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Rain frustrates England at Lord's (AFP)

England's opening batsmen Andrew Strauss (L) and Alastair Cook at Lord's cricket ground, north-west London, on May 16. Strauss and Cook continued to blunt the New Zealand attack on the morning of day three of the first Test.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Rain continued to frustrate England's attempt to build a first innings lead in the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's here Saturday.



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Nigerian security forces step up efforts to free hostages (AFP)

A naval officer inserts ammunition into a machine-gun before starting to patrol the crisis-ridden Niger Delta region in Buguma, September 2004. Nigerian security forces have intensified efforts to secure the release of two foreigners -- a Portuguese and a Ukrainian -- and nine Nigerians abducted early in the week.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Nigerian security forces intensified efforts Saturday to secure the release of two foreigners -- a Portuguese and a Ukrainian -- and nine Nigerians abducted early in the week.



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Marathon runner Radcliffe 'upbeat' despite hip injury (AFP)

AFP - World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe said she remains "upbeat and positive" about being ready for the Beijing Olympics despite having developed a hip injury.



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Assassination fears paralyse Zimbabwe opposition (AFP)

Zimbabwe'sopposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the media during a press conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 16. Fears of an assassination plot against Tsvangirai have delayed his long-awaited homecoming ahead of an election showdown with Mugabe on June 27.(AFP/File/Arthur Allison)AFP - Fears of an assassination plot against Zimbabwe's opposition leader delayed his long-awaited homecoming on Saturday ahead of an election showdown with veteran President Robert Mugabe on June 27.



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Tsvangirai postpones Zimbabwe return after threat (AP)

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, right, speaks at the Liberal International Congress in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Friday May 16, 2008. An election runoff between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Tsvangirai will be held June 27, Zimbabwe's electoral commission said Friday. Tsvangirai claims he won the March 29 presidential race outright. But official results released May 2 show he did not win enough votes to avoid a second round against Mugabe. (AP Photo)AP - Assassination threats have derailed plans by Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to return home to campaign for the presidential runoff vote, a party official said Saturday.



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Poor nations must repay British climate 'aid': report (AFP)

A child sits close to his home made of straw and metal sheets in the village of Southkhali, southern Bangladesh, in the aftermath of Cyclone 'Sidr' which struck the South Asian nation in November 2007. Poor countries will have to pay back aid given to them by Britain in an international aid project that was supposed to help them adapt to climate change, The Guardian newspaper said.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)AFP - Poor countries will have to pay back aid given to them by Britain in an international aid project that was supposed to help them adapt to climate change, The Guardian newspaper said Saturday.



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France arrests eight for raising funds for terrorism

France's Directorate of Territorial Security (DST) has arrested eight people in two suburbs across the capital, as part of an investigation into a syndicate that is suspected of financing terrorism activities in the country, French security ...
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France angered by Burmese delays

France says Burma is on the verge of committing a crime against humanity by not accepting aid.
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Police in court on cover-up charges

Four current or former police officers have been charged with conspiring to defeat the course of justice after allegedly lying about the way a man died. The four appeared in Manukau District Court yesterday. Two including Clinton...
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Ukraine's president posts state of nation speech on website

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko posted his annual state of the nation speech on the presidential website Friday instead of addressing to Parliament. "It is time to stop furious political struggle. ... Enough of thoughtless con ...
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Redknapp well prepared for final FA Cup hurdle (AFP)

Portsmouth Manager Harry Redknapp (right) speaks to Assistant Manager Tony Adams during training in Portsmouth on May 13. Portsmouth play Cardiff for the FA Cup this weekend in their first major Wembley final for 69 years(AFP/File/Ian Kington)AFP - Portsmouth play Cardiff for the FA Cup on Saturday in their first major Wembley final for 69 years. For Harry Redknapp, their 61-year-old manager, the wait has been almost as long.



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Video: Chris Matthews: Appease this!

Hardball’s Chris Matthews talks about his heated exchange with Los Angeles radio talk show host Kevin Hames about appeasement and Nazi Germany.  (Countdown)May 16: Hardball’s Chris Matthews talks about his heated exchange with Los Angeles radio talk show host Kevin Hames about appeasement and Nazi Germany. (Countdown)



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US monitoring China's nuclear sites after quake (AP)

AP - American experts are monitoring nuclear facilities in China's earthquake zone, officials said Friday, after France's nuclear watchdog reported that some had suffered minor damage.
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Warsaw tops the list for culture on the cheap

Polish capital beats London and New York in survey to find best value cultural destination
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France criticizes Myanmar for barring aid ship (AP)

A map locating the United Nation's priority areas for relief aid in Myanmar. Myanmar said Friday more than 133,000 people were dead or missing in the cyclone disaster, nearly doubling the official toll two weeks after the storm left the country's rice-growing south in ruins.(AFP/Graphic)AP - France criticized Myanmar's military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food and medicine with small boats and helicopters.



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Belgium teeters on a linguistic edge

A dispute over what the official language should be for children in a small town north of Brussels has become the focus of those in Belgium who want an independent Flemish state.
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Martinis, spies and blondes: London exhibit honors James Bond

"For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond," a rather raffish exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, honors the writer and the character who in many ways was an alter ego.
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Vincent Cassel as France's 'Public Enemy Number One'

"Public Enemy Number One" stars Cassel as Jacques Mesrine, the legendary bandit of the 1970s in France; the first images of the two-part movie are being shown to select professionals at Cannes.
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Nordic central banks extend emergency credit to Iceland

The collaboration between the central banks of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway is designed to calm the turbulence that has buffeted Iceland.
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Violence prompts United to call off 'victory' parade (AFP)

The UEFA Champions League trophy. Manchester United have postponed plans for a homecoming parade should they capture the Champions League trophy after violence flared in the city following the UEFA Cup final.(AFP/File/Jean-Pierre Clatot)AFP - Manchester United have postponed plans for a homecoming parade should they capture the Champions League trophy after violence flared in the city following the UEFA Cup final.



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EU, Latin America leaders take on poverty, climate issues (AFP)

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and Peru's President Alan Garcia at the EU-Latin America summit in Lima. Leaders from Latin America and the European Union gathered in Peru Friday for a summit aimed at tackling poverty and climate change, but which was bogged down by differences over trade.(AFP/BPA/Guido Bergmann)AFP - Leaders from Latin America and the European Union gathered in Peru Friday for a summit aimed at tackling poverty and climate change, but which was bogged down by differences over trade.



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UK demands repayment of climate aid to poor nations

Developing countries attack plan to offer warming help as loans instead of grants
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Zimbabwe presidential election set for June 27 (AP)

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, right, speaks at the Liberal International Congress in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Friday May 16, 2008. An election runoff between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Tsvangirai will be held June 27, Zimbabwe's electoral commission said Friday. Tsvangirai claims he won the March 29 presidential race outright. But official results released May 2 show he did not win enough votes to avoid a second round against Mugabe. (AP Photo)AP - An election runoff between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be held June 27, the electoral commission said in an announcement published Friday.



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Myanmar cyclone death toll nearly 78,000 (AP)

Myanmar cyclone survivors wait in line for rice donations on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, May 16, 2008. (AP Photo)AP - The official death toll from Cyclone Nargis has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.



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10 arrested in France, Germany and the Netherlands in connection with terror probe

Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands detained at least 10 people on Friday suspected of helping to fund al-Qaida-linked militants in Uzbekistan, police officials said.
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'Islamist funders' held in Europe

Police in the Netherlands, France and Germany swoop on suspects believed to fund Islamists in Uzbekistan.
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Sprinter Chambers admits to taking seven-drug cocktail (AFP)

Controversial sprinter Dwain Chambers, seen here in March 2008, was taking a cocktail of seven banned drugs when he was caught doping in 2003, the disgraced British sprinter informed UK Sport as he took the first step towards a legal bid to to be allowed to run in the Olympics.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)AFP - Dwain Chambers was taking a cocktail of seven banned drugs when he was caught doping in 2003, the disgraced British sprinter informed UK Sport on Friday as he took the first step towards a legal bid to to be allowed to run in the Olympics.



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Chad army helicopter fires rockets into Sudan border area: military (AFP)

Chad rebel leader Abderaman Koulamallah speaks during a press conference in Paris, March 2008. A Chad army helicopter has fired rockets in an area close to Sudan's Darfur border racked by tension over rebel activity and refugee flows, a French military source told AFP.(AFP/File/Franck Fife)AFP - A Chad army helicopter fired rockets Friday in an area close to Sudan's Darfur border racked by tension over rebel activity and refugee flows, a French military source told AFP.



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World's 77 developing economies set for Cote d'Ivoire meeting

Cote d'Ivoire is set to host a meeting of the Group of 77 countries + China in the political capital of Yamoussoukro slated to take place from June 10 to 13, the country's foreign ministry has announced. A delegation of G77 is curre ...
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Spokesman: Israel, U.S. see need of "tangible action" on Iran nukes

The United States and Israel agreed on the need of "tangible action" to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, an Israeli government spokesman said on Friday. "We both see the threat ... and we both understand that tangible a ...
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'World's worst poet' goes under hammer (AFP)

AFP - A collection of poems by a Scottish bard dubbed the "world's worst poet" was to go under the hammer Friday, expected to sell for thousands of pounds.



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Mugabe acknowledges election disaster as run-off date set (AFP)

Zimbabwean Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the media during a press conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has acknowledged he had suffered an electoral disaster in losing a first round against arch rival Morgan Tsvangirai, as the date for a run-off was fixed for June 27.(AFP/Arthur Allison)AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe acknowledged Friday he had suffered an electoral disaster in losing a first round against arch rival Morgan Tsvangirai, as the date for a run-off was fixed for June 27.



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London shares rally amid British Energy battle (AFP)

People walk past the London Stock Exchange. London shares rallied as investors eyed a continent-wide battle for British Energy in the wake of solid gains on Wall Street overnight.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - London shares rallied on Friday as investors eyed a continent-wide battle for British Energy in the wake of solid gains on Wall Street overnight.



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Curtain goes up on Catherine the Great, the musical

Composer, Sergei Dreznin plans to take show of life and loves of legendary tyrant to London
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Afghan hijacker 'working as cleaner at Heathrow airport' (AFP)

Armed police at London's Heathrow airport in March 2008. An Afghan man involved in a hijacking eight years ago was arrested after being found working as a cleaner for British Airways near Heathrow Airport, officials and a press report have said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - An Afghan man involved in a hijacking eight years ago was arrested after being found working as a cleaner for British Airways near Heathrow Airport, officials and a press report said Friday.



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