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    Japan PM resigns to avoid `political vacuum' (AP)

    Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda leaves after a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Fukuda, 72, suddenly announced his resignation after less than a year in office Monday, throwing the world's second-largest economy into political confusion. Fukuda said he was stepping down to avoid a 'political vacuum' as the deeply troubled government heads into a special parliamentary session later in the month. (AP Photo/Toru Takahashi)AP - Japan's chronically unpopular prime minister abruptly resigned Monday after a yearlong struggle with a deadlocked parliament, leaving the weakened ruling party to grapple with a stalled economy and rising calls for snap elections.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:15:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    EU leaders warn Russia over partnership talks (AP)

    Georgian people hold national, EU and NATO flags at a rally against Russia at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Huge crowds of Georgians surged into the capital's streets Monday to demonstrate against Russia. The Tbilisi demonstration started Monday with people holding hands to form 'human chains' in an echo of the so-called Baltic Chain of 1989 in which residents of then-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia stretched the length of their homelands to protest Soviet occupation. (AP Photo/Irakli Gedenidze, Pool)AP - European Union leaders warned Russia on Monday that talks with on a wide-ranging political and economic agreement would be postponed unless Russian troops pull back from positions in Georgia.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:48:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Iraqis take control of once bloody Anbar province (AP)

    Iraqi security forces parade carrying Iraqi flags during a handover ceremony at the government headquarters in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, in Iraq Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. The U.S. military handed over control of the once brutally violent Anbar province to Iraqi forces Monday, marking a major milestone in America's plan to eventually send its troops home, but American officials warned that the struggle against insurgents was not over in the western region. (AP Photo/Wathiq Khuzaie, Pool)AP - American forces on Monday handed over security responsibility to the Iraqis in a province that the U.S. once feared was lost — a sign of the stunning reversal of fortunes since local Sunnis turned against al-Qaida in Iraq.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:27:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Magnitude 5.8 quake hits central New Zealand (AP)
    AP - A moderate magnitude-5.8 earthquake has struck deep underground in New Zealand's central North Island, but there have been no immediate reports of damage or injury. -- read full article
    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:00:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Four dead, 19 wounded in Philippines bus blast: official (AFP)

    A soldier looking over a mosque in the volatile island of Jolo Sulu, in the southern Philippines. At least four people have been killed and 19 others wounded after a powerful bomb ripped through a passenger bus in the southern Philippines, police and disaster officials have said.(AFP/File/Therence Koh)AFP - At least four people were killed and 19 others wounded when a powerful bomb ripped through a packed passenger bus in the southern Philippines on Monday, police and disaster officials said.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:39:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Military: Kidnappers release Israeli hostage (AP)

    Armed members of the group known as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in the creeks of the Niger Delta. The most prominent armed group in oil-rich southern Nigeria on Saturday claimed to have killed at least 29 government soldiers in three early evening attacks.(AFP/HO/File)AP - The Nigerian military says kidnappers have released an Israeli hostage unharmed.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:59:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Mayor: Car bomb kills 4 in Cali (AP)
    AP - The mayor of Colombia says a car bomb has exploded in front of the palace of justice in Cali, killing at least four people and injuring 20 others. -- read full article
    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:45:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    US military returns control of Anbar to Iraqis (AP)

    An Iraqi policeman guards the entrance of an office of the Electoral Commission in Baghdad. Iraq has enough time to hold provincial elections this year but only if the nation's lawmakers wrap up a controversial law in the next two weeks, an electoral commission official said Monday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - The U.S. military has handed over security control of the western province of Anbar to Iraqi forces.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:50:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    EU to mull Russia ties at emergency summit (AFP)

    Interactive graphic on the Caucasus, highlighting the main zones of conflict and tension between ethnic groups in the region.(AFP iactiv)AFP - European Union leaders will put the bloc's relations with Moscow under scrutiny at an emergency summit on Monday, although sanctions against Russia are not in the cards.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:49:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Military halts offensive in Pakistan for Ramadan (AP)

    A Pakistani man from the Bajur tribal region rides his bicycle at a relief camp set up by the government in Mardan town, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. Pakistan said Sunday it was suspending a military operation against insurgents in a tribal region in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The operation in Bajur has killed at least 562 Islamist insurgents and displaced more than 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Pakistan suspended fighting in the volatile northwest Monday for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and some of the 300,000 people displaced by air strikes and gunbattles started packing up belongings to return to their shattered homes.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:03:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Mexican leader meets anti-crime march organizers (AP)

    Thousands hold up lit candles at the main Zocalo square in Mexico City during a protest against the tide of killings, kidnappings and shootouts sweeping the country, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. More than 13 anti-crime groups planned for tens of thousands of people to join marches in all 32 Mexican states Saturday evening, urging people to walk in silence with candles or lanterns. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 Mexicans in marches against daily kidnappings and killings.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:43:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Rescuers appeal for tents after deadly China quake (AP)

    An elderly woman sits beside her damaged house, following an earthquake which hit the Lazha Village in Panzhihua of southwest China's Sichuan province Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed Sunday to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 27 people, turned tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck Sichuan province on Saturday along the same fault line as the May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 70,000. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after a weekend earthquake in southwest China killed at least 33 people, injured hundreds and left tens of thousands of homes in ruins.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Kabul raid kills 3, including 2 children (AP)

    Blood stains on the compound of a house after a raid by foreign and Afghan forces conducted by U.S. troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Early Monday's raid killed an Afghan man and two of his children and wounded his wife, a police officer said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - A raid by foreign and Afghan forces in Kabul killed a man and his two children early Monday, a police official and witnesses said.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:13:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Russia warns West against Georgia support (AP)

    Georgian soldiers carry the national flag draped coffins of comrades killed during the conflict with Russia at a funeral ceremony in Mukhadgverdi outside Tbilisi on August 30. European Union leaders will put the bloc's relations with Moscow under scrutiny at an emergency summit on Monday, although sanctions against Russia are not in the cards.(AFP/File/Zviad Nikolaishvili)AP - Russia warned the West on Monday against supporting Georgia's leadership and called for an arms embargo against the ex-Soviet republic nation until a different government is in place.


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    Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:37:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    32 dead or missing after China quake: state media (AFP)

    A seismograph reading. At least 32 people were killed or reported missing and about 258,000 homes destroyed in a powerful earthquake in southwest China, state media said Sunday.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)AFP - At least 32 people were killed or reported missing and about 258,000 homes destroyed in a powerful earthquake in southwest China, state media said Sunday.


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    Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:26:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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