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[/url]AP - American and Iraqi forces have killed more than 20 insurgents during raids in areas used by militants to stage attacks in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Sunday. Link To Original Article
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Reuters - A bomb planted inside a minibus exploded in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City neighborhood on Sunday, wounding seven people, police sources said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The Sudanese government accepted an African Union-drafted Darfur peace deal on Sunday and said any outstanding disagreements on issues such as security and power-sharing could be negotiated later. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Police found an Indian hostage's beheaded body in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. Taliban militants said they shot the hostage dead as he tried to escape. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Alarm bells over an emerging nuclear threat in the Gulf, UN credibility at stake, a fervent call to a coalition of the willing: the United States has been there before. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - John Kenneth Galbraith, an influential liberal economist and author of "The Affluent Society," has died at age 97, The New York Times reported on Sunday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - The Sudanese government confirmed Sunday that it is ready to sign a draft agreement with rebels from its Darfur region, but the rebels said they still have reservations about the deal. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched in New York, demanding the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and vowing a summer of protests ahead of mid-term elections in November. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - President George W. Bush shared the stage at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night with someone else: himself. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Three security contractors were killed and two others injured Sunday in a roadside bomb attack 30 miles south of Baghdad, Britain's Foreign Office said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - As of Saturday, April 29, 2006, at least 2,399 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 1,886 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Veteran Nepali politician Girija Prasad Koirala was sworn in as prime minister of the Himalayan nation on Sunday, days after King Gyanendra bowed to pro-democracy protesters and returned power to political parties. Link To Original Article
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AP - A senior Pakistani scientist suspected of helping leak nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea has been released after two years in detention, an army spokesman said Sunday. Link To Original Article
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AP - Saddam Hussein's lawyer is walking in Greenwich Village, admiring the brave buds of a skeletal tree slowly stirring from winter sleep. In the twilight of his life, he notices such things: the advent of spring, the daily opera that plays on the streets of Manhattan, the small, simple pleasures that still stir his soul. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Israel's cabinet approved a new route for the controversial West Bank barrier on Sunday, giving the go-ahead for the structure to cut deep into the West Bank in order to take in two large Jewish settlement blocs. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has plummeted in the esteem of the British public as key ministers clung to their jobs at the weekend in the face of personal and political embarassments. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - At the edge of a southern Iraqi city, a refugee family huddles in a tin shack, its hope of jobs and security gone. A northern businessman dreams of opening a store in Baghdad, but the violence puts him off. In the south, a young woman glances nervously around a crowded bus station, fearful a suicide bomb will steal her life even as she celebrates new freedoms. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Sudanese rebels from Darfur province has threatened to withdraw their support for an African Union-brokered peace deal which the Khartoum government has pledged to sign despite "reservations". Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - The Iranian deputy oil minister said Sunday he did not believe the United Nations would impose sanctions against Iran because such a move would increase oil prices. Link To Original Article
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AP - A U.S. Army soldier died Saturday when a roadside bomb hit his convoy near Baghdad, the military said. Link To Original Article
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