The National Weather Service issued a string of winter weather advisories Saturday as the first significant snow of the season blanketed parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kentucky. (Dec 5)
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WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange turned increasingly to Switzerland on Sunday, dodging a barrage of threats online and in the real world to keep access to a trove of US State Department cables under a Swiss Web address. (Dec. 5)
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A Boeing 747 from the US joined the battle against an inferno that raged for a fourth day in northern Israel, giving officials hope they can bring the country’s worst forest fire under control by the end of the day. (Dec. 5)
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Prohibition ends in the United States; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies; Walt Disney and Little Richard are born. (Dec. 5)
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The German city of Dresden celebrated the start of the Christmas season on Saturday by parading a giant Stollen through the streets of the baroque old town. Crowds of people gathered to get a taste of the cake. (Dec. 5)
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Two people were killed and more than 80 others were injured when a Russian passenger jet suffered engine failure and then broke apart after making an emergency landing at an airport southeast of Moscow. (Dec. 4)
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Authorities have declared a state of emergency in three Balkan countries and evacuated scores of people after heavy rainfall caused severe flooding along the Drina River. The flooding in the Balkans is the worst in a century. (Dec. 4)
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Shortstop Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees reached a preliminary agreement Saturday on a $51 million, three-year contract with an $8 million player option for 2014, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. (Dec. 4)
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A man who fell onto a railway line in Madrid on Friday was saved from serious injury or possible death by an off-duty policeman. (Dec. 4)
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No. 1 Oregon earned a trip to the BCS title game, with a 37-20 win over Oregon State. The Beavers will meet No. 2 Auburn, a 56-17 winner over No. 18 South Carolina. Auburn quarterback Cam Newton threw for a career-high 335 yards in the win. (Dec. 4)
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