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Mexico: Ex-drug czar allegedly took cartel money
(AP)
AP - Mexico accused its former drug czar Friday of taking $450,000 from a cartel he was supposed to destroy, going public with a scandal that deals a serious blow to the country's U.S.-backed drug war.
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Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest
(AP)
 AP - Chanting "no to America," supporters of a radical Shiite cleric burned an effigy of President George W. Bush Friday in a protest demanding parliament scuttle a U.S.-Iraqi security pact and American troops begin withdrawing from Iraq immediately.
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French Socialist vote ending with no clear winner
(AP)
AP - A French Socialist Party official says a vote to pick a new opposition leader was ending with no clear winner.
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Congo refugees plagued by shootings, rape, looting
(AP)
 AP - Looting soldiers tried to rape one woman and fatally shot another at a refugee camp, witnesses said Friday, as the United Nations prepared to send more peacekeepers to help protect traumatized civilians in eastern Congo.
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AP Interview: Libya wants to invest in US
(AP)
 AP - Libya wants to open a new chapter in relations with the United States by tapping into a major government fund to invest in U.S. companies and sending thousands of students to study in America, the son of Libya's leader said Friday.
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Strewth! Australia drops cricket from citizenship test
(Reuters)
Reuters - Australia is to modify a test for prospective new citizens to exclude questions on history and culture, and specifically cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman, a government minister said on Saturday.
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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,202
(AP)
 AP - As of Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, at least 4,202 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Laura Bush visits Peruvian hospital
(AP)
 AP - U.S. first lady Laura Bush is touring a region of Peru struck by an earthquake last year.
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Correction: Africa climate change story
(AP)
AP - In a Nov. 20 story about African negotiations on global warming, The Associated Press erroneously reported that China refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol. China has signed and ratified the pact, but like other developing nations was not asked to reduce its emissions under the 1997 protocol.
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UN body criticises China over 'widespread' torture allegations
(AFP)
 AFP - A UN body has expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China and called on the country to fully probe rights abuses.
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Aussie mayor wins sexist 'award' for inviting ugly women to town
(AFP)
 AFP - An Australian mayor who invited ugly women to move to his outback mining town, saying even they would find a man there, has won the top "award" for the most sexist public comment of the year.
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