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Al-Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo after 6 years 1 May 08, 19:56 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 Iran complains to UN over Clinton's attack threat 1 May 08, 19:03 ET AFP - Iran's UN mission has complained to the Security Council over US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's threat to "totally obliterate" the Islamic Republic if it were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel. 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 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 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 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 China opens one of world's largest bridges: report 1 May 08, 13:35 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 US air strike kills Al-Qaeda leader in Somalia: officials 1 May 08, 12:49 ET AFP - A US air strike in Somalia killed at least 12 people on Thursday, including a man said to be Al-Qaeda's military leader in the war-torn country, Ethiopian officials and rebels said. more Bin Laden's son denied British residency 1 May 08, 12:10 ET AP - One of Osama bin Laden's sons has been denied British residency because London authorities believe his presence in the country would cause "considerable public concern," the man's wife said Thursday. more Human rights activist is released by captors in Argentina 1 May 08, 11:31 ET AP - A human rights activist whose disappearance prompted an intense government manhunt was released by his captors after being tied up and beaten, he said Thursday. more Russia sends extra troops to Georgian rebel region 1 May 08, 09:30 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 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 Conservationists rescue almost 300 Cambodian reptiles 1 May 08, 07:52 ET AP - Hundreds of reptiles including some endangered species were rescued from traffickers and released into their natural habitat in Cambodia, a conservation group said Thursday. more Alleged head of al-Qaida in Somalia said killed in airstrike 1 May 08, 06:57 ET AP - The U.S. military said Thursday it launched an attack against an al-Qaida target in Somalia, and an Islamic insurgent group said the head of the terror network in the African country was killed in an overnight American airstrike. 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 Protests at Carrefour stores in China: state media 1 May 08, 04:08 ET AFP - Hundreds of protesters rallied outside French retail chain Carrefour in five cities in China, state media reported Thursday, despite government efforts to choke off a new wave of anti-French sentiment. 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

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