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    28 killed in twin suicide attacks in Iraqi city (AP)

    A man mourns next to bodies of  victims of a suicide attack in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 15, 2008. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of army recruits northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 28 people, Iraqi police said. (AP Photo)AP - Scattered sandals and overturned bicycles were all that remained hours after suicide bombers struck the Saad military camp.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:37:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Secret Gitmo video gives first glimpse of closed interrogations (AP)

    In this handout image taken from a 2003 US Department of Defense surveillance video and released Tuesday July 15, 2008 by Omar Khadr's defense lawyers, Omar Khadr is shown in an interrogation room at the Guatanamo U.S. Naval Base prison while being questioned by members of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. (AP Photo/US Department of Defense via The Canadian Press)AP - A 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay sobs during his questioning, holding up his wounded arms and begging for help in a video released Tuesday that provided the first glimpse of interrogations at the U.S. military prison.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:24:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Indonesia, East Timor leaders regret vote bloodshed (Reuters)

    East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C) and East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao pose for a photograph during a meeting in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia's island of Bali July 15, 2008. Indonesia and East Timor expressed regret on Tuesday for violence surrounding Dili's 1999 independence vote after a joint probe blamed state institutions for Reuters - Indonesia and East Timor expressed regret on Tuesday for violence surrounding Dili's 1999 independence vote after a joint probe blamed state institutions for "gross human rights violations."


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:50:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Japan fishermen go on national strike (AP)

    Members of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations shout a slogan during a rally at a Tokyo park, Tuesday, July 15, 2008. Fishermen across Japan went on a massive one-day strike Tuesday to protest skyrocketing fuel prices, the latest blow to the country's foundering fish industry.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - Fishermen across Japan went on a massive one-day strike Tuesday to protest skyrocketing fuel prices, the latest blow to the country's foundering fishing industry.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:55:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China concerned by Sudan arrest plan (AP)

    Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attends a ceremony, which included a patriotic song to which those present waved their traditional sticks in the air and paraded past him, celebrating the approval of an election law that sets the guidelines for a key vote next year, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan Monday, July 14, 2008. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges Monday against the Sudanese President, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation, but Sudan rejected the charges and the court's jurisdiction, and one top lawmaker said his government could no longer guarantee the safety of United Nations staff in the troubled region. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)AP - China said Tuesday it was concerned about an International Criminal Court prosecutor's decision to seek an arrest warrant for Sudan's president on charges of genocide in the African country's war-torn Darfur region.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:45:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Tropical Storm Bertha rakes Bermuda (AP)

    People stroll along Horseshoe Bay beach, on the south shore of Bermuda, Sunday, July 13, 2008. Signs have been placed warning of dangerous rip tides caused by Tropical Storm Bertha. Bertha weakened Sunday into a tropical storm as it hovered near Bermuda, and forecasters say it may deal a glancing blow to the Atlantic island in the coming days. (AP Photo/David Skinner)AP - White-capped storm surf thundered against beaches and high winds knocked out power to thousands of Bermudians on Monday as Tropical Storm Bertha swept over the Atlantic tourist island before heading back out over open ocean.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:25:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    3 Hamas council members arrested in West Bank (AP)
    AP - Palestinians say Israeli troops have arrested three Hamas council members in a raid on the West Bank city of Nablus. -- read full article
    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:35:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Man City offers Barca £25m for Ronaldinho (AFP)

    Barcelona has received a 32 million euros (51 million dollar) offer for two-time world player of the year Ronaldinho, seen here, from English Premiership side Manchester City(AFP/File/Lluis Gene)AFP - Barcelona has received a 25 million pound (32-million-euro) offer for two-time world player of the year Ronaldinho from Manchester City, the Spanish club's president Joan Laporta has said.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:54:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Official: Thai troops enter Cambodia (AP)
    AP - About 40 Thai troops entered Cambodian territory on Tuesday as tension escalated over disputed land around an ancient temple, a Cambodian official said. -- read full article
    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:44:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    War is only job available in Sri Lankan village (AP)

    An injured Sri Lankan soldier Nishan Keerthiratne, lies on his bed at his residence in Iyathigewewa, a company town in Kabathigollawa about 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 7, 2008.  With no other job prospects in this impoverished, remote northern village, roughly half the men of fighting age have enlisted in the army, navy, police or other security branches. After a quarter century of civil war between government forces and ethnic Tamil rebels, fighting is so entrenched in this Indian Ocean island it has become a career for tens of thousands seeking a path out of the brutal poverty of rural Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)AP - Iyathigewewa is a classic company town. But the youth don't head off to work in the local mine or factory — they go to war.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:28:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Young Catholics gather for opening Mass in Sydney (AP)

    In this photo released by L'Osservatore Romano, a Vatican newspaper, Pope Benedict XVI, center, and his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein, left, and Monsignor Alfred Xuereb walk holding their rosary at the Kenthurst Study Centre, in Sydney, Monday, July 14, 2008. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)AP - Tens of thousands of Catholic pilgrims from around the world crammed into an area along Sydney Harbor Tuesday, waving flags of their home countries and singing as they awaited a Mass opening the World Youth Day festival.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:16:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Israel Cabinet expected to OK prisoner swap (AP)

    Israeli reserve soldiers patrol at the Rosh Hanikra border crossing between Israel and Lebanon in northern Israel, Tuesday July 15, 2008. Israel's prison service said that on Wednesday Israel would free five imprisoned Lebanese in exchange for two soldiers captured by Hezbollah in a cross-border raid that sparked the 2006 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Israel's Cabinet began final deliberations Tuesday on whether to trade a Lebanese militant convicted of killing three people for two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas and believed to be dead.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:39:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Police: Iraq suicide bombers kill 28 army recruits (AP)

    A boy passes by an Iraqi army soldier on patrol in northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, July 14, 2008.  Iraqi officials stepped up pressure on the United States to agree to a specific timeline to withdraw American forces, a sign of the government's growing confidence as levels of violence in the country fall. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of army recruits Tuesday in a former al-Qaida in Iraq stronghold northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 28 people, Iraqi police said.


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    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:12:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pilgrims carry cross through Sydney for pope visit (AP)

    Pilgrims carry the World Youth Day Cross through a street of Sydney after it arrived by ferry at Circular Quay, Australia, Monday, July 14, 2008. Pope Benedict XVI will attend the WYD event with tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the globe expected to at the various venues during the seven-day event starting July 15. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Pilgrims bore a giant wooden cross through the streets of Australia's largest city Monday, as thousands of faithful crowded around the procession, some lunging for a chance to touch the symbol of the Roman Catholic Church's youth festival.


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    Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:26:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Hundreds of migrant workers riot in eastern China (AP)
    AP - Hundreds of migrant workers attacked a police station in eastern China after one was allegedly beaten while trying to get a residence permit, highlighting enduring tensions between temporary workers and authorities. -- read full article
    Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:47:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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