Good morning. From the CNN center here in Atlanta. I am Melissa Long. It's Thursday, June. Excuse me, July 2nd, July 2nd. Here is a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS. North Korea has reportedly test-fired 4 short-range missiles o

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美联社,新闻一分钟,federal,residents,hurricane,1. The Federal Relief Chief questions the timeline set by New Orleans' mayor for allowing residents to return to that flood-ravaged city after Hurricane Katrina. 2.A commuter train derails in Chicago'

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A controversial but still powerful former Afghan warlord has flown back to the country from exile to campaign for President Hamid Karzai. The return home of the Communist-era militia general is seen as a boost for the incumbent president's campaign.

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BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Tens of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer(纳税人) funds are indirectly being paid to Afghan warlords to secure(保护) convoys carrying supplies to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to a congressional

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Bosco Ntaganda, a suspected warlord from the Democratic Republic of Congo, has handed himself in to the United States Embassy in Rwanda. He has been accused of war crimes between 2002 and 2003. Ntaganda has reportedly asked to be transferred to the I

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 19 October 2007 Analysts say the transfer of former Congolese warlord Germain Katanga to The Hague is an important step towards ending impunity in war-ravaged DR Congo. Katanga was transferred to the International Criminal Cou

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By Anna Ardayeva Moscow 10 July 2006 Russia's federal security service chief says Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has been killed in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. Basayev, the Kremlin's most wanted man, has been held responsible for Ru

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It paved the way for the three decades-long rule of President Mobutu. They didn't come any greedier in Africa. It's estimated he stole around half of the 12 billion dollars his country received in aid. The West helped to keep him in power. A people a

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