AP – As of Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, at least 4,195 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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AP – A school partially collapsed in the Haitian capital on Wednesday, injuring at least eight students and sparking panic less than five days after a much larger school collapse killed more than 90 people.
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AP – Nicaragua’s election council has agreed to allow a review of the capital’s mayoral election results after opponents of leftist President Daniel Ortega cried fraud.
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Reuters – As central bankers try to prop up an ailing global economy with financial bailouts, a tiny Western Canadian brewery has stepped into the battle with what it bills as a recession-fighting ale.
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AP – An Obama effect is rippling across Europe.
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AP – Gordon Brown has been one of the few leaders with a spring in his step since the world economy began to nosedive and he’ll be hoping it will carry him to success at a weekend summit on the global financial meltdown.
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Reuters – Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, facing a possible indictment by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, announced a ceasefire in the region on Wednesday.
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AP – Iran said it successfully test-fired a new generation of long range surface-to-surface missile on Wednesday one that could easily strike as far away as southeastern Europe with greater precision than earlier models.
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Reuters – North Korea indicated on Wednesday it would not let international nuclear inspectors remove nuclear samples from its plant that makes arms-grade plutonium, a move which could hamper international disarmament efforts.
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AP – An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.
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