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APTOPIX SERBIA ELECTIONS
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Serbia's pro-western President Boris Tadic casts his ballot at a polling station in downtown Belgrade, Sunday, May 11, 2008. Serbs voted Sunday in elections that will decide whether the nation takes another step toward mainstream Europe or reverts to a hardline stance reminiscent of the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Serbia's pro-Western president declared victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections - a stunning upset over ultranationalists who tried to exploit anger over Kosovo's independence. But his rivals vowed to fight on, and it was unclear if he could stave off their challenge.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

The main parties that participated in early parliamentary elections in Serbia on Sunday:

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth - a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie.

MIDEAST LEBANON CLASHES
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A Hezbollah fighter fires from his AK-47 during a battle in Chouweifat south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 11, 2008. Heavy fighting broke out between pro and anti-government supporters in Lebanon's central mountains overlooking the capital Sunday sending echoes of gunfire and explosions rolling across Beirut.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Lebanon hung between fears of all-out war and hopes of political compromise Sunday as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine guns in the mountains overlooking the capital.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Facts about Serbia, which held parliamentary elections Sunday:

Ecuador FARC Laptop
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Ecuadorian soldiers look at weapons and equipment found in this March 2, 2008, file photo, in Angostura, Ecuador, near the border with Colombia, were Colombian security forces killed Saturday 17 leftist rebels including Luis Edgar Devia, known as Raul Reyes, a top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC. A newly disclosed set of documents, on Friday, May 9, 2008, that Colombia's government says were recovered from a slain rebel's computers indicate senior Venezuelan officials tried to help arm Colombia's main guerrilla army.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the border.

India-Farmer Suicides
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Yash, an orphan of farmer Rajendra Shankarwar, who committed suicide, drinks milk from a feeding bottle inside his house in village Akoli, India, Thursday, April 24, 2008. India's cotton belt, a land of searing temperatures and backbreaking work, has been hit hardest by an epidemic of suicides. Life has never been easy in this swath of central India, but the current generation of farmers say it has become unbearable. With debts larger than their incomes, these steadiest of workers have become gamblers of the highest stakes, betting their land _ and their lives _ on one more good crop.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die.

Myanmar Cyclone
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Young monks wash themselves in the river in Pyapon, a town in the Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar, on Sunday, May 11, 2008, a week after devastating cyclone Nagris slammed into the low-lying region and Yangon.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first international shipments - sank on its way to the disaster zone.

SUDAN
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Two injured men who were detained by government forces in Khartoum are seen in this image taken from Sudan TV on Sunday May 11, 2008. Hundreds of rebels from the war-ravaged Darfur area clashed with Sudanese security forces on the doorstep of the capital Khartoum Saturday in a dramatic widening of the five-year old conflict. It was the first foray by a rebel group once confined to Sudan's western Darfur region into the seat of the Sudanese government.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Sudan severed ties with Chad Sunday, accusing its neighbor of backing a rebel assault on the capital and raising the possibility of new border clashes that could worsen Darfur's humanitarian crisis.

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS RICE
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice looks on during a joint press conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, not seen, in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 4, 2008. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday said a year-end goal for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is still achievable, even though both sides question whether the target is realistic.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

The Bush administration has told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they will need to show progress in their secret talks soon, or risk a potentially fatal erosion in public support for a process now in its sixth month without any obvious successes.

Japan China
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Chinese President Hu Jintao waves after meeting employees and students during a visit to the headquarters of Japanese electronics conglomerate Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. in Kadoma, western Japan, Saturday, May 10, 2008.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

China has established a homegrown company to make passenger jumbo jets, state media reported Sunday - a step forward in the country's quest to become less dependent on Boeing and Airbus.

PAKISTAN POLITICS
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Pakistani rights activists shout slogans against President Pervez Musharraf, during a protest calling for the reinstatement of judges in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, May 9, 2008. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stepped up the pressure for the restoration of Pakistani judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf. Sharif planned to meet later Friday in London with fellow ruling coalition leader Asif Ali Zardari to discuss the issue, which threatens their 5-week-old coalition government.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Pakistani leaders failed Sunday to reach a deal on restoring judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, increasing the likelihood the ruling coalition could shatter after just six weeks in power and plunge the country back into political turmoil.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

The U.S. military on Sunday ordered a court-martial for a civilian contractor charged with aggravated assault while working as an Army translator in Iraq - the first such military prosecution since the Vietnam War.

Myanmar Cyclone
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A Myanmar soldier, right, pauses and he and his colleagues unload bags of supplies aid, donated by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, from a Thai military plane onto a truck at Yangon airport in Myanmar Sunday, May 11, 2008. More food reached Myanmar's hungry cyclone victims as roads were cleared of fallen trees, but a British aid group warned that up to 1.5 million face death if they do not get clean water and sanitation soon.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

A cargo ship carrying relief supplies for more than 1,000 cyclone victims in Myanmar has sunk.

APTOPIX Iraq Sadr City
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Iraqis chant anti-U.S. slogans after a prayer in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 9, 2008. Thousands of people have fled the fierce battles between the US and Iraqi forces and the Mahdi army in Sadr City.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Militants were withdrawing from the streets and shops were reopening in Baghdad's Sadr City on the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces following two months of intense clashes.

SOUTH AFRICA  ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS
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Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirayi, looks on at a news conference in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Zimbabwe's top opposition leader said Saturday he will contest a presidential runoff and will soon return to his homeland. Morgan Tsvangirai, addressing reporters in South Africa, said his supporters would feel "betrayed" if he did not face Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in the runoff.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

The runoff pitting President Robert Mugabe against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not take place in the next few weeks as required by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday.

APTOPIX Myanmar Cyclone
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Villagers, who survived last week's destructive cyclone Nargis, start to repair their broken house at the Mangalay village in Pyapon, Delta region of Myanmar, Sunday, May 11, 2008.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

As the cyclone raged around him, Ko Zaw Min clung to a tree with one arm while clutching his newborn son with the other.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Gaza City residents faced closed bakeries, stalled elevators and no water on Sunday after the ruling Hamas shut down the territory's only power plant, saying it ran out of fuel supplied by Israel.

SUDAN
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A Sudanese security force officer is surrounded by his men after clashes with rebels in Khartoum in this image taken from Sudan TV on Sunday May 11, 2008. Hundreds of rebels from the war-ravaged Darfur area clashed with Sudanese security forces on the doorstep of the capital Khartoum Saturday in a dramatic widening of the five-year old conflict. It was the first foray by a rebel group once confined to Sudan's western Darfur region into the seat of the Sudanese government.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before, and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city.

Myanmar Cyclone
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A dead body, right rear, floats in the river in Pyapon, a town in the Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar, on Sunday, May 11, 2008, a week after devastating cyclone Nagris slammed into the low-lying region and Yangon.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water.

Iran Oil and Sanctions
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Iranian oil technician Majid Afshari checks the oil separator facilities in Azadegan oil field, near Ahvaz, Iran, Tuesday, April 15, 2008.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

At this huge oil field in southwest Iran, one building stands out among the pumps and maze of pipelines: On its roof in giant letters, big enough for satellites or pilots to see, are the words: "We can do it."

Kyrgyzstan-Coal Miners
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Three coal miners discuss their plans in an illegal mine in southern Kyrgyzstan, Kyzylkiya, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. Here in the impoverished Ferghana Valley, illegal coal mining is a dirty, dangerous part of the underground economy. After the region's huge Soviet coal mines closed in the 1990s, jobless men and boys started their own small mining operations, using picks and shovels to claw the fuel out of the mountains. Some are as young as 11, miners say.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

In the impoverished Ferghana Valley in Kyrgyzstan, illegal coal mining is a dirty, dangerous part of the underground economy.

Nepal Tibet Protests
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Nepalese police officials block the way of Tibetan exile women and nuns participating in a silent peace march to protest against the Chinese government, in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 11, 2008.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations against China's recent crackdown in Tibet.

MIDEAST ISRAEL OLMERT
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks at an event marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel by the United Israel Appeal of Canada in Jerusalem, Friday, May 9, 2008. Ehud Olmert's political opponents demanded his resignation Friday, saying new allegations that the Israeli prime minister illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen render him unfit for the country's top job. Reading a statement in a nationally televised speech late Thursday, Olmert said he would resign only if police formally indicted him. He denied any wrongdoing in the case, which carries the potential to force him from office and derail fragile peace talks with the Palestinians.

Published Friday, May. 09, 2008

Calls for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation mounted on Friday as police probed allegations that he accepted hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars in cash-stuffed envelopes from a U.S. citizen.

Iraq Violence
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The wife of Jassim Abdul Hussein, right, mourns over his body at a morgue in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Hussein was killed during clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City on Friday.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Shiite groups brokered a reported cease-fire Saturday with militants fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's Sadr City as the country's army launched an offensive in Mosul against al-Qaida's main bastion in Iraq.

INTERPOL MANHUNT
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In this photo released by Interpol on Monday, May 5, 2008, an unidentified man is seen at an unknown location. Interpol says U.S. authorities have detained a suspected pedophile in New Jersey two days after the international police agency released this photo and called for public help to catch him.

Published Friday, May. 09, 2008

A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor, who painted faces at children's parties and performed as "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen."

MIDEAST LEBANON
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Fire fighters try to extinguish a fire in a shop, after it was set alight in the violence that broke following a shooting at a funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. A Shiite Muslim shop owner opened fire on a funeral procession Saturday, killing two people and wounding six others in a Sunni neighborhood, police and witnesses said. The attack came a day after Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized most of the capital's Muslim sector in the worst sectarian strife since a 15-year civil war ended nearly two decades ago.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Heavy fighting broke out between pro- and anti-government supporters in northern Lebanon amid the country's power struggle, security officials said Sunday.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Warplanes and artillery units destroyed key Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq - including a communications center - in a second day of raids on rebel positions, the military said Sunday.

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS
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Palestinian security force officers from Hamas, right and left, stand in front of Palestinians waiting to cross into Egypt for medical treatment at the Rafah border crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Egyptian authorities ordered a three-day opening of the Rafah border crossing on Saturday to allow Palestinians to cross into Egypt from the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, said a security official at the terminal.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

A member of the militant group Hamas has been killed in an explosion along Gaza's fence with Israel, the group said Sunday.

SERBIA ELECTIONS
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A man passes by an election billboard of Serbia's nationalist prime minister Kostunica party, reading: "Support Serbia", in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Crucial Serbian parliamentary elections are scheduled for Sunday, May 11.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Serbs were voting Sunday in elections that will decide whether the nation takes another step toward mainstream Europe or reverts to a hard-line stance reminiscent of the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

APTOPIX Switzerland Olympic Games Tibet IOC
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Tibetan activists lying as dead bodies in front the entrance of the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The Olympic torch reached the summit of Mount Everest Thursday, enroute to the Beijing games.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

A Chinese man was arrested for saying on the Internet that he planned to grab the Olympic torch during its relay through eastern China, police said Sunday.

India Kashmir Gunbattle
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Journalists, civilians and police officers duck at the scene of a gunbattle in Samba, 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Jammu, India, Sunday, May 11, 2008. Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants clashed in two separate incidents in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, killing six people, including two civilians and a news photographer, the army said.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants clashed Sunday in two separate incidents in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing six people, including two civilians and a news photographer, the army said.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Denis Nizhegorodov set a world record in the men's 50-kilometer race walk at a World Cup meet Sunday, shaving 1 minute, 34 seconds off the old mark.

Sri Lanka Election
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Piliyan, leader of a Tamil rebel breakaway faction, TamilEela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP), center, surrounded by bodyguards, leaves after casting his vote in the eastern provincial council elections in Valachenai, about 180 kilometers (112 miles) north east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 10, 2008. A climate of fear hung over Sri Lanka's Eastern Province elections Saturday following attacks blamed on the Tamil Tiger rebels and accusations of intimidation against the breakaway rebel group that backs the ruling party.

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

Sri Lanka's ruling party won control of the country's tense Eastern Province on Sunday after an election that monitors said was marred by voter intimidation and fraud.

SUDAN
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Map locates Khartoum and Omdurman, SUdan where rebels threaten government forces; 1c x 5 1/2 inches; 46 mm x 140; with ; Artist; ETA 4 p.m. ; 1c x 5 1/2 inches; 46.5 mm x 139.7 mm

Published Sunday, May. 11, 2008

President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Sitting in a Mexico City office, dressed in a pressed white shirt, Gerardo Sanchez seems a world away from his herds of goats and fields of beans.

Aptopix Iraq Violence
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The wife of Jassim Abdul Hussein, right, mourns over his body at a morgue in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Hussein was killed during clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City on Friday.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Four people, including a woman and a child, have been killed in an operation against al-Qaida near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the U.S. military said Sunday.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in a vehicle accident near al-Asad.

Sri Lanka Elections
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Kadisa Umma, left, mother, and Nafrin Jamaldeen, son of Mustafa Jamldeen, unseen, a victim of Provincial Council election violence, greave at Batticaloa General hospital in Batticaloa, about 180 kilometers (112 miles) north east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Allegations of fraud, voter intimidation and violence marred Sri Lanka's Eastern Province elections Saturday, which the government had touted as a celebration of democracy for a region recently liberated from the Tamil Tiger rebels.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Allegations of fraud, voter intimidation and sporadic violence marred elections in Sri Lanka's east Saturday despite the government's claims they would be a celebration of democracy for the region recently liberated from the Tamil Tiger rebels.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

The Dominican Republic has expanded subsidies on basic food staples to maintain calm after deadly food riots recently struck neighboring Haiti.

Mexico Violence
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A forensic expert takes photos of a bullet casing at the site where a high level Mexico City police officer was shot by armed assailants in Mexico City, Friday, May 9, 2008. Esteban Robles Espinoza, who was former head of the anti-kidnapping unit of Mexico City, died from his injuries en route to the hospital.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

The No. 2 police officer in a Mexican border city across from Texas was shot dead Saturday, the latest high-ranking official killed in an onslaught of attacks blamed on gangs resisting a crackdown.

Afghanistan Violence
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Afghan villagers gather around the dead body of a man who was allegedly killed in a U.S. operation in Shinwar district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, May 10, 2008. Dozens of protesters blocked a road Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, claiming that U.S.-led coalition forces killed three civilians.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Dozens of protesters blocked a road Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, claiming U.S.-led coalition forces killed three civilians, and a local official said police fatally shot one of the protesters and injured three of them.

APTOPIX Myanmar Cyclone
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Cyclone survivors from Painnakon village camp sit together as they live in a tent on the roadside, after their houses were destroyed by the recent cyclone in Laputta, in Delta region, Myanmar, Friday, May 9, 2008. The villagers said the rest of the villagers, some 300, were either dead or still missing.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Panamanian investigators asked health authorities Saturday to track down patients whose names appeared on 6,000 bottles of medication contaminated with a chemical commonly found in antifreeze and brake fluid.

SOUTH AFRICA  ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS
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Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirayi, looks on at a news conference in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Zimbabwe's top opposition leader said Saturday he will contest a presidential runoff and will soon return to his homeland. Morgan Tsvangirai, addressing reporters in South Africa, said his supporters would feel "betrayed" if he did not face Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in the runoff.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Saturday that he will return to his homeland despite threats to his life to take part in a runoff against President Robert Mugabe.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

As of Saturday, May 10, 2008, at least 4,074 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

A look at the rebels who moved on the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Saturday, and the underlying conflict in the Darfur region:

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Air strikes launched in retaliation for a rebel raid killed 19 Kurdish fighters in Turkey's southeast, the military said Saturday. Six soldiers died in the violence, officials said.

Published Friday, May. 09, 2008

Authorities quarantined a train in Ontario Friday after a woman died and several others reported being ill. But a doctor later ruled out a serious infectious disease and said the train would likely soon resume its journey.

MIDEAST SYRIA PALESTINIAN
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Khaled Mashaal, the head of Hamas' political bureau, addresses a mass rally held on Friday May 9, 2008 at al-Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria, on the 60th anniversary of the Nakkba, or the foundation of Israel. Mashaal warned that the Palestinians would capture more Israelis unless the Jewish State release all Palestinian prisoners.

Published Saturday, May. 10, 2008

Palestinian militants bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars on Saturday, part of a new outburst of violence that threatens fragile Egyptian efforts to broker a truce in the Gaza Strip.


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