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AFGHAN PROBE-PHOTOGRAPHS
SEATTLE — Those who have seen the photos say they are grisly: soldiers beside newly killed bodies, decaying corpses and severed fingers. The dozens of photos, described in interviews and in e-mails and military documents obtained by The Associated Press, were seized by Army investigators and are a crucial part of the case against five soldiers accused of killing three Afghan civilians earlier this year. By Gene Johnson.
WHITE HOUSE-EMANUEL
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's feisty chief of staff leaves the administration just weeks before critical congressional elections, a move that could presage an even greater White House turnover should Democrats do as poorly as predicted in the coming vote. By Steven R. Hurst.
AP Photos, video.
MISSING BALLOONISTS
BARI, Italy — Two missing American balloonists plunged toward the Adriatic Sea at 50 mph (80 kph) and likely didn't survive, race organizers say. By Paolo Lucariello and Nicole Winfield.
AP Photos.
SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT
WASHINGTON — American scientists deliberately infected prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible research." By Lauran Neergaard.
AMUSEMENT RIDE-ACCIDENT
MILWAUKEE — The lawyer for a 13-year-old Florida girl who was seriously injured when she fell about 100 feet (30 meters) to the ground from an amusement park ride Says they have reached a settlement with the park. By Carrie Antlfinger.
ECUADOR PROTEST
QUITO, Ecuador — It was the biggest test of Rafael Correa's nearly 4-year-old presidency, a bloody trial by fire for a popular politician whose government had brought relative calm to a chronically unstable country. Ecuador's leader called the police uprising a coup attempt. But skeptical analysts said the tumult appeared instead to be a revolt over benefit cuts by hundreds of modestly paid police that spiraled out of control. By Gonzalo Solano and Frank Bajak.
CUBA-REFINERY
HAVANA — Cuba will build three additional loading docks and a terminal large enough to accommodate modern supertankers by 2014 at its port in Cienfuegos, part of the communist government's effort with Venezuela to rehabilitate and modernize the area's oil refinery. By Andrea Rodriguez.
SURINAME-MILITARY DRAFT
PARAMARIBO, Suriname — The former military ruler of Suriname who has come back to power as the elected president says he wants to bring back compulsory service in the armed forces of the South American country.
CANADA-HUNTING DEATH
GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, Newfoundland — An American woman is found not guilty Friday of criminal negligence causing death in the fatal shooting of her husband while hunting four years ago in central Newfoundland.
BUSINESS:
HEWLETT-PACKARD-NEW DIRECTION
NEW YORK — The appointment of former SAP head Leo Apotheker as its next CEO signals strongly that the board of Hewlett-Packard, a Silicon Valley icon and the world's largest technology company, is prepared to gamble big on an aggressive push into the software business. In doing so it will go head to head with former ally Oracle, which has hired HP's former chief, and other tech heavyweights such as IBM. Analysts say that if HP doesn't act now, it will be left behind in a personal computer industry that no longer offers much room for growth or big profits. By Business Writer Andrew Vanacore.
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