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Greece PM holds firm on referendum

Greece’s prime minister held firm early Wednesday to his shock decision to call for a referendum on a hard-fought European debt deal, despite anger from abroad, market turmoil across the world and dissent from within his own party.

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APNewsbreak: Future holds more extreme weather (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2011 file photo, a buoy sits high and dry at Benbrook Lake in Benbrook, Texas. Freakish weather, from this weekends October snowstorm to the long-lasting drought in the US Southwest, is striking more often. And global warming should make future weather even weirder, a special international report says.    (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)AP – For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.


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Clinton holds more talks with Pakistan officials (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles while she waits to Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Clinton is leading an unusually large U.S. delegation to Pakistan for two days of talk with civilian and military leaders who have resisted previous U.S. demands to take harder tack against militants who attach U.S. soldiers and interests in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding a second day of talks with Pakistani officials to press them to do more to combat insurgents.


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Ground Zero church holds pre-dawn vigil

In the Lower Manhattan church that sheltered Ground Zero rescue workers like no other, the faithful kept vigil in the long hours before dawn Sunday.

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Dad holds own baby hostage with knife: cops

An irate man was arrested Tuesday after he held a knife to his crying baby boy who he had pulled from a Bronx apartment, cops and witnesses said.

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Village LGBT community center holds huge wedding reception

The LGBT community center in Greenwich Village turned into a rocking wedding hall Sunday night as scores of gay newlyweds toasted their love in front of happy strangers, family, and friends.

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Southern swamp holds clues about runaway slaves (AP)

In a June 9, 2011 photo, Cindy Goode, of Virginia, sorts through artifacts uncovered at a dig site in Great Dismal Swamp, N.C.  Goode is one of the students that are helping American University professor Daniel Sayers, who has been working for a decade to piece together the stories  of thousands of people who once made their home in settlements scattered on patches of dry land. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP – The oppressive heat, venomous serpents and boot-snatching muck that made the Great Dismal Swamp a barrier to European settlement ever since colonial times also made it a haven for thousands of people escaping slavery before the Civil War.


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