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'); document.write(''); document.write('BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court on Monday sentenced to three years in prison a veteran dissident who had criticized the government\'s response to a 2008 earthquake that killed about 90,000 people.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('PARK FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian man was in stable condition Monday after being slashed across the abdomen and face by a kangaroo that was holding his dog underwater.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia\'s Sumatra island Monday to search for 21 passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm. Officials say 254 survivors were pulled from the sea and at least 29 other people drowned.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Lorena Ochoa and Jiyai Shin will settle their duel for LPGA Tour player of the year on the final, frantic day of the season.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('Lawyer says 9/11 defendants will plead not guilty so they can express their political views
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'); document.write(''); document.write('LONDON (AP) — Police and army experts say they\'re urgently checking the safety of about 1,800 bridges in northern England amid some of the worst storms ever recorded in Britain.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive \"dumbos\" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('LONDON (AP) — A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month\'s global climate summit in Denmark.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Turning off lights, turning down the heat and buying with an eye toward energy efficiency is saving New York more than $3.1 million so far this fiscal year.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people have died, officials said. Search operations were called off after nightfall for the unknown number of passengers still missing.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('A low-pressure system that has lingered in the Gulf of Mexico the past few days, bringing rain to the Gulf Coast, was expected to finally move inland into the Southeast on Sunday. This was likely to translate to widespread rain and even a few thunderstorms in the area even as the system weakens while moving toward the Southeast coast.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he\'s a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
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