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| Rita packs deadly punch, million flee |
| Cars clogged Texas highways with more than a million people fleeing Hurricane Rita today as the Category 5 storm roared through the Gulf of Mexico on a potentially catastrophic course.
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| US ponders N. Korea trip |
| Christopher Hill, the US nuclear negotiator, is exploring the possibility of visiting North Korea before a new round of six-party talks designed to de-nuclearise North Korea
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| Smoking pact |
| China has signed a global treaty to reduce smoking, but it faces opposition from a state tobacco monopoly and local officials who fear a fall in tobacco profits, the World He
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US actor Jessica Alba at the premiere of Into the Blue in Los Angeles. (Reuters) |
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