap jamming Bob Marley biopic - 21, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The family of Bob Marley has refused to license any of his music for an upcoming Weinstein Co. film drama about the late reggae star even though his widow, Rita Marley, is its executive producer.
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Mexican film puts human face on immigration - 21, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mexican film director Patricia Riggen faced so many challenges making her new film, "Under The Same Moon," that she almost gave up, but it is good for audiences and for Riggen that she persevered.
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Catholic leader attacks "monstrous" embryo research - 21, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - British research using hybrid human-animal embryos for experiments is "monstrous" and should be banned, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland said on Friday.
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Swimming champion Cavic banned over t-shirt slogan - 21, Mar 2008
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Serbian gold medalist Milorad Cavic has been banned from further individual events at the European championships for wearing a t-shirt with a political slogan at his victory ceremony, European swimming's governing body L
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Astronauts test repair technique on spacewalk - 21, Mar 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A pair of astronauts ended a spacewalk late on Thursday in which they tested a repair procedure for the heat shields on the space shuttle fleet -- a technique NASA hopes it never needs to use.
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Red Sox buckle up for Matsuzaka fever in Tokyo - 21, Mar 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Boston Red Sox were preparing themselves for the full force of Matsuzaka fever after arriving in Japan for their season-opening games next week.
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Somali Islamists say U.S. terror listing forges unity - 21, Mar 2008
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents in Somalia say their inclusion on a U.S. terrorism list will help recruiting and has spurred them to strengthen ties with other groups blacklisted by Washington.
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Hamas plays down chances of Fatah talks succeeding - 21, Mar 2008
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas expressed doubt on Friday that Yemeni-sponsored reconciliation talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction would succeed despite an agreement to extend the discussions for an extra day.
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CORRECTED: France to cut nuclear arsenal - 21, Mar 2008
(Corrects in paragraph 2 vessel is fourth of latest generation of nuclear-armed submarines)
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Next Pakistani PM to be revealed over weekend - 21, Mar 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Set to lead Pakistan's incoming coalition government, the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will nominate its candidate for the premiership by Sunday, a spokesman said.
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Fresh violence frays militia truce in Iraq - 21, Mar 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Mehdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad overnight, police said on Friday, further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his militia.
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Tibetans say several died in latest riots - 21, Mar 2008
KANGDING, China (Reuters) - Tibetans in China's tense southwestern province of Sichuan said on Friday they believed police had killed several people in anti-Chinese riots there this week, disputing official claims none died.
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Richardson to endorse Obama's White House bid - 21, Mar 2008
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Friday endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic nomination for president, handing the Illinois senator a potential boost among Hispanic voters.
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Bank of Japan acting boss warns on rate assumption - 21, Mar 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Acting Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Friday that dealing with global market turmoil was his top priority, but warned those expecting a cut in interest rates that he has no preconceptions on where to take monetary polic
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Japanese Boeing supplier warms up to Airbus - 21, Mar 2008
KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese analytical instrument and airplane component maker Shimadzu Corp has held preliminary talks with Airbus after repeated delays in plane deliveries at client Boeing Co .
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Russia's Severstal buys Sparrows Point mill - 21, Mar 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Severstal , Russia's largest steel maker, will expand its U.S. presence with the $810 million acquisition of the Sparrows Point mill in Maryland, which ArcelorMittal is selling for antitrust reasons.
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Live hoops game gets 3-D treatment in Dallas theater - 21, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - High-definition pioneer Mark Cuban is using his NBA team and Landmark Theater chain to orchestrate a rare 3-D broadcast of a live event.
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"Horton" likely to hear good news again - 21, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Easter isn't so much a huge box-office weekend as it is one that typically requires careful slotting to get moviegoers hopping to the multiplex.
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Study signals Dutch switch to drugs from euthanasia - 21, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Terminally-ill patients in the Netherlands increasingly receive drugs to render them unconscious until death, according to a study that suggests people are substituting deep sedation for legal euthanasia.
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Captain Canada hopes to ride again - 21, Mar 2008
TORONTO (Reuters) - There is a good reason why Canadian show jumper Ian Millar is nicknamed "Captain Canada" after having represented his country in every summer Olympic Games in which it has competed since 1972.
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Legal deal restores good vibrations to Beach Boys - 21, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The settlement of a long legal dispute over rights to the Beach Boys' name has restored good vibrations among the three surviving original members of the famed group, attorneys in the case said on Thursday.
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Mother Davenport has dual concerns about back injury - 21, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Although Lindsay Davenport was sad to withdraw from the Pacific Life Open due to a back injury on Thursday, she was more concerned with her inability to perform 100 percent as a mother.
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