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Saturday, August 20, 2011

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Verizon workers agree to end strike

    Mike Massaro, left, and Gail Reed, right, join other striking Verizon workers picketing and holding a candle light vigil Thursday at the home of Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam in Mendham, N.J.About 45,000 striking Verizon Communications employees are set to go back to work starting Monday night, agreeing Saturday to end a walkout while contract negotiations continue.




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4 dead after flash floods in Pittsburgh

    Amy Lavrich, left, and Christine Marty, right, comfort Romy Connolly after being caught in a flash flood, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, in Pittsburgh.Searchers on Saturday found the body of a woman who was reported missing in flash flooding that killed three other people.




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Iran sentences US men to 8 years for spying

    Shane Bauer, left, Joshua Fattal, center and Sarah Shourd smile as they wait to meet their mothers at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran in a May 2010 file photo. Iran let Shourd go after this picture was taken.A court in Iran has sentenced two U.S. men â€" who said they were hikers who strayed over the border accidentally â€" to eight years in prison, Iranian state television reported Saturday.




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Rebels advance in Libya, eye Tripoli

    Libyan rebel fighters burn a Gadhafi government flag in the main square Saturday after seizing control of the center of the strategic coastal city of Zawiyah.Libyan rebels expelled government forces from the strategic western city of Zawiya on Saturday, a major victory for the opposition in their march on Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold of Tripoli.




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Obama to Congress: Work together to aid jobless
    President Barack Obama says members of Congress should put country before politics, set aside their differences and find ways to get people back to work.

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Sooners claim top spot in preseason poll

    Landry Jones will quarterback Oklahoma amid high expectations this year.Oklahoma is No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll for the 10th time, edging Alabama for the top spot.




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Israel: Palestinian rockets kill 1, injure a dozen

    Egyptian army and policemen block the gate of a building where the Israeli embassy is located as protesters shout anti-Israeli slogans with national flags early Saturday in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo.A barrage of Palestinian rockets from Gaza slammed into southern Israel on Saturday, medical officials said, killing an Israeli man and injuring about a dozen people in the latest flare-up of violence between two longtime enemies.




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Man arrested in deaths of wife, 3 kids

    John Moses Ragin was taken into custody Saturday after he called detectives to say he was in Manning, S.C. Police said they were A Virginia man suspected in the deaths of his wife and her three children found in their burned apartment was arrested Saturday in South Carolina.




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Stunt team jet crashes at UK air show

    Flight Lt. Jon Egging died Saturday when his plane crashed during an air show near Bournemouth Airport.A plane belonging to the British military's Red Arrows aerobatics display team crashed Saturday while taking part in an air show in southern England, killing the pilot.




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Belgian soccer game halted by Fukushima comments
    A Belgian soccer was temporarily stopped on Saturday after visiting fans taunted Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima over the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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DNC raises $6.7 million in July

    President Barack Obama is greeted by singer Jennifer Hudson at a Democratic National Committee  event at the Aragon Entertainment Center in Chicago, August 3.July numbers were hurt because a number of fundraisers that were supposed to have the president speak were cancelled because of debt negotiations.




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Cyber attack hits 350,000 Epson Korea customers
    Epson Korea said on Saturday hackers had breached the personal data of its 350,000 registered customers last week, the latest in a series of cyber attacks involving a huge number of victims in the country.

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How about a vacation to Afghanistan?

    Just as President Obama laid out plans for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Canadian tour operator Bestway Tours & Safaris introduced a program to bring travelers to the war-torn country, starting this fall. Just as President Obama laid out plans for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Canadian tour operator Bestway Tours & Safaris introduced a program to bring travelers to the war-torn country, starting this fall.




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2 Colo. campers attacked by bears
    Campers near Aspen are on high alert after two separate campers were bitten through their tents by black bears in the last two days.

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India's PM open to talks as anti-graft protests gather

    Supporters cheer veteran Indian social activist Anna Hazare (in vehicle, wearing white) after he leaves Tihar jail in New Delhi August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiAt least 20,000 people gathered Saturday to support an anti-corruption social activist who has galvanized much of India against the government with his hunger strike, amid signs from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of compromise to end the impasse.




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Fisherman’s task: Catch island paradise’s killer shark

    Daryl Green, a fisherman known in the Seychelles as “the guy who can catch anything," is now on the trail of the shark that recently killed a honeymooner.Daryl Green, a fisherman known in the Seychelles as “the guy who can catch anything," is now on the trail of the shark that recently killed a honeymooner.




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