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no longer in a coma and has left a French hospital where he had been receiving treatment since a skiing accident in December.
• Manager Sabine Kehm says in a statement that Schumacher has left the hospital in Grenoble "to continue his long phase of rehabilitation." The statement did not say where the seven-time F1 champion was taken or give any details of his condition.
• Kehm adds: "For the future we ask for understanding that his further rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye."
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Security bolstered at US embassy in Iraq; some personnel to be flown out

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- With Baghdad threatened by the advance of an al-Qaida-inspired insurgency, the State Department is reinforcing security at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq's capital -- and sending some personnel out of town.
• Much of the embassy staff will stay in place, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement released Sunday. The statement did not say the number of personnel affected. The embassy, along the Tigris River in Baghdad's Green Zone, has about 5,000 personnel and is the largest U.S. diplomatic post in the world.
• Some embassy staff members were being temporarily moved elsewhere to more stable places at consulates in Basra, in the Shiite-dominated south of Iraq, and Irbil, in the Kurdish semi-autonomous region in northeastern Iraq, and to Jordan, she said.
• "Overall, a substantial majority of the U.S. Embassy presence in Iraq will remain in place and the embassy will be fully equipped to carry out its national security mission," she said.
• U.S. travelers in the country were encouraged to exercise caution and limit travel to certain parts of Iraq.
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2 years after court ruling on GPS tracking, muddled landscape for judges, law enforcement

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 2-year-old Supreme Court decision has caused more confusion than clarity on how police may track the whereabouts of criminal suspects, illustrating how hard it is for the slow-moving judicial system to keep up with the light speed of technology.

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