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Chilean town giving free Viagra to senior citizens (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:13pm EDT
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AP - A working class suburb of Chile's capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday. Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete said he launched the program because "an active sexuality improves the overall quality of life." -
Israel: Soldiers didn't know they were firing at journalist (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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AP - The Israeli military said Wednesday that initial findings from its investigation into the killing of a Reuters news agency cameraman indicated that troops did not realize they were firing at a journalist. -
What's a Roman earn? Find out on the Internet (Reuters)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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Reuters - Italians were surprised, and in some cases outraged, on Wednesday to discover that their income levels were available for public viewing on an Internet site. -
7 killed during raid on militant hideout in Afghan capital (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:04pm EDT
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AP - Hundreds of intelligence agents on Wednesday raided the hideout of militants with suspected links to an attack on President Hamid Karzai, as the Afghan capital was sucked deeper into the war against the Taliban.
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China launches investigation into claims of child slavery (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:49pm EDT
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AP - China is investigating whether hundreds of children, most between the ages of 9 and 16, were sold to factories in the southern province of Guangdong over the past five years to work as virtual slave laborers, state media said Wednesday.
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Pakistan's leaders extend talks on reinstating ousted judges (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:48pm EDT
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AP - Pakistan's new leaders failed to meet their Wednesday deadline to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf, but said they would keep trying to resolve a dispute that is threatening their month-old coalition government.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader on track for victory (AFP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:39pm EDT
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AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader was on track to win the first round of a presidential election against the incumbent Robert Mugabe, sources told AFP on Wednesday, more than four weeks after voting day.
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Official: DNA tests confirm IDs of Russian czar's children (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 11:58am EDT
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AP - DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that remains exhumed last year belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II, putting to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, a regional governor said Wednesday.
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Olympic torch arrives in Hong Kong after activists deported (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:59am EDT
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AP - The Olympic torch arrived in Hong Kong Wednesday after the Chinese territory deported at least seven activists who planned to protest the flame.
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BG Group offer 12 billion dollars for Australian energy firm (AFP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:59am EDT
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AFP - Australia's second-largest energy retailer, Origin Energy Ltd, said Wednesday it had received a 12.9 billion dollar (12.05 billion US) takeover proposal from BG Group.
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Forty years on, Nigeria's Biafra war still touchy subject (AFP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:56am EDT
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AFP - Forty years on, the Nigerian civil war remains a subject so potentially divisive in what is already a fragile federation that even schoolbooks go out of their way to skim over the issue.
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Official: Explosion near Italian embassy in Yemen (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:30am EDT
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AP - A security official says an explosion went off near the Italian embassy in Yemen's capital. No injuries were reported. -
Concentration camp doctor heads list of top 10 wanted Nazis (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:01am EDT
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AP - Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man.
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Officials: Captive family in Austria reunited (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 1:58am EDT
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AP - Police are looking into possible links between a young woman's killing and the man who confessed to holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children, a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday.
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Australia to cut gay discrimination (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 12:21am EDT
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AP - Australia's new government won praise Wednesday for its plan to eliminate discrimination against gay couples in more than 100 laws, but even those applauding said it should go further and approve same sex marriages.