| Strong earthquake hits Italy, some houses damaged (Reuters) April 5, 2009 at 11:07 pm |
| Reuters - An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale rocked central Italy on Monday, seriously damaging some houses and causing a few structures to collapse in a mountainous region east of Rome, officials said. |
| NKorea rocket fizzles, US says; Obama urges action (AP) April 5, 2009 at 11:03 pm |
| AP - The U.S. and its allies sought punishment for North Korea's defiant launch of a rocket that apparently fizzled into the Pacific, holding an emergency U.N. meeting in response to the "provocative act" that some believe was a long-range missile test.
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| AP sources: Sun deal cloudy after IBM pulls offer (AP) April 5, 2009 at 10:25 pm |
| AP - IBM Corp. withdrew its offer to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for about $7 billion this weekend, clouding the prospects for a deal that would shake up the computing industry, The Associated Press has learned. |
| Taliban threaten 2 attacks per week in Pakistan (AP) April 5, 2009 at 10:05 pm |
| AP - A suicide bombing at a crowded Shiite mosque south of Pakistan's capital killed 22 people Sunday, the latest evidence of how security in the U.S.-allied nation is crumbling well beyond the Afghan border region where al-Qaida and Taliban fighters thrive.
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| Binghamton officials defend response to massacre (AP) April 5, 2009 at 10:00 pm |
| AP - Even if police officers had immediately entered the immigrant center where a gunman had just shot down 13 people, the victims' injuries were so severe that none would have survived, a county prosecutor said Sunday.
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| Fight over urinating dog got police to Pa. ambush (AP) April 5, 2009 at 9:51 pm |
| AP - A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.
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| Obama outlines sweeping goal of nuclear-free world (AP) April 5, 2009 at 8:42 pm |
| AP - Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Barack Obama on Sunday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms and that the U.S. had a "moral responsibility" to lead because no other country has used one.
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| U.S. spies on China from Kyrgyz base: Russian TV (Reuters) April 5, 2009 at 5:18 pm |
| Reuters - Russian state television accused the United States on Sunday of spying on China and Russia after secretly turning its only remaining air base in Central Asia into a state-of-the-art surveillance center. |
| Dubai: Chechen leader's ally behind assassination (AP) April 5, 2009 at 5:11 pm |
| AP - The assassination of a Chechen renegade — the first reported political killing in this glitzy city — was masterminded by a close ally of Chechnya's president, Dubai authorities said Sunday, calling on Russia to untie "the knot of this crime."
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| Wine thrives in Muslim Morocco (AP) April 5, 2009 at 2:39 pm |
| AP - The gently rolling hills planted thick with vineyards are an unlikely sight for a Muslim country partly set in the deserts and palms of North Africa. Yet the grapes, and the wine they produce, are thriving in Morocco despite Islam's ban on alcohol consumption.
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| NKorean missile launch tests Obama (AP) April 5, 2009 at 10:54 am |
| AP - North Korea's defiant rocket launch has confronted President Barack Obama with his first global security crisis and a difficult diplomatic challenge for his young administration.
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| GM CEO open to bankruptcy 'if it's required' (AP) April 5, 2009 at 10:29 am |
| AP - General Motors Corp. is softening its opposition to bankruptcy reorganization a little more, with new CEO Fritz Henderson saying in an interview broadcast on Sunday, "if it's required, that's what we'll do."
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| Obama launches effort to reduce nuclear arms (AP) April 5, 2009 at 5:58 am |
| AP - President Barack Obama on Sunday launched an effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons, calling them "the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War" and saying the U.S. has a moral responsibility to lead as the only nation to ever use one.
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| Obama sets out vision of nuclear-free world (Reuters) April 5, 2009 at 5:30 am |
| Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama set out his vision for a world free of nuclear weapons on Sunday, vowing to involve all states with atomic weapons in the process of reducing arsenals.
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| Madonna leaves Malawi after adoption setback (AP) April 5, 2009 at 4:17 am |
| AP - Madonna left Malawi on her private jet Sunday after being rebuffed in an attempt to adopt a second child from the poor African nation, air traffic control officials said.
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| Michigan St, North Carolina reach title game (Reuters) April 5, 2009 at 12:55 am |
| Reuters - North Carolina and home-state favorites Michigan State will meet for the national championship after recording convincing victories in the NCAA Tournament semi-finals before more than 72,000 at Ford Field on Saturday. | | |
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