Reuters – Darfur rebels accused Sudan government forces on Saturday of bombing their territory, just days after the president announced a ceasefire in the region.
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AP – A 16-year-old British boy has set out on an attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
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AFP – Sri Lanka’s president on Saturday asked Tamil Tigers to surrender after troops claimed re-taking a strategically-important town from the separatist guerrillas following months of heavy fighting.
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AP – Pakistan said Saturday it had agreed to borrow $7.6 billion from the International Monetary Fund in an effort to stabilize the economy of this strategically important U.S. ally on the front lines of the battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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AFP – Alitalia was expected to cancel about 40 flights into or out of Rome’s Fiumicino and Milan’s Linate airports on Saturday, as a strike by air crew opposed to a takeover deal for the ailing airline entered a sixth day.
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AP – A trumpet wailed and poetry soared Saturday as South Africans remembered “Mama Africa,” Miriam Makeba, for her music and her commitment to human rights.
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AP – U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed on a draft of a security pact that would allow American troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after their U.N. mandate expires Dec. 31, a senior aide to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday.
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AP – A radical Islamic group seized another Somali port town Saturday, consolidating its control over a southwestern region that borders the Somali capital.
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AP – India rejoiced Saturday at joining an elite club by planting its flag on the moon as the country’s space agency released the first pictures of the cratered surface taken by its maiden lunar mission.
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AP – Renewed fighting between rebels and government troops broke out in eastern Congo on Saturday, as a U.N. special envoy flew in for emergency talks to try to end a crisis that has displaced 250,000 people since August.
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