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Alaska Republican senator guilty in corruption trial (AFP)

 
AFP - A US court on Monday found Ted Stevens of Alaska, a Republican senator of 40 years, guilty of corruption one week before he is up for reelection in the narrowly-divided US Senate. (link)

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