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    Female Suicide Bomber Kills Six in Iraq (AP)

AP - A female suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army recruitment center
 Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 30 in a northern
 city where coalition forces routed insurgents in a major offensive
 earlier this month.

    Israel Presses Forward With Gaza Offensive (AP)

AP - Widening its five-day campaign against Palestinian militants,
 Israel for the first time fired live artillery shells into the Gaza
 Strip on Wednesday and shut down 15 West Bank offices suspected of
 distributing money to families of suicide bombers.

    Hamas Candidates Part of Israeli Roundup (AP)

AP - The Israeli military has rounded up 379 militant activists,
 including dozens of electoral candidates from Hamas, prompting
 accusations that Israel is using a weekend truce breach as an excuse to
 crush the Islamic group before upcoming Palestinian elections.

    Canadian Auto Workers Union Averts Strike (AP)

AP - The Canadian Auto Workers union reached a tentative agreement with
 General Motors Corp. just minutes before a strike deadline late
 Tuesday, averting a walkout by 17,000 members and capping weeks of
 heated negotiations with North America's Big Three automakers.

    Giant Squid Photographed for First Time (AP)

AP - The giant squid can be found in books and in myths, but for the
 first time, a team of Japanese scientists has captured on film one of
 the most mysterious creatures of the deep sea in its natural habitat.

    Erotic chat grounds for divorce -court ruling (Reuters)

Reuters - Erotic talk with a virtual partner in chatrooms on the
 Internet are enough grounds for a spouse to file for divorce, a legal
 magazine said on Wednesday, citing a recent ruling in Belgium.

    FBI Joins Probe of Latest Lebanon Bombing (AP)

AP - FBI agents on Wednesday joined the investigation into the latest of
 a spate of explosions in Lebanon -- a move certain to unnerve Syria as
 it comes under stepped-up U.S. pressure to stay out of its neighbor's
 business.

    Flooding in Mexico, C. America Kills Three (AP)

AP - Intense rains throughout southern Mexico and parts of Central
 America have caused rivers to overflow, killing at least three people
 and forcing thousands to flee their homes, officials said Tuesday.

    Top UN aid official threatens to halt Darfur operations (AFP)

AFP - Top UN aid official Jan Egeland warned that relief operations in
 Darfur may have to be halted because of an upsurge in violence in the
 conflict-ravaged western Sudanese region.

    Indian political delegation to Nepal greeted with stones, protests
     (AFP)

AFP - Supporters of Nepal's king hurled stones at the vehicle of a
 seven-member delegation of Indian politicians as they arrived in the
 Himalayan kingdom on a fact-finding mission, witnesses said.

    Former Liberal minister Dingwall under fire over spending at mint
     (Canadian Press)

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - David Dingwall, the president of the
 Royal Canadian Mint, and his top aides racked up total office expenses
 of more than $740,000 last year, government documents indicate.

    Autopsy confirms Briton killed by crocodile in Australia (AFP)

AFP - An autopsy has confirmed that a Briton was killed by a crocodile
 while snorkelling off a remote island in northern Australia, police
 said.

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