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ISLAMABAD -- Floodwaters are receding in Pakistan but survivors now face waterborne diseases, including diarrhea, cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and E, and vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue fever.
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama officially ends U.S. combat operations in Iraq Tuesday with the death toll of civilians, Iraqi security forces, coalition troops and enemy combatants estimated at over 145,000.
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MEXICO CITY -- Texas-born fugitive Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "the Barbie," is the third major suspected drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months and a coup for President Felipe Calderon in his embattled war on powerful cartels.
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VENICE -- The Venice Film Festival opens Wednesday with its share of big-screen bound blockbuster potential, from Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," to Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated "Somewhere".
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CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA’s space shuttle fleet is set to retire after two final shuttle missions. Before Endeavour’s final flight in February 2011, Discovery is scheduled to launch on November 1 for the International Space Station.
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LOS ANGELES -- Horror flick The Last Exorcism and the heist thriller Takers are in a photo finish for the top spot at the weekend box office in U.S. and Canadian cinemas, earning an easy $42 million for Lionsgate and Sony.
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