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[/url]AFP - A Royal Air Force doctor was facing a court martial in for refusing to return to Iraq last year because he believes military action there is illegal. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Florentino Cruz, an illegal worker from Mexico, joined hundreds of thousands of immigrant rights supporters in rallies across the nation, holding a sign with a simple message: "The USA is made of immigrants like me." Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Center-left challenger Romano Prodi claimed an outright electoral victory Tuesday over Premier Silvio Berlusconi before official results were in, but the slim margin could return Italy to political paralysis and instability. Link To Original Article
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Reuters - The Fadhila party in Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Alliance said on Tuesday it was ready to put forward an alternative candidate for prime minister instead of Ibrahim al-Jaafari to end a stand-off over his nomination. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Massive street marches to protest a proposed crackdown on illegal immigration have energized U.S. Hispanics and may signal a new day of Hispanic political involvement. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Shiite politicians failed Tuesday to resolve the deadlock over their candidate for prime minister, which is blocking formation of a new government. A bomb exploded on a minibus in a Shiite area, killing three people and underscoring Iraq's grave security crisis. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - President Bush said Monday that he declassified sensitive prewar intelligence on Iraq back in 2003 to counter critics who claimed the administration had exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Center-left leader Romano Prodi claimed victory in Italy's election on Tuesday but his tiny margin raised fears of political paralysis and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's allies demanded a review of the count. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Israel on Tuesday stood by its new policy of firing artillery shells at rocket squads operating from populated areas in Gaza, even after a round killed an 8-year-old Palestinian girl. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - As of Monday, April 10, 2006, at least 2,354 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 1,852 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - France's students and trade unions prepared a victory parade on Tuesday to mark the demise of a hated youth jobs law, with politicians and analysts split over whether the hope of labor market reform was dead too. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Italy's reputed No. 1 Mafia boss was arrested Tuesday at a farmhouse in the Sicilian countryside after frustrating investigators' efforts to catch him during more than 40 years on the run, the Interior Ministry said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday he ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq to respond to critics who alleged he manipulated intelligence to justify the war. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The reluctance of banks to risk U.S. sanctions and lawsuits by dealing with a Hamas-led government has pushed the Palestinian Authority to the brink of financial collapse sooner than donors had expected, diplomats said. Link To Original Article
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The Christian Science Monitor - Africans are taking increasingly dangerous risks as they try to smuggle themselves into Europe in the hope of finding jobs to support families back home. Link To Original Article
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AP - Germany's foreign minister held out hope Monday for the release of two German engineers held hostage in Iraq since January, after a weekend video posted on the Internet showed them alive but pleading for help. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Envoys to stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program sought ways on Tuesday to entice the secretive state back to the table, but Washington's lead negotiator insisted the ball was in Pyongyang's court. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - A European space probe went into orbit around Venus, mission controllers said, after a 400-million-kilometre (250-million-mile trip) to peer into its toxic atmosphere and swirling clouds. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - President George W. Bush stepped up pressure on Iraqi politicians to form a government, warning that if extremists win in Iraq they will target other Arab nations. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Opposition leader Romano Prodi claimed a wafer-thin victory in Italy's election thriller but as final votes were counted the threat of a crippling deadlock loomed. Link To Original Article
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