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Ramola Talwar Badam / Associated Press:
Death toll at 105 in India train bombings — BOMBAY, India - Seven bombs hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, killing at least 105 people and wounding more than 300 in what authorities called a well-coordinated attack. — India's major cities were put …
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CNN:
40 killed in Mumbai train blasts — MUMBAI, India (CNN) — At least 40 people have been killed in seven explosions on crowded rush-hour commuter trains in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, police said. — More than 100 people were injured in the blasts, which took place between 6:20 and 7 p.m. …
BBC:
Scores dead in Mumbai explosions — Scores of people have been killed in at least seven blasts on trains in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), police say. — The city's police Chief AN Roy said on Indian TV as many as 100 people were feared killed and more than 250 hurt.
Fox News:
Seven Explosions Hit India Train Stations During Rush Hour — MUMBAI, India — Seven explosions hit Mumbai's transit system on Tuesday, killing at leat 131 people and injuring more than 300, in what officials described as a well-coordinated terrorist attack.
Washington Post:
Bomb Attacks in Bombay Kill at Least 139 — NEW DELHI, July 11 — At least 139 people were killed and more than 260 injured in a series of seven coordinated bomb blasts that rocked the commuter rail network in Bombay, India's financial capital, during the evening rush hour Tuesday.
New York Times:
In Big Shift, U.S. to Follow Geneva Treaty for Detainees — WASHINGTON, July 11 — In a sweeping change of policy, the Pentagon has decided that it will treat all detainees in compliance with the minimum standards spelled out in the Geneva conventions, a senior defense official said today.
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Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
U.S. will give detainees Geneva rights — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Tuesday that all detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in U.S. military custody everywhere are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions. — White House spokesman Tony Snow said the policy …
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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
US reverses policy on military detainees — The Pentagon has decided in a major policy shift that all detainees held in US military custody around the world are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions, according to two people familiar with the move.
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Rethinking Embattled Tactics in Terror War — Courts, Hill and Allies Press Administration — Five years after the attacks on the United States, the Bush administration faces the prospect of reworking key elements of its anti-terrorism effort in light of challenges from the courts …
Paul Blustein / Washington Post:
Smaller Budget Deficit Projected — Tax Cuts Credited; Long-Term Outlook Still Seen as Bleak — The Bush administration is planning to trumpet today a midyear revision of its budget estimates projecting that a recent surge in tax revenue will help to shrink this year's federal deficit below $300 billion …
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The GOP's Looming Battle — As it looks beyond the elections of 2006, a Republican Party known for ideological solidarity is on the cusp of a far more searching philosophical battle than are the Democrats, historically accustomed to bruising fights over the finer points of political theory.
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Audrey Gillan / Guardian:
Syd Barrett dies aged 60 — Syd Barrett, the former lead singer of Pink Floyd and one of the key figures of the 60s, has died at the Cambridgeshire home to which he retreated as a recluse more than 30 years ago. — The Guardian has learned that the singer, 60, who suffered …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
MSNBC's Star Carves Anti-Fox Niche — Keith Olbermann, in his office: "You don't punch down. If you're in my position, you punch upwards." — He is either the leading man of MSNBC or its leading agent provocateur, but Keith Olbermann has no problem embracing either role.
Pam M. / Blogmeister USA:
Memo to the NYT: We're Not Buying It — I went to this evening's rally protesting the New York Times and its publishing of a legal secret government program designed to track the movements of terrorists in order to capture them. It happened across the street from the Times' office at 229 West 43rd Street.
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Washington Post:
Lawmaker Criticized for PAC Fees Paid to Wife — In the past two years, campaign and political action committees controlled by Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) paid ever-larger commissions to his wife's one-person company and spent tens of thousands of dollars on gifts at stores …
CBS News:
Religion Taking A Left Turn? — Conservative Christians Watch Out: There's A Big Churchgoing Group Seeking Political Power — (CBS) At a church in Washington, hundreds of committed Christians met recently and tried to map out a strategy to get their values into the political debate.
Tom Coghlan / Independent:
Taliban use beheadings and beatings to keep Afghanistan's schools closed — The letter pinned overnight to the wall of the mosque in Kandahar was succinct. "Girls going to school need to be careful for their safety. If we put acid on their faces or they are murdered then the blame will be on their parents."
Ismail Haniyeh / Washington Post:
Aggression Under False Pretenses — GAZA, Palestine — As Americans commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and buildings …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The UW 9/11 denialist appears on "Hannity and Colmes." — The day the university announced its decision to permit Kevin Barrett to teach the one course he was hired to teach, he appeared on "Hannity and Colmes," introduced by Alan Colmes as "University of Wisconsin professor Kevin Barrett."
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Joseph Carroll / Gallup:
Bush Job Approval Edges Up to 40% — First time since February that Bush approval in the 40% range — PRINCETON, NJ — President George W. Bush's job approval rating has edged up slightly higher in Gallup's latest poll, and is now at 40% for the first since early February.