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- Bhutto's return to Pakistan is all set
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced yesterday that she would return from self-imposed exile on Oct. 18 to run in parliamentary elections that could make her prime minister for a third time.
- Parole reform to target low-risk ex-convicts
SACRAMENTO – Thousands of nonviolent ex-convicts could soon be freed from supervision after six months of parole instead of the usual three years under a policy aimed at finding those least likely to commit new crimes, prison officials said yesterday.
- Construction exec names Alaska senator
WASHINGTON – A former energy company executive testified yesterday that his employees worked on an expansive reconstruction of the home of Sen. Ted Stevens, who is under investi-gation in a federal probe of corruption among Alaskan lawmakers.
- Gonzales bids adieu to Justice Department
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left the scandal-scarred Justice Department yesterday, declaring himself hopeful about its mission of ferreting out crime and defending the truth.
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- Extravagant menus at conferences put spotlight on Justice
WASHINGTON – It doesn't rival the Pentagon's $600 toilet seat, but the Justice Department can fork over a mean $4 meatball.
- Child-porn suspect's wife dies after fire
HELENWOOD, Tenn. – Everybody in this little mountain community knew that Timothy Carl Chandler had been arrested on child-pornography charges. It was in the newspaper and all over the TV news.
- Court tosses black teen's conviction in white boy's beating
NEW ORLEANS – A state appeals court yesterday threw out the only remaining conviction against one of the black teenagers accused in the beating of a white schoolmate in the racially tense north Louisiana town of Jena.
- Hurricane damage total is $500 million
HOUSTON – Utility crews restored electricity yesterday to half of the homes and businesses left without power after Hurricane Humberto, while experts estimated total damage from the storm would be less than $500 million.
- Senators get apology from Craig in sex case
WASHINGTON – Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, has apologized to his Senate colleagues for the “distraction” of his recent notoriety and has sent them a letter outlining his legal strategy for withdrawing a guilty plea in connection with a sex sting.
- New York carriage horse dies in mishap
NEW YORK – One of the horses that pulls carriages around Central Park died yesterday yesterday after breaking loose and running into a tree, police said. No people were injured.
- NATION UPDATE
FDA workers' jobs hang on fee renewals
WASHINGTON – The head of the Food and Drug Administration alerted the agency's employees yesterday that 2,000 of them could get layoff notices as early as next week if Congress fails to renew user fees for drugs and medical devices.
- Storm surge spares small Alaskan village
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Flood evacuees from the Inupiat Eskimo village of Kivalina, on Alaska's storm-besieged western coast, began returning yesterday and were relieved to find their property undamaged, officials said.
- Putin sizes up possible successors
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that at least five people have a chance of succeeding him in March elections and named his newly confirmed prime minister as a potential contender.
- Prototype for kilo has lost weight
PARIS – A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight – if ever so slightly.
- Extensive changes to election laws approved in Mexico
MEXICO CITY – Mexico's Congress approved a sweeping electoral reform yesterday aimed at healing the wounds of last year's bitter presidential election amid protests that the constitutional changes will return Mexico to an authoritarian style of government.
- N. Korea may be aiding Syria with nuclear plans
WASHINGTON – Reports that North Korea may be assisting Syria with a possible nuclear program will not derail efforts to carry out a deal to end North Korea's nuclear programs, the chief U.S. negotiator said yesterday, arguing that the reports emphasized the need to complete the agreement.
- As Zimbabwe economy melts, pets are killed for food
HARARE, Zimbabwe – Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of other animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them, animal welfare activists say.
- WORLD UPDATE
Chinese researcher freed from prison
BEIJING – A Chinese researcher for The New York Times who was detained on charges of violating state secrets laws and later convicted of fraud was released today after serving a three-year prison sentence.
- Mourners: We'll take revenge
BAGHDAD – About 1,500 mourners called for revenge yesterday as they buried the leader of the Sunni revolt against al-Qaeda, who was assassinated by a bomb Thursday after meeting with President Bush earlier this month.
- More U.S. troops may end up in Iraq
WASHINGTON – Even with cutbacks promised by President Bush, the United States may wind up with thousands more troops in Iraq next summer than before the buildup of forces he ordered in January.
- Nation of Georgia to cut soldiers
MOSCOW – The former Soviet republic of Georgia will reduce its troop deployment in Iraq to 300 soldiers from 2,000 by July, the country's defense minister said yesterday.
- Daily developments
In a raid Thursday, U.S. and Iraqi special forces killed a Shiite militiaman believed to be the leader of about 25 fighters who had fired mortars and small arms at U.S. forces near Diwaniyah, the U.S. command said.
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