April 30, 2008

Iraq’s Tareq Aziz goes on trial (AFP/Al-Iraqiya TV)

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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz gives a press conference in Baghdad in front of a portrait of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 2000. Aziz went on trial on Tuesday on charges of executing 42 Baghdad businessmen in 1992 that could see him sentenced to death.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP/Al-Iraqiya TV - Tareq Aziz, the international face of hanged Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s regime, went on trial on Tuesday on charges of executing 42 Baghdad businessmen in 1992 that could see him sentenced to death.


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U.N. and World Bank say to tackle food crisis (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Pakistani youth wait outside the rice distributing room of the Bari Imam Shrine in Islamabad on April 27. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday held talks with key development agencies on how to tackle the crisis provoked by soaring food and fuel prices.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)Reuters - U.N. agencies and the World Bank pledged
on Tuesday to set up a task force to tackle an unprecedented
rise in global food prices that is threatening to spread social
unrest.


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UN chief orders task force to tackle food crisis (AFP)

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A Pakistani labourer throws a bag of potatoes onto a truck at the market in Islamabad. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday ordered a top level task force to take on the global crisis caused by rising food prices and urged key producer nations to end export bans.(AFP/Farooq Naeem)AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday ordered a top level task force to take on the global crisis caused by rising food prices and urged key producer nations to end export bans.


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Families tell U.S. lawmakers of heparin deaths (Reuters)

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Congressman John Dingell (D-MI) holds up a newspaper story on the drug heparin on Capitol Hill in Washington April 22, 2008. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - A man who said he lost his wife and
a son to reactions from tainted heparin made with ingredients
from China urged U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to protect patients
from other unsafe drugs.


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Beijing marks 100-day countdown to Games (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Travellers walk past a Beijing 2008 Olympic Games countdown clock at Hong Kong International Airport April 29, 2008. (Victor Fraile/Reuters)Reuters - Beijing on Wednesday marks the 100-day
countdown to the Olympics with songs, a mass run and even
prayers, hoping to put behind it the tumultuous events of the
past month which have taken much gloss off its preparations.


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Medicare “drifting towards disaster”: U.S. official (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Beds lie empty in the emergency room of Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans February 14, 2006. (Lee Celano/Reuters)Reuters - Medicare is lurching toward disaster
and it is too late for the Bush Administration and Congress to
do anything about it, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary
Michael Leavitt said on Tuesday.


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Family in Austrian incest case united (Reuters)

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Austrian crime scene investigators are filmed upon their arrival in front of a house, belonging to a man suspected of keeping his daughter prisoner and abusing her for 24 years in the basement of this house, in the small Austrian village of Amstetten April 28, 2008. (Herbert Neubauer/Reuters)Reuters - The family of an Austrian
man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven
children with her have been united for the first time in what
doctors described as an “astonishing” gathering.


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Bush says no magic wand to lower fuel prices (Reuters)

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President Bush reacts to a question during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington April 29, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush said
on Tuesday there was no “magic wand” to bring down record-high
fuel prices but would consider a proposal to suspend federal
gasoline taxes this summer — an idea that has divided the 2008
presidential candidates.


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Cost issues and war sap U.S. military readiness: lawmaker (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Reuters - A top Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday
called for urgent improvement of the U.S. military’s readiness,
saying the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and cost overruns in
weapons programs had sapped its ability to respond quickly to a
crisis elsewhere.

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Democrat Obama “outraged” by former pastor (Reuters)

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US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign stop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina April 28, 2008. (Chris Keane/Reuters)Reuters - Democratic Sen.
Barack Obama, trying to quell a political firestorm that has
roiled his presidential campaign, strongly denounced his former
pastor on Tuesday and called his racially charged comments
“appalling.”


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