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Mir makes fiery plunge into Pacific
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The Mir space station finished its 15-year voyage Friday in a shower of fireballs, its wreckage streaking through the atmosphere and plunging into a watery grave in the South Pacific.
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Fight may be about more than freedom
TETOVO, Macedonia -- The Sar Mountains, soaring to the height of the Sierra Nevada, form a magnificent border between Macedonia and Kosovo.
Pick for State job alarms Democrats
Otto Reich, a figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, is named to a post with oversight of Cuba policy.
Gunman wounds four at Calif. high school
It's the second school shooting in San Diego's suburbs in a month.
Macedonians resume shelling of guerrillas
TETOVO, Macedonia -- Macedonian government forces resumed shelling ethnic Albanian guerrilla positions in the hills above this city Thursday after 24 hours of calm, and government officials said special police units began to push into the high ground to reclaim rebel-held territory.
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