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Most Santa Barbara fire evacuations being lifted
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Thousands of evacuees were told they could go home Saturday as a blanket of cool, moist air flowing in from the ocean brought a dramatic change, taming the wind-driven wildfire that had burned 80 homes along the outskirts …
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Gunships and planes strike Pakistan Taliban in Swat
Reuters
By Junaid Khan MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships and warplanes hit Taliban positions in the militants' Swat Valley stronghold on Saturday, while a curfew prevented civilians from fleeing the fighting.
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EDITORIAL: Nepal's Maoist double-cross
Washington Times
By | Thursday, May 7, 2009 So the chairman of Nepal's Maoist radicals brags that he and his fellow-travellers tricked United Nations officials and admits that the 2006 peace deal was a sham - and gets caught on videotape doing it.
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