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• US swine flu death clears border crossing near Texas
  

  MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's congested border into Brownsville, Texas, was un..

• PRESS DIGEST - Canada - April 30
  

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• Medicare dialysis pay change seen hitting blacks
  

  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed changes to its dialys..

• Music is the star of Bela Fleck's heritage tour
  

  NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A number of Western musicians, most famously Paul Simon..

• PRESS DIGEST - Turkey - April 29
  

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  - A legislative package changing 20 articles in the Turkish constitu..

• Obama's many challenges overshadow Africa
  

  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Despite the joy and high expectations inspired across Africa by Bar..

• Deadly Mexico flu outbreak scares away tourists
  

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• Relaxed and improved Hatton predicts win over Pacquiao
  

  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Britain's Ricky Hatton confidently predicted victory in his IBO l..

• PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - April 29
  

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  The government looks set to make..

• Pontiac RIP: storied brand falls victim to crisis
  

  DETROIT (Reuters) - After 83 years of storied history and with a huge following for its..

• Obesity becoming US civil rights issue for some
  

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kate Harding has spent most of her life on one diet or another, lo..

• Clinton urges Iraqis to overcome divisions
  

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Saturday urged Iraqis to ov..

• Saudi Arabia mulls allowing women to vote -papers
  

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• Pedro Almodovar on "Verge" of new series
  

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar is v..

• WRAPUP 2-Left set to win election in crisis-hit Iceland
  

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  * Government parties split on ..

• Rates of preventive mastectomy rising in US
  

  The rate of so-called "contralateral prophylactic mastectomy" surgery among U.S. women ..

• Tarantino back in Cannes with Almodovar, Campion
  

  PARIS (Reuters) - Quentin Tarantino returns to Cannes as part of a group of familiar fa..

• "Banker to the poor" gives New York women a boost
  

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, known as the "banker to t..

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