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Thousands march in Manila to demand higher wages 30 Apr 08, 23:17 ET AFP - Thousands of workers marched Thursday in the Philippines capital Manila under tight security to demand higher wages in the face of inflation that has sent food prices soaring. more Yuan's rise hits China-based exporters: US business leader 30 Apr 08, 22:23 ET AFP - The rapid appreciation of the Chinese currency against the US dollar is taking a big toll on Asian companies using China as base for exports to the United States, according to a top US business official. more Mexico hunts sharks after attack 30 Apr 08, 20:47 ET AP - Authorities used baited hooks to catch sharks Wednesday near a Mexican beach where a U.S. surfer was killed in an attack. more Hiding teen sends text message to foil alleged intruders 30 Apr 08, 20:11 ET AP - A teenager home alone pulled bed sheets over her head to hide from two intruders and sent a text message to her mother, whose 911 call led to the arrest of two suspects, authorities said Wednesday. more Israel to display rarely seen scroll 30 Apr 08, 17:55 ET AP - A rarely displayed segment of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be part of an exhibition for President Bush and other dignitaries attending Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations next month, a museum official said Wednesday. more Jewish woman being considered as Bahrain's envoy to US 30 Apr 08, 17:40 ET AP - The only Jewish woman lawmaker in Bahrain is a candidate to become this Persian Gulf kingdom's ambassador to Washington. more Israel moves to shutter West Bank charity it links to Hamas 30 Apr 08, 17:16 ET AP - To Nayfa Shatat, the widowed mother of 11, Hebron's biggest Islamic charity is a lifeline: It schools her daughters and helps feed her family. more Huge archive of Nazi-era documents marks opening to public 30 Apr 08, 17:04 ET AP - A vast archive of concentration camp logs detailing Nazi horrors and other German wartime documents formally opened to visitors Wednesday, more than six decades after it was founded to provide information about the victims of the Holocaust. more Brazil aims to provide efficiently produced ethanol, but has few takers 30 Apr 08, 16:09 ET McClatchy Newspapers - ORINDIUVA, Brazil— The ethanol giants of southeastern Brazil have transformed how 185 million residents of this South American nation power their cars and trucks. Now, they say they're ready to start the same ethanol revolution in the rest of the world, if only the world will let them. more Iran remains most active state sponsor of terrorism: US 30 Apr 08, 15:53 ET AFP - Iran remained the world's "most active" state sponsor of terrorism as it tries to build regional influence and drive the United States from the Middle East, a US government report said Wednesday. more Austria case revives European debate on light prison terms 30 Apr 08, 15:22 ET AP - Police say Josef Fritzl left a lot of human wreckage in his wake: the daughter he imprisoned and raped for 24 years, the seven children he fathered with her and the wife whose life he shattered. more Chilean town giving free Viagra to senior citizens 30 Apr 08, 15:13 ET AP - A working class suburb of Chile's capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday. Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete said he launched the program because "an active sexuality improves the overall quality of life." more 7 killed during raid on militant hideout in Afghan capital 30 Apr 08, 15:04 ET AP - Hundreds of intelligence agents on Wednesday raided the hideout of militants with suspected links to an attack on President Hamid Karzai, as the Afghan capital was sucked deeper into the war against the Taliban. more China launches investigation into claims of child slavery 30 Apr 08, 14:49 ET AP - China is investigating whether hundreds of children, most between the ages of 9 and 16, were sold to factories in the southern province of Guangdong over the past five years to work as virtual slave laborers, state media said Wednesday. more Pakistan's leaders extend talks on reinstating ousted judges 30 Apr 08, 14:48 ET AP - Pakistan's new leaders failed to meet their Wednesday deadline to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf, but said they would keep trying to resolve a dispute that is threatening their month-old coalition government. more Germany opens huge Nazi crimes archive to public 30 Apr 08, 13:17 ET Reuters - Germany opened the world's largest collection of documents on Nazi crimes and their victims to the public on Wednesday. more Sadr City bloodshed kills 925 Iraqis 30 Apr 08, 12:09 ET AFP - Clashes between Shiite militiamen and security forces have killed more than 900 people in Baghdad's Sadr City, an Iraqi official said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to keep up the offensive. more Blaming the victim: Abused Afghan women often end up in jail 30 Apr 08, 12:09 ET AP - Trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her 3-year-old son, Rukhma was handed to an Afghan who raped and abused her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched helplessly. more Food crisis unlikely to cause famine soon: U.N. 30 Apr 08, 12:02 ET Reuters - Global food shortages and higher prices are more likely to cause malnutrition than outright famine, at least in the near term, the coordinator of a new United Nations task force said on Wednesday. more One billion Asians affected by surging food prices: development bank 30 Apr 08, 11:10 ET AFP - One billion people in Asia are seriously affected by surging global food prices, the director general of the Asian Development Bank, Rajat Nag, said Wednesday. more DNA confirms IDs of czar's children 30 Apr 08, 10:26 ET AP - DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that bone fragments exhumed last year belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II, putting to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, a regional governor said Wednesday. more People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term 'Lesbian' 30 Apr 08, 10:22 ET AP - A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. more Russia says identifies remains of Tsar's children 30 Apr 08, 08:37 ET Reuters - Scientific tests have confirmed that human remains found in Russia last year belong to two children of the last Tsar executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in 1918, Russian officials said on Wednesday. more Japan's oldest giant panda dies 30 Apr 08, 06:32 ET AP - Japan's oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure, zoo keepers said. more Rights group: Zimbabwe's army unleashing 'terror' 30 Apr 08, 05:58 ET AP - A leading human rights group accused Zimbabwe's army Wednesday of working with ruling party militants to unleash "terror and violence" against dissent. more Tibet activist group: China detains scores of Buddhist monks 30 Apr 08, 05:47 ET AP - China has detained scores of Buddhist monks over the past month, a Tibet activist group said Wednesday, a day after six monks were sentenced in the first trial of rioters since deadly violence in Tibet last month. more WWW inventor says web only in infancy 30 Apr 08, 05:42 ET AFP - The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor said Wednesday, on the 15th anniversary of the web's effective launch. more Breastfeeding reduces risk of cot death by third: study 30 Apr 08, 05:38 ET AFP - Breastfeeding a baby can reduce the risk of cot death by a third, a new study published on Wednesday has found. more Olympic torch arrives in Hong Kong after activists deported 30 Apr 08, 04:15 ET AP - The Olympic torch returned to Chinese soil Wednesday after a turbulent 20-nation tour, landing in the bustling financial capital of Hong Kong where officials deported at least seven activists before the flame's arrival. more Official: Explosion near Italian embassy in Yemen 30 Apr 08, 03:10 ET AP - An explosion went off Wednesday near the Italian embassy in Yemen's capital, but the apparent attack caused no injuries, a security official said. more Madeleine's parents cling to hope, a year on 30 Apr 08, 02:58 ET AFP - The anguished parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann insist they have not given up hope, a year after their lives were shattered when she vanished from their Portugal holiday flat. more Five militants blow themselves up in Kabul siege 30 Apr 08, 02:56 ET Reuters - Five suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house close to Kabul's old city on Wednesday, avoiding capture by besieging Afghan security forces, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters. more Security forces exchange fire with gunmen in Afghan capital 30 Apr 08, 02:54 ET AP - Security forces traded gun and rocket fire with unknown assailants holed up in a Kabul house on Wednesday, officials said. more China rescues 167 children from slavery: paper 30 Apr 08, 01:08 ET Reuters - Chinese police have rescued 167 village children sold to work as slave laborers in a city in the booming southern province of Guangdong, newspapers said on Wednesday. more North Korea heading towards famine: report 30 Apr 08, 00:44 ET Reuters - Soaring global food prices and reluctant donors are pushing North Korea back towards famine, which could see the secretive government turn even more repressive to keep control, a paper released on Wednesday said. more Report says Israel can remove 10 West Bank checkpoints 30 Apr 08, 00:40 ET AP - A joint study by several Israeli ex-generals and Palestinian officials says Israel could remove 10 major West Bank checkpoints quickly. more

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