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Obama implores minister to call off Quran burning

AP – Thu Sep 9, 7:25 am ET

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to "listen to those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend. Full Story »

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A picture obtained from Iran's state-run English-language Press TV shows detained US hikers (from left) Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal in Tehran in May 2010. One of three US hikers detained in Iran for more than a year is to be freed on Saturday, the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance told AFP in a text message.(AFP/PRESS TV/File)

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A Pakistani protester shouts slogans during a rally in reaction to a small American church's plan to burn copies of the Quran in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, the wreckage of Continental flight 3407 lies amid smoke at the scene after crashing into a suburban Buffalo home and erupting into flames. After a regional airliner crashed in western New York a year and a half ago killing 50 people, Obama administration officials vowed to take swift action to prevent similar tragedies. High on their list: new rules governing the hours pilots may work, to prevent tired flight crews from making fatal errors. (AP Photo/Dave Sherman, File)

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Obama implores minister to call off Quran burning Thu Sep 9, 8:25 am ET
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FILE - Motorists sit in a Chicago traffic jam in this May 15, 2008 file photo. The number of people dying on the nation's roads has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, helped by a combination of seat belts, safer cars and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws the Transportation Department said late Wednesday Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, FIle)

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FILE- This is a file photo of John Travolta and Karen Gorney dance in a nightclub scene to disco music in Paramount Pictures 1977 film 'Saturday Night Fever', which explores the restless generation growing up in the 70's. John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study. (AP Photo/HO, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, the iPad is shown after it was unveiled at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Apple Inc. said Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, that it will publish the guidelines it uses to determine which programs can be sold in its App Store. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, FILE)

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FILE - In this June 24, 2010 file photo, actress and singer Willow Smith arrives at the premiere of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

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Taiwan President Ma: Taiwan will not be Hong Kong

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