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•Ike blasts Turks and Caicos, floods Haiti again
by By BEN FOX
16 minutes ago
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) -- Ike ripped off roofs, sank boats and blocked the road for aid to reach a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba prepared for a direct hit....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
•Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf
by By BRIAN SKOLOFF
19 minutes ago
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
•Biden: Protect taxpayers in mortgage rescue
by By ALAN ZIBEL
23 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Joe Biden says the government's rescue of the big mortgage companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should not mean bailing out shareholders at the expense of taxpayers....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
•Iraqi police: Roadside bombs wound 14 in Baghdad
by By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
33 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A series of roadside bombs wounded at least 14 people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
•Workers clear path to access Cairo rock fall site
36 minutes ago
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian workers cut through a railway embankment on Sunday to bring heavy earth-moving equipment to the site of a rock fall which killed at least 31 people in a Cairo shantytown.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35
by By RIAZ KHAN
38 minutes ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
•Iran to hold presidential election in June 2009
42 minutes ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will hold its 2009 presidential election on June 12, when conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is widely expected to stand for a second four-year term despite criticism over his economic policies.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•South Korea may resume food aid to North
56 minutes ago
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A South Korean official Sunday announced his government is considering resuming food aid to North Korea.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•NYPD officer sues over Segway accident
59 minutes ago
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- As many cities consider putting police on Segway PT scooters, a New York police officer has filed suit, saying the gizmo ended his career.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Passenger fight causes JetBlue diversion
1 hour ago
BOSTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Federal officials say a JetBlue flight out of Boston had to be diverted when a fight broke out between brothers.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
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