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    Divers survive 20 hours in shark-infested Australian waters (AFP)

    File photo shows a diver taking a photo on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia. Two divers survived more than 20 hours in shark-infested waters in Australia's Great Barrier Reef before being found, rescuers said Saturday.(AFP/UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND/File/Ove Hoegh-Guidberg)AFP - Two divers survived more than 20 hours in shark-infested waters in Australia's Great Barrier Reef before being found, rescuers said Saturday.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 07:58:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China raises quake death toll to 60,560 (AP)

    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao wave to soldiers in the earthquake-hit Yingxiu town of Wenchuan county, in China's southwest Sichuan Province, Saturday, May 24, 2008. Ban arrived in the disaster area to meet victims after visiting neighboring Myanmar to see the aftermath of a massive cyclone. (AP Photo/Nicky Loh, Pool)AP - China's government says the confirmed death toll from this month's massive earthquake has risen to 60,560.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 08:45:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Opposition leader heads back to Zimbabwe (AP)

    Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, departs from Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport to return to Zimbabwe, Saturday May 24, 2008. Tsvangirai headed back to Zimbabwe Saturday, saying he feels safe despite fears of a possible assassination attempt.  Tsvangirai faces a runoff election against President Robert Mugabe June 27. He won the first round of voting at the end of March but not by the simple majority needed to avoid a second round. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai headed back to Zimbabwe Saturday, saying he feels safe despite fears of a possible assassination attempt.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 08:52:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Shark kills surfer in southern Mexico (AP)
    AP - A shark killed a surfer Friday off Mexico's Pacific coast — six miles from a beach where an American man was killed in a similar attack last month, authorities said. -- read full article
    Sat, 24 May 2008 05:52:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Sign of change? Israeli, Palestinian officers meet (AP)

    In this Tuesday, May 13, 2008 file photo, a member of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces walks past a stolen car, after it was confiscated and set on fire by officers near the West Bank town of Jenin. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)AP - The military men don't look like diplomats and the sun-baked checkpoint dividing the West Bank from Israel couldn't have been farther from the Jerusalem hotels and ministerial residences where Israeli-Palestinian peace talks unfold.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 04:48:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pressure mounts on Brown after poll defeat (AFP)

    Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pictured after meeting the Dalai Lama at Lambeth Palace in London, on May 23. Brown faced a grim holiday weekend as speculation mounted Saturday over whether he might face a leadership challenge.(AFP/Pool/Carl de Souza)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced a grim holiday weekend as speculation mounted Saturday over whether he might face a leadership challenge.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 05:53:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Many Afghans outraged at US decision on Marines (AP)

    Maj. Fred C. Galvin is seen outside Camp Lejeune near Jacksonville, N.C., on  Jan. 8, 2008. A Marine Corps general says two officers whose unit was accused of indiscriminately killing of up to 19 Afghan civilians in 2007 will not face criminal charges. The Marines said Friday, May 23, 2008, that Lt. General Samuel Helland made the decision not to bring charges against  Galvin, 38, commander of the 120-person special operations company, and Capt. Vincent J. Noble, 29, a platoon leader, after reviewing the findings of a special tribunal that heard more than three weeks of testimony about the incident.    (AP Photo/Chuck Beckley)AP - Afghan officials expressed outrage Saturday at a decision by the U.S. military not to charge U.S. Marines involved in a shooting spree that left 19 Afghan civilians dead in 2007.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 08:44:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Mexican homicides jump 47 pct.; 1,378 die in '08 (AP)
    AP - Homicides related to organized crime jumped 47 percent in 2008, Mexico's attorney general said Friday in a rare confirmation of how bad violence has become. -- read full article
    Sat, 24 May 2008 00:43:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Earthquake mutes protests of Beijing Olympics (AP)

    Torchbearers transfer Olympic Flame outside of Shanghai Stadium during Beijing Olympic torch relay in Shanghai, China, Saturday, May 24, 2008. The Olympic torch relay in Shanghai was postponed due to a three-day mourning period for victims of the earthquake that killed more than 50,000. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - China's deadly earthquake may have saved the Beijing Olympics. Just a few weeks ago, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge described the games as "in crisis." They were being battered by pro-Tibet protests, health concerns about Beijing's noxious pollution, and calls for boycotts tied to China's support for Sudan.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 03:58:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Aid agencies call on Myanmar to act on pledge (AP)

    U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks with media  during press conference in Yangon on Friday May 23, 2008 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Myanmar's junta agreed Friday to allow 'all aid workers' into the country to help cyclone survivors, after weeks of refusing access to foreign relief experts whose skills could help the victims. (AP Photo)AP - Foreign aid agencies Saturday called on Myanmar's junta to urgently clarify the rules for operating in the country's cyclone-devastated areas, expressing hope tinged with skepticism after the regime promised to open its doors to the international community.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 08:50:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Deaths pass 60,000 as Ban tours China quake area (AP)

    In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, tents are dropped from a cargo plane flying over quake-hit areas in the Aba Autonomous Prefecture of the Tibetan and Qiang Ethnic Minorities, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Thursday, May 22, 2008. China's Air Force dropped 958 tents for earthquake survivors in the areas on Thursday, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua/Shen Ling)AP - China's earthquake death toll jumped to more than 60,000 and Premier Wen Jiabao said it could rise to more than 80,000 as he and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the disaster area Saturday.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 08:46:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australia's first female Anglican bishop denies rift (AFP)

    Anglican leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. Australia's first female Anglican bishop has denied that her appointment will lead to a split within the church despite lingering opposition to women priests(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Australia's first female Anglican bishop has denied that her appointment will lead to a split within the church despite lingering opposition to women priests.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 06:29:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Myanmar allows in "all" cyclone aid workers (Reuters)

    A boy looks for food on Yangon river bank near a village hit by Cyclone Nargis, outside Yangon May 19, 2008. (Strringer/Reuters)Reuters - Myanmar's military government agreed on Friday to allow aid workers into the country "regardless of nationalities," a breakthrough for delivering assistance to cyclone survivors, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 08:27:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    UN says arms illegally going to Somalia (AP)

    This undated photo made available on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 by the Rome headquarters of the Italian aid organization Cooperazione Italiana Nord Sud (CINS), shows Italian aid worker Giuliano Paganini next to a sign of a CINS farm project, in Bulo Burti, north of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Dozens of heavily armed gunmen kidnapped Paganini and another Italian aid worker, Jolanda Occhipinti, and their Somali colleague from their house in Awdhigle, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of the capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, May 21, 2008, witnesses and a diplomat said.  (AP Photo/Courtesy of Italian aid organization CINS, HO)AP - U.N. experts investigating violations of an arms embargo against Somalia report that countries and private traders are supplying weapons to warlords and militants, South Africa's U.N. ambassador said Thursday.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 05:45:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Colombia opens investigation into rebel links (AP)

    Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe speaks to the press as he arrives to a hotel in Brasilia, Thursday, May 22, 2008. Uribe will take part in the Union of South American Nations Summit on Friday. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Colombia's chief prosecutor opened preliminary investigations Thursday into contacts between leftist rebels and prominent politicians, journalists and foreigners — including a U.S. consultant.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 05:51:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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