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Two Tornadoes Touchdown In Alabama
The National Weather Service confirms two twisters hit Alabama. One of them tossed two cars nearly 40 feet through the air.
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Puntland frees broadcast chief
AFP MOGADISHU - Authorities in Somalia's breakaway region of Puntland freed a broadcast corporation chief held on charges that his media outlets incited political upheaval, he told AFP today. Mowlid Haji Abdi was released late yesterday after being detained for hours. . . .
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| U.S. diplomat to visit N. Korea Thursday for talks over nuke issue
The U.S. State Department's top Korea expert will visit North Korea again on Thursday for talks with the country's officials over Pyongyang's declaration of its nuclear programs, the department said Tuesday. The visit by Sung Kim, director of the department's Office of Korean Affairs, follows his trip to the country in late April, which North Korea later said yielded progress.
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| ADB chief Kuroda announces $500 mil. aid to cope with rising food prices
Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda announced Tuesday that the Manila-based lender will offer $500 million in emergency funding to developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region to help the poor and needy in the region cope with surging food prices across the world. The ADB chief unveiled the plan after the bank wrapped up a two-day annual meeting in Madrid amid calls from developing countries in the region to help them cushion the impact of rising food prices.
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| More than 20% of school library budget misappropriated
More than 20 percent of the central government's budget of around 20 billion yen provided to municipal governments for the purchase of books for school libraries in fiscal 2007 was misappropriated, education ministry officials said Saturday. Most local governments told the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology that they had used the money for other purposes because of financial difficulties, the officials said.
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Colombia shows new rebel documents that link Venezuela
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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.
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| Governor considered commuting death sentence
 Montana’s governor told a top Canadian consular official last year that he was willing to consider commuting the death sentence of Alberta-born killer Ronald Smith — the only Canadian on death row in the U.S. — and transfer him to a Canadian prison if Canada would guarantee he’d be kept behind bars for at least five years.
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Sri Lanka holds vote in liberated east !
Eastern Sri Lanka residents voted Saturday in their first major election, less than a year after the separatist rebels lost control of the region. The poll was hailed as a democratic milestone but marred by a rebel attacks, one that left 11 people dead.
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Putin Is Approved as Prime Minister
Vladimir V. Putin won an overwhelming vote in Russia?s lower house of Parliament, a day after he passed formal power as president to his protégé, Dmitri A. Medvedev.
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| Iraq govt, Sadr bloc agree truce - officials
Source: Reuters * Iraq govt agrees truce with Sadr bloc to end clashes
* Iraqi military to halt activities for 4 days - Sadr aide
* U.S. military makes no comment on agreement
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Darfur rebels clash with Sudanese army
Darfur rebels and Sudan's army have fought heavy battles in the North Kordofan province near Khartoum, a local government official and witnesses said.
Huge Texas sinkholes appetite decreasing, officials say Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down Thursday, but that it could take months before it's clear whether surrounding areas are stable.
UKs Brown taking tips from Blair, says Cherie
 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is taking advice from his predecessor Tony Blair on how to win the next general election despite pressuring him out of office, the wife of the former prime minister said on Saturday.
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| Malaysia begins withdrawing truce team from southern Philippines
Malaysia on Saturday began pulling out its contingent in a 60-member international team that has been monitoring a ceasefire agreement between the Philippine government and Muslim separatist rebels on the southern island of Mindanao. ''Our mission is accomplished. We have laid down the foundation for peace,'' Malaysia's Maj. Gen. Yasin Mat Daud, who heads the team, told reporters in Cotabato after the first batch of 28 of the 41 Malaysian members of the truce team was flown out of the central Mindanao city earlier in the day.
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| Caught in a Swirl of Drug Violence, Mexico Vows to Fight Back
From Tamaulipas State, the site of repeated clashes between drug dealers and federal police, President Felipe Calderón said that his administration would not be intimidated.
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Singapore foreign minister arrives in N. Korea
Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo and his party arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported. The KCNA report, monitored in Beijing, gave no further details of Yeo's visit, but Singapore's Foreign Ministry said Friday that he would be making a five-day official visit to North Korea from Saturday, accompanied by a business delegation.
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| McCain girding for battle with Obama
 Now that Democrat Hillary Clinton is fading, Republican John McCain's U.S. presidential campaign is girding for a tough election battle against Barack Obama and McCain aides believe he has weaknesses to exploit.
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Brian McClair: We wont produce a group like Beckham, Butt and Scholes again
The business of dominating English football never stops. Which means that even if they beat Wigan tomorrow to seal their 10th Premier League title, Manchester United will ask themselves the big question: what next? Central to United's dynasty of success is the production of young footballers which, in the 50th anniversary year of the Munich air disaster, has never been quite so poignant. more articles |
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As if the junta's grudging response to Cyclone Nargis isn't mind boggling enough, Myanmar's generals diverted manpower from the aid effort Saturday to oversee a referendum on a new constitution.
Child welfare authorities on Thursday seized an 11-year-old cancer-stricken boy from his parents to compel the child to take chemotherapy.
In winter, a tourist woman's fancy lustily turns to thoughts of sex. By the thousands they descend on the Caribbean every year, women driven by one urge: to spend a week or two sleeping with local "beach boys" and paying them back in drinks, meals, gifts and cash.
