| Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:18 PM PDT  AP - A unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of people in Mexico, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a global flu epidemic.
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| South Africa's ANC wins voter majority (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:57 PM PDT  AP - South Africa's African National Congress easily won a parliamentary majority, according to voting results Saturday, setting the stage for the controversial Jacob Zuma to ascend to the presidency. But the near-complete tally leaves the ruling party's cherished two-thirds majority in doubt.
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| UN panel agrees to blacklist 3 North Korean firms (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:20 PM PDT  AP - Three major North Korean companies were targeted for new U.N. sanctions Friday in response to the communist nation's April 5 rocket launch.
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| Iraqi blasts stir worries of insurgent push (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:34 PM PDT  AP - It's been a season of jarring flashbacks in Iraq: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two days of bloodshed capped by a blast Friday outside a Shiite shrine.
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| Pakistani Taliban end push, but questions remain (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 02:02 PM PDT  AP - Taliban militants packed up their grenade launchers Friday and vacated a district they overran outside the country's capital last week. The move did little, however, to quell the alarm of the U.S. and Western allies.
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| Chelsea stars in line for pre-Barca breather (AFP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:37 PM PDT  AFP - Amid the disappointment at failing to return the English Premier League title to Stamford Bridge for the third consecutive year, Chelsea might also feel a twinge of relief as they limber up for the season's final weeks.
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| Suicide blasts kill 66 at Baghdad Shiite shrine (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 03:24 PM PDT  AP - Two female suicide bombers hiding explosives in their purses struck worshippers streaming into Baghdad's most important Shiite shrine for Friday prayers, killing at least 66 people a day after Iraq's most deadly violence in more than a year.
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| 9 found dead in and around Mexican resort (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:18 PM PDT AP - The bullet-riddled bodies of nine men were found Friday in and around the Mexican resort of Acapulco. |
| ANC wins absolute majority in SAfrica polls (AFP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:29 PM PDT  AFP - More than half of South Africa's registered voters cast ballots for the ruling ANC, according to the election commission's count, clearing the way for party leader Jacob Zuma to become president.
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| North Korea says has started extracting plutonium (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 08:32 PM PDT Reuters - North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear arms plant, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, further raising regional tensions already stoked by its defiant rocket launch this month. |
| Chinese man shot 34 times in head with nail gun (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:49 PM PDT  AP - Australian police appealed to the public Friday for help in solving the gruesome killing of a Chinese man who was shot 34 times in the head and neck with a nail gun before being dumped in a river.
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