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- Iraq offers amnesty to militants in Mosul
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-17-2008 12:00 AM -0700
Prime Minister Maliki says those who turn in their heavy and mid-size arms will receive financial compensation. In Fallouja, eight people, including an infant, are killed in a suicide attack....[more]
- Myanmar cyclone toll reaches 78,000
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-17-2008 12:00 AM -0700
But the regime still restricts international aid, refusing to allow a French supply ship to dock unless the Southeast Asian country's military is given charge of the cargo....[more]
- Survivors found five days after China quake
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 10:14 PM -0700
DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao urged rescuers in the southwestern province of Sichuan to race to save lives, days after the most destructive earthquake to hit modern...[more]
- Myanmar death toll soars
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 10:13 PM -0700
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta took diplomats on a tour of the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Saturday as its toll of dead and missing soared above 133,000 people, making Cyclone Nargis one...[more]
- WP: Crises cloud China's Olympic mood
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 10:05 PM -0700
Eight is an auspicious number in Chinese tradition, and 2008 was supposed to be a joyful year, a time for celebrating at the Beijing Olympics and basking in international recognition of the...[more]
- Australia's "Fat Tony" flies home to 12 years jail
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:45 PM -0700
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Like an episode from the hit mafia TV series the Sopranos, Australian mobster "Fat Tony" has finally been extradited from Greece to serve his 12 year jail sentence for cocaine...[more]
- Dominican president wins re-election, rival concedes
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:43 PM -0700
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, widely credited with pulling his Caribbean country out of a deep economic slump, cruised to a re-election victory on Friday, winning...[more]
- Bush exchanges views with young Israelis
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:36 PM -0700
Near the end of his Israel visit, the president has an informal chat with a group of Jewish and Arab students. A frank and lively discussion results.
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- Dominicans go to the polls
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:15 PM -0700
President Leonel Fernandez was favored to win a third term on Friday, despite concerns over long-serving politicians in this Caribbean nation with a painful history of rule by strongmen.[more]
- Panama to deploy special force on Colombian border
Category: World News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 07:09 PM -0700
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama will create an armed border protection force to combat the flow of cocaine and weapons and to catch leftist guerrillas along its jungle border with Colombia, the...[more]
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