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• India tests nuclear-capable missile that can reach China
• Syria, U.N. agree on terms of monitoring mission
• Lawmakers press UK government over China murder scandal
• Analysis: Early days for Spain's tug of war with markets
• NATO helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; casualties unknown
• Mali's military frees arrested officials
• UK phone hacking lawyer brings News Corp case to U.S.
• Ex-Supreme Court justice says Venezuela manipulates courts
• Boko Haram kill seven civilians in north Nigeria: government
• Bashir says Sudan to teach South "final lesson by force"
• Clinton urges tougher UN pressure on Syria
• Norway killer sharpened aim by playing video game
• UN chief urges 2 Sudans to step back from war
• Guinea-Bissau junta gives 2-year timeframe
• Mali junta: 22 detainees released after outcry
• India missile test has few critics, unlike NKorea
• APNewsBreak: Nigeria opens secret prison for sect
• Afghan leader condemns US troop photos
• Bombs kill 30 in Iraq's worst violence in a month
• British shoe-bomb suspect testifies at NYC trial

India tests nuclear-capable missile that can reach China Posted: BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - India successfully test-fired on Thursday a nuclear-capable missile that can reach Beijing and Eastern Europe, thrusting the emerging Asian power into a small club of nations that can deploy nuclear weapons at such a great distance. Footage showed the rocket with a range of more than 5,000 km (3,100 miles) blasting through clouds from an island off India's east coast. It was not immediately clear how far the rocket flew before reaching its target in the Indian Ocean. The defense minister said the test was "immaculate". ...

Syria, U.N. agree on terms of monitoring mission Posted: BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement on Thursday on terms for hundreds of observers to monitor a ceasefire, but fierce diplomatic wrangling lies ahead to persuade the West the mission can have the authority and power to ensure peace. A handful of U.N. observers are already in Syria monitoring a week-old truce that has failed to stop bloodshed. The question of whether the mission can expand while violence continues is up in the air. A crowd mobbed the head of the advance party on Thursday, some demanding the death of President Bashar al-Assad. The ...

Lawmakers press UK government over China murder scandal Posted: LONDON (Reuters) - Lawmakers asked the British government on Thursday about rumors that a businessman whose murder sparked political upheaval in China may have been a spy and demanded to know why it took so long for ministers to be told of suspicions about his death. Police in China initially attributed the death of Neil Heywood, 41, in a hotel room in the southwest Chinese city of Chongqing last November to cardiac arrest due to over-consumption of alcohol. ...

Analysis: Early days for Spain's tug of war with markets Posted: LONDON (Reuters) - Thursday's Spanish debt auction results have set the tone for a year of muddling through: Yields are too high to be sustainable in the long term, yet not high enough to trigger a near-term meltdown. In the same vein, an agreement taking shape to lend the International Monetary Fund $400 billion so it could help bail out Spain (or Italy) is unlikely to be a game changer for skeptical markets. It is not obvious why a stronger firewall should encourage anyone to enter a burning house. ...

NATO helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; casualties unknown Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A NATO military helicopter crashed due to poor weather in Afghanistan on Thursday, the military said, and it was not immediately clear whether anyone aboard survived. A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the Black Hawk helicopter went down in the Regional Command-Southwest area, which includes the traditional Taliban stronghold of Helmand province. Initial reporting suggested that poor weather caused the crash, the official said. No information on casualties was immediately available. ...

Mali's military frees arrested officials Posted: BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's military has released all the senior political and army officials it arrested earlier this week, the army leaders behind last month's coup said on Thursday. Separately, neighboring Senegal said Mali's ousted former president, Amadou Toumani Toure, was on a plane heading for the capital Dakar. Senegal revealed this week that Toure been sheltering in its embassy in the Malian capital, Bamako. Toure fled his palace on March 22. ...

UK phone hacking lawyer brings News Corp case to U.S. Posted: (Reuters) - The News of the World phone hacking scandal moved closer to the United States after British lawyer Mark Lewis teamed up with two New York lawyers to pursue claims that four of his clients had been hacked by Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct tabloid on U.S. soil. One client is a U.S. citizen, and other potential victims of the "dark arts" of Murdoch's UK newspapers have contacted him, Lewis said at a press conference in New York on Thursday. ...

Ex-Supreme Court justice says Venezuela manipulates courts Posted: MIAMI (Reuters) - A Venezuelan Supreme Court judge who was removed from his post last month for assisting a drug trafficker has accused President Hugo Chavez's leftist government of systematically manipulating the courts, including meddling in drug cases. Eladio Aponte fled two weeks ago to Costa Rica, where he contacted officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and was flown to the United States, a Costa Rican official told Reuters. "It's very corrupt at every single level. ...

Boko Haram kill seven civilians in north Nigeria: government Posted: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen from radical Islamist sect Boko Haram have killed at least seven civilians in the past 24 hours in a spate of attacks in northern Nigeria, police said on Thursday. Boko Haram, which wants to carve an Islamic state out of Africa's most populous nation split evenly between Muslims and Christians, has killed hundreds in almost daily gun and bomb attacks this year. ...

Bashir says Sudan to teach South "final lesson by force" Posted: KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir all but declared war against his newly independent neighbor on Thursday, vowing to teach South Sudan a "final lesson by force" after it occupied a disputed oil field. South Sudan accused Bashir of planning "genocide" and said it would fight to protect its people. Mounting violence since Sudan split into two countries last year has raised the prospect of two sovereign African states waging war against each other openly for the first time since Ethiopia fought newly-independent Eritrea in 1998-2000. ...

Clinton urges tougher UN pressure on Syria Posted: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the U.N. Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other tough measures against Syria to try to halt 13 months of bloodshed, but she acknowledged such diplomatic actions would likely be vetoed.

Norway killer sharpened aim by playing video game Posted: Anders Behring Breivik knew it would take practice to be able to slaughter dozens of people before being shot by police. In a chilling account, the far-right fanatic claimed Thursday that he sharpened his aim by playing the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" for hours on end.

UN chief urges 2 Sudans to step back from war Posted: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Sudan and South Sudan on Thursday to step back from the brink of war and return to the negotiating table.

Guinea-Bissau junta gives 2-year timeframe Posted: Guinea-Bissau's military leaders said Thursday they had agreed on a candidate to lead a transitional government, though the two-year proposed timeframe for organizing new elections after last week's coup was unlikely to appease the international community.

Mali junta: 22 detainees released after outcry Posted: The junta that seized power in a coup last month announced late Thursday that it had released 22 people whose arrests earlier this week had prompted international criticism.

India missile test has few critics, unlike NKorea Posted: India's successful test of a powerful new missile that can carry nuclear weapons to Beijing caused barely a ripple — even in China — just days after North Korea was globally vilified for a failed rocket launch.

APNewsBreak: Nigeria opens secret prison for sect Posted: Nigeria is opening a secret detention center to hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, a security official has told The Associated Press.

Afghan leader condemns US troop photos Posted: Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps.

Bombs kill 30 in Iraq's worst violence in a month Posted: Bombs ripped through 10 Iraqi cities Thursday, killing at least 30 people and shattering a month of relative calm. Minority lawmakers decried the violence as a tragic but inevitable result of the Shiite-led government's attempts to dominate Iraqi politics.

British shoe-bomb suspect testifies at NYC trial Posted: In a videotaped deposition made public for the first time Thursday, a British man convicted in an aborted shoe-bombing mission admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden after deciding to fight jihad against the West.

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