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PRESS DIGEST - New York Times front page - Feb. 1

01 Feb 2007 06:22:54 GMT
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NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The New York Times reported the following stories on its front page on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

* German court challenges CIA over abduction: An arrest warrant was issued for 13 people in a case of mistaken arrest that highlights the agency's policy of secret transfers of terrorism suspects.

* France's president said that if Iran had one or two nuclear weapons, it would not pose a big danger. A day later, he retracted many of his remarks.

* Biden unwraps his bid for '08 with an oops! In an era of meticulous political choreography, the staging of the kickoff for Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s presidential candidacy could hardly have gone worse.

* New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said the current health care system props up failing hospitals and too often overlooks patients' needs.

* Battle over school bus service in New York: A plan to save millions of dollars by consolidating school bus routes has left parents raging at education officials.

* A 29-year-old who had enrolled as a 12-year-old at an Arizona middle school is part of a web of child predators.

* Berlusconi flirts. Wife's fed up. Read all about it: The wife of Italy's former prime minister asked her husband to apologize -- in a front-page letter to the editor.

* Island of moguls is latest front in labor battle: A labor union has set its sights on Fisher Island, Fla., one of the most concentrated pockets of wealth in the nation.

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