An injured man is carried away after a suicide bomber killed six people on Friday in Jerusalem and wounded more than 50 others, seven seriously, just hours after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Israel on a peace-making mission.Larger image
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Powell's meeting postponed
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Colin Powell called off today's planned meeting with Yasser Arafat late Friday night after a new suicide bombing spread out before Powell's eyes the carnage he had come to Israel in hopes of ending.
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• Suicide attack at market kills 6
• Recovery of bodies in Jenin begins
• Arabs raise funds for Palestinians
• Annan calls for an international force for Mideast
VIDEO: Colin Powell meets with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
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Sex abuse could involve more kids
ERIE — Police on Friday said that three more children are thought to be involved in a string of juvenile sexual assaults in the Sunwest neighborhood, bringing the total number of suspects or victims to 12.
Erie Police Chief Stephen Hasler declined to say whether police thought the three were suspects or victims. He said those determinations would be left up to the Boulder County District Attorney's office.
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Hit-and-run driver won't go to prison
A 22-year-old woman who admitted fleeing the scene after her car hit and killed a University of Colorado senior will spend the next four years in a halfway house or work release program — not prison.
Shana Leigh Lavon sobbed with friends and family Friday after Judge Morris Sandstead sentenced her to four years in community corrections.
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CONFERENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS
Week of thinking, conversing wraps up
The 54th annual Conference on World Affairs wrapped up Friday night with the final panel, "Interruptus IV: Mulholland Drive," hosted by film critic Roger Ebert.
"This has been an exhausting, challenging and daunting experience — and thank you for subjecting me to it," Ebert told the packed audience at Macky Auditorium. This was Ebert's 37th consecutive year at the conference.
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• Shrek animator a hit with kids
• CWA archive, schedules
People wave Venezuelan flags during a Mass on Friday to honor the people who were killed during the recent protests that ended in the ouster of President Hugo Chavez at the Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) executive offices in Caracas, Venezuela.Larger image
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Venezuelan leader disputed
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's military tapped a leading businessman Friday to replace former leftist president Hugo Chavez, whose combative rule was ended by army commanders after a bloody repression of a huge street protest.
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• Pedro Carmona sworn in
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WAR ON TERROR
Fighters loyal to a local Afghan commander stand guard on Friday at a checkpoint in Badam, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Fierce fighting erupted between two rival militias competing for control of the region. Larger image
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Factional fighting explodes in the hills west of capital
ALA SANG, Afghanistan — Factional fighting erupted Friday in the hills just west of Kabul — the latest in a series of Afghan power struggles ahead of a planned national council that will choose a new government.
Meanwhile, south of the capital, U.S. forces seized ammunition caches and captured several al-Qaida suspects.
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• Suspected terrorist list will be shared
• Third strong quake in two months hits Afghanistan
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