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    Pressure rises on pastor who wants to burn Quran (AP)
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:03:38 GMT

     

    Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Jones plans to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere.


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    Boise State gains ground in AP Top 25 (AP)
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:02:13 GMT

     

    Boise State Broncos wide receiver Austin Pettis (L) celebrates with teammates Doug Martin (2nd L), Dan Paul and Joe Kellogg (R) after scoring the game-winning touchdown against the Virginia Tech Hokies in their NCAA football game in Landover, Maryland September 6, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT FOOTBALL)AP - More AP Top 25 voters are buying into Boise State as the No. 1 team in the country. Boise State gained seven first-place votes and closed in on No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Ohio State as the top three teams in the first regular season Associated Press football poll held their spots from the preseason.


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    Iraq displays hundreds of recovered artifacts (AP)
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:02:05 GMT

     

    An AK-47, with Saddam Hussein's image on it, is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a chrome-plated AK-47 bearing Saddam Hussein's image.


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    Sect leader Jeffs fights extradition to Texas (AP)
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:02:04 GMT

     

    Warren Jeffs, left, leader of the FLDS Church, appears before Judge Terry Christiansen in Third District Court on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in West Jordan, Utah. At right is his attorney Walter Bugden. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool)AP - Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs on Tuesday refused to sign a waiver that would have allowed his extradition to Texas, where he faces bigamy, aggravated sexual assault and assault charges over alleged incidents with underage girls at a church ranch.


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    Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic (AP)
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:01:59 GMT

     

    A barber works in a saloon in Havana September 7, 2010. Cuba will soon turn some small-scale manufacturing and retail services into cooperatives as the state retreats from minor businesses in an effort to boost the island's troubled economy, government and Communist Party sources said. Earlier this year, President Raul Castro leased back small barber shops and beauty salons to individual employees and is doing the same with taxis. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)AP - Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war.


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    WTC steel column installed at ground zero (AP)
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:01:54 GMT

     

    ** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP OF NYSW110 ** Construction workers watch as an original piece of the Twin Towers, known as a 'trident,' is lowered into its permanent location at the 9/11 Memorial Museum at ground zero in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Officials hoisted a 70-foot piece of World Trade Center steel at ground zero Tuesday and vowed to open the Sept. 11 memorial by next year, although they acknowledged that the ongoing construction at the site would limit where and how the public could visit.


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