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AP - Religious leaders summoned Iraq's Shiites and Sunnis to joint
 prayer services Friday amid an extraordinary daytime curfew aimed at
 halting a wave of sectarian violence that has killed nearly 130 people
 since the bombing of one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines.

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AP - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency
 Friday, saying she had quashed a coup plot, and the military confined
 troops to their camps to keep them from joining growing protests
 against her rule.

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AP - Air quality tests in a section of a Mexican coal mine where as many
 as 26 miners could have been working showed there was not enough oxygen
 to sustain life, officials said Thursday.

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AP - The roof that rescue workers had hoped would lead them to an
 elementary school buried by a mudslide turned out to be that of a
 house, the Philippine army said Friday, dealing another blow to the
 chances of finding survivors.

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The Christian Science Monitor - The last time Zahir Ahmad saw his
 daughter was 19 years ago, shortly after her marriage to a Pakistani
 man. She has lived in Karachi ever since - a destination so politically
 distant from Mr. Ahmad's home in Godhra, India, that a face-to-face
 meeting has been almost impossible - until now.

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AFP - London Mayor Ken Livingstone was found guilty of bringing his
 office into disrepute by comparing a Jewish local newspaper reporter to
 a Nazi concentration camp guard.

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AP - Shots and an explosion have been heard at oil refinery in Baqiq,
 eastern Saudi Arabia, the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya TV
 reported Friday, quoting its own reporter.

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AP - Venezuela has prohibited Continental and Delta Airlines from flying
 into this South American nation, Francisco Plaz, the president of the
 National Aviation Institute, said.

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Reuters - In Addis Ababa, the cool highland nights are no longer the
 only chill in the air.

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Reuters - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared emergency rule in
 the Philippines on Friday after the military said it foiled a coup
 attempt, but analysts criticized the move as unwarranted and
 potentially damaging to the economy.

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Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - It's time Ottawa and the RCMP got more
 involved in the search for the killers of a Canadian couple in Mexico,
 given warnings that the perpetrators of the grisly slayings may have
 already returned to Canada, a Liberal MP said Thursday.

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Reuters - The U.S. and British governments knew over four years ago that
 Iraq was demanding extra fees from importers through U.N. oil-for-food
 funds, an Australian commission of inquiry was told on Friday.

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