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Cuba's Raul Castro commutes most death sentences 28 Apr 08, 23:05 ET Reuters - New Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of three people charged with terrorism. more Blast during Gaza fight kills Palestinian mother, 4 children 28 Apr 08, 23:01 ET AP - An explosion shattered a tiny Gaza Strip house as Israeli troops battled militants Monday, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children in new bloodshed that threatened efforts to arrange a truce between the warring sides. more Missteps as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez backs farming 28 Apr 08, 22:49 ET Reuters - Deep in Venezuela's sweltering heartland, a gleaming dairy plant sits idle, a testament to missteps that slow President Hugo Chavez's drive to make his oil nation self-sufficient in food. more Marines launch operation in Afghanistan's Taliban territory 28 Apr 08, 22:48 ET AP - U.S. Marines in helicopters and Humvees flooded into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan's most violent province early Tuesday, the first major American operation in the region in years. more Afghans to take over Kabul security despite attack: UN envoy 28 Apr 08, 22:03 ET AFP - Afghanistan's national army will take over the security of Kabul as scheduled this autumn despite a brazen attack by suspected Taliban militants at the heart of the Afghan capital, the special UN envoy to the insurgency-wracked nation said Monday. more Ex-Gitmo prosecutor alleges politics 28 Apr 08, 21:52 ET AP - A former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay testified Monday that he faced growing interference from his Pentagon superiors following the arrival at the Navy base of "high-value" detainees with direct links to the Sept. 11 attacks. more Mozambique police killing with impunity: Amnesty 28 Apr 08, 20:39 ET AFP - Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity, according to a report by Amnesty International released Tuesday. more 4 US soldiers killed; militants shell Green Zone 28 Apr 08, 20:30 ET AP - Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-protected Green Zone and out of range of their rockets and mortars. more US accuses Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Iraq 28 Apr 08, 19:07 ET AP - The United States is accusing Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Iraq. more Incoming Taiwan PM names surprise choice for China body 28 Apr 08, 18:02 ET AFP - Taiwan's incoming premier sprang a surprise Monday by naming a pro-independence politician to head its China policy-making body, raising concerns over the government's vow to improve ties. more Top Kenyan gangster slain, raising threat to planned talks 28 Apr 08, 17:55 ET AP - Gunmen killed one of the leaders of a feared Kenyan gang Monday, throwing scheduled peace talks between the group and the government into disarray, the dead man's deputy and an official said. more Israel's military shows off unmanned, armed patrol vehicle 28 Apr 08, 17:44 ET AP - Israel's newest "soldier" can see at night, never nods off on sentry duty and can carry 660 pounds without complaining. more CBS' Butler says he isn't sure who kidnapped him in Iraq 28 Apr 08, 17:25 ET AP - CBS News journalist Richard Butler said he believes he was kidnapped in Iraq by policemen with sympathies toward the Hezbollah but isn't entirely sure who held him captive for two months or why. more Reports: Mexico shootout kills 15 28 Apr 08, 17:14 ET AP - Mexico's military posted soldiers around a major hospital Monday to guard suspects wounded during weekend gunbattles that raged across Tijuana. more Former deputy PM Tariq Aziz faces trial 28 Apr 08, 17:04 ET AP - He was the international face of Saddam Hussein's regime - defending Iraq and taunting the West for more than a decade. Now, Tariq Aziz awaits an Iraqi court as the latest member of the Saddam's inner circle to face trial. more Palestinian mother and 4 children killed in Gaza carnage 28 Apr 08, 16:22 ET Reuters - Israeli fire hit a house in the Gaza Strip on Monday while a family was eating breakfast, killing six Palestinians, including four children and their mother, residents and medical workers said. more Berlusconi candidate wins Rome mayorship 28 Apr 08, 15:54 ET AP - Residents of Rome have elected the Italian capital's first right-wing mayor since World War II and given Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives another major victory, final election returns showed Monday. more Is an Iranian general pulling the strings in Iraq? 28 Apr 08, 15:52 ET McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— One of the most powerful men in Iraq isn't an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat, more Zimbabwe opposition unites, urges Mugabe to step down 28 Apr 08, 15:10 ET AP - Zimbabwe's opposition movement united Monday in spite of long-standing divisions, declaring that it has won control of Parliament for the first time in history and that President Robert Mugabe must concede defeat. more London's Old Bailey criminal court puts archive online 28 Apr 08, 13:45 ET AP - In the scales of justice in 19th-century London, the theft of two coats, two pairs of trousers, two waistcoats, a handkerchief, a pair of gloves and a notebook equaled one life. more Tibetans mark deaths of protesters in China 28 Apr 08, 11:19 ET Reuters - Thousands of Tibetan exiles in India and Nepal, including their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, marked the deaths of protesters during last month's violent upheaval in Tibet with prayers and traditional funeral rituals more Weeping schoolgirls wish happy birthday Saddam 28 Apr 08, 11:17 ET Reuters - Hundreds of Iraqi schoolchildren were brought to the modest mausoleum of Saddam Hussein on Monday to celebrate the birthday of the executed dictator in the village where he was born. more Iranian official warns against importing Barbie dolls 28 Apr 08, 10:58 ET AP - A top Iranian judiciary official has warned against the "destructive" cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys. more Iran discusses "serious" nuclear ideas with Russia 28 Apr 08, 10:38 ET Reuters - Iran on Monday discussed with Russia proposals it has drawn up to defuse a nuclear row with the West, which accuses the Islamic Republic of seeking to build an atomic bomb. more Scholars run down more clues to abiding Holocaust mystery 28 Apr 08, 09:30 ET AP - Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car. more Authorities probe attack on Afghanistan's president 28 Apr 08, 07:15 ET AP - Afghan security officials hunted Monday for suspects in the attempted assassination of President Hamid Karzai during an attack that killed three people and underscored the fragility of his U.S.-backed government. more Mumbai tries paying girls to go to school 28 Apr 08, 07:12 ET Reuters - Girls attending state-run schools in Mumbai are ending the school year a little richer than they began it. more Ukrainian helicopter crashes in Black Sea, killing 19 28 Apr 08, 06:52 ET AP - A helicopter belonging to Ukraine's state gas company crashed as it tried to land on a Black Sea drilling platform, killing 19 people, officials said Monday. more Austrian admits 24-year abuse of daughter in cellar 28 Apr 08, 06:32 ET Reuters - A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police said on Monday. more 'Worried' Egypt PM appeals for help to ease price hikes 28 Apr 08, 06:15 ET AFP - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has urged anyone who can resolve the nationwide problem of price rises to come forward with ideas, the official MENA news agency reported on Monday. more American, Iraqi troops kill 38 militants in Baghdad 28 Apr 08, 05:32 ET AP - American and Iraqi troops killed 38 militants in the fiercest clashes with militants in weeks in Baghdad, including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold, the U.S. military said Monday. more Kenyan military tortured civilians during crackdown: report 28 Apr 08, 04:00 ET AFP - Kenyan army officers tortured more than 4,000 people during a recent crackdown on a rebel group, said a report by a rights group on Monday, which characterised the abuse as a crime against humanity. more Uighurs struggle in world reshaped by Chinese influx 28 Apr 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - King Daoud Mehsut of Kucha, 12th in his royal line and the last man still alive in China to have sat on a monarch's throne, is a man of noble bearing and proud visage. more SKorea's 1st astronaut to help country develop space tech 28 Apr 08, 03:47 ET AP - South Korea's first astronaut says she will do her best to help her country develop its own space technology. more Israeli strike kills 4 Palestinian kids 28 Apr 08, 03:34 ET AP - An Israeli tank shell struck a Palestinian home in the northern Gaza Strip early Monday, Palestinian officials said, killing four young siblings and critically wounding their mother. One militant also was killed. more 66 dead in China train collision: state media 28 Apr 08, 02:31 ET AFP - Sixty-six people were killed and nearly 250 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported. more Clarke sets sights on Ryder Cup team after China win 28 Apr 08, 02:00 ET AFP - Darren Clarke is desperate to get back into Europe's Ryder Cup team and become a world top-50 player again now that victory in China has got him over a huge mental hurdle following his wife's death. more Vietnam to end adoption program with US 28 Apr 08, 01:07 ET AP - Vietnam is ending a baby adoption agreement with the United States after being accused of allowing corruption and baby-selling, officials said Monday. more Intestinal virus kills 19 children in China: report 28 Apr 08, 00:34 ET AFP - Nineteen young children have died and nearly 800 others have fallen ill in a lethal intestinal virus outbreak in eastern China, state media reported Monday. more Forty-three killed in China rail accident: state media 28 Apr 08, 00:02 ET AFP - Forty-three people were killed and 247 injured in a train collision in eastern China early Monday, state media reported, citing railway authorities. more

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