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TOKYO (AP) -- The yen fell in early Friday trading after the Group of Seven major governments agreed to intervene in currency markets to support Japan's quake recovery. The G-7 did not say what it would do, but the yen has risen this week, possibly threatening Japan's exports. Shortly after the G-7 announcement, the yen fell from 79.45 to the dollar to 81.26 in Tokyo. The Kyodo News agency said

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CAIRO (AP) -- Armed Yemeni security forces raided an apartment shared by four Western journalists Monday and deported them because of their coverage of a growing uprising against the country's longtime ruler, one of the reporters said. The journalists, two Americans and two Britons in their 20s, contribute to publications including the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and

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VANSANT, Va. (AP) -- A small southwestern Virginia community is again dealing with a deadly shooting rampage that this time killed two deputies and wounded two more before the suspect who may have been trying to rob a salvage yard was fatally shot by police. Buchanan County deputies investigating at Roger's Service Center in Vansant on Sunday afternoon were met by gunfire from long range,

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U.S. immigration officials say a 20-year-old woman who received death threats after becoming police chief of a violent Mexican border town is seeking political asylum in the United States. Authorities said Tuesday that Marisol Valles is in the U.S. and will be allowed to present her case to an immigration judge. Valles is the former police chief of the town of Praxedis G. Guerrero. She had taken

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in charge of the House are facing two unappealing options on the budget. One is to lead with their chins and offer politically toxic cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and, perhaps, Social Security. Or, they could play it safe - but then endorse trillion-dollar deficits that would enrage their tea party backers. Rep. Paul Ryan, the party's point man on the budget, is

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The mayor and police chief of a tiny New Mexico border town best known for a raid by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa nearly a century ago were among 11 people accused Thursday of participating in a ring alleged to have illegally sent firearms to Mexico. A federal indictment said the defendants have engaged in a conspiracy - based in Columbus, N.M. - to buy firearms

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson marked the fourth anniversary of his disappearance, Iran and the United States tiptoed toward a collaboration that offers the best hope yet for bringing him home alive. Four days after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that Levinson is alive, Tehran and Washington traded carefully worded diplomatic messages

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The treatment beating back 9-year-old Dylan Hanlon's cancer may also be destroying his chances of fathering his own children when he grows up. Upset that doctors didn't make that risk clear, his mother, Christine, tracked down an experiment that just might salvage Dylan's future fertility. Between chemo sessions, the pair flew hundreds of miles from their Florida home to try it

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Japan's foreign minister abruptly quit Sunday, after admitting he received an illegal $600 campaign donation in 2008 from a foreign national. Seiji Maehara was foreign minister for just six months, and was seen as a leading candidate to succeed embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan. In an apology to the Japanese people Sunday, the 48-year-old Maehara said he regretted causing "mistrust" despite what

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Somali officials say pro-government forces have retaken control of a border town from al-Shabab militants, after several hours of heavy fighting. The officials said Saturday that security forces and government-friendly militia have seized Belet Hawo on the Kenyan border. A military official told the Reuters news service that 20 militants were killed in the fighting. The capture of Belet Hawo is

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Ever fancied yourself as an amateur detective? A new service called 'Internet Eyes' allows people in Europe to watch live security camera video from stores across Britain and further afield - to try to catch thieves in the act. Its creators say the service will soon be rolled out across the world. But critics say it's an example of the surveillance society going too far. London grocer Kamlesh

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source : Britney Spears Strips Down For V Magazine Sulfurous and half-clothed on the cover of V Magazine, Britney Spears announces, "The b***h is back and improve than ever!" The furious pop singer, whose seventh studio album, 'Femme Fatale,' lands March 29, Speaks openly around her album, boys and fame, bringing that she has moved past the media scrutiny that plagued parts of her career. "I

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An Alaska petroleum industry trade group has sued the federal government over its designation of 187,157 square miles as polar bear critical habitat, claiming it covers too much territory and could cost tens of millions or more in economic effects. The Alaska Oil and Gas Association sued Tuesday in Anchorage. "This is an area larger that 48 of the 50 states, exceeding

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CBS Corp. said Friday that it is buying the online video watching guide Clicker.com and making its co-founder the new president of CBS Interactive. Jim Lanzone, who is CEO of Clicker Media Inc., will replace Neil Ashe, who announced a desire to leave the company in December. Ashe has served as president of CBS Interactive since CBS acquired CNET Networks Inc. in June 2008 for

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SHANGHAI (AP) -- A widening probe into corruption in China's powerful Railways Ministry is raising questions over the scale and pace of its multibillion-dollar drive to build costly high-speed railways, though it is unlikely to derail the program. Along with concerns over financing and other issues, at least one proposal for scaling down the showcase program is due to be presented to a top

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Boston Red Sox owner John Henry has been fined $500,000 by Major League Baseball for publicly criticizing the sport's revenue sharing rules. Henry told Boston radio station WEEI on Tuesday that the commissioner's office punished him for comments he made to The Boston Globe in November 2009. A person familiar with the fine confirmed that Henry was docked $500,000 not long after

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India's top finance official is vowing to overcome the challenges of food inflation and a perception the government is unable to bring corruption under control. In the national budget he submitted to lawmakers, he promised more social spending and infrastructure investment. Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told lawmakers Monday, the world is getting the wrong idea about the country's

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Jasmine Thomas didn't need any last-second heroics to win her final regular-season game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. She had plenty of other reasons - beating a rival, clinching part of a title and sharing the experience with the other two seniors - for it to rank among her favorites. Thomas scored 17 points and No. 9 Duke clinched the top seed in the Atlantic Coast Conference

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Florida defensive back Ahmad Black would prefer to focus on football. Instead, he's getting a crash course in labor negotiations, lockout rules, even the possible implementation of a rookie wage scale. These new obstacles are threatening to make the transition from college football to the NFL more complicated than usual, even if the players don't want to admit it. "Hey, it's

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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Carmelo Anthony left with a sore elbow and a bruised ego. His second game with the New York Knicks was embarrassing. Playing the final quarter with numbness in his right elbow, Anthony missed a key late free throw and fouled out of his first road game with the Knicks, who took Cleveland too lightly and were beaten 115-109 on Friday night by the fired-up Cavaliers. Anthony,

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Severe storms raced across a stretch of the nation's midsection on Thursday, pummeling trees and splintering power lines as they pushed to the southeast. Authorities say the storms may have whirled a tornado at eastern Arkansas on Thursday evening. Winds between 60 and 70 mph toppled trees there, blocking roads and damaging homes across the state. Heavy rain and winds

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Marine general considered the leading candidate to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's highest military post, was investigated and cleared of misconduct involving a young aide, according to results of a Pentagon inquiry released Wednesday. An anonymous accuser claimed Gen. James Cartwright acted inappropriately during a 2009 overseas trip on which

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will let Mazda be sued in California courts in a case involving a woman who died while wearing a seat belt across her lap in her family's minivan. The high court in a unanimous judgment Wednesday agreed to let the lawsuit go forward, despite complaints from the car company that federal regulators gave it an option on whether to install lap belts or

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BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- The scope of Moammar Gadhafi's control was whittled away Wednesday as major Libyan cities and towns closer to the capital fell to the rebellion against his rule. In the east, now all but broken away, the opposition vowed to "liberate" Tripoli, where the Libyan leader is holed up with a force of militiamen roaming the streets and tanks guarding the outskirts. In a further

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PHOENIX (AP) -- A Phoenix jury convicted an Iraqi immigrant of second-degree murder Tuesday for running over and killing his daughter in a case termed an "honor killing" by prosecutors who said the father carried out the attack because he believed his daughter had become too Westernized. Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, also was convicted of aggravated assault for injuries suffered by the mother of his

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BEIJING (AP) -- China's main government news agency launched an Internet search site Tuesday, giving its own sanitized view of the Web following Google's closure of its China-based search engine last year over censorship. The Xinhua News Agency is operating anguso.com in partnership with state-owned China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone carrier by subscribers. The venture gives the ruling

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car at a police station in the Somali capital Monday, killing at least eight people, a police officer said. Thick smoke rose into the sky and human remains were scattered near the station, said officer Mohamed Abdi. "If the car could have got deeper inside, there would be have been a big loss," Abdi said. The target was a

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BEARDMORE, Ontario (AP) -- Police say a natural gas pipeline ruptured and exploded into a huge fireball in northwestern Ontario, but no one was injured. Greenstone Provincial Police Staff-Sgt. Carl Pettigrew said Sunday that the blast occurred late Saturday near Beardmore, Ontario, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) northeast of Thunder Bay. Pettigrew says the flames were extinguished by Sunday

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South African mediators travel to Zimbabwe in the next few days amidst reports of increasing political violence and selective arrests in the country. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says security forces are violating their national mandate, and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF blocks reconstruction of Zimbabwe. The Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, says that since the start of the year its

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Stillborn babies are buried by the dozens in the same wooden box and the bodies of indigent adults are stacked in mass graves at a Chicago-area cemetery that inters the county's poor and unknown dead, authorities said Thursday. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart called for a review of the cemetery's contract at a news conference in which he criticized the operation for haphazard

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Fewer Americans fell behind on their mortgage payments in the final three months of last year, but foreclosures are still rising. The Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday 8.2 percent of homeowners missed at least one mortgage payment in the October-December quarter. The figure, which is adjusted for seasonal factors, improved from 9.1 percent in the previous quarter and

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(CNN) -- Veteran actor Len Lesser died in his sleep Wednesday morning in Burbank, California, of complications from pneumonia. He was 88. "It was very peaceful," his daughter, Michele Lesser, told CNN, saying the family had hoped for a quick and painless death. "He was a great grandpa, and an amazing father. He had a heart of gold -- and a sense of humor of platinum." Best known as Jerry

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MADRID (AP) -- A Polish stunt cyclist has hopped up 921 steps to the top of Europe's tallest hotel, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "taking the stairs." Krystian Herba said it took him 19 minutes and 27 seconds Wednesday to get to the peak of the 614-foot (186-meter), 52-story Gran Hotel Bali in the eastern Spanish resort city of Benidorm. Herba does not pedal but rather bounces his way

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Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel has closed all or part of four foreign missions in the face of terror threats, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. "Our assessment at this point is that these sites are under threat, and this is being taken care of," the ministry said in a statement without identifying which embassies or consulates were affected. "Unusual occurrences have been identified recently around a

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The top budget chiefs from both political parties criticized President Obama's 2012 budget Monday. Democrat Kent Conrad and Republican Paul Ryan, the budget chairmen in the Senate and House respectively, share one big beef: The Obama budget remains effectively silent on how to address the long-term drivers of debt -- Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. By the end of the

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She was the least well known and the lowest-selling artist in the group. But that didn't stop Esperanza Spalding, a 26-year-old jazz vocalist and bassist who combines old-school cool with an ebullient personality that has energized her genre, from winning the Grammy Award for best new artist in one of the night's biggest surprises. Spalding was a decided underdog in an eclectic field of

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Stronger-than-expected imports caused China's trade surplus to shrink in January. A surge in Chinese exports in January was outweighed by a dramatic increase in imports, cutting the country's internationally sensitive trade surplus to its lowest level in nine months. The January trade surplus was $6.5 billion, compared with $13 billion in December. Exports grew by 38 percent from a year ago, but

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Clothing prices have dropped for a decade as tame inflation and cheap overseas labor helped hold down costs. Retailers and clothing makers cut frills and experimented with fabric blends to cut prices during the recession. But as the world economy recovers and demand for goods rises, a surge in labor and raw materials costs is squeezing retailers and manufacturers who have run out of ways to pare

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Milan, Italy (CNN) -- Thousands of Italians took to the streets in some 200 cities across the country Sunday in protest of Prime Minister's Silvio Berlusconi's alleged behavior toward women. The largest gathering was in Rome, where organizers said 100,000 people gathered, under the slogan, "If not now, when?" In Milan, organizers estimated that 60,000 people gathered. Protests also took place

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Algeria's opposition is praising a rare anti-government demonstration in Algiers, which went forward despite the presence of tens of thousands of police. About 2,000 activists rallied in the capital's May 1st Square, Saturday, and called for the removal of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, drawing inspiration from uprisings that ousted his Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts in the past

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NEW YORK -- The New York State Department of Labor has issued two safety violations against the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," the stunt-heavy show that has been plagued by injuries to cast members, a newspaper reported. Citing an anonymous state official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to release the findings, The New York Times

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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egypt's military dissolved the country's Parliament and suspended its constitution Sunday following the ouster of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, telling Egyptians it would be in charge for six months or until elections can be held. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said it would appoint a committee to propose changes to the Constitution, which would then be submitted

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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Thai yellow shirt protesters on Friday demanded the prime minister's resignation over what they say is his failure to protect the interests of the nation. Hundreds chanted "get out, get out Abhisit" as they marched toward the statue of the late King Rama V in Bangkok. The king is a legendary figure in the history of the nation's monarchy. About 1,000 protesters took

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The largest study ever on stroke rehabilitation found that doing physical therapy at home improved walking just as well as a high-tech treadmill program. More surprising, patients who started rehab late - six months after their strokes - still improved. It's long been thought that there was little to gain from rehab after half a year. "We now have evidence, for the first time, that a prolonged

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SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. -- The parents of a Pennsylvania woman who died shortly after attending a "Polar Bear Plunge" charity event in southern New Jersey two years ago have sued the city where it was held and the group that organized it. Also among the 19 defendants in the federal lawsuit brought this week by Tracy Hottenstein's parents are the owners of two bars she was at on the night she died and

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Reporting from Beirut - When Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury started Maktoob.com as an Arabic e-mail service 10 years ago, they had a modest office in Amman, Jordan, and little support from friends and family who could not imagine anyone using the Internet in Arabic. "We were a typical start-up; I remember the day we got air conditioning we had a party," Toukan recalled. In August, Yahoo Inc.

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Family dramas are a dime a dozen in the low-budget independent film world. But family dramas combined with the conventions of a film noir - set in present-day Oregon, no less - are few and far between. That's the unusual mix of "Cold Weather," a microbudget feature (it cost about $100,000 to produce) from 29-year-old writer-director Aaron Katz. If it sounds like a surprising blend, it may help to

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Vietnam has devalued its currency for the third time in a year. The dong fell 9.3 percent Friday, bringing the official exchange rate to 20,693 from 18,932 per U.S. dollar. The central bank says the devaluation is aimed at increasing liquidity in the foreign exchange market and curbing the trade deficit. The dong was last devalued in August. IMF approval Benedict Bingham, Vietnam country

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Avoiding New York and boiling your suitcase might not be enough for Londoners to dodge the global bed bug pandemic - they're already here, probably in a hotel, house or cinema near you. Apple seed-sized, flat, brownish bed bugs (also known as Cimicidae) were once rife all over the world but had been largely wiped out by the banned pesticide DDT. During the past few decades, like head lice, they

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The Navy's Inspector General has ruled a junior officer suffered unfair retaliation by his commander after filing harassment charges last year for being nicknamed "fagmeister" and a slew of other anti-gay epithets. Ensign Steve Crowston filed a harassment claim in February 2010, alleging that Cmdr. Liam Bruen, along with other senior and junior officers, voted in August 2009 to give Crowston the

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