AP - President Robert Mugabe has laid claim to all key Cabinet posts and Zimbabwe's powerful state security apparatus in a direct challenge to a power-sharing agreement that has deadlocked over allocation of ministries.
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Zimbabwe's Mugabe claims key ministries (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 7:44am EDT
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Strong earthquake hits Russia's North Caucasus (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 7:43am EDT
AP - A strong earthquake hit Russia's North Caucasus Saturday, an uncommon occurrence for the region, officials said. No damage or injuries were immediately reported. -
Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider dead at 58 (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 7:42am EDT
AP - Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews and at one point led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic died early Saturday in a car accident. He was 58.
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U.S. to take North Korea off terrorism list: official (Reuters)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 7:42am EDT
Reuters - The United States plans to announce on Saturday that it will take North Korea off its terrorism blacklist in a bid to salvage denuclearization talks, a U.S. official familiar with the decision told Reuters. -
US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 7:14am EDT
AP - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.
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Diplomats: North Korea coming off terror blacklist (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 7:08am EDT
AP - The United States is ready to drop North Korea from a terrorism blacklist, the Associated Press has learned, in the latest attempt by the administration to salvage a nuclear deal with Pyongyang before President Bush's term ends.
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Pirates threaten to blow up arms-laden ship (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 6:55am EDT
AP - With U.S. warships lurking nearby, the pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia threatened to destroy the vessel unless a ransom is paid, a spokesman for the bandits said.
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Iraqi journalist killed in Kirkuk (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 6:08am EDT
AP - A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists' group said Saturday it was the 136th killing of a reporter since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago. -
Hurricane Norbert strengthens to Category 3 storm (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 6:06am EDT
AP - As Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula, it gathered strength overnight and was classified as a Category 3 hurricane early Saturday.
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Gunmen kill 11 in northern Mexican bar (AP)
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 12:17am EDT
AP - Gunmen opened fire in a bar in northern Mexico, killing 11 people, and the body of a newspaper editor was found shot dead on the side of a highway in two separate attacks, police said Friday.