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PERU-ELECTION
LIMA, Peru â€" Leftist Ollanta Humala's narrow victory in a bitterly fought presidential runoff with the daughter of a disgraced president reflects the deep disaffection of Peru's poor, who feel left out of a decade-long economic boom from mineral extraction. By Frank Bajak.
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US-IMF LEADER-ASSAULT
NEW YORK â€" Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund leader charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid, is due to answer the charges Monday in a New York City court. He is expected to plead not guilty. By Jennifer Peltz.
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Developing from 1330 GMT.
US-MUMBAI ATTACKS-TRIAL
CHICAGO â€" His words were the most highly anticipated in the trial: An admitted American terrorist who could offer up disturbing testimony alleging how Pakistani intelligence and an Islamic militant group orchestrated a deadly 2008 rampage on India's largest city. By Sophia Tareen.
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Trial resumes at 1430 GMT, with prosecutors expected to call their final witness.
US-BLAGOJEVICH TRIAL
CHICAGO â€" The biggest test of Rod Blagojevich's gift of gab and ability to explain away corruption charges may come down to how the ousted Illinois governor responds to a resumption of unrelenting cross-examination by prosecutors Monday. The cross could last more than a day. By Michael Tarm.
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VENEZUELA-US
CARACAS, Venezuela â€" Venezuela's relations with Washington are frozen and the government sees no possibility of improving them after the U.S. put sanctions on the country's state oil company, its top diplomat says. By Patricia Rondon Espin.
UN-SECRETARY-GENERAL-NEW TERM
UNITED NATIONS â€" The worst kept secret at the United Nations is that Ban Ki-moon wants a second term as secretary-general and will almost certainly get it, possibly this month. As he travels the world, working behind the scenes and publicly to help defuse crises and push for action on issues like climate change and women's rights, Ban has also been quietly lobbying for support from the 192 U.N. member states for a second five-year term. By Edith M. Lederer.
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HAITI-FLOODING
THOMAZEAU, Haiti â€" The Haitian government and international aid groups evacuate more than 50 families to dry land after the Caribbean country's largest lake overflows from days of heavy rains. By Ramon Espinosa.
US-NYC ISRAEL PARADE
NEW YORK â€" New York's Fifth Avenue was awash in the blue and white of the Israeli flag for the Celebrate Israel Parade, whose mood reflected rising tensions in the Mideast this year. "We've always been saying, we're ready to negotiate," said Yuli Yoel Edelstein, Israel's minister of information and diaspora, and grand marshal of this year's march. "But the Palestinians have a unilateral approach; this is not the way you reach statehood." By Verena Dobnik.
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CHILE-VOLCANO
SANTIAGO, Chile â€" A volcano in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile erupts for a second day, shooting out pumice stones and pluming a cloud of ash six miles high and three miles wide. By Eva Vergara. AP Photos.
US-HAWAII-FREEWAY SHOOTING
HONOLULU â€" A 28-year-old man was charged with murder and attempted murder in a freeway shooting rampage in Hawaii that left one woman dead and two people injured, officials said.
US-ARIZONA WILDFIRES
GREER, Arizona â€" A 225-square-mile (583-square-kilometer) blaze that has grown into the third-largest in Arizona's history covered a mountain vacation town in a smoky fog as wind blew smoke from the burning pine forest well into the nearby states of New Mexico and Colorado.
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US-INTERNET NARCOTICS
ALBANY, New York â€" Two U.S. senators said they will ask federal authorities to crack down on a secretive narcotics market operated on the Internet with anonymous sales and untraceable currency. Heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines are among the drugs being sold in the well-protected website apparently operating for just a few months. By Michael Gormley.
US-SKIN CANCER
CHICAGO â€" Two novel drugs produced unprecedented gains in survival in separate studies of people with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, doctors reported. In one study, an experimental drug showed so much benefit so quickly in people with advanced disease that those getting a comparison drug were allowed to switch after just a few months.
The drug, vemurafenib, targets a gene mutation found in about half of all melanomas. The second study tested Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s Yervoy, a just-approved medicine for newly diagnosed melanoma patients, and found it nearly doubled the number who survived at least three years. By Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione.
US-HOT FLASHES-FLAXSEED
CHICAGO â€" Women looking for a natural remedy for a common menopause problem will be disappointed by a new study that found that eating flaxseed does not curb hot flashes. By Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione.
US-CELLPHONES AND CANCER
NEW YORK â€" News last week that an arm of the World Health Organization said cellphones might raise the risk of brain cancer has been greeted by Americans mostly with a shrug of the shoulder â€" one that's pinning a cellphone to the ear. Google searches for "cancer" and "cellphones" spiked this week. And some people vowed to get headsets to shield themselves from radiation. But most seemed to either dismiss the warning as too vague, or reason that if the most useful device in modern life poses a slight health risk, then so be it. By Technology Writer Peter Svensson.
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US-OBIT-DISNEY LEGENDS
ANAHEIM, California â€" They shared a stage at Disneyland five days a week for nearly three decades and died within a day of each other. Betty Taylor, who played Slue Foot Sue in Disney's long-running Golden Horseshoe Revue, passed away Saturday â€" one day after the death of Wally Boag, who played her character's sweetheart, Pecos Bill. By Christopher Weber.
BUSINESS
LATIN AMERICA-CHINA MOVES IN
CARACAS, Venezuela â€" Latin America is blessed with a wealth of natural resources like oil, copper and soy, and seeks investment and loans to capitalize on them. China needs the commodities to keep its economy growing and has about $3 trillion to burn. Those interests have come together in a burgeoning and unorthodox partnership. By Ian James.
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US-WHITE HOUSE-ECONOMY
WASHINGTON â€" A top White House economic adviser says the upward tilt over the past six months in new jobs is a better indicator of the U.S. employment picture than a gloomy report that warned of slow growth ahead.
US-DEBT STAKES-ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON â€" The threat of a first-ever default by the federal government is pushing President Barack Obama and Republicans toward a sweeping agreement to cut government spending and increase the Treasury's borrowing authority. Yet a perennial partisan struggle over the Medicare program for seniors' health care drives them apart. By Special Correspondent David Espo.
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US-GAMES-E3-PREVIEW
LOS ANGELES â€" Almost six years ago at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo unveiled what would eventually become known as the Wii. But the Japanese gaming giant didn't show off the new console's distinctive motion-sensing capabilities until later that year at the Tokyo Game Show. Nintendo won't be such a tease at this year's E3. By Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang.
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US-MILITARY-PRICE OF PROGRESS
JALALABAD, Afghanistan â€" The soldiers of the U.S. Army's famed 101st Airborne Division deployed to Afghanistan confident their counterinsurgency expertise would once again turn a surge strategy into a success but are headed home uncertain of lasting changes on the battlefield.
As the division's 24,000 soldiers return to Fort Campbell from their one-year deployment, doubts remain in the military that security in Afghanistan can last without a significant U.S. military presence for years. The division brought effective counterinsurgency lessons from Iraq, but is still waiting to see whether those strategies can take hold in Afghanistan. By Kristin M. Hall.
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US-SAVING THE MUSIC
CHICAGO â€" The seventh grader practices her violin anywhere she can â€" even on the back porch in her poor neighborhood, where the notes reverberate off apartment buildings that line the alley. She hopes hard work in her public school orchestra will help her win a place in a good high school and later in college. Her principal at the Lafayette Specialty School knows the impact music education can have, especially for disadvantaged students â€" but in these lean times it's becoming harder to maintain funding. Across the country, music education has been cut or delayed, stirring protests. At Lafayette school, those trying to raise funds know they need to get creative, just like the musicians. By Martha Irvine.
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