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Lake-bursts and flooding likely in Chinese earthquake area
Brisbane News.Net
Thousands of people living near a lake and a river in China's quake-hit southwestern province of Sichuan are being evacuated for fear of flooding.
China gives thanks to other countries
Brisbane News.Net
Chinese President Hu Jintao has thanked foreign countries and aid volunteers for helping China cope with last week's massive earthquake.
Foreign workers in Myanmar disaster zone
Brisbane News.Net
Foreign aid workers have been briefly admitted to an area of Myanmar, which was hit by Cyclone Nagris at the beginning of the month.
Bush in Egypt for Middle-East meeting
Brisbane News.Net
US President George Bush has arrived in Egypt to talk to assembled Arab leaders about Middle East peace.
President of Ecuador offers to resign
Brisbane News.Net
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has said he will step down from office if it is proved that his government backed the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, otherwise known as FARC.
1000 rebel arrests in Iraqi town
Brisbane News.Net
More than a thousand arrests have been made in an Iraqi city, after an offensive by the army.
Sen. Kennedy hospitalized with stroke symptoms
Reuters
U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, a leading Democrat and patriarch of a prominent American political dynasty, was hospitalized on Saturday in Boston after suffering symptoms of a stroke.
Township violence erupts in South Africa
Brisbane News.Net
In a slum town in Johannesburg, South Africans have once again attacked foreign residents.
Assassination plot unveiled in Zimbabwe
Brisbane News.Net
A reported plot against the life of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has postponed his return from Europe and South Africa where he had been in exile for a month.
Dumped rubbish set alight in the city of Naples
Brisbane News.Net
In Italy, angry residents of the city of Naples have set fire to the piles of uncollected rubbish lying in the streets.
Dungeon children outside at last
Brisbane News.Net
Freed Austrian dungeon boys Stefan and Felix Fritzl have taken their first ever steps in the outside world.
Dam burst fear in China earthquake village
Brisbane News.Net
Around one million people have been evacuated from the Chinese city of Beichuan for fear that a dam may burst.
Deadly plane crash in Ocean County
New Jersey Online
EAGLESWOOD, N.J. &#151; A small plane with four people onboard crashed in a heavily wooded areas near a small airport in southern Ocean County late Saturday afternoon, killing two people and...
China quake victims flee
BBC
There has been panic in the quake-hit Chinese city of Beichuan after reports a river had burst its bank sparked fears the entire city could be flooded. The BBC's Paul Danahar in Beichuan says...
Man with rifle wounds 3 outside LA church
New York Post
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said.
Obama seeks focus on end of primary campaign
New York Post
Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party's presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa, where his...
3 NIU shooting victims get posthumous degrees
New York Post
In all, three of the five students shot dead received posthumous degrees on Saturday. Families of the other two said they would accept degrees later.
Myanmar health system strained by cyclone
New York Post
Saw Htin's cheeks were wet with tears after waiting in line with hundreds of sick, desperate cyclone survivors. The 18-year-old mother clutched her wheezing baby boy.
Historic Brooklyn Navy Yard gets modern makeover
New York Post
Andrew Kimball, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., a not-for-profit that manages the city-owned site, said current plans call for spending $250 million in public and...
Derailed train leaks acid
CNN
Hydrochloric acid leaking from a derailed train forced police in southern Louisiana to evacuate thousands of residents within a one-mile radius Saturday morning.
Apology for a desecration in Iraq
CNN
When a gunshot-riddled Quran is found, a tenuous partnership is threatened U.S. military officers apologize to authorities, citizens in Iraqi village The local sheikhs accept apology and their...
Pelosi meets with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad
CNN
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi say in meetings the war in Iraq must end Female, apparently in teens, blows herself up Al Qaeda in Iraq increasingly sending out female suicide bombers Iraqi security...
Dominican leader wins third term
BBC
President Leonel Fernandez has won re-election in the Dominican Republic as his main opponent admitted defeat. Miguel Vargas Maldonado conceded after early results confirmed exit poll predictions...

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