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Iran president urges full defense for US reporter (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT AP - Iran's president said Sunday that an American journalist convicted of spying for the U.S. should be allowed to offer a full defense during her appeal, a day after she was sentenced to eight years in prison.

'Empire of the Sun' author Ballard dies at 78 (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 03:12 PM PDT AP - Writer J.G. Ballard, best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire Of The Sun," which drew on his childhood detention in a Japanese prison camp in China, died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.

Boredom, hunger and fear for pirates' hostages (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 07:13 AM PDT AP - Some hostages are little more than skin and bones, their food running out and illnesses setting in as negotiations for their release drag on, angering their volatile captors. Others report less brutal conditions, even being allowed to fish for extra provisions.

Gunmen kidnap 2 aid workers in Somalia (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 11:15 AM PDT AP - About 25 masked gunmen armed with machine guns kidnapped two European aid workers in central Somalia on Sunday, aid workers and a witness said.

Tattoos from Auschwitz horror reunite lost inmates (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 10:28 AM PDT AP - As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numbers tattooed on their arms. Sholowicz was B-14594; Sieradzki was B-14595.

Worst over but no growth until 2010: CBI (AFP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:56 PM PDT AFP - A major business lobby group predicted Monday that the worst of Britain's recession may be over, but growth would only resume next year, in a forecast just days before ministers unveil a crunch budget.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,274 (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:33 PM PDT AP - As of Sunday, April 19, 2009, at least 4,274 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Few turn out in Haiti for delayed Senate election (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:47 PM PDT AP - Clear-plastic ballot boxes were nearly empty and Port-au-Prince's streets unusually deserted Sunday as few voters turned out for Senate elections in which candidates from a major populist party were not allowed to run.

New Zealand pulls out of UN racism conference (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:55 PM PDT AP - New Zealand's government says the country won't take part in this week's U.N. racism conference out of concern that it could descend into the same chaos as the one in South Africa in 2001.

US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 606 (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:36 PM PDT AP - As of Sunday, April 19, 2009, at least 606 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.

US asks for elite NZ troops for Afghanistan war (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 02:13 AM PDT AP - The U.S. has formally asked New Zealand to send its elite Special Air Service combat troops back to Afghanistan for a fourth tour of duty, the foreign minister said Sunday.

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