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• Hezbollah surrenders member suspected of shooting Lebanese army chopper, reportedly by mistake

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• Ohio jury convicts mother of killing baby daughter by burning her in microwave oven

• Military's bomb tech school ramps up enrollment to cope with IEDs, still top killer in Iraq

• New Orleans plans to get tough on residents who refuse to flee ahead of Hurricane Gustav

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• Musharraf eyes comfy, but high-security retirement as Pakistan political storm moves on

• Pakistan presidential front-runner moves into government compound over security concerns

• Polish PM tries to reassure Poles living near site of planned US missile defense base

• Thai anti-governmet protesters have an agenda: roll back Western-style democracy

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• Polygamous church sues to reverse $8.8 million court judgment against property trust

• Bacteria found in well water used at Okla. restaurant linked to deadly E. coli outbreak

• Judge accepts reduced murder charge for Calif. software programmer who led cops to wife's body

• Hundreds of mink set loose from Utah farm; breeding records destroyed

• Girl playing hide-and-seek near Syracuse, NY, finds abandoned newborn baby in bushes

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• English-language newspaper in Puerto Rico closes after nearly 50 years amid labor dispute

• Gaza Palestinians arrive to Cyprus aboard protesters' blockade-defying boats

• UN chief says deploying 26,000-strong Darfur peacekeeping force will take many months

• Musharraf eyes comfy, but high-security retirement as Pakistan political storm moves on

• Palestinians remain squeezed in Iraqi 'homeland' between fear and uncertain future