| North Korea says it is in 'a state of war' with South Korea Posted: 30 Mar 2013 06:43 AM PDT North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula was entering "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.
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| Cyprus bank's big savers to lose up to 60 percent Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:27 AM PDT Big depositors at Cyprus' largest bank may be forced to accept losses far more than initially estimated to save the country from bankruptcy, officials said.
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| Patients of Tulsa doctor line up to get tested Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:35 AM PDT About 150 to 200 patients of a Tulsa oral surgeon accused of unsanitary practices queued outside a health clinic Saturday, hoping to discover whether they were exposed to hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS.
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| Lawmakers tighten belts amid automatic budget cuts Posted: 30 Mar 2013 12:05 AM PDT Members of Congress are traveling less and worrying more about meeting office salaries. Their aides are contending with long lines to get inside their offices and fewer prospects of a raise.
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| Phil Ramone, Grammy-winning producer, dead at 72 Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:52 AM PDT Phil Ramone, the Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer whose platinum touch included recordings with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, has died at 72.
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| Reward for dead California fugitive policeman shrinks Posted: 30 Mar 2013 09:54 AM PDT A second group has pulled its money from a pooled $1.2 million reward offered during a manhunt for a renegade former California policeman who died in a fiery standoff, a Los Angeles television station said.
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| After 55 years, Ohio's Easter Eggshelland comes to an end Posted: 30 Mar 2013 08:47 AM PDT After more than 50 years, loyal fans have one last chance to visit Easter-themed mosaics made of thousands of brightly colored eggs on a lawn in an eastern suburb of Cleveland.
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| Authorities: $600M scheme incubated in NC town Posted: 30 Mar 2013 06:58 AM PDT In the hardware store on South Main Street, the owner pulled Caron Myers aside to tell her about the best thing to happen in years to this once-thriving furniture and textile town.
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| Three dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal Posted: 30 Mar 2013 12:40 AM PDT Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers ...
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| Senior Russian diplomat urges restraint over North Korea Posted: 30 Mar 2013 05:22 AM PDT Moscow urged restraint in the Korean peninsula on Saturday, after North Korea said it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in a further escalation of its bellicose rhetoric ...
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| U.S. commandos hand over troubled area to Afghans Posted: 30 Mar 2013 06:27 AM PDT U.S. special operations forces handed over their base in a strategic district of eastern Afghanistan to local Afghan special forces on Saturday, a senior U.S. commander said ...
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| Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid Posted: 29 Mar 2013 06:32 PM PDT Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana claim they were illegally targeted.
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| Giant panda artificially inseminated at U.S. National Zoo Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:34 AM PDT Veterinarians at the National Zoo artificially inseminated the zoo's female giant panda Mei Xiang on Saturday after natural breeding failed to occur, zoo keepers said. |
| Kenya Supreme Court upholds election result Posted: 30 Mar 2013 08:47 AM PDT Kenya's Supreme Court on Saturday upheld the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's next president, ending an election season that riveted the nation amid fears of a repeat of the 2007-08 postelection violence.
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| China: No signs of life in mine landslide Posted: 29 Mar 2013 08:01 PM PDT Chinese media says rescuers are searching for 83 buried workers.
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| South African official: Mandela better from pneumonia Posted: 30 Mar 2013 07:54 AM PDT A South African official says Nelson Mandela is breathing "without difficulty" after having a procedure to clear fluid in his lung area that was caused by pneumonia.
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| 2 Wash. boys to stand trial for murder conspiracy Posted: 30 Mar 2013 02:12 AM PDT A northeast Washington judge has found two boys, ages 10 and 11, competent to stand trial in juvenile court on a murder conspiracy charge. |
| Death toll in Tanzania building collapse rises to 19 Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:23 AM PDT The death toll from the collapse of a building in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam has climbed to 19, a senior official said on Saturday. ...
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| Justin Bieber's monkey quarantined in Germany Posted: 30 Mar 2013 05:45 AM PDT A German official says Justin Bieber had to leave a monkey in quarantine after arriving in the country last week without the necessary papers for the animal.
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| NASA's 'Super Guppy' swallows supersonic NASA jets Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:24 AM PDT Two supersonic NASA jets were swallowed whole by the space agency's outsized Super Guppy Transport plane in California this month so that they could be ferried to Texas.
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