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Police: Death toll in Australia fires reaches 65 (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:44 AM CST

A fire truck moves away from out of control flames from a bushfire in the Bunyip Sate Forest near the township of Tonimbuk, 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of Melbourne, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009. Walls of flame roared across southeastern Australia, razing scores of homes, forests and farmland in the sunburned country's worst wildfire disaster in a quarter century. (AP Photo)AP - A police spokeswoman says the death toll from wildfires that have swept Australia's southeast has risen to 65.

Israel says Gaza rocket hits south, damages cars (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:13 AM CST

Palestinians carry bags of flour at the United Nations aid centre in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. Egypt is hopeful that a Gaza truce accord between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas can be reached AP - Israel's military says a rocket fired from Gaza in violation of an informal truce has struck an Israeli communal farm.

Sri Lanka military: 10,000 civilians flee war zone (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:15 AM CST

A Sri Lankan ministry of defence picture of a government soldier looking at a portrait of Tigers supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran at a camp believed to have been used to train Black Tiger suicide bombers. Sri Lankan troops have smashed the Tamil Tigers' mini-state and cornered the remaining rebels, but officials say they must catch Prabhakaran to declare final victory.(AFP/HO/File)AP - More than 10,000 civilians have fled Sri Lanka's northern war zone over the last two days, an official said Sunday as government forces appear poised to crush the separatist Tamil Tigers.

China fights drought with chemical cloud-seeding (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:18 AM CST

A farmer rests beside a small canal he dug to channel water released from the Luhun Reservoir to his field of rapeseed in Song county in central China's Henan province Friday Feb. 6, 2009. He came to his field at 3.00 am in preparation for the release of the water. China will give US$12 billion to help wheat-growing communities across the country's northern region survive their worst drought in five decades, state media reported Saturday. (AP Photo)AP - Parts of China's parched north got light rain after authorities fired shells loaded with cloud-seeding chemicals into the sky, but there was no end in sight for its worst drought in five decades, the government said Sunday.

Saudi suspects seeking to revive al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 11:55 AM CST

A Saudi man checks a computer profiling the 85 men on the kingdom's new most-wanted list in the Saudi Capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009. One of the men on the kingdom's new most-wanted list is married to Osama bin Laden's daughter and had links to one of the men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks. Another had a role in a plot to kill the U.S. ambassador in Yemen. And a third facilitated the infiltration of militants from Syria to Iraq. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - One of the men on the Saudi Arabia's new most-wanted list is married to Osama bin Laden's daughter while another was involved in a plot to kill the U.S. ambassador in Yemen. A third smuggled militants into Iraq from Syria.

Swiss weigh up EU immigration in crucial vote (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 11:39 PM CST

An election poster of the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) against open immigration reads: AFP - Swiss voters go to the polls Sunday to decide whether or not to continue to allow unrestricted immigration from the EU, with the country's ties with its European neighbours hanging in the balance.

Military: 2 injured in accidental Iraq shooting (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:19 AM CST

Army officer Jose Alfredo Leiva (C) embraces his children after a welcoming ceremony for the 11th rotation of the Cuscatlan Batallion at the end of their deployment in Iraq at a military station in San Salvador. The last 200 Salvadoran soldiers deployed to Iraq as part of former US president George W. Bush's AP - The U.S. military says a soldier in an American convoy traveling south of Baghdad accidentally opened fire, wounding two Iraqis.

56-year-old becomes 1st woman to swim Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 09:45 PM CST

In this undated photo released by David Higdon, friend of swimmer Jennifer Figge, she's shown posing for a picture after her arrival to Chacachacare Island, in Trinidad, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Figge, of Aspen, Colorado, is the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean, after leaving the Cape Verde Islands off Africa on Jan. 12, swimming roughly 2,100 miles (3,380 kilometers) to arrive in Trinidad. She plans to swim from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands in the last leg of her journey. (AP Photo)AP - Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.

Moroccan rains kill 24, force mass evacuations (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 04:35 PM CST

A man pushes a bicycle through flood water in the Moroccan town of Souk Larbaa, near Kenitra. Heavy rains in Morocco have claimed 24 lives and forced 2,000 people to be evacuated over the past week, interior ministry officials said Saturday.(AFP/Abdelhak Senna)AFP - Heavy rains in Morocco have claimed 24 lives and forced 2,000 people to be evacuated over the past week, interior ministry officials said Saturday.

Civilians pour out of Sri Lankan war zone: govt (AFP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:31 AM CST

At least 10,000 civilians have escaped from Sri Lanka's war zone over the last four days, the government has said, as the president of the island state warned the Tamil Tiger rebels to surrender unconditionally or be killed.(afp.com)AFP - At least 10,000 civilians have escaped Sri Lanka's war zone in the last four days, the government said Sunday, as the president warned Tamil Tiger rebels to surrender unconditionally or be killed.

65 killed in Australia's wildfire 'hell' (AFP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:10 AM CST

A firefighter watches a helicopter drop water on a bushfire near Peats Ridge, north of Sydney, on February 8. The death toll from the wildfires raging across southeastern Australia has soared to 65 and is set to mount in a disaster Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described as AFP - The death toll from wildfires raging through southeastern Australia soared to 65 Sunday and was set to mount in a disaster Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described as "hell in all its fury."

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