Three Senate Democrats proposed emergency legislation on Tuesday to reimburse states for printing paper ballots in case of problems with electronic voting machines on Nov. 7.
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Earth’s temperature could be reaching its highest level in a million years, American scientists said yesterday.
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The US Army will lengthen tours in Iraq for 4,000 soldiers to maintain the US troop level there at 145,000 until next spring, the Pentagon said.
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The Army’s top officer pointed out that they could not continue the war in Iraq without billions more dollars.
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A newspaper in Britain reported Sunday that British soldiers smuggled stolen guns out of Iraq and exchanged them on the black market for cocaine.
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Former President Bill Clinton, defending his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden, accused the Bush administration in an interview to be broadcast Sunday of doing far less to stop Mr. bin Laden before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “At least I tried,” he said.
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A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology.
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An assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Sunni extremists in Iraq marked the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan yesterday by killing at least 37 Shia.
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France and the United States said on Saturday they could not confirm a report that Osama bin Laden had died.
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Thailand’s new military regime faced its first open dissent yesterday when dozens of pro-democracy protesters violated martial law and demonstrated against the generals outside a Bangkok shopping centre.
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The 14 terrorism suspects transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention center from overseas CIA prisons two weeks ago are undergoing “orientation” and not being interrogated, the Army said Wednesday.
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The United States Justice Department claimed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales “had his timeline mixed up†when he denied the United States had deported a Canadian citizen to Syria, where he was tortured.
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The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities, according to former CIA officials and people close to the programme.
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Nearly 7,000 civilians were killed in Iraq in the past two months, according to a UN report just released – a record high that is far greater than initial estimates had suggested.
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The President of Iran said he loved everyone, which one could only assume included President Bush.
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A federal judge has rejected an attempt by the Bush administration to allow new roads be built through nearly 60 million acres of national forest land. President Bush wanted to open up the land to logging, mining and other activities.
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In the Gaza Strip, five Palestinians have died so far today in attacks by the Israeli military.
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The governor of Maryland is calling for the state to scrap its electronic voting system and revert to paper ballots for the November elections.
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BBC obtained evidence that Israelis have been giving military training to Kurds in northern Iraq.
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