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Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension (AP)

Job seekers during a career fair in San Diego, California, in January 2010. The United States lost fewer jobs than expected in February and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the government said Friday, cautioning the data may be skewed by winter storms.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Sandy Huffaker)AP - Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.


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Ohio St.: Employee kills co-worker, then self (AP)
AP - Ohio State University says an employee shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself.
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Gates walks town that was a 'no-go zone' weeks ago (AP)

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, shakes hands with U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 James Woolley, of Task Force Talon, during an award ceremony at Kandahar Air Base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Gates pinned the Silver Star on the warrant officer. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates, aiming to show progress in the expanded war against insurgents in south Afghanistan, took a brief, heavily guarded walk Tuesday down a rutted street in this scruffy market town where the Taliban lobbed mortars at U.S. forces only weeks ago.


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Israel, Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions (AP)

Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau speaks to media during an international conference on civilian nuclear energy, in Paris, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities. Landau said nuclear plants built in Israel will be subject to strict safety and security controls, and even said his country would like to build them in cooperation with scientists and engineers from 'our Arab neighbors.'(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new international attention to its secretive nuclear activities.


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Missing body of Cyprus' ex-leader is found (AP)

FILE- In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo women stand in front of the grave of former President Tassos Papadopoulos before his one-year memorial service just a day after his body was stolen by grave robbers at Deftera suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus police say a body found at a Nicosia cemetery could be the stolen corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos. Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said a tip-off led police to the corpse late Monday March 8, 2010. But he wouldn't elaborate in what state the corpse was or what evidence investigators have to lead them to believe it could be that of the former Greek Cypriot leader. Papadopoulos' corpse was stolen from a graveyard in suburban Nicosia on Dec. 11, 2009 - the eve of the first anniversary of his death from lung cancer. The motive remains a mystery. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)AP - Three months after it was stolen, the corpse of Cyprus' former president was found reburied in another grave and the country's justice minister said Tuesday that it had been held for ransom.


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