THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared before a U.N. war crimes judge for the first time on Thursday to answer genocide charges and said he had been kidnapped and feared for his life.
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The Phoenix Mars Lander has identified water in a sample of soil collected
from two inches below the surface of the Red Planet.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A man sleeping on a Greyhound bus as it rolled across the Canadian Prairies was killed and decapitated by his seatmate as horrified passengers fled to safety in the night, witnesses and police said on Thursday.
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Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing …
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Two prominent evangelical Christians praised their dialogue with Muslim leaders on Thursday at the end of a three-day conference seeking ways to ease tensions between the world’s two largest faiths.
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Farmers in California have begun slathering fruit and vegetables with sunscreen after discovering that it is not just people who can suffer adverse effects from the sun’s rays.
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July 2008 was the least deadly month for Americans in Iraq since the war began more than five years ago.
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ROME (Reuters) - State prosecutors in Italy lodged an appeal on Thursday against a court ruling authorizing a man to remove the feeding tube which has kept his comatose daughter alive for 16 years.
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order on Thursday that eliminates thousands of government jobs and mandates that 200,000 state workers receive the federal minimum wage until a state budget is approved.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is set to renew a mandate for peacekeepers in Darfur on Thursday in a resolution that Washington criticized for raising concerns about moves to indict Sudan’s president for genocide.
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