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Iraq gov't and Mahdi Army confront Shiites
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BAGHDAD - Shiite militiamen are everywhere. Police and Iraqi army checkpoints are nowhere in sight. U.S. soldiers are keeping their distance. Sadr City - the Baghdad nerve center for the powerful Mahdi Army - is suddenly back on edge as the militia leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, and Iraq's government lock in a dangerous confrontation over clout and control among the nation's majority Shiites.
Scientists dig up bone of oldest human ancestor
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MADRID, Spain - A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. The researchers said the fossil found last year at Atapuerca in northern Spain, along with stone tools and animal bones, is up to 1.
Tensions still tight in Tibet as journalists visit
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HASA, China - Nearly two weeks after anti-Chinese riots and an ensuing crackdown, helmeted paramilitary police with batons checked identification papers in Lhasa's old Tibetan quarter Tuesday, even as the government said the city was returning to normal. The first group of foreign journalists allowed into the Tibetan capital since soon after the riots got an often carefully monitored glimpse of a city divided.
U.S. accidentally ships missile fuses to Taiwan
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BEIJING (AP) - Yesterday China strongly protested the U.S. military's mistaken delivery to Taiwan of intercontinental ballistic missile electrical fuses. The nation demanding an investigation and steps to "eliminate the negative effects and disastrous consequences.
