Yahoo! News: World News (11 unread)
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Pirates attack Japanese tanker, Spanish boat in Gulf of Aden (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 4:13pm EDT
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AP - Pirates in the lawless Gulf of Aden fired on a Japanese oil tanker Monday, unleashing hundreds of gallons of fuel into the sea, a day after a Spanish tuna boat was hijacked using rocket-propelled grenades. -
Paraguay winner means more leftist leaders in Latin America (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 4:01pm EDT
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AP - The victory of the "bishop of the poor" in Paraguay's presidential election expands a wave of leftist leadership across Latin America and further isolates the few remaining conservative governments.
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Paris makes Dalai Lama a "citizen of honor" (Reuters)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:59pm EDT
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Reuters - Paris city hall made Tibetan spiritual
leader the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen on Monday,
exacerbating tensions between France and China in the build up
to the Beijing Olympics.
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Pakistan frees pro-Taliban leader, makes peace with group (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:58pm EDT
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AP - Pakistan freed a pro-Taliban cleric and quickly signed an accord with his hard-line group Monday, the first major step by the new government to talk peace with Islamic militants and break with President Pervez Musharraf's policy of using force.
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Attorney, military say 'Chemical Ali' hospitalized (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:51pm EDT
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AP - An attorney says a cousin of Saddam Hussein known as "Chemical Ali" has been hospitalized after going on a hunger strike. -
Cholera outbreak infects over 100 students in northern Nigeria (AFP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:12pm EDT
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AFP - At least 116 female students in northern Nigeria have been hospitalized with cholera after consuming contaminated beans, a health official said Monday.
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Cuban police break up women's sit-in for release of husbands (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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AP - Police broke up a peaceful sit-in by a small group of women demanding the release of their jailed husbands Monday, forcing them aboard a bus at a park near the offices of Cuban President Raul Castro and driving them home. -
Bodies of 20 Haitians are recovered from sea near Bahamas (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:01pm EDT
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AP - Haitians fleeing their impoverished homeland met tragedy when their boat went down off the Bahamas, killing at least 20 people and leaving only three known survivors, including an alleged migrant smuggler, authorities said Monday. -
Carter: Hamas is willing to accept Israel as its neighbor (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 2:17pm EDT
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AP - Former President Carter said Monday that Hamas the Islamic militant group that has called for the destruction of Israel is prepared to accept the right of the Jewish state to "live as a neighbor next door in peace."
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UN move expands Australia's territory: minister (AFP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 11:19am EDT
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AFP - Australia's territory has expanded by an area five times the size of France after the UN agreed to its jurisdiction over a massive amount of seabed, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson said Monday.
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Iraqi PM urges Arab states to open embassies in Baghdad (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 10:13am EDT
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AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday urged other Arab countries to reopen their embassies in the capital as a show of support for his government as it cracks down on Shiite militias in Iraq.