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Few answers in base bloodshed

Neighbors, friends say suspect said goodbye days before attack

An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment and left a phone message saying goodbye to a friend in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, neighbors said Friday.
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Stymied, 5 leave Holocaust project

Key members of an Austrian Holocaust research center have quit in a dispute with the city’s Jewish community.
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2 foods off rations list

Subsidies gone for peas, potatoes; Cubans fume

Cuba has cut two staple foods from the monthly ration books that most islanders depend on, edging closer to a risky full elimination of the decades-old subsidies.
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Polish hero of Revolution now citizen

Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American citizen Friday, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died fighting for the as yet-unborn United States.
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Israel discounts war-crimes step

Israel said Friday that a U.N. General Assembly decision to endorse a report accusing the Jewish state of war crimes lacked the support of the world’s “moral majority.”
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Aunt: Hasan no fighter

He was taunted about religion, wanted out of Army, she says

He prayed every day at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Md., and had sought for several years to be discharged from the U.S. Army, according to his aunt, but was on the eve of his first deployment to war.
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Pakistan gunmen attack army officer

Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on the car of an army brigadier in Islamabad on Friday morning, the third such drive-by attack against senior military officers in 15 days.
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The world in brief

QUOTE OF THE DAY “If the government fails to meet these five tests, it will have not only failed its own people, it will have forfeited its right to international support.” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, threatening to withhold British troops from Afghanistan if the government did not make improvements in five key areas, including combating corruption.
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China-India tensions seen in Tibetan’s trip

This remote town in the Himalayan foothills spruced up its monasteries Friday to prepare for the Dalai Lama’s arrival, a trip highlighting the friction between China and India — two nuclear-armed giants vying for economic and political power in the region.
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Britain scolds Afghan leaders

Brown threatens to withhold additional troops over corruption

Facing surging public opposition to the war in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the government in Kabul, threatening to withhold additional British troops if it did not act swiftly to combat widespread corruption.
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The nation in brief

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I cannot comprehend that the enemy was among us.” Jose Padilla, the owner of an apartment complex lived in by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13
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Honduran deal shaky, but U.S. hopes to save it

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a deal that could have returned him to power is defunct. Interim President Roberto Micheletti said the same deal has been successfully accomplished.
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1 dead, 5 hurt in office shooting

Orlando suspect reportedly says he did it ‘because they left me to rot’

A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, killing one person and injuring five, authorities said.
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Louisiana seizes ACORN offices’ computers, files

State investigators raided ACORN offices Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into allegations of embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization’s national headquarters was based in New Orleans.
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Washington voters OK gay-rights law

Washington voters have approved the state’s new “everything but marriage” law, expanding rights for domestic partners and marking the first time any state’s voters have approved a homosexual equality measure at the ballot box.
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