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Mexican lawmakers decriminalize migrants 29 Apr 08, 23:42 ET AP - Migrant rights activists applauded a vote by Mexico's Congress to remove long-standing criminal penalties for undocumented migrants found in the country. more Officials: Captive family in Austria reunited 29 Apr 08, 23:17 ET AP - In an "astonishing" scene, members of an Austrian family terrorized by decades of incest and imprisonment met for the first time at a clinic where psychiatrists are helping them recover, authorities said Tuesday. more Tibetan policeman and suspect die in China gun battle 29 Apr 08, 23:07 ET Reuters - A police officer and a suspected riot leader were shot dead in a gun battle in an ethnic Tibetan part of western China, state media reported on Wednesday, in a sign that tensions remain high following a wave of unrest. more Turkey's parliament softens law restricting free speech 29 Apr 08, 23:02 ET AP - Turkey's parliament approved a government-backed proposal Wednesday to soften a law restricting free speech that has been used to prosecute intellectuals and dissidents. more Shark attack in Mexico kills American surfer 29 Apr 08, 22:53 ET AP - A U.S. surfer was killed in a shark attack off Mexico's southern Pacific coast, officials said Tuesday. more Deployment of second carrier to Gulf a 'reminder': Gates 29 Apr 08, 22:53 ET AFP - US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Tuesday the deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf should be seen as a "reminder" of US military power in the region. more Albert Hofmann, father of the drug LSD, dies in Switzerland 29 Apr 08, 22:44 ET AP - Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious "problem child," died Tuesday. He was 102. more US military deaths in Iraq at 4,058 29 Apr 08, 21:26 ET AP - As of Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at least 4,058 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 eight military civilians. At least 3,306 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. more Militiamen ambush drives back US patrol in Sadr City 29 Apr 08, 20:29 ET AP - Dozens of fighters ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun bursts as the American push into Sadr City increasingly faces pockets of close urban combat. more Prince William makes secret Afghan trip to meet with troops 29 Apr 08, 19:37 ET AP - Prince William flew into Afghanistan for a secret visit over the weekend to meet with British troops, a royal official said Tuesday. more Zimbabwe opposition leader appeals for UN envoy 29 Apr 08, 19:30 ET AP - The Zimbabwe opposition's second-in-command urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to appoint a special envoy to help resolve the country's worsening crisis following last month's elections. more Asian vultures disappearing faster than dodo - study 29 Apr 08, 19:14 ET Reuters - Wild Asian vultures could become extinct in 10 years unless officials stop the use of a livestock drug that has caused the birds to decline faster than the dodo, British and Indian scientists said on Wednesday. more Tijuana drug violence threatens hospital 29 Apr 08, 18:13 ET AP - Soldiers held Tijuana's main hospital in a virtual lockdown Tuesday as doctors treated eight drug traffickers wounded in running shootouts in this border city. more Arab diva's necklace sold at auction for $1.3M 29 Apr 08, 17:36 ET AP - An antique necklace made up of 1,888 pearls that once belonged to the Arab world's most famous singer was sold Tuesday for more than $1 million at an auction in this rich Gulf emirate, organizers said. more Heavily armed pirates attack Thai, South Korea ships 29 Apr 08, 17:14 ET AFP - Heavily armed pirates attacked a Thai oil tanker carrying jet fuel in Malaysian waters and a South Korean vessel in the pirate infested Gulf of Aden, a maritime watchdog said Tuesday. more Concentration camp doctor heads list of top 10 wanted Nazis 29 Apr 08, 15:45 ET AP - Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man. more Iranian president tries to seal India pipeline 29 Apr 08, 14:38 ET Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pushed to seal a $7.6 billion pipeline deal linking the world's second-largest gas reserves to growing South Asian economies, despite opposition from the United States. more Iran's president visits India for gas pipeline talks 29 Apr 08, 13:38 ET AP - A $7 billion gas pipeline that would link Iran and India topped the agenda Tuesday as the Islamic republic's president made his first visit to New Delhi, despite strong U.S. objections to the project. more The `Cat Lady of Baghdad' battles on, saving strays of Iraq 29 Apr 08, 13:26 ET AP - The mission was to get Simba al-Tikriti out of Iraq and to a new life in Britain. more Female teachers dying on the roads in Saudi Arabia 29 Apr 08, 12:51 ET AP - Roads in Saudi Arabia are among the world's most dangerous but one type of victim stands out: female teachers who are dying at alarming rates because of long commutes through the desert to reach remote schools. more Rogers seals key iPhone deal as profit soars 29 Apr 08, 12:48 ET Reuters - Rogers Communications Inc, the owner of Canada's biggest wireless firm, said on Tuesday its first-quarter profit more than doubled and that it secured a key deal with Apple Inc to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. more China marks 100 days until start of Beijing Olympics 29 Apr 08, 12:26 ET AP - Shimmering stadiums and billions of dollars spent to remake Beijing into a modern city have been overshadowed by pro-Tibet protests, chaos on the Olympic torch relay, and an anti-Western backlash by angry Chinese who sense their coming-out party is being spoiled. more Cellar Incest Case Shocks Austria 29 Apr 08, 11:45 ET Time.com - Josef Fritzl has confessed to holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children. How did it happen? more Nearly 200 Zimbabwe opposition supporters released 29 Apr 08, 09:43 ET AP - Police on Tuesday released nearly 200 people who were arrested last week in a raid on the opposition Movement for Democratic Change headquarters, a lawyer said. more Suicide attack on Afghan anti-drugs team kills 18 29 Apr 08, 08:40 ET AFP - A suicide bomb tore through a team preparing to eradicate opium poppy fields in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 18 people, most of them policemen, the government said. more Playgroups, crèches 'help cut childhood leukaemia': study 29 Apr 08, 07:47 ET AFP - Children who attend day care or playgroups have a 30 percent lower risk of developing leukaemia, US researchers said Tuesday ahead of a presentation of their findings to experts in London. more India, Iran to talk energy during Ahmadinejad visit 29 Apr 08, 06:04 ET AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was to arrive in New Delhi Tuesday for a lightning visit due to be dominated by talks on gas supplies as energy-starved India searches for new fuel sources. more China sentences 17 for alleged involvement in Tibet riots 29 Apr 08, 05:52 ET AP - A Chinese court sentenced 17 people, including six monks, to jail Tuesday for their alleged roles in deadly riots in the Tibetan capital, in the first trial concerning last month's unrest, state media reported. more Vietnam tightens security for torch's last international run 29 Apr 08, 05:19 ET AP - Vietnam tightened security and detained several people Tuesday, witnesses said, ahead of the final international leg of an Olympic torch relay that has been dogged by protests against China's government. more Senior Iraqi government official assassinated in Baghdad 29 Apr 08, 04:49 ET AP - An Iraqi official says a roadside bomb has killed a senior government official in northern Baghdad. more NATO: Suicide attack kills 15 in eastern Afghanistan 29 Apr 08, 03:51 ET AP - A NATO spokesman says a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed 15 local people and wounded 25. more Afghan intel: Karzai was warned of assassination plot 29 Apr 08, 03:50 ET AP - Afghanistan's intelligence chief says he warned the president of a weekend assassination plot against him. more New Zealand scientists thaw 1,000-pound squid corpse 29 Apr 08, 03:33 ET AP - Marine scientists in New Zealand on Tuesday were thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught to try to unlock the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts. more Police: Austrian kids locked in basement, never saw sunlight 29 Apr 08, 02:19 ET AP - The children locked in the basement never saw the light of day for years. A retired electrician has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her in a windowless cell sealed by an electronic keyless-entry system, police said Monday. more China train disaster blamed on speeding 29 Apr 08, 01:08 ET Reuters - China on Tuesday blamed excessive speed for the country's worst train accident in more than a decade that killed at least 70 people. more Chinese children sold "like cabbages" into slavery 29 Apr 08, 01:07 ET Reuters - Thousands of children in southwest China have been sold into slavery like "cabbages," to work as labourers in more prosperous areas such as the booming southern province of Guangdong, a newspaper said on Tuesday. more Some slept, some stood before deadly derailment in China 29 Apr 08, 00:26 ET AP - Some passengers were sleeping, but others were standing in the aisle waiting to get off when their high-speed train derailed, toppling into a ditch "like a roller coaster" and slamming into another train. At least 70 people died and more than 400 were injured. more SKorea vows 'diplomatic measures' over Chinese torch violence 29 Apr 08, 00:01 ET AFP - Violence by Chinese students at the weekend Beijing Olympic torch relay injured South Korea's national pride and "legal and diplomatic measures are necessary," Prime Minister Han Seung-Soo said Tuesday. more

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