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CBC.ca Bomb Explodes Near NATO's Afghan OfficeNew York TimesA body is rushed from the scene of a suicide car bomb in front of the main gate of NATO headquarters Saturday morning in Kabul, Afghanistan. By CARLOTTA GALL KABUL, Afghanistan — Five days before Afghanistan's presidential election, a huge explosion …Blast rocks Nato office in KabulAljazeera.netSuicide [...]

Los Angeles Times Santa Cruz County fire grows to 5036 acresSan Francisco ChronicleA major wildfire continued to rip through wide swaths of hilly terrain in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Friday, but it wasn't fierce enough to roust Billy Ray Martin. The Bonny Doon musician and his wife, Suzy, were among a couple hundred people [...]

Times Online Kid TV reporter scores presidential interviewMiamiHerald.comDamon Weaver, who interviewed Vice President Joe Biden last year, has a new `homeboy' — President Barack Obama. BY MARC FREEMAN Palm Beach County kid TV reporter Damon Weaver on Thursday interviewed President Barack Obama, fulfilling the Pahokee …Obama interviewed by 11-year-oldUSA TodayYoung Fla. journalist interviews President ObamaThe [...]

Aljazeera.net US senator set for Myanmar talksAljazeera.netA US senator is set to become the most senior Washington official to meet Myanmar's ruling military leaders during talks in the Southeast Asian nation. Jim Webb, a Democratic senator from the eastern US state of Virginia, was scheduled to hold talks …Webb's Trip To Burma May Be Litmus [...]

Times Online Mystery remains over cargo vesselBBC NewsMystery still surrounds a missing Russian-manned cargo ship, with a sighting off Africa's Cape Verde islands still to be confirmed. The Arctic Sea, with 15 Russian crew members on board, was last sighted in the Bay of Biscay on 30 July. …Sighting of Missing Russian Cargo Ship DeniedVoice [...]

ABC News Hamas crackdown on radical groupBBC NewsThe Hamas organisation that controls Gaza has launched a bloody crackdown on a radical Islamist group after it declared Gaza an "Islamic emirate". At least 16 people died and scores were injured when Hamas fighters attacked the Jund Ansar Allah group …In Gaza Strip, a deadly clash at [...]

guardian.co.uk Controller's role in NY air collision studiedReutersWASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Scrutiny of an air traffic controller's actions, including whether a phone call may have distracted him, intensified on Friday as investigators released new details about the deadly collision of a small …Alerts went unnoticed at two airports prior to Hudson River …New York [...]

ABC News Obama's seeking out skeptics of healthcare reformLos Angeles TimesIn Montana, he calls on a mostly receptive audience to take control of the debate, which he says is misrepresented as a 'ruckus' on TV. By Maeve Reston Reporting from Belgrade, Mont. – Setting out on a series of town hall meetings to bolster support [...]

Times Online Presidential Candidate Offers Slew of Proposals to Combat Official …Washington PostThe Washington Post's Joshua Partlow speaks to Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani about how he would fix the corruption within the Afghan government . By Joshua Partlow KABUL, Aug. 14 — Ask presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani how he would curb …Q&A: Afghan electionBBC [...]

Chicago Tribune Woman Who Tried to Kill Ford in '75 Is ParoledNew York TimesHOUSTON — Lynette A. Fromme, the waifish acolyte of Charles Manson who tried to kill President Gerald R. Ford in September 1975, was released on parole from federal prison in Texas on Friday morning after spending three decades …Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme released [...]