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Iran cancels plans to free US hiker
Iran has reportedly cancelled plans to release an American woman who has been imprisoned in Tehran for more than a year.
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Iran Delays Release Of Detained American
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has canceled the planned release on Saturday of a detained American woman because the legal process has not been completed, Tehran's prosecutor said on Friday.
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Iran Delays Release Of Detained American
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has cancelled the planned release on Saturday of a detained American woman because the legal process has not been completed, Tehran's prosecutor said on Friday.
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Iranian Consular Official in Finland Defects
PARIS (AP) -- A ranking diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Finland said Friday he has quit his job to protest the Islamic Republic's treatment of its citizens.
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Iran delays release of detained American (Reuters)
Reuters - Iran has canceled the planned release on Saturday of a detained American woman because the legal process has not been completed, Tehran's prosecutor said on Friday.
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Obama Urges Israel to Extend Settlement Moratorium
President Obama asked the Israeli prime minister to extend the moratorium in the West Bank as a goodwill gesture to help move forward peace talks with the Palestinians.
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Hoffenheim Beats Schalke 2-0 in Bundesliga
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Isaac Vorsah scored and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer added an own goal as Hoffenheim beat Schalke 2-0 for its third straight victory in the Bundesliga season.
Categories: Sports
Geoghegan replaces Feinberg as pay czar (Reuters)
Reuters - The Treasury Department has selected Patricia Geoghegan to replace Kenneth Feinberg as the "pay czar" overseeing compensation at companies bailed out by the government.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. freed from jail after arrest (AP)
AP - Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been freed from a jail in Las Vegas after posting bail on a felony theft charge stemming from a domestic violence complaint by his ex-girlfriend.
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Death toll set to rise in San Francisco blaze
The death toll from a natural gas line explosion in suburban San Francisco stands at four as investigators comb through the wreckage of homes destroyed.
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The Saturday Profile: Days of Reflection for Man Who Defined Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew spoke at length about age, his struggle to build Singapore into a thriving nation and his concerns about the next generation.
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Peace emerges the winner in doubles final
Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and India's Rohan Bopanna lost the US Open men's doubles final to US top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan but were winners in their wider mission to inspire peace.
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'No congregation' escaped Belgian sex abuse
A Belgian Catholic Church-backed commission has released harrowing testimony from around 500 cases of alleged sex abuse.
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Ban on Pop Music at Funerals
On Thursday, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Melbourne announced a ban on the playing of pop music at funerals, which, he said, are not to be described as "a celebration of the life of" the deceased.
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Koran burning saga continues as Obama weighs in
Barack Obama hopes a Florida pastor will drop a plan to burn Korans, saying such an act could deeply harm the US abroad.
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Soldiers Charged With Killing Afghans
One of five American soldiers charged with killing three Afghan civilians earlier this year tried to alert the Army that his squad leader planned the murders, the soldier's father claimed this week.
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First Medal of Honor for Living Soldier Since 9/11
The White House honored the heroism of Salvatore A. Giunta, who took a bullet to the chest in Afghanistan and saved two comrades.
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Castro says comment on Cuban economy misunderstood (Reuters)
Reuters - Fidel Castro said on Friday his recent comment that communist-led Cuba's economic model does not work was badly understood and that what he really meant was that capitalism does not work.
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Rooneys Appeal For Privacy At "Painful" Time
LONDON (Reuters) - Footballer Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen appealed to the media for privacy on Friday and said a week of speculation about their marriage had been "extremely painful."
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Castro: Misunderstood on Cuban model
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro said Friday that he was misinterpreted when he recently told an American journalist that the Cuban model no longer works.
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