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AP - Israel’s powerful foreign minister declared Thursday that there is no chance of reaching a final accord with the Palestinians any time soon, casting a pall over the U.S. Mideast envoy’s latest effort to get peace talks moving again.

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Israeli foreign minister: No chance for peace deal
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AFP - Poland’s eurosceptic president will sign the European Union’s Lisbon treaty on Sunday, a senior official said Thursday, making ratification in the Czech Republic the last major hurdle for the treaty.

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Poland to sign EU’s Lisbon treaty Sunday: ministry
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Reuters - A combative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, said on Thursday he would keep governing with “even more grit” after Italy’s top court lifted his immunity and said he would show that corruption charges against him were “laughable.”

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Berlusconi vows to stay, tension worries analysts
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Reuters - A U.S. Senate Finance Committee health plan would cost $829 billion and cut the budget deficit by $81 billion over 10 years, nonpartisan budget analysts said on Wednesday in a report that could bolster President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform drive.

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Senate health bill costs pegged at $829 billion
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AP - Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells — a feat that has spurred the development of antibiotics.

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2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize
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AP - The fever has broken. The patient is out of intensive care. But if you’re President Barack Obama, you can’t stop pacing the waiting room.

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AP Poll: Health care overhaul has a pulse
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AFP - North Korea said Tuesday it is willing to return to six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations but only on condition it first holds talks with the United States to improve relations.

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NKorea willing to return to nuclear talks
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AP - An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior al-Qaida operative, intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.

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Sources: Terror suspect contacted senior al-Qaida
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AP - Flanked by heavily armed fighters, the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban sat on a blue blanket, amiable and relaxed as he cracked jokes and mixed in threats of vengeance for deadly U.S. airstrikes

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Pakistan Taliban head cracks jokes, vows vengeance
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AP - Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin — revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb — and say the experiment proves the relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday.

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Italian group claims to debunk Shroud of Turin
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