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EXTRA: US health reform passes first major test in House
Washington - An overhaul of the US health care system passed its first major test of the day in the House of Representatives, which could send the hard-fought legislation to President Barack Obama's desk later Sunday evening....
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2010-03-21 ] Category : [
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US welcomes Myanmar's release of US citizen
Washington - The United States welcomed the release Thursday of a naturalized US citizen and democracy activist who had been held and jailed since September in the Asian country. Nyi Nyi Aung was freed by a Myanmar court and put on a flight to Bangko...
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2010-03-18 ] Category : [
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UN: Slum dwellers estimated at more than 827 million in 2010
New York - The number of slum dwellers has increased by 55 million in the last 10 years to a total of 827.6 million this year, the UN-Habitat said Thursday. The progress made on the slum target has not been enough to counter the growth of informal s...
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2010-03-18 ] Category : [
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Former American fugitive pleads guilty in 1968 hijacking
New York - An American who lived in exile in Cuba for 41 years before returning to the United States pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he and two co-conspirators hijacked a Pan American airplane to Cuba in 1968. The US attorney for the South...
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2010-03-18 ] Category : [
US (World) ]
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