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Pilot blinded by stroke is guided safely to ground (AP)

The aircraft belonging to British pilot Jim O'Neill, who lost his sight mid-flight and safely landed with assistance from the Royal Air Force, is seen on the tarmac at a RAF base near York, England, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. O'Neill who suffered a stroke and lost his sight mid-flight was talked safely down to the ground by a military pilot, the Royal Air Force said Friday. (AP Photo/PA, Anna Gowthorpe)AP - A British pilot who was suddenly blinded by a stroke during a solo flight was talked safely down by a military pilot, the Royal Air Force said Friday.



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Monks brawl at Christian holy site in Jerusalem (AP)

Israeli police scuffle with an Armenian monk next to the site traditionally believed to be the tomb of Jesus Christ at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. A brawl  erupted between rival monks at one of Christianity's holiest sites, and Israeli police  detained two clergymen for questioning. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.



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USGS: 6.5-magnitude quake strikes northwest China (AP)

AP - A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck remote northwestern China on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Accident on Russian nuclear sub suffocates 20 (AP)

The Nerpa (Seal), one of Russia's Shchuka (Pike) class (NATO reporting name: Akula) nuclear submarines, on board which at least 20 people were killed in an accident, seen heading to a Russia's Pacific Fleet base, about 6,400 km (4,000 miles) east of Moscow, shortly after the accident in this image made from television Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. The fire safety system on aboard The Nerpa malfunctioned on a test run in the Sea of Japan, spewing chemicals that killed at least 20 people and injured 21 others, officials said Sunday. The submarine itself was not damaged and traveled back to its base on Russia's Pacific coast under its own power Sunday, Russian navy said. (AP Photo/NTV Russian Channel)AP - The fire safety system on a brand-new Russian nuclear submarine accidentally turned on as the sub was being tested in the Sea of Japan, spewing a gas that suffocated 20 people and sent 21 others to the hospital, officials said Sunday.



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China announces $586 billion stimulus plan (AP)

A man walks past buildings on the city skyline in Shanghai, China, Tuesday Oct. 21, 2008. In the foreground is the Shanghai World Financial Center, and at left the Jinmao Tower. China's economy expanded by just 9 percent in the third quarter, its most sluggish pace in five years. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - China unveiled a $586 billion stimulus package Sunday in its biggest move to inoculate the world's fourth-largest economy against the global financial crisis.



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French say 'Yes, we can!' too, to ending racism (AP)

In this file photo dated Sept. 12, 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, are seen at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Inspired by Barack Obama's election, France's first lady and other leading figures are urging an end to racist discrimination in French politics and society. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)AP - Inspired by Barack Obama, the French first lady and other leading figures say it's high time for France to stamp out racism and shake up a white political and social elite that smacks of colonial times.



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Bomb attacks kill 8, wound dozens across Iraq (AP)

An Iraqi policeman examines a car bomb that was detonated by US military bomb technicians before it reached its target in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. Police said the would-be bombers were arrested on the scene. (AP Photo/ Emad Matti)AP - Bombs killed at least eight people Sunday across Iraq and wounded dozens of others, officials said. Syria's president blamed the U.S. military presence for Iraq's instability and called on U.S. troops to leave.



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Report: Peru to sue Yale for Inca artifacts (AP)

AP - Peru has reportedly approved a plan to sue Yale for thousands of Inca artifacts excavated by a U.S. scholar at Machu Picchu.
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Germany, Israel mark 70 years since Kristallnacht (AP)

The Jan 19, 2008 file photo shows an exterior view of the 'Neue Synagoge' (New Synagoge) in Berlin.  On Nov. 9, 1938 Nazi-incited mass riots left more than 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted.   (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, FILE)AP - "We must not be silent" about condemning anti-Semitism, German chancellor Angela Merkel declared Sunday as Germany and Israel commemorated the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.



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French scientists discover new species of gecko (AP)

French scientist Ivan Ineich displays a never-before-seen species of gecko, baptised with the latin name Lepidodactylus buleli, at France's Natural History Museum in Paris, Friday, Nov. 7 , 2008. This gecko was born in Paris from an egg that was plucked from the canopy of forest on the west coast of Espiritu Santo, one of the larger South Pacific islands of the archipellago of Vanuatu, east of Australia. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - French scientists say they hatched a new gecko species from an egg plucked from its nest in a South Pacific island and carried it 12,000 miles to Paris in a box lined with Kleenex.



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In food crisis, Mexican valley offers lessons (AP)

A man pauses while working a corn field near Ciudad Obregon, northern Mexico Oct. 7, 2008. After the pioneering agronomist, Norman E. Borlaug, introduced his 'green revolution' of hardier seeds and chemicals in this region more than 60 years ago, he was credited with saving hundreds of millions from starvation worldwide. Today, in a global food crisis of lagging productivity and punishing prices, world leaders are calling for a second revolution, but it wont be that easy this time, experts say.(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - On the walls of some farmhouses here, a photo of a one-time Iowa farm boy hangs along with a portrait of the pope. The American long ago wrought a kind of miracle in the wheat fields of this valley, one that today's world hungers for anew.



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Poland condemns lawmaker's anti-Obama slur (AP)

AP - Poland's Foreign Ministry has condemned a conservative lawmaker who called U.S. president-elect Barack Obama the "black messiah of the new left" and said his victory marks the "end of the civilization of the white man."
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Doctors fight cholera oubreak in eastern Congo (AP)

An old man get suffering from cholera gets treatment at a Doctors without Borders clinic, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008 in Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. Doctors without Borders have treated 45 cases of cholera in Kibati since Friday.Congo's neighbors are calling for a cease-fire so humanitarian aid can reach victims of fighting in the African country's east.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)AP - Doctors struggled Sunday to contain an outbreak of cholera in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, as renewed fighting ignited fears that patients could scatter and launch an epidemic.



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