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at 19:52 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
VIENNA, Austria - Iran pressed ahead with plans that will increase its ability to make nuclear weapons as it formally informed the U.N. nuclear agency of its intention to enrich uranium to higher levels.
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at 6:36 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea warned South Korea that any attempt to bring down the communist country would draw "strong measures" from its military, a threat issued Monday even as Pyongyang embarked on a flurry of diplomacy with Seoul, Washington and Beijing.
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at 12:27 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
LAHORE, Pakistan - Authorities arrested six suspected Taliban militants with a suicide vest and hand grenades allegedly on their way Monday to attack a five-star hotel and kill Americans in Pakistan's cultural capital, said police.
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at 18:55 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
CAIRO, Egypt - The No. 2 leader of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures were arrested by police Monday in a dawn sweep targeting members of the nation's most powerful opposition group.
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at 21:10 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
NEW YORK - A graphic designer accused of surreptitiously killing a series of his girlfriend's cats pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated animal cruelty, ending an eerie case in which authorities said the unsuspecting woman kept replacing her dying pets.
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at 12:28 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
BEIJING - A bus collided with a sport utility vehicle Monday and plunged down a mountain ravine in southern China, killing seven people and injuring 50, state media reported.
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at 11:29 on February 7, 2010, EDT.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The old mullah fingers the orange and red beads as a visitor looks over a sheet of paper he has been handed.
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at 15:43 on February 7, 2010, EDT.
WASHINGTON - Residents of the U.S. capital and Mid-Atlantic states Sunday began digging out through piles of wet, heavy snow in below-freezing temperatures while power crews tried to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and clear streets for the commute on Monday.
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at 22:32 on February 7, 2010, EDT.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Ex-President Nestor Kirchner, husband of Argentina's current leader and a hopeful to resume the office, emerged successfully from emergency surgery on a key artery to his brain Sunday, his doctors said.
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at 18:18 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
JERUSALEM - The women tattooed his name and portrait on their bodies and gave their children his name - Saviour.
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