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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 Intestinal virus kills at least 21 children in China 2 May 08, 21:05 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 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 Israeli army blames militants for Gaza deaths 2 May 08, 18:42 ET AP - The Israeli army blamed militants for the deaths of a Palestinian woman and her four young children, saying Friday that they died in secondary blasts when the Hamas fighters' ammunition detonated in an Israeli air strike. 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 Cubans buy first computers in latest change 2 May 08, 16:44 ET Reuters - The future arrived at Pedro Fresnedo's home on Friday, and it gave him goosebumps. more Autonomy vote bares Bolivia's deep divisions 2 May 08, 15:17 ET AP - The wealthy white governor stood beneath a giant statue of Jesus and promised freedom to the tens of thousands cheering him on - freedom from a llama herder-turned-president who reveres the Indian earth goddess Pachamama. 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 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 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 On the Afghan border, U.S. troops await the rockets 2 May 08, 07:51 ET Reuters - In the beginning, Specialist Jose Ortiz and his partner Private Pedro Velez were not even told which way Pakistan was. more Top cleric vows crushing response if Iran attacked 2 May 08, 06:55 ET AFP - A top cleric on Friday vowed that Iran would deal a knock-out blow to what he called maniacs in the United States and Israel if they ever attacked the Islamic republic. more Food crisis leaves many Afghans desperate 2 May 08, 06:21 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 Al-Jazeera cameraman returns home from Guantanamo 2 May 08, 04:54 ET AFP - A Sudanese cameraman with the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera on Friday accused US authorities of insulting Islamic symbols after arriving home after six years of detention at Guantanamo Bay. 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 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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