AFP - Voting ended Sunday in Ghana's presidential polls, but amid mutual accusations of intimidation and fraud in an election that observers still hope will serve as a positive example for the continent.
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AP - A single-file line of school children walked past a military checkpoint Sunday as a bomb-loaded truck veered toward them and exploded, ending the lives of 14 young Afghans in a heartbreaking flash captured by a U.S. military security camera.
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AP - A top adviser to President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that the country's slowing economy won't keep the new administration from fulfilling its plans for a middle-class tax cut.
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AP - Midwesterners got ready for the possibility of flooding Sunday as runoff from heavy rain and melting snowbanks bloated streams, and high wind caused new power outages for thousands in Michigan.
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AP - Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door.
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Reuters - A suicide bomber killed six people, including four children, and wounded 36 others in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost on Sunday, a provincial official said.
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Reuters - An Iraqi court on Sunday opened a new trial against Tareq Aziz and the man known as 'Chemical Ali,' right-hand men to Saddam Hussein, on charges of crushing opposition from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawa party.
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Reuters - At least 30 people were killed in a suicide car bomb blast at a polling station in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, during a by-election for a provincial assembly seat, police said.
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Reuters - Britain's Gordon Brown will use his New Year address to call for a "coalition for change" with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in a speech intended as a rallying call to Britons.
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Reuters - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama was without electricity for 12 hours at his vacation home on Oahu after a suspected lightning strike blacked out Hawaii's most populous island, an aide said on Saturday.
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