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Morales nationalizes Bolivian telecom, foreign gas companies 1 May 08, 23:37 ET AP - President Evo Morales celebrated May Day by announcing the nationalization of Bolivia's leading telecommunications company, Entel, and returning four foreign-owned natural gas companies to state control. more Indigenous Groups Slam Canada at UN 1 May 08, 23:33 ET OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (OneWorld) - The Canadian government has drawn fierce condemnation from the world's indigenous communities for its refusal to sign an international document that recognizes native people's right to self-determination. more Al-Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo after 6 years 1 May 08, 21:33 ET AP - An Al-Jazeera cameraman was released from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay and returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests. more US missile strike kills reputed al-Qaida leader in Somalia 1 May 08, 21:23 ET AP - U.S. missiles destroyed the house of the man identified by the U.S. military as the top al-Qaida commander in Somalia, killing him and 10 others Thursday in a pre-dawn attack that analysts warned could torpedo peace talks. more Russia sends extra troops to Georgian rebel region 1 May 08, 20:25 ET Reuters - Russia said on Thursday an extra contingent of its troops had begun arriving in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, a move Tbilisi said was an illegal act of military aggression. more Report: Al Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo 1 May 08, 19:04 ET AP - An Al-Jazeera cameraman was released from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay and sent home to Sudan on Thursday after six years of imprisonment that became the subject of worldwide protests. more Turkish jets bomb PKK camps in Northern Iraq: Anatolian 1 May 08, 18:54 ET Reuters - Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against camps of the Kurdish separatist group PKK in northern Iraq late on Thursday, the state news agency Anatolian said. more French aid worker killed in Chad 1 May 08, 18:34 ET AP - Gunmen opened fire on a convoy Thursday in eastern Chad near the Sudanese border, killing a French aid worker, an aid organization said. more Dominican Republic sees surge in drug smuggling 1 May 08, 18:34 ET Reuters - Drug smugglers are flying with impunity into the Dominican Republic and have turned it into a far more important transshipment point for South American cocaine than its largely lawless and impoverished neighbor, Haiti, U.S. officials said on Thursday. more McCain's proposal to kick Russia out of G-8 is bold and unlikely 1 May 08, 17:33 ET McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON— John McCain dropped a little-noticed bombshell into his March foreign-policy address: Boot Russia from the G-8, the elite club of leading industrial democracies whose leaders try to coordinate economic policies. more Anguished Austrians question how incest case went undetected 1 May 08, 17:25 ET AP - Carefree children in alpine costumes danced around a maypole, and parents crowded a churchyard to snap photos of sons and daughters making their first communion. more Iraq by the numbers: key figures since the war began in 2003 1 May 08, 16:31 ET AP - _October 2007: 170,000, peak of troop buildup. more Rich got richer, poor poorer: Canada census 1 May 08, 16:26 ET Reuters - A booming Canadian economy did nothing to pad the incomes of the country's poor and middle class, while the rich are getting richer, according to census data released on Thursday. more U.S. Kills Bin Laden's Man in Somalia 1 May 08, 16:10 ET Time.com - An air strike targeting al-Qaeda linked militants kills a key leader, but the war on radical Islamists there may be turning the population against America more Canada slammed at U.N. over indigenous rights 1 May 08, 15:52 ET Reuters - Canada, until recently seen as a champion of aboriginal rights, came under fire at the United Nations on Thursday for blocking implementation of a U.N. declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. more Irish prelates barred from Jerusalem's Western Wall 1 May 08, 15:27 ET AP - Leaders of Ireland's main Christian churches were barred from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall Thursday because they refused to remove the crosses they were wearing. more Protesters battle German police in May Day violence 1 May 08, 14:39 ET Reuters - Left-wing demonstrators set cars ablaze and pelted police with bottles in the worst May Day street violence in years in the northern German port city of Hamburg on Thursday, police said. more Treasure trove found in 500-year-old shipwreck off Africa 1 May 08, 14:30 ET AP - The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins - and cannons to fend off pirates. more Israelis stand silently as sirens wail for Holocaust victims 1 May 08, 13:54 ET AP - Sixty-three years and five days after he stumbled sick and starving from a Nazi transport train and was freed by Russian cavalrymen, Raul Teitelbaum stood motionless Thursday as sirens wailed across Israel in tribute to victims of the Holocaust. more China opens one of world's largest bridges: report 1 May 08, 13:29 ET AFP - China Thursday inaugurated one of the world's longest bridges, which will provide an important new route into Shanghai, state press said. more A Gulf state grapples for identity in sea of foreigners 1 May 08, 12:00 ET AP - Along the creek that runs through the heart of old Dubai, hundreds of smartly dressed Indians waited in line barefoot to enter a Hindu temple on a recent weekend. Nearby were joggers, romantic couples, picnicking families - but hardly any of Dubai's Muslim Arab citizens. more Austrian threatened incest victims with gas death 1 May 08, 11:14 ET Reuters - An Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her had threatened to kill his victims by pumping gas into the cellar where he was holding them, police said on Thursday. more Zimbabwe government tally shows presidential runoff needed 1 May 08, 10:27 ET AP - A runoff will be necessary to decide Zimbabwe's presidential election, a Cabinet minister said Thursday, citing the government's own election results. more Police: 'Horror father' warned captives they would be gassed 1 May 08, 09:38 ET AP - An Austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her seven children repeatedly warned his captives that they would be gassed if they tried to escape, a spokesman for investigators said Thursday. more Official: Iraqi delegation goes to Iran to discuss militias 1 May 08, 09:30 ET AP - An Iraqi delegation traveled to Iran with evidence that proves the Islamic republic is arming and training of Shiite militias in Iraq, an official said Thursday. more Actress Farrow enters Hong Kong to protest China-Sudan ties 1 May 08, 08:55 ET AP - Actress Mia Farrow was briefly questioned at Hong Kong's airport Thursday before officials allowed her to enter the Chinese territory to give a speech criticizing China's relations with Sudan. more Protected status bid for Cumberland sausage 1 May 08, 08:37 ET AFP - The traditional Cumberland sausage could be granted protected status by the European Union, giving the specialist banger a similar status to Champagne and Parma ham. more Incest father pretended to be daughter in 1994 call 1 May 08, 08:10 ET Reuters - An Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar and fathered her seven children pretended to be the young woman in a phone call to his wife in 1994, a police official said on Thursday. more Officials: 9 tourists killed in Egypt bus accident 1 May 08, 08:08 ET AP - A speeding tourist bus carrying dozens of Europeans and Canadians overturned, rolled off an embankment and burst into flames Thursday on a desert highway in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. At least nine passengers were killed and about 30 wounded, officials said. more Protests target Carrefour stires in China 1 May 08, 06:33 ET AP - Protesters waved Chinese flags and shouted slogans outside Carrefour stores in Beijing and other cities Thursday, venting anger over the disruption of the Olympic torch relay. No violence was reported and police dispersed the gatherings. more Police: Car bomb kills at least 9 in Baghdad 1 May 08, 06:26 ET AP - A car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol in Baghdad on Thursday killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said. more Afghan officials: Al-Qaida link in assassination plot 1 May 08, 06:06 ET AP - The weekend plot to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai was masterminded by militants with links to al-Qaida members who reside in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, an Afghan intelligence official said Thursday. more Child labor scandal highlights worrying trend in China 1 May 08, 05:21 ET Reuters - Police in southern China have taken into custody scores of youngsters suspected of being underage workers after a muckraking newspaper exposed a child labor racket this week. more Insurgent group: Top Somali Islamist killed in airstrike 1 May 08, 05:18 ET AP - The man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia was killed in an overnight airstrike along with 10 other people, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday. more Blasts in Afghanistan kill 1 NATO soldier, 8 civilians 1 May 08, 04:25 ET AP - Roadside bombs struck a NATO patrol and two civilian vehicles in Afghanistan, killing nine people and wounding 10, officials said Thursday. more Blast in Baghdad kills nine, wounds 23: police 1 May 08, 04:25 ET Reuters - An explosion near a U.S. patrol in Baghdad killed nine Iraqis and wounded 23 on Thursday, Iraqi police said. more Air strike kills 2 senior Somali Islamists 1 May 08, 02:34 ET Reuters - A Somali Islamist commander thought to be al Qaeda's leader in Mogadishu was killed in an air strike in central Somalia early on Thursday, an Islamist commander and residents said. more Official: DNA is that of czar's children, ending mystery 1 May 08, 02:31 ET AP - For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne. more Japan detergent suicide sparks panic 1 May 08, 02:29 ET AP - Some 350 people evacuated their homes in northern Japan to escape poisonous fumes released Thursday by a neighbor who killed himself by mixing detergent and other chemicals - the latest in a series of such suicides. more Quake hits Iran, about 100 lightly injured: TV 1 May 08, 01:21 ET Reuters - An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale hit an area southwest of the Iranian capital on Thursday, lightly injuring about 100 people, state television reported. more Officials: 3 bombs explode in Spanish Basque region 1 May 08, 00:50 ET AP - Three bombs exploded in Spain's Basque region on Thursday, officials said. No one was injured in the blasts, which police said were carried out by the separatist group ETA. more Chavez orders expropriation of Venezuela's largest steel maker 1 May 08, 00:11 ET AP - President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday ordered the expropriation of Venezuela's largest steel maker after attempts by the government to acquire a majority stake in the company failed. more Guatemala to review pending adoptions 1 May 08, 00:03 ET AP - Guatemalan prosecutors said Wednesday that they will conduct a legal review of all of the country's pending adoptions, after an initial probe turned up irregularities. more

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