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U.S. doubts Korean test was nuclear — U.S. intelligence agencies say, based on preliminary indications, that North Korea did not produce its first nuclear blast yesterday. — U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used …
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Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Comes Back to Haunt United States — Nearly five years after President Bush introduced the concept of an "axis of evil" comprising Iraq, Iran and North Korea, the administration has reached a crisis point with each nation: North Korea has claimed it conducted its first nuclear test …
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Anger in Beijing indicates rethink over former ally — Exasperated and embarrassed, China will have to adjust its policy towards its neighbour — CHINA responded with rare fury to neighbouring North Korea's nuclear test, resorting to language generally reserved for imperialist opponents rather than communist friends.
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Blast May Be Only a Partial Success, Experts Say — The North Korean test appears to have been a nuclear detonation but was fairly small by traditional standards, and possibly a failure or a partial success, federal and private analysts said yesterday. — Throughout history …
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Scientists Probe North Korea Nuke Test
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Why North Korea is the Wrong Focus
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Allen's Undisclosed Stock Options Were Worth Up to $1.1 Million — Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Stock options that Senator George Allen described as worthless were worth as much as $1.1 million at one point, according to a review of Senate disclosure forms and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock — Combination Will Create New Opportunities for Users and Content Owners Everywhere — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through …
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Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube
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Woman: Saddam Guards Buried People Alive — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Prison guards under Saddam Hussein used to bury detainees alive and watch women as they bathed, occasionally shooting over their heads, a former female prisoner testified Monday in the genocide trial of the ex-president.
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GOP Officials Brace for Loss Of Seven to 30 House Seats — Republican campaign officials said yesterday that they expect to lose at least seven House seats and as many as 30 in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, as a result of sustained violence in Iraq and the page scandal involving former GOP representative Mark Foley.
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Ex-Page Aired Concerns About Foley to Congressman in 2000 — A former Congressional page approached Representative Jim Kolbe, Republican of Arizona, as long as six years ago to report feeling uncomfortable by messages sent from Representative Mark Foley, but a spokeswoman for Mr. Kolbe …
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Bad News In The Polls — Well, the media has been able to create the impression Mark Foley represents the GOP in some recent polls out. The range of lead for the Dems is between 13 and 23 points (A href="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/ images/10/09/rel24a.pdf">CNN, USA Today/Gallup, ABC News/WaPo, CBS News - H/T TCP).
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Dynamic Capitalism — Entrepreneurship is lucrative—and just. — There are two economic systems in the West. Several nations—including the U.S., Canada and the U.K.—have a private-ownership system marked by great openness to the implementation of new commercial ideas coming from entrepreneurs …
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Streisand Has Outburst at NYC Concert — It was an evening that elicited tears, standing ovations, raucous laughter and shouts of joy from the audience _ and was just in the first few minutes. — Yes, Barbra Streisand's return to touring after a 12-year absence was the extravaganza that it promised to be.
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Frivolous Politics — With a war going on in Iraq and with Iran next door moving steadily toward a nuclear bomb that could change the course of world history in the hands of international terrorists, the question for this year's elections is not whether you or your candidate is a Democrat …
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What it means to be a liberal — For most of the past four decades, liberals have been in retreat. Since the election of Richard Nixon in 1968, Republicans have controlled the White House 70 percent of the time and Republican presidents have made 86 percent of the U.S. Supreme Court appointments.
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Web sites remove videos mocking Muhammad — COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Videos showing anti-immigrant party members mocking the Prophet Muhammad were pulled from Web sites Monday as two youths seen in the clips were reported in hiding and the Foreign Ministry warned Danes against traveling to much of the Middle East.
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