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Chinese Uighur exile urges Olympic boycott over 'genocide' 2 May 08, 22:50 ET AFP - A senior exiled leader of China's Muslim Uighur minority has urged a boycott of the Olympics, accusing Beijing of "cultural genocide" alongside its crackdown in Tibet. more Eccentric opposition lawmaker ousts Labour mayor of London 2 May 08, 21:34 ET AP - A Conservative lawmaker with a knack for offensive remarks ousted the left-wing mayor of London in an upset that capped the ruling Labour Party's worst local election showing in four decades. more Chile volcano erupts, villages evacuated 2 May 08, 20:19 ET AP - Authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages in southern Chile Friday after a snowcapped volcano considered dormant for thousands of years erupted. The blast sent minor earthquakes rippling through the region. more Brown's party loses London as routed in UK elections 2 May 08, 19:34 ET Reuters - Britain's Labour Party suffered its worst local election defeat on record and lost control of London on Friday, forcing Prime Minister Gordon Brown to rethink his strategy to avoid losing the next national poll. more Heatley hat-trick sparks Canada to rousing win 2 May 08, 19:24 ET Reuters - Dany Heatley scored a hat-trick in Canada's 5-1 win over Slovenia on Friday when the ice hockey world championship made a rousing return to the sport's birthplace and spiritual home. more Opposition lawmaker ousts London mayor 2 May 08, 19:06 ET AP - Election officials say Conservative lawmaker Boris Johnson has been elected mayor of London, ousting Ken Livingstone of the governing Labour party. more Josef Fritzl: a shrewd liar and an obsessive tyrant 2 May 08, 16:58 ET AP - Casual acquaintances knew Josef Fritzl as a jovial fellow who liked to drink beer and enjoyed a bawdy joke. more Bolivia's richest province seeks autonomy, raising fear of political crisis 2 May 08, 16:58 ET McClatchy Newspapers - SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA, Bolivia— This divided country faces a constitutional crisis Sunday when its richest and second most-populous province votes whether to declare itself autonomous from President Evo Morales's national government, a referendum the president has called illegal. more Intestinal virus kills at least 21 children in China 2 May 08, 16:26 ET AP - An outbreak of intestinal virus in eastern China has claimed the lives of at least 21 children and the number of reported cases has risen to nearly 2,500, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday. more Colombiam police capture alleged drug lord 2 May 08, 15:26 ET AP - Police acting on an informant's tip captured one of Colombia's main cocaine traffickers hiding in a tractor-trailer's secret compartment - just days after killing his twin brother. more US airman in Japan arrested, accused of groping woman 2 May 08, 15:16 ET AP - A U.S. serviceman was accused of sexually assaulting a Japanese woman on Friday, the latest in a series of criminal accusations sparking anger against the American military presence in Japan. more UN calls for Myanmar referendum to be inclusive 2 May 08, 15:05 ET AP - The U.N. Security Council on Friday called on Myanmar's military government to ensure that "fundamental political freedoms" are respected in this month's referendum on a new constitution. more Member of failed plot to assassinate Hitler dies 2 May 08, 14:59 ET Reuters - Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of an unsuccessful 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, has died at the age of 90. more A day of skirmishing for Marines in southern Afghan town 2 May 08, 14:46 ET AP - Gunfire zings in near Sgt. Dan Linas' patrol, pinning his squad down against a dirt berm. The Marines peer across the field to their left, at three mud huts and a grove of trees, searching for the muzzle flash. Then they cut loose with their M-16s. more Turk who shot Pope John Paul II seeks Polish citizenship 2 May 08, 14:43 ET AP - The Turkish gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II is applying for Polish citizenship because he wants to live in the country of the late pontiff, whom he called his "spiritual brother." more Former Nigerian president's daughter indicted in graft case: report 2 May 08, 14:31 ET AFP - Nigeria's high court ruled Friday that former president Olusegun Obasanjo's daughter, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, currently in hiding, must face corruption charges, state media reported. more Would-be Hitler assassin dies at 90 2 May 08, 11:23 ET AFP - A former German army officer involved in two failed plots to assassinate Hitler, including one in 1944 when the Nazi leader narrowly survived a bomb explosion, has died aged 90, his family said Friday. more Zimbabwe opposition challenges decision for presidential runoff 2 May 08, 11:20 ET AP - Zimbabwe's opposition challenged official results Friday that say its leader has won the first round of the presidential election with 47.9 percent of the vote - more than longtime President Robert Mugabe but not enough to avoid a runoff. more Member of failed plot to kill Hitler dies at age 90 2 May 08, 10:58 ET AP - Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, has died. He was 90. more China has secret nuclear submarine base: Jane's 2 May 08, 10:42 ET AFP - China is building a major underground nuclear submarine base on the southern tip of Hainan Island, defence group Jane's said Friday. more Zimbabwe announces poll run-off, MDC cries foul 2 May 08, 10:02 ET Reuters - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe in the presidential election but faces a run-off vote after failing to win an outright majority, the electoral body said on Friday. more Dalai Lama envoys travel to China for talks 2 May 08, 09:52 ET Reuters - Senior envoys of the Dalai Lama are traveling to China to meet the government over the crisis in Tibet, the government-in-exile said on Friday, only three months before the Beijing Olympics open. more Dalai Lama's office: Envoys leave for China for Tibet talks 2 May 08, 08:11 ET AP - Envoys of the Dalai Lama were traveling to China for talks aimed at ending the crisis in Tibet, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's office said Friday. more Yemen: Car bomb kills 8, wounds 45 at mosque in north 2 May 08, 07:57 ET AP - A security official says a car bomb has killed at least eight people and wounded 45 outside a mosque in northern Yemen. more Sonar used to probe ground of man who held daughter captive 2 May 08, 07:36 ET AP - Investigators were using sonar technology to probe the yard of an Austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years to ensure that no more underground dungeons exist on the property, police said Friday. more Israeli leader Olmert questioned over alleged corruption 2 May 08, 07:35 ET AP - Investigators questioned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at his home Friday, police said, in a move certain to further tarnish the unpopular leader who is a suspect in several corruption affairs. more South Korea begins imports of biotech corn 2 May 08, 06:28 ET AP - Major South Korean corn processors have begun importing genetically modified varieties of the crop because of shortages of conventional corn on the world market since China began limiting its exports, officials said Friday. more Israeli police question PM Olmert 2 May 08, 04:58 ET Reuters - Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert under caution on Friday as part of an inquiry into suspected corruption. more Turkey launches intensive air strikes in north Iraq 2 May 08, 04:17 ET Reuters - Turkish warplanes launched intensive bombing raids on Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq overnight but there were no reports of any casualties, a rebel spokesman said on Friday. more China struggles to contain viral epidemic: state media 2 May 08, 04:10 ET AFP - Doctors in China struggled to contain the spread of an intestinal virus that has infected more than 3,300 children, killing 21 of them so far, state press reported Friday. more Why white Zimbabwean farmers plan to stay in Nigeria 2 May 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - A jet carrying a herd of Jersey cows touches down at an airstrip in the Nigerian countryside, transporting dairy cows from South Africa. more White Zimbabweans bring change to Nigeria 2 May 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - Musa Mogadi says he is better off since "the whites" came. He's got a new job, learned new farming skills, and he can chat on a mobile phone while zipping around the countryside on a motorbike. more US military blames al-Qaida in Iraq for suicide attack 2 May 08, 03:55 ET AP - The U.S. military on Friday blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for a double suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people during a wedding procession through a crowd of people cheering the bride and groom in a town northeast of Baghdad. more Food crisis leaves many Afghans desperate 2 May 08, 03:36 ET AP - Hungry Afghans looking for their next meal eye bread scraps piled up like heaps of trash at a Kabul market as a vendor weighs out fistfuls of the stale crusts on a scale. A Pashtun woman waits with an empty plastic sack. more Torch makes its way through Hong Kong despite protests 2 May 08, 02:57 ET AP - Runners carried the Olympic flame through Hong Kong on Friday, as large groups of flag-waving torch supporters shouted insults at pro-Tibet and human rights protesters, forcing them to seek refuge in police vans. more Cyclone to hit Myanmar: Bangladesh officials 2 May 08, 01:48 ET AFP - A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal was expected to miss disaster-prone Bangladesh and make landfall on the coast of neighbouring Myanmar, the Meteorological Office said Friday. more Reports: Turkish planes bomb Kurdish rebels 2 May 08, 01:29 ET AP - Turkey's state-run media says warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases deep inside Iraq. more Deadly virus spreads in China, 21 children die 2 May 08, 00:59 ET Reuters - A deadly virus has spread rapidly in eastern China, killing at least 21 children and infecting nearly 3,000, Xinhua news agency said on Friday. more Fiji deports Murdoch newspaper publisher 2 May 08, 00:04 ET Reuters - Fiji's military government deported the Australian publisher of Rupert Murdoch's Fiji Times newspaper on Friday, after declaring him a threat to national security. more

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