AP - Tibetan monks in western China called for the return of their exiled spiritual leader Wednesday, as a top official warned that any disruption of the Olympic torch in Tibet would be severely punished.
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Buddhist monks call for Dalai Lama (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:18pm EDT
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Gaza gunmen kill 2 in southern Israel (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:16pm EDT
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AP - Militants from the Gaza Strip slipped across the border and opened fire at a fuel depot in southern Israel on Wednesday, killing two Israeli civilians in a brazen daylight raid that threatened to set off heavy combat after a monthlong lull.
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Haitian president proposes tax cut (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:11pm EDT
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AP - Haiti's president tried to halt a week of rioting Wednesday by calling for tax cuts on imported food, but the capital descended deeper into chaos as looters and protesters took control of the streets.
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AP photographer granted Iraqi amnesty (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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AP - An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U.S. military.
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Birmingham co-owner and MD arrested in corruption probe (AFP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:08pm EDT
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AFP - Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan and Managing Director Karren Brady were arrested on Wednesday by British police as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in English football.
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S.Korea conservatives win slim majority in MP vote (Reuters)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 2:59pm EDT
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Reuters - The conservative Grand National Party
(GNP) of South Korea's new president won a slim majority in a
parliamentary election, according to preliminary results
released on Thursday by the National Election Commission.
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China faces Muslim resentment in west (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 2:39pm EDT
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AP - There was no sign of dissent in the bazaar, where men wove through the crowd on motorcycles with freshly butchered sheep draped behind them. But a Muslim merchant pinched his lips together with his fingers to show he could not talk freely.
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Zambia to host summit on Zimbabwe crisis (AFP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 2:17pm EDT
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AFP - The Zimbabwe opposition's bid to build up pressure on Robert Mugabe after disputed polls bore fruit on Wednesday as plans were unveiled for a weekend summit to discuss the escalating crisis.
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Official says Al-Qaida terrorist is dead (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 12:00pm EDT
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AP - A U.S. counterterrorism official says that Abu Obeida al-Masri, an Egyptian al-Qaida chief who was responsible for attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan, is dead. -
Violence kills 16 in Iraq's Sadr City (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 10:11am EDT
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AP - Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen clashed Wednesday in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, where attacks killed 16 people on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. capture of the capital.
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Australia offers residence to Iraqis who helped troops (AFP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 8:31am EDT
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AFP - Australia said Wednesday it would offer permanent residence to hundreds of Iraqi employees when Canberra pulls its combat forces out of the strife-torn country later this year.