17 dead in Mexico jail shooting Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:55 PM PDT Officials in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez say 17 prisoners have been killed in a shoot-out between members of rival drug gangs.  
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Boehner Plan Faces G.O.P. Resistance and Veto Threat Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:05 PM PDT House Republican leaders made frenzied pleas to their members to approve a plan to temporarily raise the debt ceiling, but passage seemed in growing doubt, and the White House strongly opposes the bill.  
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U.S. attack still significant al Qaeda goal: official Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Striking the United States remains a "significant goal" for al Qaeda and its affiliates nearly a decade after the September 11 attacks, the president's nominee to head the National Counterterrorism Center said on Tuesday.  
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Crash Raises Questions on China’s Rush to Build High-Speed Rail Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:20 PM PDT The inconsistent accounts of how last week's accident happened add to a public skepticism about the government's administration of railroads.  
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At War: Reading the Refuse: Counting Col. Qaddafi's Heat-Seeking Missiles, and Tracking Them Back to their Sources Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:17 PM PDT Just how many antiaircraft missiles did the Qaddafi government have before they were carted off by rebels and spread around the battlefield?  
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Lockerbie bomber seen on TV rally Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:43 PM PDT The man convicted of blowing up a plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 has appeared at a rally broadcast by Libyan state television.  
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City Room: Art Dealer Charged With Smuggling Ivory Into U.S. Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:52 AM PDT Victor Gordon was arraigned on smuggling charges in federal court in Brooklyn after, the authorities said, they seized about a ton of carved ivory that he had had a confederate bring into the country in his luggage.  
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Restaurant Review: Palm and Palm Too Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:36 PM PDT The food is first-rate at this 85-year-old steakhouse and its annex, at least if you stick to the original script of salad and tangy, prime-rated beef or huge, perfectly acceptable lobster.  
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China dives deeper in resource race Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:37 AM PDT Submersible conducts country's deepest manned dive that points to its fast-growing technical capabilities.  
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'Teen sex' congressman to resign Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT A US Democratic congressman resigns amid allegations he had an unwanted sexual encounter with the 18-year-old daughter of a campaign donor.  
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Global fears grow as US deadlock deepens Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:03 PM PDT Congress remained deeply divided as politicians grappled for a debt deal amid warnings of dangers to the world at large.  
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Prescriptions: McDonald's Alters Happy Meals, Shrinks Fries Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:27 AM PDT McDonald's acknowledges that consumer and parental pressures forced it to lower the amount of fries in children's meals, and add fruit.  
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Reluctant Labor Party lawyer agrees to defend Norway killer Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:21 PM PDT OSLO (Reuters) - After massacring at least 76 people, most of them young members of the Norwegian Labor Party, right-wing zealot Anders Behring Breivik had a request: to be defended by Oslo lawyer Geir Lippestad.  
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Hillsborough files 'must be seen' Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:31 AM PDT The Information Commissioner rules that cabinet minutes relating to the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium tragedy must be released.  
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Prison fight leaves 17 dead in Mexican border city Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:14 PM PDT CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) - Seventeen people have been killed in a prison gunfight in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, authorities said Tuesday.  
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Two German men on terror charges Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:03 PM PDT Two men arrested at the port of Dover are charged with offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.  
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VIDEO: Norway victims 'screamed with fear' Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:47 AM PDT The BBC's Gavin Hewitt talks to residents of Utoeya island who helped rescue traumatised teenagers after Anders Breivik opened fire on Friday.  
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China dives deeper in resource race Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:37 AM PDT Submersible conducts country's deepest manned dive that points to its fast-growing technical capabilities.  
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Ignore pressure - Mullany judge Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:39 PM PDT A judge tells a jury to ignore public pressure when reaching verdicts on two men accused of murdering a couple on their Caribbean honeymoon.  
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Norwegians grieve, look to future after massacre Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:41 AM PDT OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegians decorated the streets of their capital with flowers Tuesday in a show of national unity as they began to overcome the shock caused by the mass slaughter of young people by a home-grown extremist.  
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