| Police: Death toll in Australia fires reaches 65 (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:44 AM CST  AP - A police spokeswoman says the death toll from wildfires that have swept Australia's southeast has risen to 65.
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| Israel says Gaza rocket hits south, damages cars (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:13 AM CST  AP - Israel's military says a rocket fired from Gaza in violation of an informal truce has struck an Israeli communal farm.
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| Sri Lanka military: 10,000 civilians flee war zone (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:15 AM CST  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.
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| China fights drought with chemical cloud-seeding (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:18 AM CST  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.
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| Saudi suspects seeking to revive al-Qaida (AP) Posted: 07 Feb 2009 11:55 AM CST  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.
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| Swiss weigh up EU immigration in crucial vote (AFP) Posted: 07 Feb 2009 11:39 PM CST  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.
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| Military: 2 injured in accidental Iraq shooting (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:19 AM CST  AP - The U.S. military says a soldier in an American convoy traveling south of Baghdad accidentally opened fire, wounding two Iraqis.
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| 56-year-old becomes 1st woman to swim Atlantic (AP) Posted: 07 Feb 2009 09:45 PM CST  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.
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| Moroccan rains kill 24, force mass evacuations (AFP) Posted: 07 Feb 2009 04:35 PM CST  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.
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| Civilians pour out of Sri Lankan war zone: govt (AFP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:31 AM CST  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.
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| 65 killed in Australia's wildfire 'hell' (AFP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:10 AM CST  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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