Cruise ship victims mull $14460 compensation deal
USA TODAY
ROME (AP) – How much is it worth to suffer through a terrifying cruise ship grounding? By Pier Paolo Cito, AP Italian firefighters approach the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia on Friday off the Tuscan island of Giglio. By Pier Paolo Cito, …
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Accused Utah school bomb plotter said inspired by Columbine
Chicago Tribune
ROY, Utah (Reuters) – One of two Utah teenagers accused of plotting to set off a bomb at a school assembly was inspired by the 1999 Columbine massacre in Colorado and visited the high school there to interview its principal, authorities said in court …
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France, Karzai want faster NATO Afghanistan exit
USA TODAY
PARIS (AP) – France and Afghanistan agree NATO should speed up by a year its timetable for handing all combat operations to Afghan forces in 2013, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, raising new questions about the unity of the Western military …
France will speed up troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by one yearWashington Post
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Romney versus Gingrich
MiamiHerald.com
By The Miami Herald Editorial Florida's Republican Primary has turned into a classic political donnybrook that upends the expectations of those who twice counted out Newt Gingrich and saw Mitt Romney as the inevitable winner.
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