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Free clinic set up in Columbia

By Juan Pablo Toro · Sunday, June 15,2003 9 p.m.

ARAUCA, Colombia -- The high fever and sores spreading over her son's skin had been worrying Jensi Rojas for days, but she could not afford to take him to a doctor. So when a group of medics, including six from the U.S. military, set up a makeshift clinic inside a school in this town in eastern Colombia, Rojas brought in her 8-year-old son.

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Hussein's daughter claims deposed Iraqi leader still alive

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:59 p.m.

LONDON -- A daughter of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein told a British newspaper she believes he is still alive even though she has not seen him since before the U.S.-led invasion. "The last time I spoke to my father was five days before the war," Raghad Hussein was quoted as saying by The Sunday Times. "He was in good spirits.

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Saudi police raid home of suspected terrorists

By Faiza Ambah · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:59 p.m.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- The Saudi government said Sunday it foiled "an imminent terrorist" attack with an overnight raid on a bomb-filled, booby-trapped apartment in the holy city of Mecca that left five suspects and two security agents dead.

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Former Iraqi commander captured in Baghdad

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:58 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Coalition forces said Saturday they had captured former Iraqi air force commander Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti, who was No. 17 on the U.S. Central Command's most-wanted list. A brief U.S. military statement gave no other details about the arrest.

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U.S. bans Lebanese finance minister

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:57 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanese Finance Minister Fuad Saniora has been banned from entering the United States for giving money to a society accused of links to the Hezbollah guerrilla group, the minister's spokesman said Sunday. U.S. Ambassador Vincent Battle told Saniora of the ban two weeks ago, the spokesman said. The U.S. Embassy would not comment on the report.

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Bush condemns violence after bombing

By Ravi Nessman · Wednesday, June 11,2003 8:47 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding nearly 70, police said. An hour later, an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at a car in Gaza City, killing two Hamas officials and at least five other people. President Bush condemned the Jerusalem bombing, which came after the Islamic militant group vowed revenge for a missile attack Tuesday that wounded a senior Hamas political leader.

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Bush urges a stop in financial support

By Jennifer Loven · Wednesday, June 11,2003 8:41 p.m.

CHICAGO -- President Bush deplored Wednesday's bus bombing in Jerusalem and urged all nations to block financial assistance to the Palestinian militant group Hamas and similar organizations and "isolate those who hate so much that they are willing to kill to stop peace."

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Democrats question war intelligence

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Glover · Sunday, June 8,2003 10:15 p.m.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa -- President Bush's credibility in foreign policy has been undermined by questions about how the government used intelligence on Iraq before the war, four Democratic presidential candidates said Sunday.

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Mayors ask for homeland security

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, June 8,2003 10:15 p.m.

DENVER -- Frustrated and angry over delays, a coalition of the nation's mayors asked federal officials on Sunday to bypass state governments and give them the money they need to beef up homeland security.

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US says Iran policies unstable

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, June 8,2003 9:44 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The United States sees "a lot of churning" among Iran's youthful population against the policies of the country's hard-line Islamic rulers, but has no plans to intervene as it did in Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

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Powell urges support for Palestine

By Alyson Brodsy and Jennifer C. Kerr · Sunday, June 8,2003 9:43 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- With President Bush's blueprint for peace blurred by renewed violence in the Middle East, the United States will step in to give the new Palestinian prime minister "the capability to deal with terrorism," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

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Abduction video released

By Alyson Brodsy and Juliana Barbassa · Sunday, June 8,2003 9:41 p.m.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As detectives and volunteers searched the San Jose area Sunday for a 9-year-old abducted from her home, police released video from a neighbor's home surveillance camera they say shows that the kidnapper specifically targeted the girl.

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Wiretaps under review

By Ted Bridis · Thursday, June 5,2003 2:58 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Government prosecutors are reviewing years worth of sensitive telephone and e-mail wiretaps and results from secret searches to decide whether they can file criminal charges against suspected terrorists in the United States.

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Troops excavate rubble in search of Hussein

By Slobodan Lekic · Wednesday, June 4,2003 8:49 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Using bulldozers, backhoes and loaders, U.S. Army combat engineers dug through a rubble-filled crater Wednesday, trying to determine whether Saddam Hussein died in an April 7 airstrike on the house where he was believed to be hiding.

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Ethiopian embassies close

By Anthony Mitchell · Wednesday, June 4,2003 8:45 p.m.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The United States and Norway closed their embassies in the capital of Ethiopia on Wednesday amid heightened fears of terrorism for both nations.

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Blair to cooperate in Iraq intelligence probe

By Michael McDonough · Wednesday, June 4,2003 8:44 p.m.

LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair, under fire from lawmakers over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction which so far can't be found, said Wednesday that he will cooperate with a parliamentary probe into his handling of intelligence reports.

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