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• 7.8 quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra island (AP)
• Rio's worst rains in history kill at least 95 (AP)
• Vatican blasts anti-Catholic 'hate' campaign (AP)
• Latest massacres stoke war fears in Iraq; U.S. reacts (AP)
• South Sudan's main party to boycott vote in north (AP)
• Direct Democracy: Citizen Initiatives Come to Europe (Time.com)
• Brown calls general election for May 6 (AFP)
• Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP)
• Gunmen attack Mexican army housing, 2 troops hurt (AP)
• Ex-south Sudan rebels boycott north election: party official (AFP)
• Magnitude 7.7 quake shakes Indonesia's Sumatra (Reuters)
• Canada dollar edges above U.S. dollar; highest since 2008 (Reuters)
• Timor police declare war on mysterious 'ninjas' (AFP)
• Russian, Polish leaders to mark Katyn massacre of 1940 (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Michelle Obama and the Americanization of the Britain general election (The Christian Science Monitor)
• 'Black Widows' Recruited for Terrorism in Russia (Time.com)
• Escaping a Cambodian Brothel: One Woman's Story (OneWorld.net)

7.8 quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra island (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:21 PM PDT AP - A 7.8 earthquake shook Indonesia's northwest island of Sumatra early Wednesday, prompting a brief tsunami warning and sending residents rushing for higher ground. There were no immediate reports of widespread damage.

Rio's worst rains in history kill at least 95 (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - The heaviest rains in Rio de Janeiro's history triggered landslides Tuesday that killed at least 95 people as rising water turned roads into rivers and paralyzed Brazil's second-largest city.

Vatican blasts anti-Catholic 'hate' campaign (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT AP - The Vatican heatedly defended Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, claiming accusations that he helped cover up the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic "hate" campaign targeting the pope for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

Latest massacres stoke war fears in Iraq; U.S. reacts (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 02:11 PM PDT AP - Bombs ripped through apartment buildings and a market in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 50 people in postelection bloodshed that threatens to rekindle sectarian warfare that nearly destroyed the country three years ago.

South Sudan's main party to boycott vote in north (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:26 PM PDT AP - Southern Sudan's main political party said Tuesday it would boycott this week's local and parliamentary polls in the country's northern provinces, a move that further erodes the credibility of Sudan's first multiparty elections in decades.

Direct Democracy: Citizen Initiatives Come to Europe (Time.com) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT Time.com - The European Union is launching a new experiment to empower -- and excite-- voters: giving them the right to propose new laws for the entire27-member bloc

Brown calls general election for May 6 (AFP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:37 PM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown fired the starting gun Tuesday on a month-long election race, setting May 6 as the date for voting in what could be the closest poll for a generation.

Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:41 PM PDT AP - A look at recent major attacks in Iraq:

Gunmen attack Mexican army housing, 2 troops hurt (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:27 PM PDT AP - Suspected cartel gunmen wounded two soldiers in an unprecedented grenade attack on army housing in northern Mexico, the latest sign that drug gangs are increasingly turning to open warfare tactics against the military.

Ex-south Sudan rebels boycott north election: party official (AFP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 01:12 PM PDT AFP - The ex-rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement said on Tuesday it would boycott Sunday's elections in the north, casting further doubt on the credibility of Sudan's upcoming multi-party elections.

Magnitude 7.7 quake shakes Indonesia's Sumatra (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:33 PM PDT Reuters - A major earthquake of 7.7 magnitude struck off the coast of Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Canada dollar edges above U.S. dollar; highest since 2008 (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:14 PM PDT Reuters - The Canadian dollar briefly pushed above parity with the greenback on Tuesday for the first time since July 2008, but slipped back to end the day just below the one-for-one level.

Timor police declare war on mysterious 'ninjas' (AFP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 08:15 AM PDT AFP - East Timor police have declared war on a group of mysterious "ninjas" accused of murder and subversion in a new twist to the young country's struggle to establish security.

Russian, Polish leaders to mark Katyn massacre of 1940 (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:32 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A historic meeting scheduled for Wednesday between top leaders of Russia and Poland is expected to provide new details about Russia's mass execution of 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest in 1940 and may pave the way toward improved relations between the two countries.

Michelle Obama and the Americanization of the Britain general election (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 01:01 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Michelle Obama’s popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by British political spin-doctors.

'Black Widows' Recruited for Terrorism in Russia (Time.com) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT Time.com - Do women like the Black Widows of Russia perpetrate terrorism for revenge? Or are have they been carefully cultivated to carry out acts of carnage?

Escaping a Cambodian Brothel: One Woman's Story (OneWorld.net) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:14 PM PDT OneWorld.net - AN GIANG PROVINCE, Vietnam, Apr 6 (New America Media) - My name is Bong Nguyen. I am 21 years old. My parents work in the rice fields. We have enough to eat and enough to wear. I have two brothers, one older, one younger.

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