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at 16:00 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
WASHINGTON - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan says an Islamic community centre and mosque planned near the site of the World Trade Center in New York should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the buildings.
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at 15:48 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
MOSCOW - A Russian news agency reports that forest fires raging in central Russia left two people dead and 14 hospitalized.
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at 15:25 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
LA MACARENA, Colombia - In stories Aug. 7 and Aug. 8 about Colombian government efforts to cement control over a longtime rebel stronghold, The Associated Press, quoting a former deputy defence minister, Sergio Jaramillo, erroneously reported that 30 per cent of the world's cocaine had come from the area. The correct figure is 13 per cent of the world's cocaine.
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at 15:24 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
ATHENS, Greece - An international animal rights activist group has claimed responsibility for releasing more than 50,000 minks from two fur farms in northern Greece.
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at 15:17 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
DENVER - The U.S. military says a chaplain who died in Afghanistan is the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War.
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at 15:14 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
TIRANA, Albania - Albania says the United States has given it three coast guard patrol boats to help in its fight against terrorism, organized crime and illegal trafficking.
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at 15:12 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas — the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations.
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at 14:51 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
TUCSON, Ariz. - A federal appeals court in San Francisco has tossed out the conviction of an Arizona man who left water jugs in the desert for migrants passing through.
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at 14:50 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
BUXTON, N.C. - Hurricane Earl packed winds near 125 mph (200 kph) as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Canada on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.
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at 14:38 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
VIENNA - An international anti-corruption academy, billed as the first of its kind, has opened in Austria.
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