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UN says it's still in dark about survivor needs two weeks after Myanmar cyclone

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:10:09 +0000

YANGON, Myanmar - The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors' suffering two weeks afte...

Losing racehorses in Puerto Rico condemned to die

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:10:21 +0000

CANOVANAS, Puerto Rico - For thoroughbred racehorses in Puerto Rico, success can be a matter of life and death. Many losers don't make it off the racetrack grounds alive. More than 400 horses, many...

Einstein letter dismissing 'childish' religion sells at UK auction for $400,000

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:10:20 +0000

LONDON - A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish" has sold at auction for more than $400,000. Bloomsbury Aucti...

Iranian Embassy convoy ambushed in Iraq, four people wounded

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:51:59 +0000

BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed an Iranian Embassy convoy in Baghdad, wounding three Iranians, including two diplomats, and an Iraqi. Iranian Embassy spokesman Manoucher Taslimi says the convoy was en ro...

Defence authorities revive plan to kill 400 kangaroos in Australian capital

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:52:04 +0000

CANBERRA, Australia - Defence authorities outraged animal rights campaigners Friday by reviving plans to kill 400 kangaroos that are causing environmental damage on the outskirts of Australia's capita...

Clashes, roadside bomb kill 8 militants, 1 Afghan soldier

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:51:55 +0000

KABUL, Afghanistan - Clashes in eastern and southern Afghanistan have left eight militants dead, while a roadside bomb killed an Afghan soldier. Afghan army commander in Zhari district Rehmatullah ...

Bin Laden's new message says holy war on against Israel, its allies

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:51:58 +0000

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden says in a new message that al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine. Friday's message comes as U.S. President Ge...

French police say 10 people arrested in three countries in terror probe

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:52:01 +0000

PARIS - A French police official says authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands have detained 10 people in a probe into suspected Islamic terror financing. The official says police are try...

Sichuan government says confirmed death toll from earthquake rises to 21,000

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:52:05 +0000

BEIJING - The Sichuan government says the official death toll from this week's powerful earthquake in the province has risen to 21,000 people. Vice-Governor Li Chengyun announced the figure at a ne...

Death toll hits 43 in China from hand, foot and mouth disease virus

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:51:56 +0000

BEIJING - A report says the death toll rose to 43 from the hand, foot and mouth disease virus that has sickened tens of thousands of children across China. A 22-month-old girl from eastern Jiangxi ...

China quake toll could reach 50,000; daunting recovery for millions affected

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:01:24 +0000

LUOSHUI, China - Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for...

U.S. military says American marine in Japan sentenced to 4 years

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:01:27 +0000

TOKYO - The U.S. military says a military court has found an American marine guilty of abusive sexual conduct of a Japanese teenager in Okinawa, southern Japan. The military said Staff Sgt. Tyrone ...

Sri Lanka's military says suicide blast kills 6 policemen, wounds 50 people

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:01:26 +0000

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A military spokesman says a suicide bomb blast in Sri Lanka's capital has killed six policemen and wounded 50 other people. Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara says a su...

Hundreds of Tibetans protest in Nepal's capital, calling for homeland freedom

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:01:28 +0000

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Hundreds of Tibetan exiles calling for freedom in their homeland demonstrated in the Nepalese capital Friday until police stopped them. About 500 Tibetans, many of them women, ma...

China OKs foreign rescue teams from four countries for quake zone

Fri, 16 May 2008 06:33:24 +0000

BEIJING - After days of refusing foreign relief workers, China has accepted offers from four countries to send in rescue teams. Hours after saying it will accept a Japanese rescue team, the Foreign...