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Posted: May 30th, 2008, 12:17am EDT
AP - A landslide killed two people Thursday in an Alpine valley in northwestern Italy as heavy rains battered the area. Two other people, including a child, were missing.
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Posted: May 30th, 2008, 12:16am EDT
AP - Vladimir Putin made his first major foray abroad as Russia's prime minister Thursday, insisting that managing the economy rather than ensuring human rights are respected is now his main job.
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Posted: May 30th, 2008, 12:08am EDT
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that no one should be celebrating the death of Colombian rebel leader Manuel Marulanda.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 11:58pm EDT
AP - A stockpile of chemicals being used to disinfect an earthquake-shattered Chinese town ignited Thursday and injured scores of soldiers doing relief work, adding to a day of problems for urgent recovery efforts.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 11:43pm EDT
AP - Myanmar's ruling junta lashed out Thursday at aid donors who promised millions of dollars for cyclone relief, saying survivors didn't need "bars of chocolate."
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 11:27pm EDT
AP - A strong earthquake shook southern Iceland on Thursday, injuring at least 15 people as it rocked buildings in the capital, touched off landslides and forced evacuations in outlying towns, officials and local media said.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 10:54pm EDT
AP - The head of U.N. peacekeeping pleaded with the international community Thursday to address gaps in support for peacekeeping missions, pointing especially to the shortfall in Darfur.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 8:03pm EDT
AP - As of Thursday, May 29, 2008, at least 4,085 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 4:40pm EDT
AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert suffered another blow Thursday when a key rival for power in his political party suggested the embattled leader should be replaced because of a widening corruption investigation.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 9:04am EDT
AFP - Indian batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar was on Thursday ruled out of the upcoming triangular series in Bangladesh as well as the Asia Cup due to a persistent groin injury.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 8:56am EDT
AFP - Ethiopian police said Thursday they had arrested suspects linked to this week's hotel bomb blasts that killed three people in the south of the country.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 8:51am EDT
AFP - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday he will visit the Middle East this week for talks on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and political stability in Lebanon.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 8:04am EDT
AP - A United Nations report released Thursday says the Balkans, a region once known as a hotbed of crime and violence, has become one of the safest zones in Europe.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 7:37am EDT
AP - Iraqi officials appealed Thursday to escape nearly $100 billion in debt and war reparations owed mostly to Arab nations still reluctant to forgive Iraq's belligerence during Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 7:20am EDT
AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a crowd of police recruits in northwestern Iraq, killing at least 16 men and wounding 14 others, an official said.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 7:12am EDT
AP - Turkish warplanes attacked several Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Thursday, Turkey's military said. No casualties were immediately reported.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 7:08am EDT
AP - Myanmar's military regime has approved visas for dozens of relief workers but also took a swipe at the international aid coming into the country, with state media saying Thursday that cyclone victims "can stand on their own."
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 4:18am EDT
AP - Rain grounded helicopters and added urgency to attempts on Thursday to drain an earthquake-created lake that was threatening to flood disaster victims in central China.
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 1:36am EDT
AP - No one could even remember a shark attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen. So when sharks attacked three surfers in less than a month, two fatally, it was unthinkable.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:40pm EDT
Reuters - A draft treaty for a worldwide ban on
cluster munitions was adopted on Wednesday although major
powers including the United States did not attend the meeting.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:38pm EDT
AP - No one could even remember a shark attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:22pm EDT
AP - Diplomats from more than 100 nations agreed on a treaty Wednesday to ban current types of cluster bombs and require the destruction of stockpiles within eight years.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:16pm EDT
AP - The leader of Taiwan's new ruling party told Chinese President Hu Jintao that the self-governed island needs to have an international presence, but acknowledged Wednesday there would be no quick solution to long-standing disputes.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:13pm EDT
AP - Israel's powerful defense minister on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down amid a burgeoning corruption scandal and threatened to bring down the government if the Israeli leader does not comply.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 3:55pm EDT
AFP - A prosecutor for the United Nations-backed court trying genocide in Rwanda said Wednesday that the brother-in-law of former Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana should be locked up for life.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 3:48pm EDT
AP - Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed 3,000-year-old remains from an ancient fortified city, the largest yet found in Egypt, antiquities authorities announced Wednesday.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 3:36pm EDT
AP - Police in northern Mexico have arrested two people accused of buying Mexican babies to sell to U.S. couples for a profit, investigators said Wednesday.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 3:25pm EDT
AP - It's not much, but the flimsy bamboo lean-to on the side of the road is all Aye Shwe has to keep his family dry. They lost their home to the cyclone and may soon be uprooted again this time by soldiers ordering them to leave.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 1:50pm EDT
AP - Rebuilding China's devastated earthquake zone will be a long and arduous process, the government warned Wednesday in a signal to millions of survivors living in tents that there will be no quick return to normalcy from their upturned lives.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 3:40am EDT
AFP - Pope Benedict XVI will meet Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu leaders during his visit to Australia in July, organisers said Wednesday.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 8:28pm EDT
AFP - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda pledged assistance Wednesday to help Africa double rice production over the next 10 years to ease the burden of soaring food prices.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 8:18pm EDT
Reuters - Tug of war and shin kicking
will be the feature events when a small rural English town
stages its 400-year-old "Olimpick" games this week.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 8:05pm EDT
AP - As of Tuesday, May 27, 2008, at least 4,085 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 7:47pm EDT
AP - Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara returned to Buenos Aires Tuesday, his defiant expression immortalized in a towering bronze statue.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 7:27pm EDT
AP - Myanmar's military regime on Tuesday extended the house arrest of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, refusing to bow to international pressure of the sort that persuaded the generals to let in foreign help for cyclone victims.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 7:13pm EDT
AP - About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 6:28pm EDT
AFP - Euro 2008 co-hosts Austria's hopes of a welcome boost ahead of the finals which begin on June 7 were erased here on Tuesday as they were held 1-1 by African Nations Cup quarter-finalists Nigeria.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 5:10pm EDT
AP - A Jewish-American businessman testified Tuesday in a corruption probe that threatens to bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, saying he handed cash-stuffed envelopes to the Israeli politician he described as a bon vivant with a penchant for fancy hotels, fine cigars and first-class travel.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 4:26pm EDT
AP - Liu Yisi sits on a hospital bed, reading a comic book. His nose is bruised, swollen and cut, and his left arm is heavily bandaged.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 4:19pm EDT
AP - Sports has been one of the few things unifying Iraqis in recent years with soccer victories bringing Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds alike into the streets cheering.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 9:34am EDT
AP - An Australian town council on Tuesday unanimously rejected a contentious proposal to build a 1,200-student Islamic school, citing infrastructure concerns.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 10:50pm EDT
AFP - World leaders looking for ways to ease global food shortages may have found one answer in warehouses dotted around Japan where a rice mountain is standing idle.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 9:56pm EDT
AP - The Colombian Defense Ministry said Saturday that it has information from various intelligence sources that the legendary leader of Latin America's largest guerrilla army is dead.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 9:53pm EDT
AP - With all of his Academy Awards and other Hollywood honors, Clint Eastwood is not necessarily in the market for more prizes. He'll never shy away from a contest, though, including the one at the world's most prestigious film showcase.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 9:18pm EDT
AFP - East Timor hopes to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by 2012 but not as a "basket case" which might embarrass the bloc like Myanmar, President Jose Ramos-Horta said.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 8:27pm EDT
Reuters - Congolese former rebel warlord
Jean-Pierre Bemba was arrested by Belgian authorities in
Brussels on Saturday on an International Criminal Court warrant
for war crimes committed in the Central African Republic.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 8:20pm EDT
AP - As of Saturday, May 24, 2008, at least 4,081 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 6:36pm EDT
AP - A strong earthquake has shaken Colombia's capital, killing three people and injuring eight.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 4:08pm EDT
AP - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Saturday that al-Qaida's network in the country has never been closer to defeat, and he praised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his moves to rein in Shiite and Sunni militant groups.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 3:07pm EDT
AP - Aid agencies geared up Saturday to go into Myanmar's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta after the country's ruling junta vowed to open its doors to help ahead of an international donors meeting.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 1:36pm EDT
AP - China warned Saturday that the death toll from a massive earthquake two weeks ago could take a major leap and pass 80,000, suggesting the government may be giving up hope of finding more survivors.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 1:04pm EDT
AP - Opposition leader and presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai returned to his homeland Saturday, stopping first to visit hospitalized supporters who had been targeted in an onslaught of state-sponsored violence.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 9:12am EDT
Reuters - Myanmar's junta agreed on
Friday to admit cyclone aid workers "regardless of
nationalities" to the hardest-hit Irrawaddy Delta, a
breakthrough for delivering help to survivors, U.N. officials
said.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 9:09am EDT
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Myanmar will allow delivery of aid to its cyclone victims by civilian ships and boats.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 9:05am EDT
AFP - Police on Friday questioned a "radicalised" convert to Islam after a bomb explosion in the centre of Exeter, as locals revealed more details about him.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 8:12am EDT
Reuters - Up to 60 heavily armed men on
horseback ambushed a patrol of peacekeepers in Darfur, in a new
attack on international forces in Sudan's strife-torn west, the
United Nations said on Friday.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 7:37am EDT
AP - The presidents of China and Russia have condemned a U.S. plan for a global missile defense system.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 7:15am EDT
AP - Somali pirates on Friday released a UAE-owned ship they captured a week ago, a regional maritime official said.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 7:14am EDT
AP - Clashes on Friday between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip left five militants dead, further undermining efforts to bring a brief truce to the violence-wracked area.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 7:00am EDT
AP - Earthquake survivors living downstream from lakes formed by blocked rivers were being evacuated Friday for fears that aftershocks could unleash flooding. The death toll rose to more than 55,000 and nearly 25,000 people remain missing.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 6:53am EDT
AP - Britain's Conservatives crushed the governing Labour Party in a special election that underlined the deepening unpopularity of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government, results showed Friday.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 6:48am EDT
AP - Police said Friday they expect to file charges over photographs showing naked 12- and 13-year-old children that were supposed to be exhibited at a Sydney art gallery.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 1:51am EDT
AP - Colombia's chief prosecutor opened preliminary investigations Thursday into contacts between leftist rebels and prominent politicians, journalists and foreigners including a U.S. consultant.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:42pm EDT
AP - Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship carrying humanitarian aid to Mogadishu on Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless Somali coast, the head of a seafarer's association said.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:41pm EDT
AP - Every Friday for more than three years, schoolteacher Abdullah Abu Rahma has grabbed a bullhorn and a Palestinian flag and marched a few hundred yards from his West Bank village to a 10-foot-tall mesh fence and an inevitable confrontation with the Israeli army.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:18pm EDT
AFP - Invincible China clinched their sixth consecutive Uber Cup team championship Saturday, toppling Indonesia 3-0 to send an ominous warning ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:07pm EDT
AFP - Rain continued to frustrate England's attempt to build a first innings lead in the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's here Saturday.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 11:46am EDT
AP - Federal agents swooped in to close sawmills and confiscate wood in a government crackdown on illegal logging less than three months ago.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 11:09am EDT
AP - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, expressed confidence during a visit to Iraq on Saturday that expected provincial elections will promote national reconciliation.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 8:49am EDT
AP - Assassination threats have derailed plans by Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to return home to campaign for the presidential runoff vote, a party official said Saturday.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 4:00am EDT
AP - Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims fled areas near the epicenter Saturday, fearful of floods from rivers blocked by landslides rattled loose in this week's powerful temblor.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:55am EDT
AP - President Bush, trying to reassure Palestinians wary of his dedication to their side in the Mideast peace dispute, said Saturday that he is "absolutely committed" to getting an Israeli-Palestinian accord by the end of the year.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:53am EDT
AP - North Korea welcomed on Saturday a U.S. offer of food aid, saying the assistance would help alleviate shortages and improve relations between the two countries.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:47am EDT
AP - The popular hero of China's earthquake rescue effort isn't a strapping firefighter or a seasoned cop it's the country's bespectacled premier who's been clambering over piles of rubble to rally victims in the hardest-hit areas.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:45am EDT
AP - European and Latin American leaders have pledged to fight poverty, global warming and high food prices, presenting a show of unity amid a festering conflict between two South American nations.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:41am EDT
AP - President Leonel Fernandez declared victory early Saturday in the Dominican Republic's national election and pledged to continue pushing forward economic projects that have helped pull the Caribbean nation's economy out of crisis.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:21am EDT
AP - A human rights leader says Islamist fighters have seized a southern town in Somalia that is a major agricultural center, compelling hundreds of refugees to flee.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:08am EDT
AP - The brother of Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan says the envoy has been released three months after he was kidnapped near the border between the two countries.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 2:50am EDT
AP - A series of clashes, airstrikes and bomb blasts left 10 militants and four civilians killed in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 2:44am EDT
AP - A French navy ship carrying 1,000 tons of food idled near Myanmar's coast Saturday, awaiting permission from the uncooperative ruling military regime to dock in the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 2:02am EDT
AFP - Australia's most wanted fugitive landed in Melbourne on a flight from Greece amid tight security on Saturday, more than two years after fleeing his homeland.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 8:07pm EDT
Reuters - The United Nations said on Wednesday up
to 2.5 million people might have been affected by the Myanmar
cyclone and proposed a high-level donors conference as the
Myanmar junta again limited foreign aid.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 8:06pm EDT
AP - President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday he will try to re-establish contacts with Colombian rebels in an attempt to win freedom for more hostages held by the guerrillas.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 7:43pm EDT
AP - An unmanned Russian cargo ship blasted off Thursday with supplies, equipment and gifts for the international space station, an official said.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 7:06pm EDT
AP - The Red Cross estimated Wednesday that the cyclone death toll in Myanmar could be as high as 128,000 a much higher figure than the government tally. The U.N. warned a second wave of deaths will follow unless the military regime lets in more aid quickly.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:43pm EDT
AP - Soldiers rushed to shore up a dam cracked by this week's powerful earthquake, and rescuers came by helicopter and ship Wednesday into the isolated epicenter but still were forced to dig for survivors with their bare hands.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:29pm EDT
AP - Mob violence against Zimbabweans and other foreigners this week has killed at least two people and injured about 60 in an impoverished Johannesburg neighborhood, authorities said Wednesday.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:16pm EDT
AP - The U.S.-backed Cabinet on Wednesday reversed measures against the militant Hezbollah movement that set off Lebanon's worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:09pm EDT
AP - Hundreds of dams around the epicenter of China's earthquake have been damaged and Chinese troops scrambled Wednesday to plug cracks and open sluices to prevent flooding of already devastated communities.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT
AP - A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 5:14pm EDT
AP - A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a shopping center in this southern Israeli city Wednesday, wounding at least 14 people, as President Bush wrapped up talks in Jerusalem with Israel's prime minister.
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 10:48am EDT
AFP - Australia is considering taking Iran's president to the International Court of Justice for inciting violence against Israel, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:36pm EDT
AP - Hundreds of Darfur rebels reached the outskirts of Sudan's capital and were clashing with security forces, a rebel leader said Saturday.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:36pm EDT
Reuters - A Darfur rebel commander said on
Saturday his JEM group had entered Khartoum and was aiming to
take power in Sudan.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:17pm EDT
AP - Hezbollah said Saturday it was withdrawing its gunmen from Beirut neighborhoods seized in sectarian clashes after the army ordered its troops to establish security and called on fighters to clear the streets.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:07pm EDT
AP - Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:05pm EDT
AP - Palestinian militants bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars on Saturday, part of a new outburst of violence that threatens fragile Egyptian efforts to broker a truce in the Gaza Strip.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 11:48am EDT
AFP - South Korea will double its stockpiles of antiviral flu medicine Tamiflu as avian flu has spread through most the country, health officials said Saturday.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 11:34am EDT
AFP - A polarised Serbia on Saturday mulled the path it should take -- towards Europe or a likely return to isolation -- on the eve of polls seen as the most important since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 9:13am EDT
AP - Myanmar held a referendum Saturday that likely will solidify the ruling junta's hold on power, even as it appeared overwhelmed by a devastating cyclone that killed tens of thousands of people.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 7:34am EDT
AP - Shiite militants agreed on a ceasefire in Baghdad's embattled neighborhood of Sadr City, an aide to a high level cleric said Saturday, holding out hope that weeks of clashes in the capital could be at an end.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 6:15am EDT
AP - A newly disclosed set of documents that Colombia's government says were recovered from a slain rebel's computers indicate senior Venezuelan officials tried to help arm Colombia's main guerrilla army.
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 5:08am EDT
AFP - The Australian military Friday said it was investigating allegations that its troops mistreated suspected insurgents in Afghanistan, shortly after a special forces soldier was killed there.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:50pm EDT
AP - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn't pursuing any other major deals immediately following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:41pm EDT
AP - An Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:50pm EDT
AP - Two female Japanese tourists kidnapped in Yemen's Marib province Wednesday were freed after tribal mediation, a Yemeni security official said.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:41pm EDT
AFP - The Bank of England is expected to leave interest rates on hold at 5.00 percent on Thursday, ruling out a second successive cut amid stubbornly high inflation, according to analysts.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 6:23pm EDT
Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon on Wednesday strongly condemned recent deadly bomb
attacks on a school, water installation and market in Sudan's
warring Darfur region.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 6:01pm EDT
AP - Hungry people swarmed the few open shops and fistfights broke out over food and water in Myanmar's swamped Irrawaddy delta Wednesday as a top U.S. diplomat warned that the death toll from a devastating cyclone could top 100,000.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 5:47pm EDT
AP - A Kuwaiti freed from Guantanamo Bay carried out a suicide car bombing recently in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday, confirming what is believed to be the first such attack by a former detainee at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 5:04pm EDT
AP - Some survivors arrived half-naked, others wore clothes they scavenged from the dead.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 2:11pm EDT
AP - With the swearing in of Dmitry Medvedev as Russia's president, the Kremlin leadership now mirrors one of its most potent symbols the double-headed eagle.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 10:17am EDT
AP - Myanmar's rice-growing heartland has been devastated by Cyclone Nargis, posing worries of long-term food shortages for the impoverished country and political problems for its military regime, experts said Wednesday.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:07am EDT
AP - Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:37pm EDT
AP - About 3,500 American soldiers are scheduled to leave Iraq in the coming weeks, the U.S. military announced, as part of the Pentagon's overall reduction in troop strength following last year's "surge."
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:35pm EDT
AP - The Marines of Bravo Company's 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. Afghan laborers scraping the plant's gooey resin smile and wave.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:34pm EDT
AP - Hundreds of Palestinian police came under fire when they deployed in this militant stronghold Tuesday as President Mahmoud Abbas pushed ahead with a U.S.-backed program to assert authority in the West Bank.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:31pm EDT
Reuters - Myanmar's military government raised its
death toll from Cyclone Nargis on Tuesday to nearly 22,500 with
a further 41,000 missing, nearly all of them from a massive
storm surge that swept into the Irrawaddy delta.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:21pm EDT
AP - The peacekeeping force in Darfur said Tuesday it was still trying to evacuate those wounded in airstrikes two days earlier that an aid group reported left 12 people dead, including six children.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:11pm EDT
AP - As Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Israelis have their gaze set firmly backward.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:55pm EDT
AFP - Prince Charles began a four-day private visit to Romania Tuesday, where he is due to visit several villages in Transylvania, in the centre of the country, official sources said.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:25pm EDT
AP - The cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 on Tuesday and more than 41,000 others were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid after the country's deadliest storm on record, state radio reported.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:10pm EDT
AP - Rescue workers Tuesday found the bodies of four more passengers of a river boat that sank while ferrying people from a religious festival in northern Brazil. The discovery raises the death toll to 21.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 12:35pm EDT
AP - President Hu Jintao, on the first visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in 10 years, called Tuesday for the Asian giants to improve their often strained relations and as a show of goodwill reportedly offered to lend Tokyo a pair of pandas.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:05am EDT
AFP - China should be aware of the difficulties new visa restrictions could cause for businesses ahead of the Olympics, Australia's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 7:49am EDT
AP - A state radio station says the death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar has risen to nearly 4,000.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 7:45am EDT
AP - The lawyer for the Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her has said he is preparing an insanity defense.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 7:42am EDT
AFP - Three people were killed when flammable materials carried by a passenger caused an explosion on a crowded bus in China's financial hub of Shanghai, police and witnesses said Monday
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 7:38am EDT
Reuters - Sudan will ask donor nations meeting
in Norway this week for $6 billion over the next three years to
help rebuild Africa's largest nation after decades of civil
wars, a government report said.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 7:37am EDT
AP - Iran said Monday it would not hold a new round of talks with the U.S. on security in Iraq until American forces end their current assault against Shiite militias.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 7:18am EDT
AP - A U.S. Air Force gunship strafed Shiite extremists who attacked U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Monday, and the military said it killed at least nine militants in recent clashes in the capital.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 6:34am EDT
AP - A boat ferrying at least 80 people home from a party sank in Brazil's Amazon region, killing at least 15 and leaving dozens missing, according to rescue officials and Brazil's government.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 6:32am EDT
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wound up a weekend trip to spur Israeli-Palestinian talks with a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, and Olmert was scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later in the day.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 6:15am EDT
AP - The China Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform this week for Pope Benedict XVI, state media reported Monday, the latest indication that the often-strained ties between Beijing and the Vatican are improving.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 5:36am EDT
AP - An Australian doctor proposed Monday that the government pay up to $47,000 for kidney donations to overcome a chronic shortage.
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 3:23am EDT
AP - President Evo Morales faced an invigorated state autonomy movement that could cripple his populist agenda after a vote by Bolivia's largest and richest state for greater freedom from his central government.
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 2:59am EDT
Reuters - Myanmar's military government declared
disaster areas in five states on Sunday after a Category 3
cyclone tore through the Irrawaddy delta region, killing at
least four people in Yangon, state newspapers said.
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 2:51am EDT
AP - Cheering Chinese stood on their chairs and waved flags as the Olympic torch started its mainland leg Sunday on the tropical island of Hainan the first stop in what is expected to be a peaceful three-month journey to Beijing.
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 2:44am EDT
AP - Lee Young, 8, and Cein Quinn, 7, live barely 200 yards apart, but they have never met, and maybe never will.
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 1:53am EDT
AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao said he hoped for a positive outcome from talks between representatives of the Dalai Lama and officials beginning Sunday, the first meeting between the two sides since violent anti-government protests erupted in Tibet.
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 1:44am EDT
AP - The government has declared five regions, including Yangon, disaster zones after Tropical Cyclone Nargis damaged hundreds of houses and knocked out electricity to many areas, state-run television reported Sunday.
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 1:29am EDT
AFP - Australia's most populous state is set to privatise its electricity industry despite overwhelming opposition from the ruling party's rank-and-file membership, Treasurer Michael Costa said.
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 12:58am EDT
AP - Voters in Bolivia's largest state are likely to pass a sweeping autonomy referendum Sunday, dealing a blow to the country's leftist president and deepening an entrenched political conflict.
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 12:46am EDT
AP - The U.S. military fired guided missiles into the heart of Baghdad's teeming Sadr City slum on Saturday, leveling a building 55 yards away from a hospital and wounding nearly two dozen people.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 11:25pm EDT
AFP - In his office in Lagos, Alain Salleras, a Frenchman of about 50 for whom biofuels are something of a crusade, is working away at his pet project -- producing ethanol from sweet sorghum in Nigeria.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 10:55pm EDT
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday she will ask Israel to remove more physical barriers erected in the West Bank as a bulwark against Palestinian militants.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 9:15pm EDT
AP - As of Saturday, May 3, 2008, at least 4,071 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,315 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 11:18am EDT
AFP - Niger Delta militants on Saturday attacked facilities belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil group Shell in southern Bayelsa state, a security source said.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 11:13am EDT
Reuters - Counting in Guam's Democratic
primary stretched into Sunday after residents of the tiny U.S.
territory turned out in record numbers to choose between Barack
Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 11:02am EDT
Reuters - A tropical cyclone slammed into
Myanmar's main city of Yangon on Saturday, ripping off roofs,
felling trees and raising fears of major casualties.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 10:56am EDT
Reuters - Former Spanish Prime Minister Leopoldo
Calvo Sotelo, whose appointment ceremony in 1981 was
interrupted by a coup attempt, died on Saturday at the age of
82, his son said.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 10:55am EDT
AP - The Turkish military says a raid in northern Iraq earlier this week killed more than 150 Kurdish rebels.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 10:43am EDT
AP - The U.S. military on Saturday fired missiles at a target about 50 yards away from the general hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City district, wounding more than 20 people and destroying ambulances, hospital officials said.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 10:09am EDT
AP - Zimbabwe's opposition on Saturday held out the possibility its leader would face President Robert Mugabe in a presidential runoff, but called on the nation's neighbors to verify the vote count from the first round.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 8:43am EDT
AP - Chinese media railed against the Dalai Lama and his supporters Saturday and pledged to crush any campaign seeking independence for Tibet ahead of a meeting between Beijing and envoys of the exiled spiritual leader.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 7:23am EDT
AP - U.S. pilots flying missions over Iraq come to the region expecting a host of challenges, including swirling sandstorms and urban battlefields filled with a mix of enemies and civilians.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 7:13am EDT
AP - Clashes between rebels and Yemeni troops have resumed in the wake of a devastating bomb attack outside mosque that killed 18 worshippers, a government official said Saturday.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 3:42am EDT
AP - Authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages in southern Chile Friday after a snowcapped volcano considered dormant for thousands of years erupted. The blast sent minor earthquakes rippling through the region.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 5:52pm EDT
AP - Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 5:40pm EDT
AP - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad warned Friday that peace talks could collapse unless Israel changes course and accepts a more conciliatory approach in negotiations.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 5:05pm EDT
Reuters - Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe accepted
that the opposition's Morgan Tsvangirai won more votes in the
presidential election and will contest a run-off in a political
battle that has raised fears of bloodshed.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:58pm EDT
AP - Casual acquaintances knew Josef Fritzl as a jovial fellow who liked to drink beer and enjoyed a bawdy joke.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:44pm EDT
AP - A bomb rigged to a motorcycle blew up amid a crowd of worshippers leaving Friday prayers at a mosque in a rebel stronghold of northern Yemen, killing at least 18 people and wounding about four dozen, officials said.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:26pm EDT
AP - An outbreak of intestinal virus in eastern China has claimed the lives of at least 21 children and the number of reported cases has risen to nearly 2,500, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:57pm EDT
AP - Zimbabwe's opposition said Friday it was willing to share power with the ruling party, but not with longtime President Robert Mugabe.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 2:52pm EDT
AP - An eccentric Conservative lawmaker appeared likely to become London's next mayor after an election that brought only gloom Friday for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 2:46pm EDT
AP - Gunfire zings in near Sgt. Dan Linas' patrol, pinning his squad down against a dirt berm. The Marines peer across the field to their left, at three mud huts and a grove of trees, searching for the muzzle flash. Then they cut loose with their M-16s.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:45pm EDT
AP - Shiite clerics offered sharply different visions Friday in the showdown between government forces and Shiite militias one predicting that armed groups will be crushed in Baghdad and another calling for the prime minister to be prosecuted for crimes against his people.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:10am EDT
AP - A sixth person died of injuries suffered when a fishing trawler collided with an overcrowded boat in Sydney Harbor, authorities said Friday.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 1:06pm EDT
AP - On the eve of Friday's Olympic torch relay through Hong Kong, officials allowed actress Mia Farrow into the Chinese territory so she could bash China's cozy ties with Sudan, although they had earlier kicked out pro-Tibet activists.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 1:02pm EDT
AP - Iraqi police say a double suicide bombing has struck a wedding convoy, killing at least 30 people and wounding 65 others.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 1:00pm EDT
Reuters - Officials began verifying the results
from Zimbabwe's March 29 presidential election on Thursday,
bringing a step closer the release of the long delayed vote
count, the electoral commission said.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 12:52pm EDT
AFP - A high-profile battle for control of London dominated local elections Thursday seen as a key test for embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 12:10pm EDT
AP - One of Osama bin Laden's sons has been denied British residency because London authorities believe his presence in the country would cause "considerable public concern," the man's wife said Thursday.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 12:05pm EDT
AP - An Iraqi delegation traveled to Iran with evidence that proves the Islamic republic is arming and training of Shiite militias in Iraq, an official said Thursday.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 11:58am EDT
AP - An Austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her seven children repeatedly warned his captives that they would be gassed if they tried to escape, a spokesman for investigators said Thursday.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 11:46am EDT
AP - The U.S. military killed a man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia and 10 others in an airstrike overnight, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 11:31am EDT
AP - A human rights activist whose disappearance prompted an intense government manhunt was released by his captors after being tied up and beaten, he said Thursday.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 11:23am EDT
AFP - Six people were killed as a result of a boat crash in Australia's famed Sydney Harbour on Thursday when a fishing vessel slammed into an overcrowded cruiser apparently out on an illegal overnight joyride.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 11:16am EDT
AP - A runoff will be necessary to decide Zimbabwe's presidential election, a Cabinet minister said Thursday, citing the government's own election results.
