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• Pop star's slaying turns into Mideast drama
The slaying of Suzanne Tamim has gone beyond a lurid crime story to something more serious — a glimpse into the close links between Egypt's government and powerful business tycoons long viewed as above the law.
• Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city
Some 250,000 people are affected in the Gonaives region and 54,000 people are living shelters across the country, according to government estimates.
• U.S. spied on Iraqi leaders, new book says
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has conducted an extensive spying operation on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his staff and others in the Iraqi government, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. "We know ...
• Hanna bears down on Southeast as Ike weakens
Meanwhile, Haiti's government more than doubled Hanna's death toll late Thursday to 137. It had previously been 61. Eighty of the deaths occurred in the flooded region of Gonaives and another 22 people died in areas immediately surrounding the port ...
• School shooter jailed over new weapons charge
The federal government had held Johnson and Golden until age 21 after the Jonesboro shootings. At the time of the schoolyard massacre, Arkansas had the means to hold Johnson and Golden only until age 18.