AFP – A group of business leaders set up to take over stricken flag carrier Alitalia will make a final offer for the airline despite union opposition, Italian media reported Friday.
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AP – Four Mexican military officers and one soldier are under investigation for alleged links to one of the country’s most powerful drug cartels.
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AP – First it was Indiana Jones. Now it’s James Bond’s latest lady friend.
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AFP – A US diplomat involved in the six-party negotiations for North Korea’s nuclear disarmament will meet delegates from Pyongyang who are due in New York next week, the State Department said Friday.
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Reuters – Sudanese armed forces have found one surviving Chinese worker and the body of another who had been kidnapped along with seven colleagues from an oil field nearly two weeks ago, state media said on Friday.
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AP – U.S. deaths in Iraq fell in October to their lowest monthly level of the war, matching the record low of 13 fatalities suffered in July. Iraqi deaths fell to their lowest monthly levels of the year.
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AP – Jewish settlers clashed with Israeli police and Palestinians Friday in the West Bank city of Hebron over the demolition of an unauthorized settler outpost.
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AP – A Guantanamo prisoner’s violent videos helped inspire the Sept. 11 attacks, a prosecutor said Friday at the close of a lopsided war crimes trial in which the accused offered no defense.
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AP – Car bombs rather than Obama, making it home rather than McCain dominate the talk among many U.S. soldiers in Iraq’s deadliest city during the final countdown to America’s presidential election.
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AFP – Suspected US missiles struck two deadly blows Friday killing 32 mainly Al-Qaeda operatives and injuring a key Taliban commander in a Pakistani tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said.
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