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(NECN/ABC) - Families sit alone, no food, no water. But on state television, the government launches a promotional campaign for today's referendum. The country's military rulers hold photo-ops with boxes of relief, and promote a vote that that will...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A spokeswoman for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. says the media conglomerate has withdrawn its bid to purchase Newsday. The decision to revoke the offer Saturday comes just days after Murdoch confidently predicted he would clinch...
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Hundreds of Darfur rebels reached the outskirts of Sudan's capital Saturday for the first time and clashed with security forces, rebel and government officials said. Sudan's army deployed on the streets of Khartoum,...
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Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegate endorsements
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama has overtaken Hillary Rodham Clinton in superdelegate endorsements for the......read more
 
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Georgia man executed by lethal injection

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia man has become the first inmate
put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the
constitutionality of executions by lethal injection.

Convicted killer William Earl Lynd was pronounced dead at 7:51
p.m., a state prisons official says.

Lynd, 53, was convicted of kidnapping and shooting to death his
26-year-old girlfriend two days before Christmas in 1988.

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