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    Boxing great Tyson tells all in film at Cannes (AP)

    Former American boxer Mike Tyson and American director James Toback pose at the photo call for the film 'Tyson' during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri)AP - Mike Tyson considers it a miracle that he lived to tell his tale. And he's telling it — in graphic detail — in a new documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 08:50:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Religious hardliners gain in Kuwait (AP)

    A Kuwaiti citizen cast his vote in a polling station in Salwa, Kuwait, during parliamentary elections on Saturday, May 17, 2008. Voters in Kuwait lined up Saturday to vote in landmark parliamentary elections that could substantially change the legislative body of this tiny, oil-rich Gulf emirate following electoral reforms to reduce corruption and vote buying. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)AP - Kuwait's parliamentary elections showed strong gains for Muslim hardliners, official results found Sunday, but women candidates failed to win a single seat.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 10:28:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Talks between feuding Lebanese bog down (AP)

    Lawmaker Mohammed Raad, right, who heads Hezbollah's delegation in Qatar, talks to journalists ahead of the Lebanese government and Hezbollah-led opposition leaders second day of talks Sunday, May 18, 2008, in Doha, Qatar, to try to end the 18-month-old political crisis in Beirut. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - Feuding Lebanese factions meeting in Qatar for high-level talks in the country's 18-month political crisis are trading accusations.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 10:36:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Bush urges Mideast leaders to advance democracy (AP)

    U.S. President Bush, right, and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani make a statement to the press in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, Sunday, May 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Israel got glowing praise from President Bush earlier this week. On Sunday, the Arab world got a stern lecture, on the need to spread freedoms and isolate state sponsors of terror that he said are holding the region back.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 10:39:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    UN sends top envoy to plead with Myanmar over aid (AP)

    Myanmar's refugees live in a temple for the shelter in Laputta town, Irrawaddy Delta, Myanmar, Thursday, May 15, 2008.  (AP Photo)AP - A top U.N envoy headed for Myanmar on Sunday to plead with the junta to accept more international aid for its cyclone survivors, amid mounting fears of starvation deaths, especially among children.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 10:38:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Search for China earthquake survivors bleak (AP)

    In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a relief worker from Taiwan Province uses life-detection equipment to search for survivors in the debris of the quake-hit Hanwang Township of Mianzhu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Saturday, May 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Xie)AP - The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 09:50:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australian fugitive returns to Melbourne amid tight security (AFP)

    Australia's number one fugitive Tony Mokbel (centre) arrives at Athens' top-security Korydallos prison on May 14. Mokbel landed in Melbourne on Saturday on an extradition flight amid tight security two years after he fled Australia(AFP/File/Louisa Gouliamaki)AFP - Australia's most wanted fugitive landed in Melbourne on a flight from Greece amid tight security on Saturday, more than two years after fleeing his homeland.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 06:02:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pakistan lawyers mull street protests (AP)

    In this Feb. 12, 2008 file photo, a portrait of missing Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin is shown to the media in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan has been freed unharmed three months after he vanished in a tribal area in Pakistan's border region, an official and a relative said Saturday, May 17, 2008. Azizuddin disappeared Feb. 11 along with his driver and bodyguard as they drove from the Pakistani city of Peshawar toward the border. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP - Pakistani lawyers met Saturday to decide whether to mount street protests against the government after its failure to reinstate judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 10:22:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Rights leader: Islamist fighters seize Somali town (AP)

    A Somali refugee child smiles during a visit by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, to the Basateen slum area in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden May 16, 2008. Guterres is in Yemen for a first-hand look at his agency's efforts on behalf of African refugees in Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN)AP - Islamic insurgents in Somalia seized a major agricultural center overnight, sending hundreds of people fleeing, a human rights leader said Saturday.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 10:04:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Latin America-Europe leaders make pledges (AP)

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, center, and Panama's President Martin Torrijos talk as they leave the opening plenary session of the Fifth Latin America and European Summit is being held in Lima, Friday May, 16, 2008. European and Latin American leaders are gathering in Lima to tackle climate change, high food prices and poverty. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - European and Latin American leaders have pledged to fight poverty, global warming and high food prices, presenting a show of unity amid a festering conflict between two South American nations.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 07:45:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Lebanese leaders aim to end political crisis (AP)

    Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani, left, walks into the conference room along with his Lebanese counterpart Faud Saniora, Saturday, May 17 in Doha, Qatar. Lebanon's squabbling political leaders held a meeting in Qatar for talks brokered by the Arab League aimed at ending a long-running feud. (AP Photo/Sam Diaz)AP - Leaders of Lebanon's U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition are sitting down behind closed doors.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 10:10:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Report: 6 Kurdish rebels killed in Turkey (AP)
    AP - Turkey's state-run news agency says six Kurdish rebels have been killed in a clash with soldiers in eastern Turkey. -- read full article
    Sat, 17 May 2008 09:59:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    10 militants, 4 Afghans killed in violence (AP)

    An Afghan police man investigates a vehicle after it was hit by bomb in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 17, 2008.  In Kandahar, police officer Mohammad Nabi said a bomb planted on a bicycle exploded near a police convoy Saturday. Nabi said a boy was killed and another civilian was wounded. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - A series of clashes, airstrikes and bomb blasts left 10 militants and four civilians killed in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 10:25:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Brazil's illegal logging hard to combat (AP)

    Sergio Tavares Araujo, 40, right, and his wife gather wood at the Santo Antonio sawmill in Tailandia, Para state, Brazil, Sunday, May 11, 2008. Federal agents swooped in to close sawmills, confiscate wood and smash charcoal furnaces in a government crackdown on illegal logging. (AP Photo/Renato Chalu)AP - Acrid smoke from charcoal-making blankets this Amazon logging town with the smell of business as usual. Less than three months ago, federal agents swooped in to close sawmills, confiscate wood and smash charcoal furnaces in a government crackdown on illegal logging.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 09:56:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    French navy ship near Myanmar with aid (AP)

    Myanmar's children queue up for clean water on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, May 16, 2008.   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 after a killer cyclone left up to 2.5 million people destitute.   (AP Photo)AP - A French navy ship carrying 1,000 tons of food idled near Myanmar's coast Saturday, awaiting permission from the uncooperative ruling military regime to dock in the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 09:39:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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