VIENNA, Austria – An exiled Iranian dissident on Saturday said Iran’s newly elected president — already accused of taking American diplomats hostage 36 years ago — played a key role in the 1989 execution-style slayings of a Kurdish opposition leader and two associates in Vienna. However, a top adviser to …
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BLOIS, France – Lance Armstrong‘s (search) Discovery Channel squad won the team time trial at the Tour de France (search) on Tuesday, handing the six-time champion the yellow jersey as overall race leader. The 33-year-old Texan led his squad to victory for the third straight year in the time trial, …
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MOSCOW – Russia’s space agency has signed a contract with U.S. millionaire Gregory Olsen (search) to be the next space tourist, a deal that would make the 60-year-old scientist only the third tourist to visit the international space station. Olsen could fly to the orbiting station as early as October, …
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Dead men don’t talk, but hair from a long-dead English king may prompt a rewrite of the monarch’s madness. The dead royal is King George III. He had five major bouts of madness, and arsenic in his treatment may have made matters worse. That’s the verdict of researchers investigating the …
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NEW YORK – U.S. consumer sentiment (search) rose in June as gasoline prices were not as problematic as some had feared and job prospects improved, according to indications from a report on Friday. The University of Michigan (search) said its measure of confidence rose to 96.0 in June from 86.9 …
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JERUSALEM – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) warned Israel that Palestinians must be able to move freely between the separate territories they will eventually hold. The Gaza Strip (search) must not become a walled enclave after Israel withdraws troops and settlers next month, Rice said. She also pressed Palestinian …
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WASHINGTON – The chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee (search) said Congress may settle the nearly decade-old lawsuit in which American Indians accuse the Interior Department of cheating them out of billions of dollars in royalties. But Sen. John McCain (search), R-Ariz., said Wednesday the $27.5 billion the Indians …
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HOUSTON – A lawsuit against Merck & Co.’s (MRK) Vioxx (search) goes to trial in a Texas state court Monday in the first of thousands of cases claiming the pharmaceutical giant hid the risks of a popular painkiller. The case in Angleton, near Houston, pits the family of deceased Texan …
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PHILADELPHIA – Kenny Gamble (search), half of the songwriting duo that wrote a slew of 1970s hits, and R&B singer Bunny Sigler (search) have written a song to help raise money for Alex’s Lemonade Stand (search), a charity benefiting cancer research. The song, “Alex’s Lemonade,” details the life of Alex …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Al Qaeda in Iraq (search) claimed responsibility Wednesday for killing two Algerian diplomats who were kidnapped in Baghdad last week — the second slaying of Arab envoys in Iraq this month. Algerian state radio said Ali Belaroussi (search) and Azzedine Belkadi (search) had been killed, although the …
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