| Underwood, Swift, Hough: Women rule the ACMs (AP) April 6, 2009 at 7:20 am |
| AP - Carrie Underwood captured entertainer of the year Sunday night at the Academy of Country Music Awards, winning the top honor that has eluded women for nearly a decade, while Taylor Swift won album of the year and Julianne Hough snagged top new artist.
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| String of bombings in Baghdad kill 21, wound 64 (AP) April 6, 2009 at 7:11 am |
| AP - A string of deadly bombings in Baghdad killed 21 people and wounded at least 64 others Monday, as the U.S. military reported its first combat death in Iraq in about three weeks.
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| Powerful earthquake in central Italy kills 50 (AP) April 6, 2009 at 6:58 am |
| AP - A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept, killing at least 50 people and trapping many more, officials said. Thousands were homeless.
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| Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels (AP) April 6, 2009 at 6:26 am |
| AP - Less money in the pockets of Americans means fewer highway deaths. As the economy slid deeper into recession and gas prices reached $4 a gallon last year, the number of people killed in auto accidents hit its lowest level in five decades. |
| After 18-year ban, media see return of US war dead (AP) April 6, 2009 at 6:20 am |
| AP - The Pentagon's 18-year ban on media coverage of fallen U.S. service members returning home ended quietly, with only an officer's sharp order to salute accompanying a single flag-covered casket being unloaded from a cargo plane.
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| Obama brings hope for warmer relations to Turkey (AP) April 6, 2009 at 4:32 am |
| AP - President Barack Obama is reaching out to Turkey to help him wind down the Iraq war and bring stability to the Middle East. He is also counting on the only Muslim member of NATO to remain a steadfast ally in the Afghanistan conflict.
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| Dog overboard found four months later (AFP) April 6, 2009 at 4:21 am |
| AFP - A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.
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| Taliban threaten 2 attacks per week in Pakistan (AP) April 6, 2009 at 1:23 am |
| AP - A suicide bombing at a crowded Shiite mosque south of Pakistan's capital killed 22 people Sunday, the latest evidence of how security in the U.S.-allied nation is crumbling well beyond the Afghan border region where al-Qaida and Taliban fighters thrive.
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| Fight over urinating dog got police to Pa. ambush (AP) April 6, 2009 at 1:12 am |
| AP - A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.
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| Obama outlines sweeping goal of nuclear-free world (AP) April 6, 2009 at 1:09 am |
| AP - Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Barack Obama on Sunday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms and that the U.S. had a "moral responsibility" to lead because no other country has used one.
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| NKorea rocket fizzles, US says; Obama urges action (AP) April 6, 2009 at 12:47 am |
| AP - The U.S. and its allies sought punishment for North Korea's defiant launch of a rocket that apparently fizzled into the Pacific, holding an emergency U.N. meeting in response to the "provocative act" that some believe was a long-range missile test.
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| Binghamton officials defend response to massacre (AP) April 5, 2009 at 10:00 pm |
| AP - Even if police officers had immediately entered the immigrant center where a gunman had just shot down 13 people, the victims' injuries were so severe that none would have survived, a county prosecutor said Sunday.
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| Obama seeks to boost ties with Muslim ally Turkey (Reuters) April 5, 2009 at 6:58 pm |
| Reuters - President Barack Obama will seek on Monday to shore up ties with Turkey, a Muslim country with growing clout whose help Washington needs to solve confrontations and conflicts from Iran to Afghanistan.
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| Wine thrives in Muslim Morocco (AP) April 5, 2009 at 2:39 pm |
| AP - The gently rolling hills planted thick with vineyards are an unlikely sight for a Muslim country partly set in the deserts and palms of North Africa. Yet the grapes, and the wine they produce, are thriving in Morocco despite Islam's ban on alcohol consumption.
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| NKorean missile launch tests Obama (AP) April 5, 2009 at 10:54 am |
| AP - North Korea's defiant rocket launch has confronted President Barack Obama with his first global security crisis and a difficult diplomatic challenge for his young administration.
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