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Bush effigy burned in anti-US protest in Baghdad (AP)

A protester uses his shoe to strike an effigy of U.S. President George. W. Bush, in an expression of contempt, as thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on Firdous Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:08:08 GMT
Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral (AP)

People stand near the dead body of a blast victim at a local hospital in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Friday, Nov 21, 2008. A blast killed at least six mourners Friday at the funeral of a Shiite cleric in northwest Pakistan who was gunned down hours earlier, police said.(AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud)AP - Police said a bomb killed eight mourners at the funeral of a Shiite cleric in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, stoking sectarian tension in a region already beset by militant violence.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:19:37 GMT
China: 19,000 victims identified from May quake (AP)

In this  Friday May 23, 2008 file photo, a mother holds a picture of her son who was killed in the previous week's earthquake during a memorial service at a primary school in Mianzhu, in China's southwest Sichuan province. China has acknowledged for the first time that more than 19,000 students died in the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - A little over a quarter of the 70,000 people who died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May have been identified, a Chinese official said Friday, as authorities rushed to prepare stricken areas for the coming winter.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:26:34 GMT
Rocket hits Israeli town, Gaza still sealed (AP)

Israeli soldiers fire tear gas and throw stun grenades at Palestinian demonstrators during a protest against Jewish settlements in the village of Borqa near the West Bank city of Nablus November 21, 2008. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK)AP - Israeli police say Palestinian militants have fired a rocket at an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip. No casualties have been reported.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:31:03 GMT
Emaciated children dying in Haiti, victims of food crisis (AP)

Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition, is weighed at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Aid workers fear hunger is worsening in rural Haiti after at least 26 children died of conditions exacerbated by a lack of nutrition, raising concerns that a grave food crisis may be brewing following four devastating tropical storms. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs ? he weighed less than 20 pounds, even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:04:50 GMT
Amsterdam to close cannabis cafes (AFP)

Cannabis is sold at a coffee shop in Amsterdam. The city is to order the closure of dozens of coffee shops that sell cannabis near schools in accordance with new legislation.(AFP/CONTINENTAL/File/Continental)AFP - Amsterdam is to order the closure of dozens of coffee shops that sell cannabis near schools in accordance with new legislation, the municipality said Friday.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:12:58 GMT
Iraqi troops donate money to US wildfire victims (AP)
AP - The U.S. military says a group of Iraqi soldiers has donated $500 to help California wildfire victims.
Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:10:15 GMT
Mexico detains former top anti-drug prosecutor (AP)
AP - Mexican authorities detained a former top anti-drug prosecutor on Thursday as part of an investigation into possible links between senior law enforcements officials and drug cartels.
Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:15:11 GMT
UN expects new peacekeepers in Congo in weeks (AP)

Judith, a four year old displaced girl, no last name given, receives medical treatment for severe malaria as her mother keeps watch, at a clinic run by the aid organization Merlin, in Goma, eastern Congo,  Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)AP - Armed men shot and killed a 20-year-old woman Friday at a refugee camp in an area of eastern Congo where thousands of displaced people live in constant fear, caught between soldiers and rebels, U.N. officials said Friday.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:19:26 GMT
Troubled Indonesian tycoon to drop cabinet post: spokesman (AFP)

A woman walks past a Bakrie and Brothers building in Jakarta. Indonesia's billionaire Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie will leave the cabinet next year, a spokesman said Friday, as the global economic crisis continued to batter his business empire.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - Indonesia's billionaire Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie will leave the cabinet next year, a spokesman said Friday, as the global economic crisis continued to batter his business empire.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:12:26 GMT
Aussie mayor wins sexist 'award' for inviting ugly women to town (AFP)

A view of Australian outback mining town of Mount Isa. The mayor of the town has won the top AFP - An Australian mayor who invited ugly women to move to his outback mining town, saying even they would find a man there, has won the top "award" for the most sexist public comment of the year.


Date Posted : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:06:00 GMT
 

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