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Brazil boosts flood aid for 308K left homeless (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 04:23 PM PDT AP - Brazil intensified efforts to get food and other aid to people isolated by severe flooding as waters continued rising Monday in a jungle state nearly the size of Alaska, and the number of homeless rose to 308,000.

American kills 5 fellow soldiers at clinic in Iraq (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 04:07 PM PDT AP - An American soldier opened fire at a counseling center on a military base Monday, killing five fellow soldiers before being taken into custody, the U.S. command and Pentagon officials said.

Analysis: Hint of moderation in American's release (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 02:59 PM PDT AP - The judicial reversal that led to the release of an Iranian-American from prison in Tehran on Monday could now offer hints of moderation by Iran's ruling Islamic clerics — making room for possible overtures by the Obama administration.

Demjanjuk's health a key issue for any trial (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 04:53 PM PDT AP - John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker who was deported Monday to Germany, is accused of being a guard at a death camp were 29,000 Jews and others were killed.

Refugees flood camps as Pakistan presses Taliban (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT AP - Men lined up in the baking sun and children held empty food bowls as hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled the battle between the army and the Taliban, raising the risk Monday that public support could turn against an offensive Washington sees as a must-win battle.

Ex-Nazi camp guard set for deportation flight (AFP) Posted: 11 May 2009 04:15 PM PDT AFP - Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was taken from his Ohio home Monday for deportation to Germany where he faces charges of helping murder 29,000 Jews in World War II.

US journalist freed by Iran, reunited with parents (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT AP - An American journalist imprisoned on espionage charges in Iran for four months was freed Monday and reunited with her smiling, tearful parents — a move that clears a major obstacle to President Barack Obama's attempts at dialogue with the top U.S. adversary in the Middle East. The United States had said the charges against Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, were baseless and repeatedly demanded her release.

Venezuela seizes 2 tons of cocaine, arrest 3 (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 02:16 PM PDT AP - Venezuelan authorities have seized nearly two tons of cocaine and arrested three suspects in their largest drug bust in months, the country's top counter-drug official said Monday.

Libya reports prison suicide of top Qaeda man (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2009 01:42 PM PDT Reuters - A Libyan Islamist whose fabricated testimony about al Qaeda was used by the United States to justify its 2003 invasion of Iraq has killed himself in his Libyan jail cell, a Libyan newspaper reported on Monday.

US fires top general in Afghanistan as war worsens (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama fired the top U.S. general in Afghanistan on Monday, replacing him with a former special forces commander in a quest for a more agile, unconventional approach in a war that has gone quickly downhill.

Australia's Iraq mission to formally end July 31 (AP) Posted: 11 May 2009 07:20 AM PDT AP - Australia will formally end its military mission in Iraq at the end of July, the armed forces chief announced Monday, bringing the country's involvement in one war to a close even as it prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan.

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