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Bush Rebuffed on Oil Plea in Saudi Arabia

May 16, 2008

NYT > World / By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

With the price of oil hitting record highs, President Bush used a private visit with King Abdullah to make a second attempt to persuade the Saudis to increase oil production and was rejected yet again ...

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Obese blamed for the world's ills

May 16, 2008

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Obese people are contributing to the world food crisis and are worsening climate change because of increased use of transportation fuel, experts say. ...

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In Departure, China Invites Outside Help

May 16, 2008

NYT > China / By HOWARD W. FRENCH and EDWARD WONG

China sought experts and equipment from Japan and Taiwan as President Hu Jintao visited the area affected by the earthquake. ...

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Saudi Arabia rebuffs Bush on oil output

May 16, 2008

MSNBC.com: Mideast & N. Africa

The White House said Friday that Saudi Arabia's leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it. ...

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Australia's "Fat Tony" flies home to 12 years jail

May 17, 2008

Reuters: International News

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Like an episode from the hit mafia TV series the Sopranos, Australian mobster "Fat Tony" has finally been extradited from Greece to serve his 12 year jail sentence for cocaine tr ...

Trapped Survivors Freed After Nearly 100 Hours

May 17, 2008

ABC News: International

Strong aftershock rattles China quake zone; trapped survivors freed after nearly 100 hours ...

Zimbabwe's presidential showdown set for June 27

May 17, 2008

Kansas City Star: World

Seven weeks after the presidential election, Zimbabwe finally set a runoff date Friday, saying longtime President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai will face off in a June 27 ballot that the o ...

Australia's "Fat Tony" flies home to 12 years jail (Reuters)

May 17, 2008

Yahoo! News: World News

Reuters - Like an episode from the hit mafia TV series the Sopranos, Australian mobster "Fat Tony" has finally been extradited from Greece to serve his 12 year jail sentence for cocaine trafficking ...

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Chinese leader visits quake area

May 16, 2008

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Hu Jintao flies to Sichuan Province, where it is feared up to 50,000 people may have died in Monday's earthquake. ...

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Burma official death toll jumps to 78,000

May 16, 2008

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

The official death toll for Burma's cyclone disaster jumps to nearly 78,000 with 56,000 missing, state TV says. ...

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Saudis Reject Bush's Call to Increase Oil Output

May 16, 2008

washingtonpost.com - Middle East / Michael Abramowitz

RIYADH, May 16 -- Saudi Arabia Friday rejected the idea of increasing oil production to help ease soaring gasoline prices, telling President Bush that the kingdom already is meeting its customers' dem ...

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'Five million' homeless in quake

May 16, 2008

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Almost five million people have been left homeless by Monday's earthquake in China, officials say. ...

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Saudis Rebuff Bush on Oil

May 16, 2008

WSJ.com: World News

Bush conceded the current level of Saudi Arabia's oil output isn't the prime factor driving today's oil spike, after the Saudi king rebuffed the president's request for higher oil production. The exch ...

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Cyclone toll rises to almost 78,000

May 16, 2008

MSNBC.com: Asia-Pacific

The official death toll from Myanmar's devastating May 2-3 cyclone has jumped to nearly 78,000, state television reported Friday. ...

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Glimpses of Survivors, Miraculous and Few, in Earthquake’s Ruins

May 16, 2008

NYT > Asia Pacific / By ANDREW JACOBS

Chinese officials said rescuers were still finding survivors of an earthquake that has killed at least 22,000 people. ...

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Foreign envoys to see Burma delta

May 16, 2008

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Foreign diplomats in Burma say the military junta has promised to take them on a tour of the disaster-hit area. ...

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'$100 laptop' platform moves on

May 16, 2008

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the $100 laptop is launched. ...

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Russian doomsday cult siege ends

May 16, 2008

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

The last remaining members of a Russian cult barricaded in a cave come out, reportedly overcome by corpse fumes. ...

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U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan

May 16, 2008

NYT > World / By ERIC SCHMITT and TIM GOLDEN

In a stark acknowledgment that the U.S. is likely to hold prisoners overseas for years, officials are scaling back plans to shift prisoners into Afghan custody. ...

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Do Obese People Worsen Global Warming?

May 16, 2008

ABC News: International

A letter in the Lancet medical journal sparks outrage from obesity experts. ...

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Pakistan resists U.S. pressure on cross-border raids

May 16, 2008

International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions / By JANE PERLEZ

Pakistani officials say they will not allow the U.S. military to attack militants based in Pakistani tribal areas. ...

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Robert Mondavi, winemaking patriarch, dies at 94

May 16, 2008

International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions

Robert Mondavi Winery spokeswoman Mia Malm says Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville on Friday. ...

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Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake ...

May 16, 2008

NYT > China / By WILLIAM J. BROAD

China’s main centers for making and storing nuclear arms lie in the earthquake zone, leading Western experts to look for signs of any damage that might allow radioactivity to escape. ...

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As Toll Rises to 78,000, Myanmar Still Limits Aid

May 16, 2008

NYT > World / By HELENE COOPER and THOM SHANKER

The United States is facing the limits of its clout in dealing with a junta that human rights advocates say is putting its own survival before that of the population. ...

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Superstitions About Quake Meet the Web, Irritating the Chinese Authorities

May 16, 2008

NYT > China / By ANDREW JACOBS

Persistent rumors and tall tales by some Chinese bloggers are proving nettlesome to the authorities as they grapple with China’s most calamitous disaster in a generation. ...

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Zimbabwean police unleashed on Anglicans

May 16, 2008

Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune / By CELIA W. DUGGER

With a presidential runoff ahead, the ruling party is focusing an intimidation campaign on groups that elude its direct control, including the Anglican diocese of Harare, the capital. ...

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Several Firms Eye British Energy

May 16, 2008

WSJ.com: What's News Europe

British Energy has received proposals from several parties wishing to make a full offer for the nuclear power-generation company, which could fetch more than $20 billion. ...

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Marine Given 4 Years in Sex Case

May 16, 2008

NYT > Asia Pacific / By NORIMITSU ONISHI

A United States court martial sentenced a marine to four years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old. ...

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Rescuers Aim for Chinese Villages Yet Unreached

May 16, 2008

NYT > China / By JIM YARDLEY

Rescue workers are still struggling to reach untold numbers of remote villages, which could contribute tens of thousands more bodies to the earthquake death toll. ...

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Food Crisis Meets Chaos in Horn of Africa

May 16, 2008

NYT > Africa / By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

In Somalia, skimpy rainfall, soaring food prices and rising violence have pushed many people to the brink of famine. ...

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Looming Dangers for Orphaned Burmese

May 16, 2008

NYT > Asia Pacific / By SETH MYDANS

While the death toll in Myanmar continues to climb, international aid agencies are warning of a new kind of threat to the most vulnerable survivors, children. ...

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Zimbabwe Election Runoff Set for June 27

May 16, 2008

NYT > Africa / By BARRY BEARAK and CELIA W. DUGGER

The second round of voting would come nearly three months after the first rather than the three weeks stipulated by Zimbabwean law. ...

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In China, Skittish Pandas, Silent Birds and Then Exploding Cliffs

May 16, 2008

NYT > Asia Pacific / By JIM YARDLEY

Foreign tourists evacuated to Chengdu described a dangerous escape made possible by the heroism of panda keepers and other workers who helped save them, as well as 13 panda cubs. ...

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Dominicans Expected to Reelect President

May 16, 2008

NYT > World / By MARC LACEY

President Leonel Fernández appeared headed for a third term largely as a result of a campaign gift to the populace that dwarfed those of his opponents — a shiny new subway system. ...

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Bush exchanges views with young Israelis

May 16, 2008

L.A. Times - Middle East

Near the end of his Israel visit, the president has an informal chat with a group of Jewish and Arab students. A frank and lively discussion results. ...

Quake to spur insurers to penetrate rural areas

May 16, 2008

China

The most powerful earthquake in China since 1950 shows the nation's insurance industry is decades behind those of the world's biggest economies. Just 5 percent of the more than 20 billion U. S. ...

Violence Escalates in Eastern Chad Near Sudan Border

May 16, 2008

VOA News: Africa

UN refugee agency says increase probably linked to attack on Sudanese capital Khartoum last weekend by rebels from Darfur  ...

Survivors Pulled From Rubble

May 16, 2008

WSJ.com: World News

The widespread destruction of Chinese classrooms and dormitory rooms in the earthquake has raised questions about the design and construction of the country's schools. ...

U.S. to Send N. Korea 500,000 Tons of Food Aid

May 16, 2008

washingtonpost.com - World / Glenn Kessler

The Bush administration said yesterday it will restart food aid to North Korea and provide it with more than 500,000 tons of food -- the largest one-year amount since 1999. ...

China rescuers seek survivors in hard-hit town (AP)

May 16, 2008

Yahoo! News: World - China

AP - Piles of broken concrete rise seven stories high, and a few buildings stand askew, knocked at odd angles. People cry out the names of missing relatives and rescue workers shout, "Is anyone there? ...

Rescue Can Bring Quake Victims New Danger

May 16, 2008

washingtonpost.com - Middle East / David Brown

For people pinned in the wreckage after catastrophes such as this week's earthquake in China, a successful rescue often marks the beginning, not the end, of the danger. ...

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