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• Colorado wildfire destroys dozens of homes (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:28:08 GMT)

AP - A wind-whipped wildfire sent flames roaring through a rugged canyon in the Colorado foothills, forcing hundreds of people to flee and destroying dozens of homes — some that belonged to the firefighters themselves, authorities said early Tuesday.


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• Tropical Storm Hermine crosses into Texas (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:28:22 GMT)

AP - Tropical Storm Hermine rolled into south Texas early Tuesday, bringing heavy rains and strong winds to an area battered by Hurricane Alex earlier this summer.


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• Indonesian volcano erupts again; strongest yet (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:05:54 GMT)

AP - An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles (25 kilometers) away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.


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• No recession here: Election spending sets records (AP)
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AP - Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry.


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• Top US commander: Burning Quran endangers troops (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:36:48 GMT)

AP - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide.


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• Australian Labor Party wins enough support to rule (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:28:14 GMT)

AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lead Australia's first minority government in 67 years after two independent lawmakers threw their support behind her center-left Labor Party on Tuesday, ending two weeks of uncertainty left by national elections that ended on a knife-edge.


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• Study: Aid after 2005 quake won trust in Pakistan (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:23:17 GMT)

AP - The influx of foreign aid after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake significantly increased survivors' trust in the West, according to new research that also suggests hard-line Islamist charities did little to help despite the publicity they generated.


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• Oracle names ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd co-president (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:27:57 GMT)

AP - Oracle Corp. has hired former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd to help lead the database software maker in a pivotal moment in Oracle's 33-year history as it tries to muscle in on more of HP's turf.


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• AOL teaming up with Ellen DeGeneres online (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:37:12 GMT)

AP - AOL is adding talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres to its family of Web properties as it looks for ways to draw more people to its sites.


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• Federer wins, finds familiar company at US Open (AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:27:48 GMT)

AP - Now, the names opposite Roger Federer's in the bracket will start looking more familiar.


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• Obama kicks off campaign with infrastructure plan (Reuters)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:50:27 GMT)

Reuters - President Barack Obama, scrambling to spur job creation, proposed a six-year plan on Monday to rebuild infrastructure with an initial $50 billion investment and prepared new business tax cuts.


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• Storm Hermine moves into south Texas, to weaken (Reuters)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:36:51 GMT)

Reuters - Tropical Storm Hermine headed into south Texas on Tuesday after dumping heavy rain onto northeastern Mexico near the Texas border, a region still recovering from Hurricane Alex's visit in June. ... Read

• Australia's Gillard scrapes back to power (Reuters)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:44:25 GMT)

Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard secured a wafer thin parliamentary majority on Tuesday, ending a political impasse but hardly cheering investors worried about the fragility of her government and its plans to tax mining profits.


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• China seeks to avoid shouting matches with U.S. (Reuters)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:00:42 GMT)

Reuters - China wants to quell tensions with the United States through quiet talk, not shouting matches, a top diplomat told White House advisers on Tuesday, aiming to pave the way for a visit by President Hu Jintao early next year.


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• U.S. commander seeks 2,000 new troops for Afghanistan (Reuters)
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:26:50 GMT)

Reuters - The U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has requested another 2,000 troops for the foreign force fighting the Taliban insurgency, despite waning support for the war in troop-contributing nations, NATO officials said.


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• U.N. watchdog says Iran boosts nuclear work (Reuters)
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:08:54 GMT)

Reuters - Iran is pushing ahead with its nuclear program in defiance of tougher sanctions and is hampering the U.N. atom watchdog's work by barring some inspectors, the IAEA says in a new report.


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• U.S. Afghanistan commanders condemn Koran-burning plan (Reuters)
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:51:03 GMT)

Reuters - U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan warned on Monday that a small Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks could endanger the lives of American troops.


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• Israel PM sees deal possible in year: spokesman (Reuters)
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:16:31 GMT)

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting U.S. congressmen he thinks it could be possible to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians in a year despite huge differences, his spokesman said.


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• Australia PM Gillard handed power by independents (AFP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:37:12 GMT)

AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard retained power by a tiny, one-seat majority Tuesday after winning the backing of two key independent MPs in the first hung parliament in decades.


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• Storms claim nearly 50 lives in Guatemala, Mexico (AFP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:44:20 GMT)

AFP - Major storms ravaging Guatemala and southern Mexico since the weekend have killed at least 48 people and caused damage worth hundreds of millions of dollars, officials said.


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