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In Ghana 9 Nigerians were sentenced to 5 years each for faking e-mails and letters, including one from the Ghanaian president, to dupe a Frenchman out of $185,000.
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The British military decided to pull Prince Harry out of Afghanistan "immediately" after news of his deployment leaked out in foreign media.
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China agreed to release sensitive records about missing US soldiers and establish a hot line to the Pentagon.
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France and energy-hungry South Africa signed three economic accords, including one for the construction of a 1.36-billion euro coal-fuelled power plant by French energy giant Alstom.
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The Ninth US circuit Court of appeals ruled that the US Navy must protect endangered whales from the potentially lethal effects of underwater sonar during anti-submarine training off the Southern California coast, rejecting Pres. Bush’s attempt to exempt the exercises from environmental laws.
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A divided Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the nation's first felony conviction for illegal spamming, ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming law does not violate free-speech rights.
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In southern Afghanistan Taliban militants blew up a telecommunications tower following a warning to phone companies to shut down the towers at night or face attack.
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Algerian security forces chased some 30 Islamic insurgents planting roadside bombs back into their refuge east of the Algiers.
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In Brazil police killed six alleged drug gang members in Rio de Janeiro, while a bodyguard for the state security chief was shot dead what appeared to be an attempted robbery.
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At the annual TED conference in Monterey, Ca., writer Dave Eggers, cosmologist Neil Turok and religious scholar Karen Armstrong received awards and then made wishes to the TED community. Eggers wished that community members engage a local school and seek transformative change.
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