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    Looting Breaks Out in Wake of Deadly Quake (AP)

AP - Shopkeepers clashed with looters Monday, and hungry families
 huddled under tents while waiting for relief supplies after Pakistan's
 worst earthquake razed entire villages and buried roads in rubble.
 Death toll estimates ranged from 20,000 to 30,000.

    Rumors of Another Quake Keep Kashmiris Out (AP)

AP - Hundreds of Kashmiris still on edge from the weekend's devastating
 earthquake rushed out of their homes and spent the frigid night
 outdoors after hundreds of mosques announced warnings of a new quake.

    Guatemalan Towns Abandoned As Mass Graves (AP)

AP - Guatemalan officials said they would abandon communities buried by
 landslides and declare them mass graveyards as reports of devastation
 trickled in from some of the more than 100 communities cut off from the
 outside world after killer mudslides.

    Germany Getting First Female Chancellor (AP)

AP - Conservative leader Angela Merkel was set to become Germany's first
 female chancellor under a power-sharing agreement that would end
 Gerhard Schroeder's seven years in office, party officials said Monday.

    Sunni-Shiite Religious War in Iraq Feared (AP)

AP - From hilly Zarqa and nearby Salt, from Cairo, Damascus and distant
 points, young Arab fighters have slipped across the desert and into
 Iraq. If that shattered land now plunges into a religious war of Sunni
 against Shiite, will these ranks of foreign volunteers swell further?

    Report: Khodorkovsky Is Sent to Prison (AP)

AP - Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been sent to the prison
 where he will serve out his 8-year sentence on charges including tax
 evasion and fraud, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

    Official: Sharon-Abbas Meeting Postponed (AP)

AP - A Palestinian official said Monday a planned meeting between
 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud
 Abbas has been postponed at least until the end of the month after
 talks deadlocked over Israeli troop withdrawals in the West Bank and
 Palestinian prisoner releases.

    Morocco Deporting Would-Be Immigrants (AP)

AP - Morocco, at the center of an immigration crisis of Africans seeking
 to get to Europe, began deporting would-be immigrants Monday, starting
 with a flight carrying 140 Senegalese.

    Gilchrist queries Boucher choice ahead of Sangakkara in Super Test
     (AFP)

AFP - Adam Gilchrist queried the choice of South African Mark Boucher
 ahead of Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara as the World XI's wicket-keeper
 for this week's Super Test here against Australia.

    B.C. court finds province's teachers in contempt for staging illegal
     walkout (Canadian Press)

Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. Supreme Court justice ruled
 Sunday that the province's public school teachers were in contempt of
 court after they launched a walkout that shut down British Columbia's
 schools.

    Labour reforms attacked as assault on Australian lifestyle (AFP)

AFP - Radical labour law reforms proposed by conservative Prime Minister
 John Howard were attacked as an attempt to smash trade unions and as a
 threat to Australia's traditional lifestyle.

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