ROME: Chinese president Hu Jintao is flying back to Beijing following rioting in a northwestern region of China and will miss this week’s G-8 summit hosted by Italy, Italian news agency Ansa said on Wednesday. Ansa quoted a senior official at the Chinese embassy in Rome as saying that the president …

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee’s state medical examiner said yesterday that investigators have been hesitant to conclude that Steve McNair’s girlfriend killed the NFL star and herself because she didn’t appear to have a motive, but that murder-suicide is the most likely scenario. After the couple was …

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MOSCOW – Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev can both claim success at a summit meant to put badly strained ties on track, but a third figure also seems to have emerged a winner: Vladimir Putin. The Russian prime minister played a supporting role, limited mainly to a two-hour breakfast …

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MOSCOW (July 7) - Working to turn Russia from antagonist to ally, President Barack Obama asked the Russian people Tuesday to “forge a lasting partnership” with the U.S., but he acknowledged after talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that on divisive issues there won’t be “a meeting of the minds …

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EVERETT, Wash. — A Boeing Co. spokesman says the aerospace manufacturer’s new 787 jetliner taxied under its own power Tuesday for the first time in its development. Boeing spokesman Jim Proulx says the low-speed taxi test at Paine Field near Everett, Wash., was the first time the plane has moved …

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SOUTH WINDSOR - Gunfire and flames erupted on Tumblebrook Drive around 9:30 Tuesday night, about an hour after a woman who had been held hostage by her ex-husband there through most of the day made it out of the house safely. Up to three dozen gunshots were heard near the scene. At 9:40 p.m., a fire …

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Authoritarian states are typically less stable than they appear, and China is no exception. This week’s ethnic riots in western Xinjiang province are the deadliest on record since the end of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. Until the Chinese government is truly accountable to its citizens …

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (July 7) - Sarah Palin says she’s not a quitter, she’s a fighter, but adds that, politically speaking, “if I die, I die. So be it.” The Alaska governor spoke in taped interviews on ABC, NBC and CNN broadcast Tuesday morning. She told CNN that “all options are on the table” for her …

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URUMQI, China (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence that has left at least 156 dead in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on its website that Hu …

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MOSCOW - President Barack Obama said Tuesday the United States wanted a strong, prosperous but also democratic Russia, as he set out his vision of the US relationship with its former Cold-War era foe. In the most eagerly awaited address of his two-day visit to Moscow, Obama reached out to Russia by …

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