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at 10:58 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
L'AQUILA, Italy - The U.N. chief sharply rebuked the Group of Eight leaders on Thursday for failing to make more commitments to reducing climate change in the near term, saying they must do so if the heavily polluting developing world is to follow suit.
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at 19:17 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
ALSIP, Illinois - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies.
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at 9:20 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
L'AQUILA, Italy - President Barack Obama and his G-8 summit partners held tense discussions Thursday about how both rich and emerging nations can live up to new clean-climate goals adopted by leading industrialized nations.
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at 6:26 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
JERUSALEM - There is no Palestinian leadership, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest advisers declared in a report published Thursday, raising new questions about how Israel intends to proceed with efforts to renew stalled peace talks.
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at 21:46 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
URUMQI, China - A Chinese official says that mosques in riot-hit Urumqi have been ordered to stay closed for Friday prayers in the wake of ethnic violence that left 156 dead, and another city in Xinjiang province has suspended visits by foreigners.
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at 18:10 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
L'AQUILA, Italy - Michelle Obama and other first spouses toured the centre of L'Aquila on Thursday to see the destruction wrought by an earthquake in the Italian city hosting world leaders for the Group of Eight summit this week.
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at 16:51 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
BAGHDAD - Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents.
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at 23:37 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Talks to resolve the leadership crisis in Honduras began without a breakthrough Thursday, as both rivals emerged from meetings with a mediator showing no signs of relinquishing their claims to the presidency following a divisive coup.
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at 14:52 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
KABUL - A truck filled with explosives that police believe may have been destined for Kabul blew up on a highway Thursday, killing 25 people - more than half of them children walking to school. Two American soldiers died in combat as the U.S. military reported the number of roadside bombs in Afghanistan last month was nearly three times the figure for Iraq.
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at 7:09 on July 9, 2009, EDT.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will allow the some 2 million people who fled an army offensive against the Taliban in the Swat Valley area to return home beginning next week, the prime minister announced Thursday, saying the region was now secure and essential services had been restored.
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