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• Clinton, Ahmadinejad trade barbs over nukes at UN (AP)
• Merkel: $29.6 billion in aid for Greece planned (AP)
• Ireland shuts airports Tuesday as ash risk returns (AP)
• Mild tremor shakes Haiti but no damage reported (AP)
• Indian court convicts Pakistani in Mumbai siege (AP)
• Aquino Pulls Ahead in Philippine Presidential Race (Time.com)
• Australia's Robertson wins world snooker championship (AFP)
• US envoy seeks to launch Israeli-Palestinian talks (AP)
• 5 killed while playing soccer in southern Mexico (AP)
• New Congo rebel group sparks fears of more unrest (AP)
• Video shows Pakistan Taliban boss alive (AP)
• U.S. chained wounded Canadian teen to door: medic (Reuters)
• Round-the-world Aussie teen sailor enters home stretch (AFP)
• U.S. medic testifies he found teen chained to door at Afghan base (McClatchy Newspapers)
• NPT 101: Why Iran sees nuclear 'hypocrisy' (The Christian Science Monitor)
• India: Pakistani Gunman Qasab Guilty in Mumbai Attacks (Time.com)
• Leaders Go Public with HIV Tests (OneWorld.net)

Clinton, Ahmadinejad trade barbs over nukes at UN (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 05:09 PM PDT AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a verbal nuclear exchange Monday on the U.N. stage, where nations gathered for a monthlong debate over the world's ultimate weapons.

Merkel: $29.6 billion in aid for Greece planned (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 01:10 PM PDT AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet approved legislation on Monday that would give Greece euro22.4 billion ($29.6 billion) over three years as part of a wider bailout, as the German government acknowledged that letting Greece go bankrupt could send the euro into a tailspin and hurt Germany's own economy.

Ireland shuts airports Tuesday as ash risk returns (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 02:52 PM PDT AP - All flights in and out of Ireland have been canceled Tuesday morning because of the renewed risk of volcanic ash drifting south from Iceland, the Irish Aviation Authority announced Monday.

Mild tremor shakes Haiti but no damage reported (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 03:54 PM PDT AP - People ran screaming from buildings Monday as a mild tremor rattled a Haitian capital still traumatized by the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake.

Indian court convicts Pakistani in Mumbai siege (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 12:54 PM PDT AP - An Indian court on Monday convicted the only surviving gunman in the bloody 2008 Mumbai siege, ruling Mohammed Ajmal Kasab was guilty of murder and waging war for his role in the attacks that left 166 people dead and deeply shook India. Two Indians accused of helping plot the violence were acquitted.

Aquino Pulls Ahead in Philippine Presidential Race (Time.com) Posted: 03 May 2010 04:55 PM PDT Time.com - The general election in the Philippines is entering the home stretch. With a week to go before the May 10 vote, presidential front-runner Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III is pulling sharply ahead of his nearest rival

Australia's Robertson wins world snooker championship (AFP) Posted: 03 May 2010 05:31 PM PDT AFP - Australia's Neil Robertson won the snooker world championship at The Crucible on Tuesday, beating Scotland's Graeme Dott 18-13 in the final.

US envoy seeks to launch Israeli-Palestinian talks (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 11:48 AM PDT AP - The U.S. Mideast envoy returned to the region and Israel's prime minister huddled with Egypt's president Monday in anticipation of the first Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in more than a year.

5 killed while playing soccer in southern Mexico (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 05:10 PM PDT AP - Gunmen drove up to a soccer field and shot five men to death as they played early Monday near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, police in southern Mexico said.

New Congo rebel group sparks fears of more unrest (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 12:44 PM PDT AP - Eric Nkumu Bunita went to war armed only with some water and herbs he believed would protect him from gunfire. The skinny 27-year-old's career as a fighter for Congo's newest rebel movement lasted a mere four weeks.

Video shows Pakistan Taliban boss alive (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 05:10 PM PDT AP - The leader of Pakistan's Taliban appeared in a video Monday threatening attacks against the U.S. three months after American and Pakistani officials believed he died in a U.S. missile strike.

U.S. chained wounded Canadian teen to door: medic (Reuters) Posted: 03 May 2010 04:51 PM PDT Reuters - Canadian captive Omar Khadr was hooded, crying and chained to a door outside his cell in Afghanistan around the time he turned 16, a former U.S. medic testified on Monday in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.

Round-the-world Aussie teen sailor enters home stretch (AFP) Posted: 03 May 2010 12:36 AM PDT AFP - An Australian teenager aiming to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world was days away from completing her goal on Monday, after battling the worst conditions of her trip.

U.S. medic testifies he found teen chained to door at Afghan base (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 03 May 2010 04:54 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — A former U.S. Army combat medic testified Monday that he once found Canadian teen captive Omar Khadr chained by the arms to the door of a five-foot-square cage at a U.S. lock-up in Afghanistan, hooded and weeping.

NPT 101: Why Iran sees nuclear 'hypocrisy' (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 03 May 2010 02:14 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The original nuclear-weapons club of five nations remains almost as exclusive as ever, with just nine countries now holding atomic arsenals.

India: Pakistani Gunman Qasab Guilty in Mumbai Attacks (Time.com) Posted: 03 May 2010 03:55 PM PDT Time.com - Even as India seeks to repair relations with Pakistan, New Delhi wants Islamabad to move forward against suspects and fugitives in the country, such as those connected to the 2008 Mumbai attacks

Leaders Go Public with HIV Tests (OneWorld.net) Posted: 03 May 2010 02:54 PM PDT OneWorld.net - NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG, May 3 (IRIN PlusNews) - South African President Jacob Zuma recently launched one of the most ambitious voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaigns in history by disclosing his HIV-negative status. Ministers and provincial premiers have been following his example, but politicians in Africa have not always been so forthcoming.

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