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Agencies begin ceremonial transfer

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 11:57 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Coast Guard marked its transfer to the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday according to military tradition, with a change-of-watch ceremony replete with color guard, speeches, silent drill team and John Philip Sousa marches.

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US bombs Iraqi missile sites

By Alyson Brodsy and Matt Kelley · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 11:55 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- American warplanes bombed surface-to-surface missile systems in northern and southern Iraq Tuesday and also attacked surface-to-air missiles in southern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

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Rather interviews Saddam for CBS

By Alyson Brodsy and David Bauder · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 1:32 a.m.

NEW YORK -- CBS News' Dan Rather said hard work and luck helped him land his interview with Saddam Hussein on Monday _ the Iraqi leader's first interview with a foreign television journalist in 12 years. CBS posted a report about the interview on its Web site Monday afternoon, saying Saddam has challenged President Bush to a live debate on their nations' differences.

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Supreme Court denies hearing

By Julia Balnford and Julia Blanford · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 1:09 a.m.

Indiana women will now have to receive in-person counseling 18 hours prior to having an abortion. The state mandated counseling would give women information about abortion and alternatives to the procedure. The U. S. Supreme Court denied the hearing of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, declaring the original law to be constitutional and to stand as the guiding procedure for women wishing to have an abortion.

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Saddam wants to debate Bush

By Alyson Brodsy and Niko Price · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 1:09 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein indicated on Monday that he does not intend to follow U.N. orders to destroy his Al-Samoud 2 missiles, and challenged President Bush to an internationally televised debate via satellite linkup. In a three-hour interview with CBS anchor Dan Rather, the Iraqi leader said he envisioned a live debate with Bush along the lines of those in a U.S. presidential campaign, according to the network. The White House dismissed the debate offer as meaningless.

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Zambian president arrested for theft

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 12:31 a.m.

LUSAKA, Zambia -- Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba was arrested and charged Monday with stealing from the government while in office, officials said. Chiluba was charged at Lusaka Magistrates Court with 59 counts of theft by a public servant.

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China calls for direct talks

By Alyson Brodsy and George Gedda · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 12:31 a.m.

BEIJING -- Chinese officials rejected Secretary of State Colin Powell's appeal Monday for a regional approach to the North Korean nuclear standoff and called for direct talks between the United States and Pyongyang to resolve concerns over the communist nation's nuclear weapons programs.

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Sharon adds right-leaning party

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Lavie · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 12:30 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon signed up the secularist Shinui party Monday, forming a right-leaning coalition that will likely make it difficult to move toward the establishment of a Palestinian state and could redefine the role of religion in the state.

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Turkey OKs US troops

By Alyson Brodsy and Louis Meixler · Tuesday, Feb. 25,2003 12:29 a.m.

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's Cabinet agreed Monday to host tens of thousands of U.S. combat troops, a key step toward allowing Washington to forge ahead with plans for a northern front against Iraq. Government spokesman Abdullatif Sener said the measure was being sent to parliament Monday. A vote Tuesday is widely expected, but passage of the bill is not certain.

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Turkish government approves U.S. troop stationing

By Nick Wadhams · Monday, Feb. 24,2003 11:19 a.m.

Iraq is drafting a response to a U.N. demand that it start destroying missiles that weapons inspectors said are illegal, while Iraq's foreign minister accused the United States of trying to strong-arm the U.N. Security Council into approving a war.

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Rhode Island fire death toll reaches 97

By Matt Apuzzo · Sunday, Feb. 23,2003 11:49 p.m.

WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- For days, they've lived with the video images of their relatives jammed in the doorway of a burning nightclub, many screaming in terror as they struggled in vain to break free.

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Iraq responds to order

By Bassem Mroue · Sunday, Feb. 23,2003 11:48 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq has withheld a decision on a U.N. order to start destroying its Al Samoud 2 missile program by the end of the week, but said Sunday it is "serious about solving this." Iraq's chief liaison to U.N. weapons inspectors insisted Baghdad is "clean" of weapons of mass destruction and that there should be no new U.N. resolution on disarming Saddam Hussein, as the United States is demanding.

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Botched transplant patient dies

By Emery P. Dalesio · Sunday, Feb. 23,2003 11:46 p.m.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Jesica Santillan, the teenager who survived a botched heart-lung transplant long enough to get an odds-shattering second set of donated organs, died Saturday, two days after the second transplant.

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Turkey may accept proposal

By Barry Schweid · Friday, Feb. 21,2003 1:05 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday "there may be some creative things we can do" to gain acceptance of a proposed U.S. aid package meant to pave the way for Turkey to help in a war against Iraq. During a State Department news conference with NATO Secretary Lord Robertson, Powell did not elaborate on those refinements but said he expected to hear from Turkey by day's end. As for the United States, "Our position is firm," Powell said.

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17 die in Pakastani plane crash

By B.K. Bangash · Thursday, Feb. 20,2003 11:41 p.m.

KOHAT, Pakistan -- A Pakistani military plane crashed into a mountainside in dense fog Thursday in a remote region of northwestern Pakistan, killing all 17 people on board, including Chief of the Air Force Mushaf Ali Mir, 57.

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Violence continues in Gaza Strip

By Greg Myre · Thursday, Feb. 20,2003 11:40 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank on Thursday, while in the Gaza Strip troops divided the territory into three parts, restricting the movement of more than 1 million Palestinians.

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NATO approves Turkey aid

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Feb. 19,2003 11:30 p.m.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Days after ending a stalemate over planning for an Iraq war, NATO approved Wednesday the deployment of AWACS radar aircraft, Patriot missile systems and chemical-biological response units to Turkey.

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