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• Twin suicide bombings kill 38 in Moscow subway (AP)
• Tornado topples crane at Bahamas port, killing 3 (AP)
• Why would anyone turn down a million bucks? Ask this guy (AP)
• Obama seeks delicate balance with Karzai (AP)
• French president, first lady take on New York (AP)
• Moscow Bombings: Islamist Rebels Behind Deadly Blasts? (Time.com)
• Politicians clash on economy in pre-election TV debate (AFP)
• Hamas seizes $270,000 in frozen funds from bank (AP)
• Cardinal accuses Hugo Chavez of persecuting foes (AP)
• Sudan leader warns south on referendum (AFP)
• Turkey reforms give top brass over to civilian court (Reuters)
• Conservatives rebuff call to freeze tax cuts (Reuters)
• US concerned by Australian Internet filter plan (AP)
• Iraqi commission moves to disqualify winning candidates (McClatchy Newspapers)
• China mining company causes unrest in Niger (The Christian Science Monitor)
• British Report: U.S.-U.K. 'Special Relationship' Is Over (Time.com)
• Somali IDP Situation 'At Its Worst' as Aid Runs Out (OneWorld.net)

Twin suicide bombings kill 38 in Moscow subway (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:24 PM PDT AP - Terror returned to the heart of Russia, with two deadly suicide bombings on the Moscow subway at rush hour, including an attack at the station beneath the headquarters of the secret police.

Tornado topples crane at Bahamas port, killing 3 (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:14 PM PDT AP - A tornado touched down during a fierce thunderstorm in the Bahamas on Monday and toppled a port crane, killing three people and injuring at least four.

Why would anyone turn down a million bucks? Ask this guy (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:17 PM PDT AP - Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia — and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.

Obama seeks delicate balance with Karzai (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 02:12 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's tone in Kabul was all business as he hammered home his theme that the Afghans need to do more to fight corruption and reform government to defeat the Taliban.

French president, first lady take on New York (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:50 PM PDT AP - With a lecturn flown in from France and his fingers firmly entwined with those of his smiling wife, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a splash Monday even before he opened his mouth for a no-holds-barred speech at Columbia University.

Moscow Bombings: Islamist Rebels Behind Deadly Blasts? (Time.com) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PDT Time.com - Coordinated suicide bombings on Moscow's subway system killed at least 38 people on Monday -- an attack officials blamed on Islamic insurgents in the troubled Caucasus

Politicians clash on economy in pre-election TV debate (AFP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:07 PM PDT AFP - The Chancellor of the Exchequer accused his counterpart from the main opposition Conservatives of "taking a terrible risk" with the economy Monday, in a crunch televised debate ahead of the election.

Hamas seizes $270,000 in frozen funds from bank (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 02:40 PM PDT AP - Hamas seized $270,000 from a Gaza bank on Monday that had been frozen by the Palestinian government in the West Bank, sparking new feuding between the Gaza militants and their Western-backed rivals.

Cardinal accuses Hugo Chavez of persecuting foes (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:25 PM PDT AP - The leader of Venezuela's Roman Catholic Church joined other critics of President Hugo Chavez on Monday by accusing the government of using judges and prosecutors to punish political adversaries.

Sudan leader warns south on referendum (AFP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PDT AFP - A boycott of national elections next month by former southern rebels would result in the north rejecting the south holding a secession referendum in January, President Omar al-Beshir warned Monday.

Turkey reforms give top brass over to civilian court (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:23 PM PDT Reuters - A Turkish constitutional reform package to be submitted to parliament on Tuesday will make it possible for military top brass to be tried by a civilian court, media reported late on Monday.

Conservatives rebuff call to freeze tax cuts (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:32 PM PDT Reuters - Canada's Conservative government said on Monday it will go ahead with planned corporate tax cuts, rebuffing an opposition Liberal call to shelve the tax cuts for the time being.

US concerned by Australian Internet filter plan (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:02 AM PDT AP - The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said Monday.

Iraqi commission moves to disqualify winning candidates (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:01 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Six winning candidates in Iraq's parliamentary elections will be stripped of their votes and lose their seats — which would cost secular politician Ayad Allawi's bloc its narrow victory — if a federal court upholds a broad purge of candidates who are suspected of past involvement with the late dictator Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party, Iraqi officials said Monday.

China mining company causes unrest in Niger (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 07:01 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The sun-wizened Tuareg women of Azalik have declared war on China. Like their ancestors, they once eked out a living selling dried salts from an ancestral well. Everything changed last year, when the government leased their land to the China Nuclear International Uranium Corporation (Sino-U) for uranium exploration. Left with no livelihood and no compensation, a hundred women gathered to launch stones at mining machinery.

British Report: U.S.-U.K. 'Special Relationship' Is Over (Time.com) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PDT Time.com - A new report by British MPs says London should stop overplaying its ties with America

Somali IDP Situation 'At Its Worst' as Aid Runs Out (OneWorld.net) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:21 AM PDT OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, 29 March 2010 (IRIN) - As more aid groups pull out of camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) and more people flee Mogadishu to escape the violence, the plight of IDPs is at its most extreme, says a doctor-turned-relief-worker in Mogadishu.

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