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Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them
3:15PM CT
LONDON (AP) - A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soon.
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Afghan police are weak link in security force
3:23PM CT
KABUL (AP) - Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.
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6 world powers press Iran on nuclear issue
1:21PM CT
BRUSSELS (AP) - Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.
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Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them
2:34PM CT
LONDON (AP) - A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soon.
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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
3:00PM CT
ROME (AP) - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday.
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Indian boy mirrors plight of millions of kids
6:30AM CT
NEW DELHI (AP) - Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.
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Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
3:23PM CT
COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) - Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
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Gates: US to do its part to slow Afghan corruption
2:38PM CT
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) - The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
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