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PRAIA, Cape Verde, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Josephine was downgraded to a tropical depression as its strength dissipated as it approached the Cape Verde Islands, weather officials say.

DETROIT, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm says she will do nothing to help Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick avoid four months in jail for his crimes.

CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. was out of a Chicago hospital after suffering stomach pains, hospital officials say.

BEIJING, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- China's new sales tax on big cars to battle the nation's notoriously dirty air will not significantly reduce sales, an auto import trade-group executive says.

TRENTON, N.J., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Respected editor Robert Giroux, who worked with many top writers during his career, has died at the age of 94 in Tinton Falls, N.J.

MOSCOW, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that his country's actions in South Ossetia should be a lesson for the rest of the world.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Malaysian officials say they are sending naval vessels to the pirate-infested Somali coast.

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GONAIVES, Haiti, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Haitian officials say more than 500 people are known dead from floods and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Hanna.

CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- At least 600 part-time workers will be laid off as Ford Motor Co. cuts costs at its Chicago assembly plant amid U.S. sales declines, the automaker says.

MADRID, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Spanish police say they have arrested alleged Colombian drug lord Edgar Guillermo Vallejo-Guarin.

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A small earthquake rattled San Francisco's East Bay area Friday night, causing no apparent damage, seismologists said.

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SEATTLE, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Thousands of union machinists for Boeing Co. in Seattle began their second strike in three years Saturday, setting up picket lines just after midnight.

CAIRO, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Arab League leaders Saturday expressed hope for solving problems ranging from Gaza and Sudan to Iran as meetings began in Cairo.

LUANDA, Angola, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Election officials say Angola polls reopened for a second day and voting will continue until all have had an opportunity to cast ballots.

CAIRO, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Emergency workers say at least 20 people have been killed by a rockslide in a poor area of Cairo, Egypt.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush Saturday criticized Congress again for not holding a vote on opening "more of America's domestic oil resources for exploration."

HENDERSON, Nev., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. banking officials have shut down a Nevada bank whose board once included the son of Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain.

WARREN, Mich., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- General Motors officials say they will recycle or reuse waste at half of their worldwide factories by 2010.