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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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AP - A court on Tuesday dropped charges against four Turkish journalists accused of insulting the country's courts, but decided to press ahead with the trial of a fifth journalist, a report said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Three Marines have been relieved of their commands in connection with problems during their deployment to Iraq, including their battalion's actions during a firefight that left 15 Iraqi civilians dead. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Italy's most wanted man, the Mafia's "boss of bosses" Bernardo Provenzano, has been arrested in Sicily after 42 years on the run, Italy's Ansa news agency said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - A Spanish judge on Tuesday handed down the first indictments in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, charging 29 people with murder, terrorism and other crimes after a two-year probe. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - President Bush urged feuding Iraqi leaders on Monday to stop bickering and forge agreement on key positions in a unity government. 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]Reuters - Egypt has found its 12th case of human bird flu, Health and Population Minister Hatem el-Gabali said in comments published late on Monday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - President George W. Bush defended his decision to release classified information justifying the 2003 Iraq invasion, saying the release did not compromise "ongoing intelligence matters." Link To Original Article
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