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• 8. A SEARCH FOR CLUES IN ARAFAT'S REMAINS
• The late Palestinian leader's body is exhumed and then quickly reburied as forensic experts look for more information about his death.
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• 9. WHY AN ACTOR IS TURNING AGAINST HIS OWN HIT TV SHOW
• Citing the Bible, Angus T. Jones, youthful star on the comedy "Two and a Half Men," says the show is "filth" and no one should watch it.
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• 10. FEDERAL MEDIATORS TO JOIN NHL LOCKOUT TALKS
• Hockey players and management have not negotiated since last Wednesday, and more than a third of the regular season has already been canceled.
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AP News in Brief
Egypt president stands by edicts giving him sweeping powers, says he acted within his rights
• CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi struck an uncompromising stand Monday over his seizure of near absolute powers, refusing in a meeting with top judicial authorities to rescind a package of constitutional amendments that placed his edicts above oversight by the courts.
• Morsi's supporters, meanwhile, canceled a massive rally planned for Tuesday to compete with a demonstration by his opponents, citing the need to "defuse tension" at a time when anger over the president's moves is mounting, according to a spokesman for the president's Muslim Brotherhood.
• The opposition rally was going ahead as scheduled at Cairo's Tahrir square, birthplace of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's regime nearly two years ago.
• The meeting between Morsi and members of the Supreme Judiciary Council was a bid to resolve a four-day crisis that has plunged the country into a new round of turmoil, with clashes between the two sides that have left one protester dead and hundreds wounded.
• Morsi, according to a presidential statement, told the judges that while the constitutional declaration he announced Thursday grants him immunity from any oversight, he intended to restrict that to what it described as "sovereignty issues."
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