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- Arguments in Case Involving Net and Suicide
Prosecutors began to present their side against a woman who they accuse of creating a phony account on MySpace to taunt a 13-year-old girl, in a highly unusual use of computer-fraud statutes. 
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An Arab Christian woman and Middle East expert says she isn't surprised at a recently released report that Barack Obama received 90-percent support from Muslim-American voters in the recent presidential election. The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil
- Sources: Obama vetting two new Cabinet picks
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for homeland security secretary, according to multiple Democratic sources close to the transition. Also, billionaire Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker is Obama's pick for commerce secretary, sources say.
    
- Romania Likely to Resume Exports in 2009
I have asked the National Sanitary-Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) to present, by year-end, a plan of ceasing vaccination against swine fever, as it is a main element in resuming export of pork in the EU, alongside strict control and
- Bomber attacks NATO base in Afghanistan
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, inflicting some casualties, a NATO force spokeswoman said. 'We have ISAF casualties, but we don't know how many,' said the spokeswoman, referring to
- Romanian-Uzbek Trade-Economic Cooperation Expanding
Foreign Minister of Romania Lazar Comanescu visited Uzbekistan. Romanian Foreign Minister Lazar Comanescu held negotiations with Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyayev, Speaker of Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan Dilorom
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In 1970, QABOOS bin Said Al Said ousted his father and has ruled as sultan ever since. His extensive modernization program has opened the country to the outside world and has preserved a long-standing political and military relationship with the UK. Oman's moderate, independent foreign policy has sought to maintain good relations with all Middle Eastern countries.
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Two strong storms cut power to tens of thousands of homes and flooded streets along Australia's east coast Thursday, sweeping away one woman in her car amid the worst flooding in decades.
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