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[/url]AP - You want to find a new frog species? Head to the Southeast Asian nation of Laos. gcScientists working in conjunction with the New York-based World Conservation Society, or WCS, say they have discovered eight new species of frogs in the past two years. Among them is one where the male is half the size of the female and another which has a row of spines running down its belly. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Iraq's dominant Shiite alliance will retain the crucial post of interior ministry in the new cabinet, a Shiite MP said as negotiations continued on the formation of a national unity government. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Paris Bennett sang "Kiss" � and the pint-size soul singer and judge favorite kissed "American Idol" goodbye Wednesday, becoming the latest singer sacked in viewer voting. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of people waiting outside a heavily guarded court building in Baghdad on Thursday, killing 10 Iraqis and wounding dozens, police said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - At least nine people were killed and 50 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a courthouse near Baghdad's Shiite dominated Sadr City, medics said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Richard Hamilton scored a playoff career-best 40 points Wednesday night to lead the Detroit Pistons to a 122-93 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks that advanced the Pistons to the second round. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Vice President Dick Cheney, in remarks that caused a stir in neighboring Russia, accused President Vladimir Putin Thursday of restricting the rights of citizens and said that "no legitimate interest is served" by turning energy resources into implements of blackmail. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - A roadside bomb exploded near a courthouse in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least nine people. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Vice President Dick Cheney accused Russia on Thursday of backsliding on democracy and urged it to stop using its vast energy supplies for "blackmail" in one of Washington's sharpest rebukes to Moscow. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - The Vatican on Thursday excommunicated two bishops ordained by China's state-controlled church without the pope's consent, escalating tensions as the two sides explore preliminary moves toward improving ties. Link To Original Article
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Reuters - A bomb that exploded near a Baghdad courthouse on Thursday killed at least nine people, police said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Israel needs to take seriously Iranian threats to wipe out the Jewish state and can defend itself against a country the West suspects of seeking nuclear weapons, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Thursday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Fifty women have graduated as Muslim preachers, part of a concerted effort by authorities in Morocco to promote moderate Islam in a country grappling with extremism. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday he expects recommendations from U.S. commanders in Iraq on possible troop cuts sometime after Iraq's cabinet is named, a development expected in the coming weeks. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The Sudanese government and rebels from the Darfur region face a third deadline to make peace on Thursday with uncertainty surrounding U.S. attempts to wrangle a few last-ditch concessions from both sides. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Lebanon prevented the Taiwanese president's plane from making a refueling stop in Beirut after China's ambassador complained to authorities, a Lebanese official said Thursday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday he does not expect U.S. commanders to make a recommendation for withdrawing forces from Iraq until after the country appoints ministers of its fledgling government, perhaps by the end of May. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Thursday that he respected the decision of a U.S. jury to sentence Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison and not to death as the prosecution had demanded. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Minutes after an earthquake struck near the South Pacific nation of Tonga, tsunami warnings began to radiate to countries as far away as Fiji and New Zealand by phone, e-mail and fax. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - As of Wednesday, May 3, 2006, at least 2,407 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 1,893 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. Link To Original Article
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