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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Mon Nov 23, 3:05 pm ET
Final Singles 1. Serena Williams , United States, 9075 2. Dinara Safina , Russia, 7800 3. Svetlana Kuznetsova , Russia, 6141 4. Caroline Wozniacki , Denmark, 5875 5. Elena Dementieva , Russia, 5585 6. Venus Williams , United States, 5126 7. Victoria Azarenka , Belarus, 4820 8. Jelena Jankovic , Serbia, 3965 9. Vera Zvonareva , Russia, 3560 10. Agnieszka Radwanska , Poland, 3450 11. Marion ...
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Everett Herald - Tue Nov 24, 2:18 pm ET
GENEVA — The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS — about 33 million — has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said today.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 11:26 am ET
Tehran - A ban on the Tehran daily Hamshahri for having published a photograph of a Baha'i temple was lifted on Tuesday, ISNA news agency reported. The Iranian press watchdog had on Monday banned Hamshahri, which belongs to the Tehran municipality an...
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 11:26 am ET
Stuttgart- Manufacturer Daimler deprecated reports that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's state car is about to be sold to a rich Russian, saying Tuesday that the vehicle had been just one of a pool of government VIP cars in Berlin. A dealer representing ...
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 11:11 am ET
Berlin - Two threatened Opel automotive plants in Germany have been reprieved from the threat of closure, General Motors' (GM) European Chief Executive Nick Reilly said Tuesday. The 9,400 staff at the Bochum and Kaiserslautern plants in western Germa...
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The York Weekly - Tue Nov 24, 11:06 am ET
Talk about embarrassing hits, how 'bout the blow landed by Tollroads News editor Peter Samuel on the nose of consulting firm HNTB and the MTA, saying their York Toll Plaza plans might "waste tens of millions of dollars on building a contentious white...
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Mon Nov 23, 8:26 pm ET
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is getting used to leaving events before they end — even when he doesn't have to. Obama on Monday mistakenly left a White House ceremony honoring two activists' work in Zimbabwe.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Nov 24, 8:34 pm ET
LOS ANGELES----As part of a groundbreaking global effort to test several million people for HIV in conjunction with this year’s observation of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, December 1st, AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the largest global AIDS organization, is spearheading and coordinating the ‘Testing Millions’ campaign.
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MinnPost - Tue Nov 24, 11:17 am ET
WASHINGTON — If Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants his Latin America tour this week to deflect attention away from political repression at home, he should probably reconsider giving Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez a warm embrace when they meet in Caracas today.
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The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 8:23 am ET
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