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A masked protester stands in front of burning rubbish yesterday in Tehran. Following recent unrest in the wake of the disputed presidential elections, demonstrators were met by force and tear gas rounds fired by Iranian police and Basij militia as they defied government warnings not to stage a march to mark the 10-year anniversary of bloody student unrest at Tehran University.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Violent clashes erupted yesterday in downtown Tehran between thousands of defiant protesters chanting "Death to the dictator" and security forces wielding truncheons, as the political crisis over Iran's disputed presidential election stretched into its fourth week. (Today)
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The new, leaner GM rolls off bankruptcy court's assembly line
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Despite a last-minute appeal, a judge's order went into effect yesterday allowing General Motors Corp. to emerge from bankruptcy a streamlined, efficient and largely debt-free company. (Today)
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A vendor in central Accra folds T-shirts commemorating President Barack Obama's visit today.
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ACCRA, Ghana -- As Ghana prepares to receive President Barack Obama today in his first presidential visit to a sub-Saharan country, Ghanaians say the world ought to see the country for more than its political strides in achieving good governance, but also for its diversity. (Today)
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House Democrats, White House at odds over CIA briefings
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WASHINGTON -- House Democrats were working yesterday to avert a showdown with President Barack Obama and the CIA over who in Congress should receive sensitive information on the agency's covert activities. (Today)
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A man kneels over a grave at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. Police suspect upwards to 300 graves could have been dug up in the historic cemetery over the last several years and the bodies dumped in the back of the cemetery so the graves could be resold by the cemetery management.
4 Ill. cemetery workers accused in grisly plot
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ALSIP, Ill. -- Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said yesterday. All four were charged with felonies. (Today)
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