April 30, 2007

Consumer spending rises at slower rate (AP)

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AP - Consumer spending rose at the slowest rate in five months in March, even though personal incomes posted a solid gain.

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5 convicted in London bomb plot (AP)

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Undated combination of pictures released by London's Metropolitan Police Monday April 30 2007 of Salahuddin Amin, Anthony Garcia, Waheed Mahmood, Omar Khyam, and Jawad Akbar who were Monday found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life. A jury convicted five men on Monday of plotting to bomb several targets in London — including a popular nightclub, power plants and shopping mall — in Britain's longest running terror trial that exposed links between the men and four suicide bombers who launched a deadly attack on the capital two years ago that killed 52 people.(AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)AP - A judge sentenced five men to life in prison Monday for plotting to bomb several targets in London — including a popular nightclub, power plants and shopping mall — in a trial that exposed links between the men and at least two of the suicide bombers who attacked the capital two years ago.


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NATO launches offensive against Taliban (AP)

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U.S security personnel takes postions in a poppy filed following Taliban attack during a poppy eradication operations in Tarin Kowt in Urugzan Southern province of Afghanistan, Sunday, April 29, 2007. Taliban fired rockets and small arms when U.S State Department officials along with Afghan authorities were eradicating the poppy in the southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Hundreds of British troops swept into the lush poppy fields of southern Afghanistan Monday, drawing hostile fire at the start of a NATO operation to expel the Taliban from a valley stronghold.


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Bay area residents face tough commutes (AP)

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A section of highway that collapsed after a tanker carrying gasoline overturned and exploded is shown Sunday, April 29, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/The Oakland Tribune, Noah Berger)AP - Bay Area residents began potentially their worst commute in almost two decades Monday, a day after one of the region’s most traveled sections of freeway melted and collapsed following a fiery crash.


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U.S. April death toll in Iraq passes 100 (AP)

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Followers of radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rally in Kazimiyah district of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 30, 2007, condemning previous day's raid. A joint American-Iraqi raid to capture 'high-value individuals' in the north Baghdad district of Kazimiyah left one Iraqi soldier and eight gunmen dead, the U.S. military said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Five U.S. military personnel were killed over the weekend in Iraq, including three by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, the military said Monday, pushing the American death toll past 100 in the deadliest month so far this year.


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April 29, 2007

Tamil Tiger air raids send cricket fans fleeing (AFP)

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Tamil Tiger rebels flash the "V" sign from their light aircraft somewhere in the rebel-held Wanni region of Sri Lanka, March 2007. Tamil Tiger planes struck fuel depots around Sri Lanka's capital on 29 April 2007, briefly plunging Colombo into darkness and sending cricket fans watching the World Cup final running for cover.(AFP/LTTE)AFP - Tamil Tiger planes struck fuel depots around Sri Lanka's capital early Sunday, briefly plunging Colombo into darkness and sending cricket fans watching the World Cup final running for cover.


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Irish PM calls May 24 general election (Reuters)

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In this file photo, Ireland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern speaks at the annual Confederation of British Industry conference in London, November 27, 2006. Ahern set the clock running on Sunday for a general election to be held within the next 30 days by asking President Mary McAleese to dissolve parliament. (Luke Macgregor/Reuters)Reuters - Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern called
a general election for May 24 on Sunday, stressing his Fianna
Fail party's economic credentials but opinion polls show he has
a battle on his hands.


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Bush predicts change is near for Cuba (Reuters)

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U.S. President George W. Bush (R) is applauded as he takes to the stage to deliver the commencement address at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus in Miami, Florida, April 28, 2007. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)Reuters - President Bush took fresh aim on Saturday
at Cuba's communist government, calling it a "cruel
dictatorship" and predicting that democratic change was near.


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More than one million rally in Turkey for secularism, democracy (AFP)

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Turks wave a giant flags during a pro-democracy rally in Istanbul, 29 April 2007. More than one million people have taken part in a mass rally in support of secularism and democracy amid a tense stand-off between the Islamist-rooted government and the army over presidential elections.(AFP/Hocine Zaourar)AFP - More than one million people took part in a mass rally here Sunday in support of secularism and democracy amid a tense stand-off between the Islamist-rooted government and the army over presidential elections.


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Fight over Iraq war funds heads toward new phase (Reuters)

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U.S. President George W. Bush listens to remarks during the 2007 National Teacher of the Year ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, April 26, 2007. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)Reuters - A fierce political battle over a
Democratic plan to pull U.S. troops from Iraq is moving toward
a critical stage as President George W. Bush prepares to veto
it, but talks on a new bill have quietly begun.


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