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(CNN) — The office of Aruba’s public prosecutor said Thursday it has intensified its investigation of the case of Natalee Holloway after receiving information from a Dutch crime reporter.

This information may shed a new light on the mode of which Natalee Holloway has died and the method by which her body disappeared, [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider.

Some of the 1,213 photos taken by NASA’s Messenger probe and unveiled Wednesday help support the case that ancient volcanoes dot [...]

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday ruled out declaring openly whether he believes the interrogation technique known as waterboarding constitutes torture.

Any answer I give could have the effect of articulating publicly — and to our adversaries — the limits and contours of generally worded laws that define the limits [...]

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) — Six days after Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean was tracked to a town in Mexico, a Mexican court issued an arrest warrant Monday for the alleged killer, the U.S. Embassy said.

The provisional warrant authorizes Mexican police to follow leads and to arrest the 21-year-old Laurean — who’s accused [...]

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DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) — The world will weather its financial storm, but must battle climate change, poverty and conflict to reap a new industrial revolution, the global business elite said Sunday, trying to dispel pessimism that has hung over a major meeting in Switzerland.

As the five-day World Economic Forum wrapped up in [...]

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NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — Ethnic fighting once again engulfed Kenya’s western Rift Valley on Sunday as witnesses and Red Cross officials reported brutal attacks by members of President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe on other ethnic groups.

The violence spread to the Rift Valley town of Naivasha on Sunday, where the Red Cross said [...]

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday that the United States is ready, able and willing to send troops to Pakistan if the government of the South Asian nation is interested.

U.S. military officials have told CNN that commanders are reviewing a classified planning order that could result in [...]

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(CNN Student News) — January 24, 2008
1. What is a veto? According to the program: What legislation did President George W. Bush recently veto? What action did Congress take in response to this veto? What was the outcome of this action?
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2. According to the report: What factors have contributed [...]

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NEW YORK (CNN) — President Bush’s assurances that we’ll all be just fine if he and Congress can work out an economic stimulus package seem a little hollow this morning.
Much like Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke’s assurances last May that the subprime mortgage [...]

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CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — A 3-foot-diameter water main burst on Chicago’s North Side early Tuesday, gushing out thousands of gallons of water that crumbled pavement and turned a major street into a small lake.

Police closed several blocks around Montrose Avenue and Wolcott Street and the Chicago Transit Authority briefly shut down a [...]

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