May 31, 2008

More than 100 countries adopt cluster bomb ban (AFP/File)

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Remnants of a cluster bomb. A landmark international convention banning cluster munitions was formally adopted by some 111 countries in Dublin, in a move supporters hope will stigmatise the lethal weapons as much as landmines.(AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)AFP/File - A landmark international convention banning cluster munitions was formally adopted by 111 countries here Friday, in a move organisers hope will stigmatise the lethal weapons as much as landmines.


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“Sex and the City” tickets sell at brisk pace (Reuters)

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Sarah Jessica Parker arrives during the 'Sex And The City' movie premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York May 27, 2008. (Joshua Lott/Reuters)Reuters - With Friday’s opening of “Sex and
the City” shaping up as a big girls-night-out event at U.S.
movie theaters, industry analysts say the film seems poised to
set a new box office standard for “chick flicks.”


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Plane skids off runway in Honduras, 5 dead (Reuters)

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Rescue workers surround a passenger plane which skidded off a runway at Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras, May 30, 2008. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)Reuters - A Salvadoran passenger plane
skidded off a rain-soaked runway on landing at Tegucigalpa
airport in Honduras on Friday, killing five people and injuring
38 as it veered onto a road and smashed into cars and a
building.


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Indicted Chicago cop shines light on corruption (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Reuters - A former Chicago police officer charged
with being part of a ring that falsely arrested and stole from
drug dealers has detailed how the operation led to a plot to
kill two colleagues, according to interview excerpts released
on Friday.

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U.S. emissions bill a “first step”: U.N. climate chief (Reuters)

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Smoke is emitted from a factory at Keihin industrial zone in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo March 16, 2008. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)Reuters - A bill going to the U.S. Senate next week
seeking deep cuts in U.S. greenhouse gases by 2050 is a “first
step” but not enough to avert damaging climate change, the head
of the U.N. Climate Panel said on Friday.


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Obama, McCain bicker over troop levels in Iraq (Reuters)

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A U.S. soldier from Bravo Battery, 1-76 Field Artillery Battalion, looks through a pair of binoculars on the roof of a building at a fish hatchery in Hilla, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, May 26, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama squabbled with Republican John McCain on Friday over the number of U.S. troops in Iraq in the latest disagreement between the two likely presidential nominees over the unpopular war. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama
squabbled with Republican John McCain on Friday over the number
of U.S. troops in Iraq in the latest disagreement between the
two likely presidential nominees over the unpopular war.


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U.S., Libya agree to try to resolve terrorism claims (Reuters)

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A memorial stone for the victims of Lockerbie bombing is seen set against the cloudy skies of the Dumfriesshire Hills in Lockerbie, Scotland August 14, 2003. (Christopher Furlong/Reuters)Reuters - The United States and Libya have
agreed to try to resolve compensation claims from the 1988
Lockerbie bombing and other incidents Washington views as acts
of terrorism by Libya, the State Department said on Friday.


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Crane collapses in New York City, two dead (Reuters)

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A woman reacts at the site of a crane collapse at 91st Street and First Avenue in New York May 30, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)Reuters - A large crane collapsed in New York
City on Friday, killing two people and damaging an apartment
building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side — a day after city
officials investigated the crane’s operations.


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Edmonds, DeRosa help Cubs rally, beat Rockies 10-9 (AP)

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Chicago Cubs' Mark DeRosa, right, celebrates with Jim Edmonds after hitting a two-run home run against Colorado Rockies during the seventh inning of a baseball game Friday, May 30, 2008 in Chicago. The Cubs won 10-9.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Jim Edmonds and Mark DeRosa delivered key hits and the Chicago Cubs overcame an eight-run deficit, rallying past the Colorado Rockies 10-9 Friday for their fifth straight victory.


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Tentative deal on reuniting polygamist families (Reuters)

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Ruth, 34, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, covers her face as she tells reporters about being separated from her four children outside of the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas April 24, 2008. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)Reuters - More than 400 children taken from a
polygamist ranch in Texas will be reunited with their parents
next week under a tentative agreement reached on Friday between
state officials and lawyers for the mothers.


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