AP - An early season wildfire slowly chewed its way through dense brush near Los Angeles on Sunday, forcing more than 1,000 people from homes in the foothills.
Hundreds flee wildfire burning in foothills near Los Angeles (AP)
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California wildfire forces 1,000 to evacuate (Reuters)
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Reuters - A wildfire that began along a
popular hiking trail forced 1,000 people to evacuate their
homes in the hills northeast of Los Angeles on Sunday,
officials said.
Gene therapy experiments improve vision in nearly blind (AP)
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AP - Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development experts called a major advance for the experimental technique.
Scholars run down more clues to a Holocaust mystery (AP)
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AP - Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car.
Militants strike Green Zone as sandstorm hits Baghdad (AFP)
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AFP - Militiamen bombarded the heavily fortified Baghdad Green Zone under cover of a heavy sandstorm on Sunday as a hardline Iraqi Shiite group rejected government conditions to end the fighting.
Obama says race not an issue in election (Reuters)
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Reuters - Barack Obama, struggling to win over
more white Democratic voters, said in a Sunday television
interview race would not be a factor in November’s election
that could make him the first black U.S. president.
Baghdad Green Zone blasted under cover of storm (Reuters)
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Reuters - Militants bombarded Baghdad’s Green
Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a
blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in
weeks on the fortified compound.
Afghan president escapes deadly parade attack, three killed (AFP)
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AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unharmed Sunday after militants attacked a high-profile military parade with rockets and gunfire, killing three people including an MP and wounding around 10.
Abbas downbeat on prospects for Mideast peace (Reuters)
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Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came
away disappointed from talks in Washington on
Israeli-Palestinian peace and is pessimistic about prospects
for a deal this year, aides said on Sunday.
Karzai escapes assassination bid (Reuters)
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Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped
unhurt on Sunday from an assassination attempt by Taliban
fighters who fired guns and rockets at an official celebration
near the presidential palace in Kabul.