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End the butchery
How much longer can the world stand by while Syrian dictator Bashar Assad murders his own people by the thousands and the streets of Syria's cities and towns run red with the blood of his victims? If there were any remaining doubt as to whether Mr. Assad...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, Massacres, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Leaders around the world welcome pope
Staff And Wire ReportsLONDON - From Notre Dame in Paris to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, cathedral bells tolled and prayers were offered yesterday to celebrate the election of Pope Benedict XVI. Roman Catholics and political and religious leaders around the...Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Czech Republic, Television Industry, Germany
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G-7 pledges to fight impact of oil prices
Associated PressWASHINGTON - The world's most exclusive financial club sought to project an air of confidence on the heels of unsettling economic developments - a stomach-churning drop on Wall Street and gyrating global energy prices. But Treasury Secretary John Snow,...Tags: Energy Saving, China, International Economic Institution, G7, Finance
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Extraordinary security in place for papal funeral
Sun Foreign StaffVATICAN CITY -- With Rome looking more like a city preparing for attack than for the funeral of a pontiff whose tenure was marked by pleas for peace, cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose April 18 as the date to begin their secret deliberations...Tags: Christianity, Italy, Laura Bush, Executive Branch, Roman Catholicism
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A humble epilogue for pope
Sun Foreign StaffVATICAN CITY - In his final public words, written in his will and released yesterday, Pope John Paul II reflected on his life and his faith, asked the world and God to forgive him for his failings, and appeared to have contemplated stepping down in 2000....Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, United Nations, Charles, Prince of Wales
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Tsunami aid pledges top $3 billion
Associated PressJAKARTA, Indonesia - Australia promised $764 million - the largest government pledge - to the tsunami relief effort, topping a $674 million German aid package on the eve of a crucial donors conference today. World leaders were competing to head the donors...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Germany, Earthquakes, Diseases and Illnesses, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Conflicts threaten tsunami aid work
Associated PressBANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Indonesia warned aid workers yesterday that separatist rebels have taken shelter in camps for survivors, while a burst of violence hit Sri Lanka, signaling a potential resurgence of long-simmering rebellions in both tsunami-hit...Tags: U.S. Army, Al-Qaeda, Sri Lanka, U.S. Military, U.S. Navy
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Amid violence, Bush tries to save peace plan
Tribune staff reporterWASHINGTON - With a renewed spiral of violence threatening to derail President Bush's nascent Middle East peace initiative just a week after his historic summit in Jordan, the White House struggled yesterday to keep Israeli and Palestinian leaders focused...Tags: Diplomacy, Murder, Mahmoud Abbas, Ariel Sharon, United Nations
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Bombing kills 20 at U.N. post in Baghdad
Times Staff WriterBAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber rammed a cement truck loaded with explosives into the U.N. headquarters here Tuesday, toppling a wing of the building in a thunderous, dust-choked roar and killing the top envoy and at least 19 other people. Scores more --...Tags: Building Material, Al-Qaeda, Diplomacy, Human Rights, U.S. Military
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Bush expresses resolve on Iraq, says, 'Our will cannot be shaken'
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - President Bush urged Iraq's citizens and nations working to rebuild the war-torn country not to lose their will after a truck bomb ripped through United Nations headquarters in Baghdad yesterday, killing 20 people, including the top U.N....Tags: John McCain, Diplomacy, NBC (tv network), Television Industry, Golf
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Bush vows 'no retreat' from Iraq challenges
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Under pressure from the persistent violence in Iraq, President Bush said yesterday that the United States was engaged in a period of "testing" and likened the challenge in Iraq to the reconstruction of Japan and Germany after World War II....Tags: American Legion, World War II (1939-1945), Executive Branch, Germany, Dick Cheney
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Postwar plans raising tension
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - In a growing struggle involving power, money and oil, U.S. planning for a postwar Iraq is exposing fresh rifts between the United States and European allies as well as divisions within the Bush administration. British Prime Minister Tony...Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, France, Diplomacy, East Timor, Executive Branch
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