WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - The Washington Post included the following items on its front page on July 11. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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UNITED NATIONS - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, charging him with genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of violence in the Sudan's Darfur region, according to U.N. officials and diplomats.

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BELLEVILLE, Mich. - Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain distanced himself from comments by a top economic adviser dismissing the nation's struggles in an ailing economy as a "mental recession" and suggesting that the United States has "become a nation of whiners."

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Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to plummet Thursday as investors and federal officials contemplated the possibility that the giants of the mortgage business could require a federal bailout.

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The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office.

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Increasing numbers of younger women continue to be diagnosed with melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, even as the rate of new cases has leveled off in younger men, federal health officials reported.

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