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Cape weathers weakened Hurricane Earl - Boston Herald
2010-09-05 04:05:37.0 - Google News
Relieved and peeved, Bay State residents and business owners who had boarded up windows and hunkered down for the hurricane of the decade emerged yesterday to attempt to salvage a holiday weekend nearly ruined by what turned out to be - -
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Cleanup begins after massive quake - Stuff.co.nz
2010-09-05 03:59:39.0 - Google News
By STAFF REPORTERS Christchurch is counting the cost of the worst earthquake damage in the country since Napier was hit 1931. While only one person appears to have lost their life in the disaster, the effects on infrastructure and basic services could - -
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Police allege deliveryman was killed for $100, pizza - Boston Globe
2010-09-05 03:48:51.0 - Google News
Two Boston high school students and a 20-year-old have been charged with luring a pizza deliveryman to an empty Hyde Park apartment, viciously stabbing him to death, then fleeing in his car with a - -
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Democrats Plan Political Triage to Retain House - New York Times
2010-09-05 03:16:54.0 - Google News
WASHINGTON — As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving enough seats to keep a slim grip on the - -
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Israel launches raids on Gaza - Aljazeera.net
2010-09-05 03:06:27.0 - Google News
Cross-border rocket fire draws airborne response from Israeli military, which injures at least three Palestinians. Israel has launched a series of air raids against targets in southern Gaza just hours after Palestinian fighters fired a rocket over the - -
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Skydiving plane crashes near NZ glacier, killing 9 - eTaiwan News
2010-09-05 02:20:56.0 - Google News
AP AP AP A plane carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular glacier in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing five New Zealanders and four European tourists, police said. The plane caught fire after takeoff Saturday from an airstrip near Fox - -
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Florida slow to spend federal stimulus cash - Orlando Sentinel
2010-09-05 01:53:18.0 - Google News
WASHINGTON — Florida agencies have spent only about 40 percent of their share of federal stimulus money, a slow flow of funds that has made a limited impact on the state's dire job market. - -
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2 babies killed after semi hits vehicles in Ariz. - The Associated Press
2010-09-05 01:53:11.0 - Google News
PHOENIX — Two babies have been killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a gas tanker in Phoenix. An Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman says a car slowed on Interstate 10 on Saturday afternoon to look at a minor collision and cut off a - -
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Mideast peace talks can secure Clinton's legacy if she succeeds - Boston Globe
2010-09-05 01:51:07.0 - Google News
WASHINGTON — For much of her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been less an architect than an advocate for the Obama administration's Middle East policy. With the resumption of direct talks last week, - -
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IDF responds to Kassam, West Bank shootings - Jerusalem Post
2010-09-05 01:50:44.0 - Google News
By JPOST.COM STAFF Air force bombs three smuggling tunnels in the Gaza Strip meant to help kidnap and attack Israelis; Palestinians: One dead, one injured, one missing. IDF bombed smuggling tunnels in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, IDF spokesman - -
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Two plane crash victims identified as investigation begins - San Jose Mercury News
2010-09-05 01:40:00.0 - Google News
As investigators began the arduous task of determining the cause of Thursday's plane crash in Redwood Shores, officials identified two of the three passengers who died in the incident. The San Mateo County coroner's office Saturday identified two of - -
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Obama Concentrates on Economy as Election Nears - CBS News
2010-09-05 01:34:37.0 - Google News
President Obama will announce some new proposals to help small businesses, but Republicans are voicing opposition. Bill Plante reports. President Obama delivers a statement on the economy in the Rose Garden at the White House Sept. - -
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Big aftershocks felt in Christchurch - Stuff.co.nz
2010-09-05 01:27:07.0 - Google News
By STAFF REPORTERS Taking refuge at Linwood College, the McLeod family are to scared to go back to their house. New Brighton petrol station owner Sam Park looks over earthquake damage. Darfield man Craig Smith with earthquake damage to farm paddocks - -
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Prosecutors Detail Abuse in Brooklyn Girl's Last Days - New York Times
2010-09-05 01:17:44.0 - Google News
Two days after the bruised, emaciated body of a 4-year-old girl was discovered in a Brooklyn apartment, new information from officials emerged about her life and death as her mother on Saturday made her first appearance in court to face - -
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GOP relying on political neophytes to retake Senate - Boston Globe
2010-09-05 01:13:32.0 - Google News
WASHINGTON — They are political newcomers — some buoyed by personal wealth, others running on little more than populist heat — who have tapped the anti-Washington vein of the American electorate. But while they are riding high on voter - -
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Senate candidates Crist, Meek season AFL-CIO holiday cookout in Jupiter - Palm Beach Post
2010-09-05 01:13:28.0 - Google News
JUPITER — This Carlin Park gathering demanded all the usual cookout decisions - hamburgers or hot dogs? sweet or unsweetened tea? - and offered one special election-year selection: Crist or Meek? At the Palm Beach-Treasure Coast - -
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Iran orders 99 lashes for woman facing execution, rights group says - CNN
2010-09-05 01:09:17.0 - Google News
By the CNN Wire Staff Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, right, pictured in 2004 at a daycare in Osko, Iran. Her family says she worked there for two years. (CNN) -- An Iranian woman who'd already been condemned to death faces another sentence of 99 lashes - -
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Ex-bank executives say their dismissals caused panic withdrawals in Kabul - Washington Post
2010-09-05 01:05:21.0 - Google News
Concerned Afghans stood in long lines Saturday to withdraw money from the nation's largest, but troubled bank. By Ernesto Londoño, Andrew Higgins and David Nakamura KABUL -- The two ousted executives of Afghanistan's largest bank have blamed a hasty - -
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Protest over French gypsy crackdown - The Press Association
2010-09-05 01:00:26.0 - Google News
Thousands of people all over France have marched to protest at expulsions of gypsies and other security measures adopted by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government. Protesters blew whistles and beat drums in Paris, the largest demonstration among those - -
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New Zealand City, Rocked by 7.0 Earthquake, Faces Gales, Rains - BusinessWeek
2010-09-05 00:37:46.0 - Google News
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand's second-largest city, Christchurch, faces gale force winds and heavy rains today that may add to an estimated NZ$2 billion ($1.44 billion) of damage caused by yesterday's magnitude 7.0 - -
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KiwiRail sends water to quake-hit Christchurch - Stuff.co.nz
2010-09-05 00:22:47.0 - Google News
By STAFF REPORTERS Workers remove a damaged spire from St. Mary's Anglican Church in Timaru following the earthquake. Di & Craig Roberts refuse to look at their earthquake-damaged house near Darfield. A fire that broke out in Christchurch as Prime - -
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Quake: Key information - Stuff.co.nz
2010-09-04 23:59:18.0 - Google News
Power has been restored to 90 per cent of Christchurch. Power can not be restored in the central city until all buildings are checked. Water supply has resumed for all but 20 per cent of the city, however, residents should - -
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Civil servants in top-level quake meeting - Stuff.co.nz
2010-09-04 23:37:51.0 - Google News
By STAFF REPORTERS Workers remove a damaged spire from St. Mary's Anglican Church in Timaru following the earthquake. Di & Craig Roberts refuse to look at their earthquake-damaged house near Darfield. A fire that broke out in Christchurch as Prime - -
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Earl's biggest damage in Northeast: business - The Associated Press
2010-09-04 23:37:31.0 - Google News
YARMOUTH, Mass. — In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note. The tropical storm, far less intense than feared, brushed past the Northeast and dumped heavy, wind-driven rain on - -
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GOP flies high, but midterm won't be a breeze - Los Angeles Times
2010-09-04 23:35:26.0 - Google News
A Republican takeover of the House — maybe even the Senate — looks less impossible every day. Still, money and message problems continue to weigh the party down. “We have been preparing from day one for what we knew would be a very tough campaign - -
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Weakened Earl Mostly Spares East Coast, Insurers - Wall Street Journal
2010-09-04 23:34:44.0 - Google News
After a week of worrying and preparation, Hurricane Earl managed to mostly miss the mid-Atlantic, and largely fizzled out before it reached Massachusetts. That was good news for people with coastal homes and businesses, and turned what was - -
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Fire Damages Sanitation Department Facility On Pier - NY1
2010-09-04 23:30:29.0 - Google News
City fire marshals were investigating Saturday the cause of a three-alarm fire that damaged Department of Sanitation trailers on a pier by Manhattan's West Side Highway that afternoon. Fire officials said the flames broke out around 3:30 pm on Pier 97 - -
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Monitor: 'Border Wars' looks at illegal immigration and efforts to stop it - Los Angeles Times
2010-09-04 23:29:42.0 - Google News
From both sides, the stretch of the Rio Grande that paints the border between southeast Texas and northern Mexico doesn't look that wide. To those trying to make it to the United States, - -
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American Muslims Gather to Break Fast - Voice of America
2010-09-04 23:19:18.0 - Google News
The holy month of Ramadan is marked by fasting from dawn to dusk. Muslim Americans end each day of fasting with a festive meal known as Iftar. After a long day, they relax and share the rituals of Ramadan from sundown to the predawn hours. - -
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Tony Blair's book signing in Dublin mixes Good Friday with bad Iraq - The Guardian
2010-09-04 23:08:00.0 - Google News
Literature and politics have always laid claim to Dublin's O'Connell Street, bookended by statues of James Joyce and Catholic emancipator Daniel O'Connell. Tony Blair, in his modest way, was no doubt hoping connections would be made with both - -
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