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| 1 |  | Egyptian intelligence chief in Israel for talks
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 AP - Egypt dispatched its powerful intelligence chief to Israel on Monday in an attempt to mediate an end to months of violence in the Gaza Strip, but Israeli leaders said there would be no truce unless Gaza militants release an Israeli soldier they have held captive for nearly two years.
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| 2 | | CORRECTED: MBIA posts huge loss on credit derivatives
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Reuters - MBIA Inc , the world's largest
bond insurer, posted a quarterly loss of $2.4 billion on Monday
as it took charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds
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| 3 | | US flight arrives, but UN says Myanmar too slow
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 AFP - The United States sent its first aid flight to Myanmar on Monday, but experts warned the relief effort was floundering and 1.5 million cyclone survivors were at grave risk from hunger and disease.
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| 4 | | Obama heading to Michigan and Florida
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 AP - Barack Obama's surging presidential campaign announced Monday that he will visit politically neglected Florida and Michigan, as he focuses on a general election strategy with his primary race winding down.
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| 5 | | Sendler, savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies
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 Reuters - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved
thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling
them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on
Monday after a long illness, local media said.
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| 6 | | Powerful quake kills thousands in southwest China
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 AFP - A massive earthquake stunned southwest China on Monday, killing more than 8,000 people and flattening schools, factories and homes in a powerful tremor that was felt across a swathe of southeast Asia.
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| 7 | | Sprint affiliate sues to block Clearwire deal
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AP - An affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp., iPCS Inc., said Monday it is seeking to block Sprint from forming a wireless broadband company with Clearwire Corp. |
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| 8 | | Death toll in China earthquake rises to 8,533
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 AP - A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 8,500 people, trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school and spilling ammonia from a chemical plant, state media reported.
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| 9 | | EPA testing air after twister in toxic Okla. town
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 AP - The Environmental Protection Agency was preparing to conduct air and soil tests to check for high lead levels Monday after a deadly tornado blew through Picher, a town so polluted with lead-filled mining waste that it's a Superfund site.
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| 10 | | Obama, Clinton look to West Virginia
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 AP - Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were preparing for Tuesday's primary in West Virginia, a contest that Clinton is heavily favored to win but which likely won't dent Obama's almost insurmountable lead in the delegate count.
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