Spanish town holds tomato fight
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Tens of thousands of warriors for a day hurled tons of ripe tomatoes at each other Wednesday in an annual food fight that transforms this Spanish town into a sea of red mush.
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US-led troops battling to take control of Falluja ran into clusters of fierce resistance today as aid agencies pressed for access to the Iraqi city to take food and water to civilians trapped inside.
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Spanish police have defused a small bomb in the southern city of Almeria, possibly planted by the Basque separatist group ETA and set to explode on Monday, Spain's Constitution Day.
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A film about Iraqi villagers desperate for a satellite dish as they await the U.S. invasion won the top prize Saturday at Spain's leading film festival.
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Spain&#39;s ruling Socialists face a battle  to win back support in Madrid before next year&#39;s general  election after the capital voted in favor of the opposition in  regional polls.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - No food. No water. No help. As  fierce fighting casts a pall of smoke over the rubble-strewn  Iraqi city of Falluja, thousands of Iraqi families remain cut  off from desperately needed supplies.
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MADRID -- Spain's governing Socialists and the conservative opposition won virtually equal support in local elections Sunday, setting the stage for a fierce contest in the general election next year.
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Congolese government forces clashed with rebels at a town near the border with Rwanda for a third day Wednesday as the two countries traded heated accusations over who was involved in the fighting.
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A town in Sweden this Christmas hopes to win its battle with vandals who almost every year for the past four decades have foiled security measures to burn down the town's giant Yuletide straw ram.
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SOME 40,000 Spaniards and tourists are gathering in the eastern town of Bunol ready hurl 100,000 kilograms of tomatoes at one another to mark La Tomatina, surely one of the world's messiest festivals.
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Rebels mounted fierce counterattacks against rapid advances by American troops into the southern part of Falluja.
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This city on the border where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet has for years battled a reputation as a trading post for weapons, drugs, pirated music and counterfeit designer brands.
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The UglyRipe tomato is like the frog prince. Once finally kissed by Washington regulators, it turned into a thing of beauty, and potential profit, for a Philadelphia produce distributor.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. artillery pummelled Falluja  on Wednesday and troops hunted guerrillas still fighting days  after Washington said its offensive had destroyed rebel control  of the Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad.
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Guerrillas are staging a counteroffensive as U.S. troops struggled to flush the remaining insurgents from Falluja.
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Iraq&#39;s interim government has resumed talks to pacify the western town of Falluja and avert a military assault on the rebel stronghold that has faced heavy US bombardment in recent days.
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Basque guerrillas ETA vowed on Sunday to  keep up bomb attacks on the Spanish state, saying last year&#39;s  peace talks showed there was no point in negotiating with the  Socialist government.