BAGHDAD - Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq yesterday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents.
KABUL - A truck filled with explosives that police believe may have been destined for Kabul blew up on a highway yesterday, killing 25 people - more than half of them children walking to school.
TEHRAN, Iran - Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital yesterday, chanting "death to the dictator" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - An advertising executive's former wife who police say was held hostage by her ex-husband for hours inside his Connecticut home told a newspaper she did not expect to survive the ordeal, which ended when he allegedly set the house on fire after she escaped.
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LAS VEGAS - Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said yesterday that his parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time," providing his first public acknowledgment that the woman received payments tied to the affair.
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NEW YORK - After yet another weak month, retailers are set to fight for their share of crucial back-to-school shopping. But they may have to keep discounting to keep consumers coming in, given escalating job uncertainty.
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ALSIP, Ill. - Prosecutors yesterday charged three gravediggers and a manager in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicago so that plots could be resold, authorities said.
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WASHINGTON - The government has tens of billions of dollars left in the eye-popping $700 billion bank bailout fund created last fall, prompting a debate in Congress over what to do with it.
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CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - An Amtrak passenger train carrying about 170 people struck a car that had skirted a gate at a road crossing west of Detroit yesterday, killing all five people in the sedan, authorities said. The victims were believed to be teens.
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MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - John Bachar, a noted rock climber, has died. He was 51. Bachar, who was climbing near his Mammoth Lakes Home Sunday, died at an area hospital after a fall from the Dike Wall cliff, the Mono County Sheriff's Department said.
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ST. LOUIS - As many as 350 dogs were seized and about 30 people arrested yesterday during raids in five states that animal-welfare groups are calling the largest simultaneous raid of dogfighting operations in the U.S.
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ROCHESTER, N.H. - A New Hampshire gas-station clerk called police just to let them know he had given two men permission to sleep in their SUV in his parking lot for the night.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - Two inmates at the Chatham County jail in coastal Georgia got burned by their own smoking habit when they started a fire trying to light a handmade cigarette with a spark from an electrical socket.
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