AFP – Who wants to be a millionaire? That’s the 20 million-dollar question the players on both the Stanford Superstars and England teams are being asked to consider ahead of their Stanford Twenty20 match on Saturday at the Stanford Cricket Ground here.
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AP – Thousands of weary refugees packed the streets behind rebel lines Saturday in eastern Congo, struggling toward their homes as a fragile cease-fire between the army and rebels held and diplomats tried to find a political solution to the crisis.
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AP – Relief workers are still finding mountain villages destroyed in the earthquake in southwestern Pakistan that have yet to receive aid, the Red Cross said Saturday.
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AP – The conflict in eastern Congo is being fueled and funded by a tussle for mineral resources that end up in cell phones, laptops and other electronics deepening the stakes in a war that sprung out of festering hatreds from the Rwandan genocide.
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AP – A series of operations by U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, the coalition said Saturday.
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AFP – Washington has asked Australia, New Zealand and the European Union if they could replace Japan in supplying energy aid to North Korea, South Korea’s foreign minister was quoted as saying Saturday.
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AFP – Pakistan Test batsman Younus Khan says cricket in his homeland will wither away through a lack of top-line competition.
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AFP – The head of Britain’s special forces in Afghanistan has resigned, it emerged Saturday, reportedly in disgust at equipment failures that he believes led to the death of four of his troops.
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