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Iraqi resistance still present

Monday, April 28,2003 12:44 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Four U.S. soldiers conducting a public-health assessment were wounded Sunday morning when their Humvees were ambushed in downtown Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said. The soldiers, in two Humvees, were stopped in midmorning traffic when an assailant approached and fired at them from a small-caliber weapon, said Capt. David Connolly, a military spokesman in Baghdad.

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Baghdad's 'mayor' arrested

By Charles J. Hanley · Monday, April 28,2003 12:43 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military arrested a political pretender in Baghdad on Sunday, while a Shiite Muslim group signaled a new willingness to cooperate on the eve of a pivotal U.S.-sponsored conference to help form a provisional government for Iraq.

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Former Iraqi leader in custody

By Robert Burns · Friday, April 25,2003 1:03 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces in Iraq have taken custody of Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister and the most visible Iraqi leader other than Saddam Hussein. Officials at the Pentagon and at Central Command headquarters in Qatar said Thursday they did not know whether Aziz was captured or whether he turned himself in.

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Russia plans space launch

Friday, April 25,2003 12:53 a.m.

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- A giant hangar door in the Baikonur Cosmodrome slid open Thursday, revealing the Russian rocket scheduled to blast off this week in the first manned launch since the Columbia shuttle disaster.

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Iraqi ministries to reopen

By David Crary · Friday, April 25,2003 12:52 a.m.

Some Iraqi government operations will resume by late next week, the American overseeing postwar reconstruction said Thursday. He also contended that Iran was to some degree behind recent anti-American demonstrations in Iraq.

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Hoosier misses home

By Sarah Trotto · Friday, April 25,2003 12:50 a.m.

He calls home every couple of weeks. The conversations tend to last less than five minutes, but the most recent call carried on for 15 minutes. They talked about his trip into Baghdad, sandstorms and his need for clean, white socks.

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Nigerian president wins re-election

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 24,2003 12:13 a.m.

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's president urged opposition parties to accept his landslide re-election, trying to head off violence after his rivals complained the balloting was rigged.

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Nigerian president wins re-election

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 24,2003 12:13 a.m.

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's president urged opposition parties to accept his landslide re-election, trying to head off violence after his rivals complained the balloting was rigged.

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China closes schools

By Alyson Brodsy and Joe McDonald · Thursday, April 24,2003 12:10 a.m.

BEIJING -- China ordered all public schools in its capital closed Wednesday, leaving almost 2 million students to study at home following a major jump in the number of reported SARS cases in the city.

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China's diplomacy might aid arms talks

By Alyson Brodsy and Christopher Bodeen · Wednesday, April 23,2003 2:09 a.m.

BEIJING -- A half-century after the United States forged an armistice with North Korea and China to halt the Korean War, the three sides meet Wednesday to resolve a new regional crisis -- the North's suspected efforts to build nuclear arms.

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Shiite Muslims able to make sacred pilgrimage

By Alyson Brodsy and Ellen Knickmeyer · Wednesday, April 23,2003 2:01 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims crowded two holy cities Tuesday in a fervent pilgrimage that had been banned for decades under Saddam. At the United Nations, France proposed suspending sanctions targeting Iraqi civilians.

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France wants sanctions to end

By Alyson Brodsy and Edith M. Lederer · Wednesday, April 23,2003 1:59 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS -- After staunchly opposing the U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein, France made a surprise proposal Tuesday to meet the United States halfway by calling for the immediate suspension of crippling economic sanctions on Iraq. U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte stuck by President Bush's demand that because of "the dramatically changed circumstances within Iraq," sanctions should be lifted entirely -- not just suspended. "We now need to work with France and other countries to see how best that can be achieved and how quickly."

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Rescuers recover bodies after boats capsize

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 23,2003 12:54 a.m.

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Rescue workers have recovered more than 110 bodies after two ferry boats capsized during tropical storms on different Bangladeshi rivers, and hundreds of people remained missing, authorities said Tuesday.

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Brazilian government provides aid for farmers

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 22,2003 1:24 a.m.

GUARIBAS, Brazil -- Nearly a thousand miles from Rio de Janeiro's beaches and not far from the Mountains of Confusion, a dirt road with potholes big enough to swallow cars leads to ground zero of "Lula's revolution."

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