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Brazil president orders investigation of blackout November 12, 2009
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL -- Brazilian President Luiz InÃ¡cio Lula da Silva on Wednesday ordered an investigation into why more than half the country, including the major cities and industrial center, lost electricity for several hours Tuesday night.
Jonathan Wheatley
Yemen denounces Iranian 'interference' in its internal affairs November 12, 2009
SANAA, YEMEN -- The Yemeni government on Wednesday lashed out against what it described as Iranian "interference" in its affairs, escalating tensions in a civil conflict pitting Yemen's army against Shiite rebels that has drawn in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, and raised fears o...
Sudarsan Raghavan
Army psychiatrists ordered Hasan to attend lecture series on Islam November 12, 2009
Army psychiatrists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who supervised Maj. Nidal M. Hasan's work as a psychiatric fellow tried to turn his growing preoccupation with religion and war into something productive by ordering him to attend a university lecture series on Islam, the Middle East and...
Ann Scott Tyson and Dana Priest
Politics digest: Ads from conservative seniors group target Democrats November 12, 2009
A conservative seniors group is launching an ad campaign against some House Democrats who voted for the party's health-care reform bill Saturday, accusing them of cutting Medicare and saddling future generations with hefty deficits.
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Nation digest: Brown pelican off endangered list November 12, 2009
The brown pelican, listed as an endangered species for nearly four decades, has returned from the brink of extinction.
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World digest: Body of missing U.S. soldier found in Afghan river November 12, 2009
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Swine flu deaths in Europe doubling by the week, agency says November 12, 2009
Swine flu deaths in Europe doubled in three of the last four weeks, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Wednesday.
Bloomberg News
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The softer hand November 12, 2009
MAGAS, RUSSIA -- When the Kremlin appointed him president of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov promised a new approach to fighting the Islamist insurgency that has made this splinter of land the most volatile of Russia's Muslim republics.
Philip P. Pan
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov November 12, 2009
Born: Tarskoe, Russia, 1963, in the disputed Prigorodny region, scene of ethnic clashes between Ingush and North Ossetian militias in the early 1990s.
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