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Brussels - An international medical aid group that once won the Nobel Peace Prize is pulling out of Iraq, citing the recent targeting of aid workers by militant groups. Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said on Thursday that it has decided with "a great degree of regret and sadness" to shut down its three aid centres in Baghdad and to cancel plans to open a fourth in Fallujah. "It has become impossible for MSF as an organization to guarantee an acceptable level of security for our staff, be they foreign or Iraqi," said Gorik Ooms, the general director of the Belgium-based group. Redwood City, Calif. - After five months of testimony, a jury is deliberating the fate of Scott Peterson, accused of killing his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son just before Christmas in 2002. Prosecutors had told the court that the former fertilizer salesman from Modesto, Calif., strangled or smothered his wife and dumped her body in San Francisco Bay, motivated by an affair he was having with a woman who didn't know he was married. Boston - The wife of Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer on Wednesday, the same day the John Kerry campaign conceded it had lost its bid for the White House. Elizabeth Edwards, 55, has invasive ductal cancer, said spokesperson David Ginsberg. It's the most common type of breast cancer.
