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Obama orders review of airline safety procedures
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President Barack Obama has ordered a review of how U.S. intelligence organizations keep the skies safe - or don't, as demonstrated by a failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam.
China confirms Briton's execution, despite UK plea
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China brushed aside international appeals Tuesday and executed a British drug smuggler who relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into crime.
Iran accuses West of fomenting violent protests
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Iran on Tuesday accused Western countries of fomenting deadly anti-government protests in the capital this week and said it was summoning Britain's ambassador to file a complaint.
Death toll from Karachi bombing reaches 43
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Authorities appealed for calm Tuesday after a bombing against a Shiite Muslim procession killed 43 in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi, setting off riots and igniting fears of sectarian unrest.
Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV
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For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer.
Fewer law enforcement officers died on job in 2009
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Law enforcement deaths this year dropped to their lowest level since 1959, while the decade of the 2000s was among the safest for officers - despite the deadliest single day for police on Sept. 11, 2001.
Charlie Sheen's wife says that he threatened her
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Charlie Sheen's wife told police the actor pinned her on a bed, put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her in a Christmas Day fight in Aspen that began when she said she wanted a divorce.
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