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    111 nations adopt cluster bomb treaty, but not US (AP)

    In this Nov. 9, 2006 file picture, Mines Advisory Group (MAG) Technical Field Manager Nick Guest inspects a Cluster Bomb Unit in the southern village of Ouazaiyeh, Lebanon. International diplomats from more than 100 nations reached agreement on a treaty that would ban current designs of cluster bombs and require the destruction of stockpiles within eight years. The breakthrough Wednesday May 28, 2008 capped more than a year of negotiations that began in Norway and concluded over the past 10 days in Dublin, but Israel, U.S. Russia, China, India and Pakistan did not participate in the treaty. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)AP - Diplomats from 111 nations formally adopted a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs on Friday after futile calls for participation by the weapons' biggest makers and users, particularly the United States.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 12:44:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australia's Origin rejects revised BG takeover bid (AFP)

    A woman is pictured looking at the electronic board at the Sydney Stock Exchange. Australia's Origin Energy Ltd. said Friday its directors had decided to reject a revised offer from British energy giant BG Group valuing it at about 13.6 billion dollars (13 billion US).(AFP/Anoek de Groot)AFP - Australia's Origin Energy Ltd. said Friday its directors had decided to reject a revised offer from British energy giant BG Group valuing it at about 13.6 billion dollars (13 billion US).


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 07:07:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Japan, Africa pledge urgent action on food crisis (AFP)

    Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (C) and digintaries attend the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama. Africa's leaders and Japan pledged to ramp up the continent's food production, seeking to put the crisis of spiralling prices firmly on the agenda of the Group of Eight rich nations.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Africa's leaders and Japan pledged Friday to ramp up the continent's food production, seeking to put the crisis of spiralling prices firmly on the agenda of the Group of Eight rich nations.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 08:49:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Africa, Japan pledge to tackle food crisis (AP)

    Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda delivers his closing remarks at the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, on Friday May 30, 2008. (AP Photo/ Franck Robichon, POOL)AP - African leaders, Japan and development organizations agreed Friday that there is an urgent need to boost agricultural productivity in Africa and pledged to tackle the widespread impact of soaring food prices.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 06:34:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Tropical storm pounds Central America (AP)

    Coconut palm tress are buffeted  by the strong winds of tropical storm Alma in the town of Poneloya where the storm made land fall on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, Thursday May 29, 2008. Tropical Storm Alma, the first such storm of the eastern Pacific season, took forecasters and many in Central America by surprise, forcing evacuations and flooding low-lying areas along the region's coastline. (AP Photo/Tomas Stargardter)AP - Tropical Storm Alma slammed into Nicaragua's coast Thursday as the first such storm of the eastern Pacific season, forcing tens of thousand of people to evacuate and flooding low-lying areas, before pushing into neighboring Honduras.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 06:30:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Iraqis say Marines handed out Christian coins (AP)

    A football player in Baghdad. FIFA's move to curb political interference in Iraq's football has sent a strong message to the government in Baghdad, Iraq Football Association president Hussein Saeed said here(AFP/Ali Yussef)AP - The U.S. military says an American service member has been removed from duty in Iraq after receiving complaints that Marines were handing out coins promoting Christianity.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 08:35:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    French fuel VAT plan should be debated: eurozone chairman (AFP)

    French farmers in Lyon protest against rising fuel costs. The chairman of the Eurogroup of finance ministers Jean-Claude Juncker has said that a French plan to cut value added tax on oil to help ease fuel prices was not AFP - The chairman of the Eurogroup of finance ministers Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday that a French plan to cut value added tax on oil to help ease fuel prices was not "preposterous" and should be debated.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 08:51:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Israeli poll finds Netanyahu would win elections (AP)

    In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, center, Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left, attend a parliament session in Jerusalem. Livni on Thursday May 29, 2008 said the ruling Kadima Party must prepare to replace Olmert, raising pressure on the embattled Israeli leader to step down in light of a growing corruption investigation.  On Wednesday, Barak called on Olmert to step aside, pledging to pull his Labor Party, a key coalition partner, out of the government and force new elections if the Israeli leader didn't comply. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)AP - Hardline Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu would win national elections if a corruption probe topples Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, an Israeli poll showed Friday.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 08:16:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Afghanistan seeks to revive farming sector (AP)

    In this May 21, 2008 file photo, Afghan men put collected poppy resin in a can, in an opium poppy field in Panjwai district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan will ask international donors for $4 billion next month to revive its agricultural sector, but it could be a hard sell with another massive crop of opium expected this year. Despite the sharply rising price of grain, foreign-funded efforts to promote legal alternatives to the narcotic have largely failed.(AP Photo)AP - Afghanistan will ask international donors next month for $4 billion to revive its agricultural sector, but it could be a hard sell with another massive crop of opium expected this year.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 07:42:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Britain looked to Israel for military deception (AP)
    AP - When British military leaders set up a special task force in 1969 to study how best to use deception to achieve their battlefield aims, they turned their attention to the tactics used by the Israelis — not the Americans. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 07:28:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Report: 1.3 million ordered evacuated in China (AP)

    A gerenal view of the earthquake-hit city of Beichuan following the massive May 12 earthquake in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on May 27. Authorities have ordered 1.3 million people near a AP - China's official news agency says officials worried that a lake could burst have ordered 1.3 million people to evacuate in Sichuan province.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 08:48:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Myanmar criticized for still hindering foreign aid (AP)

    People line up outside an aid tent in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 29, 2008 awaiting medical treatment. Aid and relief has been slow getting to affected areas and people after a cyclone hit southern Myanmar causing mass destruction and death. (AP Photo)AP - Human rights and aid groups complained Friday that Myanmar's military government was still hindering the free flow of international help for victims of Cyclone Nargis.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 07:54:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    World's rarest rhino caught wrecking video camera (AP)

    In this still captured from undated video provided by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a female Javan Rhino, right, and her calf walk into a camera trap in Ujung Kulon Wildlife Park, Java island, Indonesia. The world's rarest rhino does not like the limelight. A Javan Rhino has been captured on video attacking a camera set up in an Indonesian jungle to study the habits of the animal, apparently because she sensed the lens was a threat to her calf, the WWF said Thursday, May 29, 2008. (AP Photo/World Wildlife Fund, HO)AP - The world's rarest rhino does not like the limelight. A Javan Rhino was captured on video attacking a camera set up in an Indonesian jungle to study the habits of the animal, apparently because she sensed the lens was a threat to her calf, the WWF said Thursday.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 18:42:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Unimpressive South Africa edge Swaziland in friendly (AFP)

    South Africa's Stephen Pienaar(R) is challenged by Swaziland's Dennis Masina(2nd L) during their friendly match at the Germiston stadium on the outskirts of Johannesburg. South Africa won 1-0.(AFP)AFP - Lacklustre South Africa edged neighbours Swaziland 1-0 in a non-cap international friendly match at chilly Germiston Stadium Thursday.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 18:16:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Tropical Storm Alma lashes Central America (AP)
    AP - Tropical Storm Alma lashed the coast of Central America with heavy rains and high winds on Thursday after becoming the first such storm of the eastern Pacific season. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 16:30:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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