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Jun. 24th, 2007 12:09 pm
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Why do I think this wasn't supposed to go out on the Reuters World News wire?

Sample:

SCHEDULE AT 2:30 P.M.


Sunday, June 24, 2007

Day Editor: Patricia Zengerle

Night Editor: Phil Barbara

EDITORIAL QUERIES: 202-898-8465

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 800-435-0101

PHOTO QUERIES 202-898-8333

TOP STORIES

BAGHDAD - Saddam cousin "Chemical Ali" sentenced to hang

KHIYAM, Lebanon - Roadside bomb kills 4 Spanish UN troops

JERUSALEM - Israel frees funds for Abbas

PARIS - Rice dismisses idea of partial Iran nuke suspension

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Iraqi court sentences Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" to death by hanging for masterminding genocide against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s (IRAQ/TRIAL (UPDATE 4), moved at 10:13 a.m., picture, by Ross Colvin, 600 words)

BAQUBA, Iraq - U.S. troops hoping to directly confront al Qaeda militants in major offensive in city of Baquba instead found themselves "swimming through a minefield," senior officer says (IRAQ/BAQUBA (UPDATE 1), moved at 12:50 p.m., picture, by Alister Bull, 650 words)

WASHINGTON - Stung by failures in Iraq, U.S. Army says it is getting serious about nation-building, overcoming reluctance in its own ranks and reflecting big change in Bush administration policy (USA-MILITARY/NATIONBUILDING, moved at 9:09 a.m., picture, by Andrew Gray, 750 words)

LEBANON

KHIYAM, Lebanon - Roadside bomb kills four Spanish peacekeepers and wounds three in first such attack on U.N. forces in Lebanon since last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah, security sources say (LEBANON-UNIFIL/BLAST (UPDATE 3), moved at 1:58 p.m., by Karamallah Daher, 400 words)

TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanese troops kill seven Islamist militants, most of them foreigners, in a raid on their hide-out in the northern city of Tripoli, while sporadic battles shook a nearby Palestinian refugee camp (LEBANON-FIGHTING/ (UPDATE 4), moved at 11:04 a.m., picture, by Nazih Siddiq, 600 words)

ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS

JERUSALEM - Israel agrees to transfer several hundred million dollars to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' emergency government, a measure designed to undercut Hamas Islamists controlling Gaza (PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/ (UPDATE 6), moved at 12:56 p.m., by Jeffrey Heller, 750 words)

GAZA - Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas-led government sacked by President Mahmoud Abbas, vows isolation will not force the Islamist group to give up power from its Gaza stronghold (PALESTINIANS-HANIYEH/ (UPDATE 3), moved at 1:37 p.m., by Nidal al-Mughrabi, 500 words)

NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY

PARIS - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismisses idea of partial suspension of uranium enrichment by Iran, saying Washington and its allies still insist on full suspension (NUCLEAR-IRAN/RICE, moved at 9:19 a.m., 500 words)

VIENNA - U.N. nuclear watchdog is so poorly financed that it might be unable to deal with future atomic accident and no longer has top-grade equipment to detect covert activity, its director has warned (NUCLEAR-IAEA/FUNDS, moved at 7:11 a.m., by Karin Strohecker, 600 words)

U.S. NEWS

ALI JEGK, Arizona - Indians claim an ancient burial ground is being desecrated by a barrier under construction on the Arizona-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants and drug traffickers (SECURITY-USA/INDIANS, moved at 8:42 a.m., picture, by Tim Gaynor, 700 words)

WASHINGTON - Republican Fred Thompson is already a prolific blogger and probably will become even stronger presence on the Internet if he enters presidential race next month as expected (USA-POLITICS/THOMPSON, moved at 9:02 a.m., by John Whitesides, 700 words)

LATIN AMERICAN NEWS

BUENOS AIRES - Residents of Argentina's capital vote to choose a new mayor in a run-off vote expected to see a conservative millionaire soccer boss defeat a candidate heavily backed by President Nestor Kirchner (ARGENTINA-ELECTION/, moved at 11:18 a.m., by Kevin Gray, 600 words)
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