USGS: Magnitude-6.0 quake off Northern Calif coast (AP)

AP - A magnitude-6.0 earthquake has struck off the coast of Northern California’s Humboldt County, but officials say there are no immediate reports of major damage or injury.

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Man held in 1968 hijacking faces NYC arraignment (AP)

AP - More than four decades after he hijacked a jetliner from Kennedy International to Cuba, Luis Armando Pena Soltren was arrested at the same airport upon his return from exile, authorities said.

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Extra coffins needed in storm-hit Philippine area (AP)

AP - Authorities sent more than 200 coffins Monday to the typhoon-battered northern Philippines for the grim task of burying the storm’s victims, including a family of eight whose house was buried under a torrent of mud.

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Clinton in Belfast seeks power-sharing progress (AP)

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is meeting the rival leaders of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government and urging them to take the next steps in making Catholic-Protestant cooperation work.

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US troops help Philippines as storm toll tops 600 (AP)

AP - American military helicopters started ferrying tons of aid Sunday to a northern Philippine mountain region facing shortages of food, gasoline and coffins after back-to-back typhoons killed more than 600 in the country.

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Search for Yale student turns to Conn. incinerator (AP)

AP - Investigators sifted through garbage at an incinerator Sunday, looking for clues into the disappearance of a Yale University graduate student who was supposed to be celebrating her wedding day.

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Policeman’s family killed as they slept in Iraq (AP)

AP - Gunmen killed a Kurdish policeman’s wife and three young children with execution-style shots to the head Sunday as they slept in their home in the northern city of Kirkuk, where tension is building between Arabs and Kurds over land and oil.

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APNewsBreak: NJ mayor in court to keep Gadhafi out (AP)

AP - A northern New Jersey mayor said he’s going to court Friday to stop renovation work at the mansion where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi wants to stay next month when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly.

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Leader of sect blamed for Nigeria violence killed (AP)

AP - The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria has been shot and killed while in police custody, officials said Thursday. The police commander of Borno state announced on state radio that Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the sect some call the Nigerian Taliban, has “died in police custody.”

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Soldiers in Colorado slayings tell of Iraq horrors (AP)

AP - Soldiers from an Army unit that had 10 infantrymen accused of murder, attempted murder or manslaughter after returning to civilian life described a breakdown in discipline during their Iraq deployment in which troops murdered civilians, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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