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- Obama picks up 9 superdelegates, union endorsement
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 20:00:06
AP - Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton’s once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.
- Myanmar seizes UN aid supplies, ‘not ready’ to let in US
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:27:23
AP - Myanmar’s military leaders seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there Friday that they’re not ready to let in American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe.
- Blackwater unlikely to face charges in Iraq shooting
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 20:10:18
AP - Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor blamed by an angry Iraqi government for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians, is not expected to face criminal charges all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion-dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats.
- Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 17:32:45
AP - Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of key parts of Beirut from Sunnis loyal to the U.S.-backed government Friday, a dramatic show-of-force certain to strengthen the Iranian-allied group’s hand as it fights for dominance in Lebanon’s political deadlock.
- Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:29:02
AP - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally disclosed her identity.
- Happy Mother’s Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:04:15
AP - It’s a happy Mother’s Day for an Arkansas woman she’s pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year’s Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.
- Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 20:05:06
AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
- Foxy Brown pleads guilty to menacing Brooklyn neighbor
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:11:35
AP - Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.
- Man crashes at driveway, sees home catch fire, gets ticket
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:04:44
AP - A Rock Island man whose car was hit as he tried to make a left turn into his driveway saw his home going up in flames as he was airlifted to the hospital. Tennessee Highway Patrol officer Monte Terry said Justin Hill, 42, was hit by an oncoming car when he pulled into its path on Tuesday evening. - Avalanche, coach Joel Quenneville go their separate ways
(AP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:50:18
AP - Joel Quenneville is out as coach of the Avalanche after three seasons, a week after Colorado was swept out of the playoffs by the Detroit Red Wings.
- Lebanon condemns “coup”
(Reuters)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:43:36
Reuters - Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group
took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the
U.S.-backed governing coalition described as “an armed and
bloody coup.”
- U.N. resuming Myanmar aid flights despite seizures
(Reuters)
Fri, 09 May 2008 18:58:42
Reuters - The United Nations said it would resume
aid flights to cyclone-struck Myanmar despite the military
government’s seizure of food supplies on Friday, and Myanmar
approved one U.S. aid flight.
- Obama wins praise from former rival John Edwards
(Reuters)
Fri, 09 May 2008 15:53:09
Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama earned more
support from party leaders and won praise from former rival
John Edwards on Friday as he gathered momentum in his drive to
the U.S. presidential nomination.
- U.S. says man held in Iraq is not al Qaeda leader
(Reuters)
Fri, 09 May 2008 13:59:09
Reuters - The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq is still
being hunted, the U.S. military said on Friday, after Iraqi
officials wrongly declared Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been caught.
- One dead and 280 quarantined on Canadian train
(Reuters)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:11:15
Reuters - One person died and about 280
were placed in quarantine aboard a cross-Canada train on Friday
after a mystery illness caused violent flu-like symptoms.
- Dalai Lama says understands anger over Everest torch
(Reuters)
Fri, 09 May 2008 14:47:42
Reuters - The Dalai Lama says he understands why
Tibetan exiles were angry that the Olympic torch reached the
top of Mount Everest but had advised them against protesting.
- Top U.N. human rights forum to examine food crisis
(Reuters)
Fri, 09 May 2008 17:27:39
Reuters - The United Nations Human Rights Council
will hold a special session on May 23 to examine how the
world’s food crisis is undermining the right to food for
millions of people, officials said on Friday.
- Austrian Fritzl remanded for a month in incest case
(Reuters)
Fri, 09 May 2008 11:25:14
Reuters - An Austrian court on Friday
ordered Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24
years and had seven children with her, to be kept in custody
for a further month, a court spokesman said.
- UN agency to resume aid flights into Myanmar
(AFP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:28:05
AFP - The UN said Friday it would resume aid flights into Myanmar after a suspension triggered by a tussle with the military regime over two planeloads of goods meant for desperate cyclone survivors.
- Lebanon in turmoil as Hezbollah takes west Beirut
(AFP)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:40:46
AFP - Hezbollah fighters, their guns blazing, seized control of west Beirut on Friday after three days of deadly street battles with pro-government foes pushed Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war.
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