Thanks Raul: Cubans can stay in hotels (AP)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
AP - Raul Castro’s government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as “tourist apartheid” and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.
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U.S. defense analyst guilty in China spy case (Reuters)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
Reuters - A U.S. Defense Department analyst
pleaded guilty to passing classified information about Taiwan
to a Chinese government agent, the Justice Department said on
Monday.
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Married troops can live together in Iraq (AP)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
AP - When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife.
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U.S. demands unconditional release of Libya dissident (Reuters)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
Reuters - The United States on Monday urged
Libya to release without conditions an ailing political
dissident now recovering in a Tripoli hospital.
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Mexican serial killer sentenced (AP)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
AP - A former female wrestler who terrorized Mexico City as the “Little Old Lady Killer” was sentenced to 759 years in jail on Monday for killing 16 elderly women.
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Film director Jules Dassin dies at 96 (AP)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
AP - American director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie “Never on Sunday” and six more of his films, died late Monday at an Athens hospital, officials said. He was 96.
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Riot police in Harare townships amid poll tensions (Reuters)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
Reuters - Riot police in armored carriers were
deployed in two of Harare’s restive townships on Monday night
amid long delays in issuing Zimbabwe’s election results which
have raised tensions.
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Truce calms Iraq, weakens prime minister (AP)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
AP - Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gun fire rang out Monday in the southern city of Basra as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sought to rein in his militia after a week of battles that claimed about 400 lives.
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China verdict on dissident Hu Jia due Thursday: lawyer (AFP)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
AFP - The verdict for prominent Chinese human rights dissident Hu Jia, accused of subversion, will be announced on Thursday, one of his lawyers said.
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Al-Sadr trumps in latest showdown (AP)
Posted by on Mar 31, 2008
AP - The Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rarely ventures into the public eye. But he’s never far from the minds of Iraq’s leaders as one of the nation’s most influential and wily political survivors.
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