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Indian navy destroys pirate ship after coming under fire - guardian.co.uk
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Somali bandits terrorising the busy shipping routes around the Horn of Africa suffered a rare setback when an Indian warship destroyed a pirate "mothership" after coming under fire in the Gulf of Aden.
Indian navy sinks suspected pirate 'mother ship'
Ransom call as Indian navy sinks pirate ship
Daschle to Become Health and Human Services Secretary - FOXNews
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President-elect Barack Obama is tapping former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to be the next Health and Human Services secretary.
Obama picks Daschle as health secretary: CNN
Source: Daschle is choice for health secretary
US Drone Strikes With Deadly Accuracy - ABC News
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By NICK SCHIFRIN Two missiles destroyed a militant hideout and killed an al Qaeda commander today in one of the deepest US strikes into Pakistan, underscoring the lethal and effective link between intelligence and technology that is helping the United ...
Suspected US missiles strike deep inside Pakistan
Major Al-Qaeda operative killed in US drone strike: Pakistan security
Gazans describe life under blockade - BBC News
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Four of the Gaza Strip's 1.5m residents describe how they have been affected by Israel's renewed blockade of the territory.
Rattling the Cage: Clueless in Gaza
Israel rebuffs UN calls to open Gaza crossings
Peru bets on China's economic muscle - BBC News
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By Dan Collyns Ever since its independence 184 years ago, Peru has gone through periods of boom and bust. The wealthy periods came from guano - sea bird droppings used for fertiliser - in the mid-19th Century, rubber came shortly afterwards, ...
Foreign ministers prepare APEC summit in Peru
APEC to urge deeper trade ties
County Judge Leans Toward Franken Position on Exposing Voter ... - FOXNews
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Minnesota Judge Dale Lindman voices concerns about election workers withholding from Al Franken's campaign data on voters with rejected absentee ballots.
Recount begins in Minnesota for US Senate seat
Minnesota starts recount for US Senate seat
Qaeda scorns Obama, urges attacks on United States - Reuters
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By Inal Ersan and Firouz Sedarat DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's second-in-command urged Muslims to keep up attacks on the "criminal" United States and criticized US president-elect Barack Obama for promising to back Israel.
Video: Al-Qaida No. 2 Insults Obama in New Tape
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet
UPDATE 1-US House panel backs Waxman as energy chairman - Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Rep. Henry Waxman of California narrowly won a preliminary contest on Wednesday to replace Rep. John Dingell of Michigan as chairman of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.
Waxman Wins First Round of Fight With Dingell for Energy Panel
Comment by Frank O'Donnell President, Clean Air WatchStocks dip after report on consumer prices - The Associated Press
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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks are moderately lower in early trading as investors, nervous about the fate of the nation's top automakers, scour more economic data.
Consumer Prices Drop Record 1 Percent In October
Stocks head to lower open after dour economic data
FOMC Minutes Signal Fed Open to More Rate Cuts - Wall Street Journal
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By MAYA JACKSON RANDALL WASHINGTON -- US Federal Reserve officials stand ready to slash interest rates to levels not seen in half a century if the economic picture continues to worsen, minutes of their most recent policy meeting show.
FOMC sees yearlong recession, minutes show
Fed minutes: May need more rate cuts if growth ebbs
Cheaper gas fuels biggest drop in consumer prices in 61 years - Bizjournals.com
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Consumer prices plunged in October by the largest percentage in 61 years as gasoline costs dropped by a record amount. The US Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices fell by 1 percent last month, the biggest one-month decline on records ...
Dollar trades mixed as consumer prices plummet
US ECON: October CPI Down Record 1.0%, Core Down 0.1%, First Core ...
Yahoo Shares Plunge As Microsoft Says No Deal - InformationWeek
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By KC Jones Yahoo shares plummeted nearly 20% in midday trading Wednesday after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he was done with acquisition talks.
UPDATE: Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Yahoo Talks Are 'Finished'
CEO Search: Can Anyone Save Yahoo?
Mammoth genome sequence may explain extinction - Reuters
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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have sequenced the gene map of a long-extinct, mummified woolly mammoth, using DNA taken from its hair.
Mammoth's genome pieced together
Woolly mammoth task: Extinct critter's DNA mapped
Tool Bag Is Lost During Spacewalk - New York Times
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ Astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to do repair work, but lost a bag of tools they had taken along.
Lost tool bag forces changes to mission spacewalks
Lost Bag Forces Change of Plans for Spacewalks
Hugh Jackman Named People's Sexiest Man Alive - Zap2it.com
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This year, you have to go Down Under to find out who's on top of the sexy game. Aussie actor Hugh Jackman has been named People' Sexiest Man Alive this year, thanks to his epic "Australia," in which he co-stars with his fellow countrywoman Nicole ...
Hugh Jackman crowned People's `Sexiest Man Alive'
Hugh Jackman Sexier Than Us, Lies People Magazine
Review: 'Twilight' stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart - Chicago Tribune
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By Michael Phillips | Tribune critic "Low-key" is not the adjective you'd expect to describe a highly anticipated vampire movie, but there it is.
'Twilight' fan confessions from across the Hudson Valley - with audio
Ellen Gives Robert Pattinson 'Bite Me' Briefs
Ashley Dupre Exclusive: 'My Side of the Story' - ABC News
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By KIMBERLY LAUNIER and KATIE ESCHERICH The young woman at the center of the historic downfall of the governor of New York is finally speaking out.
Prostitute to wife of former NY gov.: `I'm sorry'
Eliot Spitzer call girl Ashley Alexandra Dupre: 'I'ma normal girl'
Sox ship Crisp to KC for Ramirez - MLB.com
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By Ian Browne / MLB.com BOSTON -- For more than a year, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said that he did not feel any urgency to deal center fielder Coco Crisp and that he would only do so if it improved the team.
Red Sox trade Coco Crisp to Royals for reliever
Coco Crisp: An analysis
Seattle Mariners name Don Wakamatsu as manager - The Associated Press
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SEATTLE (AP) - Don Wakamatsu became the first Asian-American manager in major league baseball history when he was hired Wednesday by the Seattle Mariners.
Mariners name Wakamatsu manager
Wakamatsu named Mariners manager
NCAA sets Final Four destinations through 2016 - Los Angeles Times
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New Orleans, Atlanta, Arlington/Dallas/Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Houston will be added to the rotation starting in 2012. By Chris Dufresne The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee finalized Final Four sites through 2016 today when it announced ...
NCAA announces future Final Four sites
NCAA Final Four returns to Atlanta in 2013
Pioneering Stem Cell Surgery Announced - New York Times
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By ALAN COWELL PARIS -- Physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells to fashion an organ and prevent its rejection by her immune system, ...
1st Trachea Transplant From Stem Cells
Doctors Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers Find - New York Times
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By RONI CARYN RABIN The largest and longest independent clinical trial to assess ginkgo biloba’s ability to prevent memory loss has found that the supplement does not prevent or delay dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, researchers are reporting.
Ginkgo biloba doesn't prevent dementia, study finds
Herbal supplement Ginkgo doesn't stop Alzheimer's
Genentech's Avastin linked to vein-clotting risk in analysis - San Jose Mercury News
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By John Lauerman Genentech's Avastin, widely prescribed for colon cancer and some lung tumors, was linked to significantly higher rates of vein clotting in an analysis of earlier studies.
Genentech disputes new Avastin research data
Avastin More Likely to Cause Blood Clots in Veins, Study Says
Chrysler Assessed, Dropped Bankruptcy Before Aid Push (Update1) - Bloomberg
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By Jeff Green Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler LLC Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli told Congress his automaker studied a prearranged bankruptcy before dismissing the idea as unworkable and approaching the US government for money to survive.
Auto companies fall as executives press for aid
GM shares at 66-yr low amid bailout doubt
Obama AG selection prosecuted Joe Waldholtz - Deseret News
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By Lee Davidson Eric Holder —who news agencies reported Wednesday has accepted an offer to become Barack Obama's attorney general —has interesting ties to two old, big Utah news stories that created national headlines in their time.
Video: Obama Taps Holder For AG
The Attorney General of Rollback
Obama's staff picks cause critics to question his call for change - CNN International
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Barack Obama pledged to bring "fundamental change to Washington" as he campaigned for the White House -- but as the president-elect fills out his administration, critics say they're seeing just more of the same.
Lobbyists in the Transition
White House Memo Obama Team Anything but Shy and Retiring
