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November 16, 2002
Palestinian ambush kills 12 Israelis in West Bank
The Jewish settlers were returning from Sabbath prayers in the divided city of Hebron. A gunfight raged for hours.

Autistic children face lawsuit limits
A measure slipped in the homeland security bill would mean those injured by childhood vaccines could collect only $250,000.

Army rescues kidnapped Colombian bishop
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombian army troops rescued one of Latin America's leading Roman Catholic bishops and another priest Friday after a gunbattle with their rebel captors in an Andean mountain region.

Iraq fires on allied patrol planes
WASHINGTON -- Iraq fired on U.S. and British warplanes patrolling a no-fly zone Friday, an act the United States considers a breach of a U.N. Security Council resolution, officials said. Coalition warplanes bombed an Iraqi air defense site in retaliation.

Bride dresses in white -- bandages
HARRIMAN, Tenn. -- The bride wore white bandages from head to broken foot. The groom, in a donated tuxedo, stood unsteadily at her hospital bedside.

Nation in brief
Shuttle grounded for another week

Washington in brief
Safe spot set aside for kids on the Net

Cuba to buy food from black U.S. farmers
HAVANA -- Cuba agreed to buy food from black American farmers under a U.S. law that allows direct sales of farm products to the island, an NAACP delegation said Friday.

U.S. jets retaliate after Afghan bases fired on
KABUL, Afghanistan -- American fighter jets pounded suspected enemy positions in Afghanistan after two U.S. bases came under rocket fire in the east of the country, the U.S. military said in a statement.

FBI warns 'spectacular attacks' may be ahead
WASHINGTON -- The latest fears of renewed terror attacks are based on disturbing patterns reminiscent of the runups to earlier al-Qaida strikes rather than on specific intelligence, counterterrorism officials said Friday.

Death to scholar, marchers cry
TEHRAN, Iran -- About 1,000 supporters of Iran's hard-line clerics took to the streets Friday calling for the execution of a reformist scholar convicted of insulting Islam.




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