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USH: STOPPING BIN LADEN 'GREATEST CHALLENGE'

PRESIDENT George W. Bush, in a rare public mention of the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, said on Thursday stopping Osama bin Laden from a new attack on U.S. soil was "the greatest challenge of our day."

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Heavy security as China's parliament prepares to convene

Heavy security was in place in Beijing Friday with armed and plain clothes police patrolling buildings, streets, tunnels and railways as delegates to China's parliament prepared for their annual sitting.

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• Japan may accept more unskilled foreign workers

• Bush edges toward Europe in Iran shift

• Saudis back calls for Syrian pullout from Lebanon

• US Army faces recruiting woes amid Iraq war

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