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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Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 5:52pm EDT
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Mideast Quartet urges Israel to stop West Bank settlements (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 5:40pm EDT
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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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Mugabe to contest Zimbabwe run-off, MDC cries foul (Reuters)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 5:05pm EDT
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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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Josef Fritzl: a shrewd liar and an obsessive tyrant (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:58pm EDT
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AP - Casual acquaintances knew Josef Fritzl as a jovial fellow who liked to drink beer and enjoyed a bawdy joke.
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Motorcycle bomb explodes outside Yemen mosque, killing 18 (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:44pm EDT
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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. -
Intestinal virus kills at least 21 children in China (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:26pm EDT
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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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Zimbabwe opposition willing to share power with ruling party (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:57pm EDT
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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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Tory victory seen for London mayor, other local elections (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 2:52pm EDT
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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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A day of skirmishing for Marines in southern Afghan town (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 2:46pm EDT
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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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Iraq's Shiite clerics deeply divided on militia crackdown (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:45pm EDT
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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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Doctor: Australia boat collision claims 6th victim (AP)
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:10am EDT
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AP - A sixth person died of injuries suffered when a fishing trawler collided with an overcrowded boat in Sydney Harbor, authorities said Friday.