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China accuses US of shoddy probe into tainted heparin 6 May 08, 23:53 ET AP - China's drug safety agency accused the United States on Tuesday of blocking Beijing's inquiry into a blood thinner linked to 81 deaths by refusing to provide details on victims and specifics about production. more BBC journalist deported from Myanmar: state media 6 May 08, 23:36 ET AFP - Myanmar has deported a BBC journalist who tried to enter the country to report on a cyclone that has killed 22,000 people, saying he had violated visa regulations, a state newspaper said Wednesday. more Cayman Islands investigating slaughter of blue iguanas 6 May 08, 23:09 ET AP - Cayman Island authorities are investigating the violent deaths of a half-dozen giant blue iguanas that are among the most imperiled creatures on the planet. more Kuwaiti envoy's son charged in Poland 6 May 08, 21:08 ET AP - Polish authorities charged the Kuwaiti ambassador's son with briefly abducting three Jewish teenagers at a hotel and claiming he had a bomb, police said Tuesday. more Russia, US sign civil nuclear pact 6 May 08, 21:01 ET AP - Russian and U.S. officials signed a key agreement on civilian nuclear power Tuesday that could give Washington access to Russian technology and potentially hand Moscow lucrative deals on storing spent fuel. more Brazil jury absolves rancher in murder of U.S. nun 6 May 08, 20:59 ET Reuters - A jury in Brazil on Tuesday convicted in a retrial a man accused of murdering a U.S.-born nun but acquitted a previously convicted rancher accused of ordering the killing in a land dispute in the Amazon rain forest in February 2005, a court said. more Sixty years on, Palestinians mourn loss of homeland 6 May 08, 20:30 ET Reuters - While Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Palestinian refugees mourn the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) when they lost their homeland. Often ignored in Middle East peace talks, they cling to a "right of return." more Doubting the Evidence Against Iran 6 May 08, 18:00 ET Time.com - The U.S. continues to inveigh against Tehran's alleged subversion of Iraq, so why are many in Baghdad slow to believe the American accusations? more Canada can't find 41,000 people it wants to deport 6 May 08, 16:32 ET Reuters - Canadian authorities cannot find 41,000 people who were classified as security risks or illegal immigrants and ordered to leave the country, an official watchdog reported on Tuesday. more Historians seek public report on World War II forgeries 6 May 08, 16:05 ET AP - British historians called Tuesday for a public report on the inquiry into 29 forged documents found at the National Archives that falsely accuse Winston Churchill's government of having a secret, cordial relationship with Nazi SS chief Henrich Himmler at the height of World War II. more Marines ignore Taliban cash crop to not upset Afghan locals 6 May 08, 15:12 ET AP - The Marines of Bravo Company's 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. Afghan laborers scraping the plant's gooey resin smile and wave. more China acknowledges tightening of visa rules before Olympics 6 May 08, 14:57 ET AP - China has tightened visa controls ahead of the Olympic Games, with invitation letters and hotel reservations required for some travelers, the government acknowledged Tuesday after weeks of insisting the entry process was business as usual. more Child virus fears spread to China's capital 6 May 08, 10:30 ET Reuters - Fears of a virus that has killed at least 26 children in China gripped parents in Beijing as officials on Tuesday temporarily closed two kindergartens amid a spreading outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease. more In nod to world pressure, Myanmar delays vote in some areas 6 May 08, 08:35 ET AP - Bowing partly to international demands, Myanmar's junta decided Tuesday to postpone voting on a new and long-awaited constitution in areas hardest-hit by a devastating cyclone as the death toll soared. more Georgia says "very close" to war with Russia 6 May 08, 06:35 ET Reuters - Georgia is "very close" to a war with Russia, a Georgian minister said on Tuesday, citing Moscow's decision to send extra troops to the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia. more Iraq's new gated communities: safer, mixed, walled-in 6 May 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - There is big excitement on al-Marifah Street. City workers are installing a new transformer to bring power to a part of the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Saidiyah that hasn't been on the city's electrical grid for more than a year. more Myanmar cyclone death toll to rise past 15,000 6 May 08, 00:52 ET Reuters - At least 15,000 people were killed in the Myanmar cyclone and the toll was likely to rise as officials made contact with the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta areas, the military government's foreign minister said on Tuesday. more

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