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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Clashes with Darfur rebels reported near Sudan's capital (AP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:36pm EDT
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Sudan rebels say they entered Khartoum (Reuters)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:36pm EDT
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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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Hezbollah to withdraw fighters in Beirut; 12 die in clash (AP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:17pm EDT
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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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Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names (AP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:07pm EDT
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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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Hamas militants fire rockets into Israel, no one hurt (AP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:05pm EDT
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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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SKorea doubles Tamiflu stockpile over bird flu fears (AFP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 11:48am EDT
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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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Serb voters poised to decide -- Europe or isolation? (AFP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 11:34am EDT
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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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Referendum in Myanmar likely to solidify junta's power (AP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 9:13am EDT
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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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Cleric spokesman: Cease-fire in Baghdad's Sadr City (AP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 7:34am EDT
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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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Colombia shows new rebel documents that link Venezuela (AP)
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 6:15am EDT
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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.