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2008-05-13 04:32	AP International	Fashion students at Va. university design abayas RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The assignment for Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students: design an abaya, an enveloping cloak worn by Muslim women, that is stylish yet acceptable in Arab countries....
2008-05-13 04:32	AP International	Dozens of homes lost as Florida battles wildfires DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Relentless wildfires burned into the early morning Tuesday across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses....
2008-05-13 04:25	Reuters UK	MPs slam school tests
2008-05-13 04:22	AP International	Brazil activists fear death squads back ABAETETUBA, Brazil (AP) - Bishop Flavio Giovenale was crushed by the acquittal last week of a rancher accused of ordering the killing of a crusading American nun — and not just because he admired Dorothy Stang....
2008-05-13 04:22	AP Top News	Lawmakers want to end oil shipments to US reserve Lawmakers want to end oil shipments to US reserveWASHINGTON (AP)- Amid daily bipartisan sniping over high gas prices, Democrats and Republicans appear to agree on at least one thing: With oil over $120 a barrel, President Bush ought to stop buying crude for the government emergency reserve. Both the House and Senate are expected to approve, with bipartisan support, legislation Tuesday directing Bush to temporarily halt the shipment of about 70,000 barrels of oil a day to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve....
2008-05-13 04:22	AP Top News	Myanmar accepts more US help for cyclone survivors YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar agreed to accept more American aid, officials said Tuesday, opening the door for what could be a massive relief operation as the U.N. warned that less than a quarter of victims' needs are being met 10 days after the devastating cyclone struck. Logistical bottlenecks, poor infrastructure and restrictions imposed by Myanmar's isolationist junta were delaying the desperately needed aid for some 2 million severely affected survivors of the May 3 cyclone....
2008-05-13 04:22	AP Top News	Efforts to remove Detroit mayor to go to vote DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit City Council has spent weeks debating what to do with scandal-plagued Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: force his ouster or slap him on the wrist. That talk could lead to action Tuesday when the nine-member group votes on three resolutions that may ultimately remove a defiant Kilpatrick from the office he's held for six years....
2008-05-13 04:20	Reuters UK	China earthquake toll hits 10,000
2008-05-13 04:20	Reuters UK	Survivors dazed and fearful
2008-05-13 04:07	AP International	Myanmar accepts more US help for cyclone survivors YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar agreed to accept more American aid, officials said Tuesday, opening the door for what could be a massive relief operation as the U.N. warned that less than a quarter of victims' needs are being met 10 days after the devastating cyclone struck....
2008-05-13 04:05	Reuters UK	Lebanese army begins drive to restore order
2008-05-13 04:05	Reuters UK	Violence flares in Baghdad's Sadr City despite truce
2008-05-13 04:05	Reuters UK	Premier Foods says trading in line with forecasts
2008-05-13 04:05	Reuters UK	Hewitt in danger of missing French Open and Wimbledon
2008-05-13 04:05	Reuters UK	Russia's Putin keeps his Kremlin chair
2008-05-13 04:02	AP International	Rescuers dig for thousands buried in China quake DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) - Rescue workers dug through schools and homes turned into rubble by China's worst earthquake in three decades to reach thousands of victims trapped beneath slabs of concrete, as the death toll of 10,000 appeared certain to rise on Tuesday....
2008-05-13 04:02	AP International	Efforts to remove Detroit mayor to go to vote DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit City Council has spent weeks debating what to do with scandal-plagued Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: force his ouster or slap him on the wrist....
2008-05-13 04:02	AFP	Pandas in quake zone are safe, China announces HONG KONG (AFP) - As China scrambled to cope Tuesday with the death and devastation from a massive earthquake that hit the country's southwest, the government made an important announcement - Pandas in the quake zone are safe...
2008-05-13 04:02	AFP	Credit Agricole seeks six billion euros after sub prime losses PARIS (AFP) - French banking giant Credit Agricole said Tuesday it would launch a 5.9 billion euro (9.2 billion dollar) capital increase after reporting another 1.2 billion euro loss in the sub-prime crisis in the first quarter....
2008-05-13 03:47	AP Top News	Rescuers dig for thousands buried in China quake DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) - Rescue workers dug through schools and homes turned into rubble by China's worst earthquake in three decades to reach thousands of victims trapped beneath slabs of concrete, as the death toll of 10,000 appeared certain to rise on Tuesday. A day after the powerful 7.9 magnitude quake struck, state media said rescue workers had only just reached the epicenter in Wenchuan county - cut off by the disaster and where the number of casualties was unknown....
2008-05-13 03:47	Reuters, International	Strong quake aftershock rocks China's Chengdu BEIJING (Reuters) - A strong aftershock rocked Chengdu, capital of China's western Sichuan province, at around 3:10 a.m. EDT (0710 GMT) on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported, causing office workers to run out on to streets in panic....
2008-05-13 03:42	AP International	Bush tempers upbeat optimism about Mideast peace WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Bush began his first energized pursuit of an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord just over five months ago, confidence was his constant companion. "I'm optimistic," he said over and over about the prospects for ending one of the world's longest-running disputes within little more than a year....
2008-05-13 03:42	AP International	Clinton status puts focus on her $20 million debt WASHINGTON (AP) - Should she lose or abandon her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton will have to deal with her campaign's more than $20 million debt — a step that could test her relationship with Barack Obama and raise new issues in campaign finance law....
2008-05-13 03:42	AP International	Clinton poised for W.Va. win; Obama looks ahead CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The Democratic presidential race runs on two tracks now, one snaking through the West Virginia primary Tuesday and the other mapped out by Barack Obama through battleground states in the fall....
2008-05-13 03:42	AP Top News	Officials: Clashes in Iraq's Sadr City kill 11 BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi hospital officials say clashes in Sadr City have killed 11 men and wounded 19 others. The clashes come even though Iraq's main Shiite political bloc and supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have signed a fragile cease-fire covering the Baghdad slum....
2008-05-13 03:42	AP Top News	US begins aid flights to Myanmar cyclone victims YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but both President Bush and the U.N. chief strongly criticized the military junta over its response to the deepening crisis. Even as the death toll climbed, Myanmar's authoritarian regime continued to bar nearly all foreigners experienced in managing humanitarian crises from reaching survivors of Cyclone Nargis....
2008-05-13 03:42	AFP	Lebanon army set to use force to halt fighting BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanese troops were set to use force if necessary on Tuesday to disarm gunmen and enforce law and order after six days of deadly sectarian gunbattles that have thrown the nation into fear and chaos....
2008-05-13 03:42	Reuters, International	China storms hamper rescue with quake toll 10,000 DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - Heavy storms and wrecked roads hampered efforts to reach areas hardest-hit by China's worst earthquake in three decades on Tuesday as the death toll rose to around 10,000....
2008-05-13 03:32	AP International	China state media: 10,000 buried near epicenter DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) - Chinese state media says that 10,000 people are buried in rubble in Mianzhu near the epicenter of the massive earthquake that struck the country....
2008-05-13 03:32	AP International	Officials: Clashes in Iraq's Sadr City kill 11 BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi hospital officials say clashes in Sadr City have killed 11 men and wounded 19 others....
2008-05-13 03:32	AP International	US-led coalition: 12 militants killed in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S.-led coalition says clashes and airstrikes in southern Afghanistan have left a dozen militants dead....
2008-05-13 03:32	AP Top News	Clinton poised for W.Va. win; Obama looks ahead CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The Democratic presidential race runs on two tracks now, one snaking through the West Virginia primary Tuesday and the other mapped out by Barack Obama through battleground states in the fall. Hillary Rodham Clinton had every reason to expect a big victory over Obama in West Virginia yet scant hope it could turn around her presidential bid....
2008-05-13 03:32	AP Top News	Bush tempers upbeat optimism about Mideast peace Bush tempers upbeat optimism about Mideast peaceWASHINGTON (AP) - When President Bush began his first energized pursuit of an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord just over five months ago, confidence was his constant companion. "I'm optimistic," he said over and over about the prospects for ending one of the world's longest-running disputes within little more than a year. As the president prepares a Mideast trip this week, his second in four months, he is trading that unfailingly upbeat tone for something a bit more reserved....
2008-05-13 03:30	Reuters UK	Murder hunt after man killed on London's Oxford Street
2008-05-13 03:30	Reuters UK	TUI Travel pretax loss narrows to 294 mln pounds
2008-05-13 03:30	Reuters UK	Henderson manager buys banks
2008-05-13 03:15	Reuters UK	Breastfeeding benefits
2008-05-13 03:15	Reuters UK	"Eat potatoes"
2008-05-13 03:15	Reuters UK	A&L takes 192 mln pound hit to profit
2008-05-13 03:15	Reuters UK	Barings sees China boom fuelling Russia growth
2008-05-13 03:15	Reuters UK	China growth to keep commodity boom alive
2008-05-13 03:12	AFP	World powers, Asian neighbours offer help after China quake HONG KONG (AFP) - World powers and Asian neighbours rallied around China with sympathy and pledges of help after a massive earthquake that left tens of thousands dead, missing or trapped....
2008-05-13 03:07	AP International	N.Y. farmers fear a shortage of skilled workers BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) - New York farmers say a shift in state policy is making it harder for them to hire experienced seasonal workers through federal guest-worker contracts....
2008-05-13 03:07	AFP	Myanmar rejects US, UN pressure on aid YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday rejected growing international pressure to accept aid workers, insisting against all the evidence that it had the emergency cyclone relief effort under control....
2008-05-13 03:07	AFP	Airbus announces new delays to A380 programme PARIS (AFP) - European aviation giant Airbus on Tuesday announced more delays to the delivery of its giant A380 superjumbos, saying the current schedule was not one it could meet....
2008-05-13 02:50	Reuters UK	A&L takes 192 million pound hit to profit
2008-05-13 02:32	AP International	Deputies kill 2 in shootout near SoCal casino SAN JACINTO, Calif. (AP) - Sheriff's deputies shot and killed two people in a gunbattle on an Indian reservation in Southern California's Riverside County....
2008-05-13 02:30	Reuters UK	Actors and studios clash over net clips
2008-05-13 02:30	Reuters UK	G4S says is confident about 2008 performance
2008-05-13 02:25	Reuters UK	China quake toll nears 10,000


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