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Britain's candidates agree: This race is wide open (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT

** CORRECTS TO POOL PHOTO ** Conservative Party leader David Cameron takes part in Britain's third televised election debate along Labour's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Liberal Democrat Party leader Nick Clegg (unseen) in Birmingham, England, Thursday, April 29, 2010. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is seeking political redemption in his country's third and final live televised debate after an open microphone caught him dismissing a retired Labour voter as a 'bigoted woman.' (AP Photo / Gareth Fuller, Pool)AP - Divided over the country's ballooning debt, the economy and the contentious issue of immigration, the three front runners in Britain's general election can still agree on one thing: This race is anyone's to win.

Transitional housing slowly getting built in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:50 PM PDT

People are seen next to a transitional shelter in Haut Papette, Haiti, Thursday, April 29, 2010. The 150 structures the Dutch relief group Cordaid expects to finish by next week with tarpaulin walls in this village, are the vanguard of the more than 130,000 semi-permanent shelters international relief groups hope to put up in coming months. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Unlike the vast majority of earthquake victims still crowded into squalid camps, the simple farmers of this hard-hit village have reason to hope as hurricane season looms.

Militant turncoat leads Iraqis to al-Qaida chiefs (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT

Munaf Abdul-Rahim al-Rawi speaks to The Associated Press at an undisclosed location in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 23, 2010. In the interview released Friday April 30, 2010, with The Associated Press, the detained militant Munaf Abdul-Rahim al-Rawi, offered a rare insight into the shadowy al-Qaida terror group, and information about the raid that killed the two top-ranking al-Qaida figures.(AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)AP - Leery of using a mobile phone, the militant tasked with directing some of Baghdad's deadliest recent bombings would get his orders from al-Qaida in Iraq's leadership by meeting a go-between near a grocery store named Mr. Milk.

China tightens school security after 3rd attack (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

A Chinese police officer demonstrate the use of a 'police restraint stick' long-handled poles with a hook on the end, to subdue a man playing the role of an attacker at a middle school in Beijing Thursday, April 29, 2010. Security measures have been stepped up after a spate of attacks on schools over the past three days. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Armed police will patrol schools in China's capital after a farmer attacked kindergarten students with a hammer, then burned himself to death Friday in the third classroom assault in as many days.

NKorea says imprisoned American speaks to family (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:19 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Jan. 12, 2010, American Aijalon Mahli Gomes, whose identification was made by Seoul-based activist Jo Sung-rae, participates in a rally organized by Jo denouncing North Korean's human rights conditions at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea. The American, from Boston, imprisoned in North Korea was allowed to speak to his family by telephone Friday April 30, 2010, state media said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - An American imprisoned in North Korea was allowed to speak to his mother by telephone, but Pyongyang's state media and his family provided few details and no clues whether he would be released.

The 1940 Katyn Murders: Russia Posts Its Files Online (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Time.com - As relations between Poland and Russia begin to warm, Moscow has for the first time posted online its files on the Katyn massacre, the 1940 killing of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet troops. But for many Poles, the gesture doesn't go far enough

Spain jobless rate over 20 pct, adding to woes (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2010 file photo, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pauses during a news conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid. Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Wednesday April 28, 2010, has downgraded Spain in another widening of Europe's government debt crisis.The move Wednesday follows its reductions of Portugal and Greece, which sent shock waves through world markets. (AP Photo / Paul White, File)AP - Spain's jobless rate has risen over 20 percent for the first time since 1997, the government said Friday — more dismal news for a recession-plagued economy that is being dragged into Europe's debt crisis.

Jordanian CIA bomber urges Muslims to wage jihad (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 08:07 AM PDT

AP - The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan late last year called on Muslims to wage jihad and become martyrs in a posthumous message posted on extremist websites Friday.

US ambassador: Honduras' Zelaya acted erratically (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:55 PM PDT

AP - U.S. officials who voiced strong opposition to Honduras' coup last June now say the ousted president took an "erratic and imprudent course of action" in the months leading up to his overthrow.

Nigerian court jails six Ghanaians, Nigerian for oil theft: official (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 03:23 PM PDT

A worker walks on an oil drilling platform at the Total oil platform at Amenem, in the Niger Delta. A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced six Ghanaians and a Nigerian to eight years in prison each after they were found guilty of stealing 4,000 tonnes of oil products, anti-graft agency EFCC said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced six Ghanaians and a Nigerian to eight years in prison each after they were found guilty of stealing 4,000 tonnes of oil products, anti-graft agency EFCC said.

China carmaker puts N. American headquarters in LA (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:28 PM PDT

AP - A rapidly expanding manufacturer of all-electric cars, solar panels and other green products from China announced Friday it will open a North American headquarters in Los Angeles, with plans to begin selling autos in the U.S. by the end of the year.

Khadr aided U.S. so he could go home, agent says (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:26 PM PDT

Reuters - Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr chatted happily with a pretty, young U.S. interrogator because he thought cooperation would win him a speedy trip home to Canada, the interrogator told the U.S. war crimes tribunal on Friday.

Australia's 'baby-faced killer' buried in golden casket (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 12:33 AM PDT

Roberta Williams (2nd right), ex-wife of slain gangland killer Carl Williams, follows the gold-plated coffin out of the church as it leaves his funeral service, in Melbourne, on April 30. Carl Williams was bashed to death in the Barwon Prison 11 days ago where he was serving a 35 year sentence for four murders and conspiracy to murder.(AFP/William West)AFP - Notorious Australian mobster Carl Williams was buried in a golden coffin Friday after a lavish funeral which drew a large crowd of mourners and blanket media coverage after his savage jailhouse murder.

Veteran's award-winning poems trace journey to Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 12:25 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Combat was a good career move for award-winning war poet Brian Turner, though it took a toll.

Why Iran's Ahmadinejad is pushing to cut popular government subsidies (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 11:58 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - On the eve of his visit to the US next week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been pushing parliament to cut $40 billion in government subsidies. As Iran braces for fresh United Nations sanctions over its controversial nuclear program as well as a possible rise in inflation rates, the president seeks to convert the subsidy money into a slush fund with little government oversight.

Conservatives Leading Labour in Run-Up to U.K. Election (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Time.com - With days to go before Britain takes to the polls, Labour's woes continue as the Conservatives pull further out in front. But for whoever wins on May 6, sweet victory could come with a bitter aftertaste

Pressure Mounts on Chevron to Disclose Burma Revenue (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:52 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - BANGKOK, Apr 29 (IPS) - When shareholders of the multinational company Chevron gather for their annual meeting in the U.S. city of Houston in late May, they will come face to face with Naing Htoo, whose community has suffered due to the exploits of the energy giant in military-ruled Burma.

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