YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Some 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.As the march headed toward the Defense Ministry's offices along a straight stretch of road, the back of the crowd could not be seen

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PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) -- A powerful blast ripped through Kosovo's capital early Monday, killing two and injuring 10 others, officials said.The explosion happened around 2:30 a.m. in a shopping mall in the center of Pristina. It was not immediately clear what was the target of the attack.Police spokesman Veton Elshani said most of the victims were injured from a concrete block falling after the

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By Dean Irvine for CNNLONDON, England (CNN) -- Saber-rattling in the Middle East has been growing, with Israeli air strikes over Syria at the beginning of the month and France's Foreign Minister talking of war with Iran, but behind the scenes there are fears of a new arms race in the region.In a deal announced this week, Saudi Arabia has agreed to buy 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets from Europe's

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran is neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States in a television interview Monday.The public-relations push appears aimed at presenting his views directly to a U.S. audience amid rising strains and talk of war between the two nations.Ahmadinejad is to speak and answer questions at a forum at Columbia

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The Minneapolis airport toilet where US senator Larry Craig was arrested for allegedly soliciting gay sex is now attracting tourists, say airport staff."People are taking pictures," Karen Evans, an information officer at Minneapolis-St Paul international airport, told Associated Press.Mr Craig, a Republican from Idaho, pleaded guilty in August to disorderly conduct over the toilet incident.He now

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Some 200,000 people are being evacuated from Shanghai as a powerful typhoon barrels towards China's east coast.Residents from the city's exposed areas are being moved to temporary shelters before Typhoon Wipha is expected to make landfall on Tuesday evening.Tropical Storm Risk forecasters said Wipha would hit the mainland as a category four storm, packing gusts of up to 155 mph (250 km/h).On

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(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Ingrid faded to a tropical depression Saturday, done in by "hostile winds aloft," according to the National Hurricane Center.At 5 p.m. ET, Ingrid's maximum sustained winds remained at 35 mph (55 kph).The system's center was about 425 miles (685 kilometers) east of the Lesser Antilles, headed west at about 12 mph (19 kph), according to the hurricane center.Forecasters said

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TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's foreign ministry criticized France on Monday for a blunt warning over the weekend that Europe must prepare for war if Tehran continues to flout international demands to stop producing nuclear fuel."We hope that such statements are superficial and do not reflect France's realistic and strategic points of view," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said

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In speech, president says Iraq still needs �enduring relationship� with U.S.Sept. 13, 2007WASHINGTON - President Bush, defending an unpopular war, ordered gradual reductions in U.S. forces in Iraq on Thursday night and said, �The more successful we are, the more American troops can return home.�Yet, Bush firmly rejected calls to end the war, insisting that Iraq will still need military, economic

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Administration plays down the negative side of the latest status reportSept. 15, 2007A day after President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to justify U.S. troop reductions, the White House told Congress on Friday that Iraqi leaders had failed to meet half of their key goals.The administration's acknowledgment of shortfalls in the Iraqi government's performance underscored the

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