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    IAEA to Report Iran to Security Council (AP)

AP - The U.N. nuclear watchdog on Saturday reported Iran to the U.N.
 Security Council in a resolution expressing concern Tehran's nuclear
 program may not be "exclusively for peaceful purposes." Iran said it
 would retaliate immediately.

    1,000 Feared Lost on Doomed Egyptian Ferry (AP)

AP - Rescue boats picked up at least 362 survivors from an Egyptian
 ferry that caught fire and sank in the Red Sea, apparently so fast
 there was no time for a distress signal. But more than 1,000 missing
 passengers and crew were feared drowned, officials said Saturday.

    Rumsfeld: Iran Regime Sponsors Terrorism (AP)

AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged America's allies to
 increase their military spending to prevent the rise of a "global
 extremist Islamic empire."

    Bodies of 14 Iraqis Dumped in Baghdad (AP)

AP - The bullet-riddled bodies of 14 Sunni Arab men purportedly seized
 by police a week ago were found dumped in Baghdad in the latest bout of
 Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence in the capital, a top Sunni group said
 Saturday.

    Fierce Fighting Kills 37 in Afghanistan (AP)

AP - Fighting raged across southern Afghanistan on Saturday with attacks
 on government offices and a police convoy killing a district chief and
 15 others -- raising the death toll from two days of battles to 37,
 officials said.

    Owen aiming for April comeback (AFP)

AFP - Newcastle and England striker Michael Owen hopes to have recovered
 from his broken toe in time for the last month of the Premiership
 season.

    Iran: Moscow Enrichment Proposal Dead (AP)

AP - A senior Iranian official said Saturday that a proposal by Moscow
 to enrich Iranian uranium in Russia is dead following the U.N. nuclear
 agency's decision to report Iran to the Security Council.

    Chavez: U.S. Threatened by Leftist Leaders (AP)

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, receiving a U.N. prize handed
 over by Fidel Castro on Friday, said Washington was right to be
 concerned by Latin America's tilt to the left because it represents a
 threat to the U.S. "empire."

    Red Sea ferry survivors say captain fled (Reuters)

Reuters - Survivors of the Red Sea ferry disaster said its captain fled
 the burning ship by lifeboat and abandoned them to their fate, as hopes
 faded on Saturday of finding some 800 missing.

    Japan to pull troops from Iraq "in months" (Reuters)

Reuters - Japan will pull its troops from Iraq "within several months,"
 a Japanese official was quoted as saying on Saturday, marking the first
 time a government figure has publicly referred to an early withdrawal.

    Who else? Premier Ralph Klein named Alberta's funniest person
     (Canadian Press)

Canadian Press - CALGARY (CP) - From dinosaur farts to eastern creeps
 and bums-Albertans like to laugh at what is truly Ralph's world.

    Australia to Examine Oil-For-Food Scandal (AP)

AP - An inquiry will examine whether Australia's government knew the
 country's main wheat exporter paid hundreds of millions of dollars in
 kickbacks into Saddam Hussein's coffers under the U.N. oil-for-food
 program, the head of the investigation said Friday.

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