China warns Google as Internet row deal seen soon (Reuters)

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Reuters - China warned Google, the world's largest search engine, against flouting the country's laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security.

Kenya elephant deaths soar as ivory sales debated (AP)

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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 9, 2010, Elephants use their trunks to smell for possible danger in the Tsavo East national park, Kenya. Beginning this weekend, the international community will debate proposals from Tanzania and Zambia to allow a one-time sale of ivory to clear out backlogs of stockpiles that often come from elephants who die naturally, or those that are killed. Kenya has seen elephant deaths from poachers shoot up seven-fold the last three years, after a similar sale was allowed in 2007. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)AP - Tracking the wounded elephant to its death bed was easy for the ranger. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating a wide gash across the bush.


Israel moves to change law after Biden “mishap” (AP)

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Map locates the West Bank, which Israel sealed off from clashesAP - Israel is moving to amend the country's planning procedures on sensitive political decisions following an embarrassing diplomatic flap during a visit this week by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a Cabinet minister said Friday.


Pinera govt projects $30 billion in quake damage (AP)

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Chile's newly inaugurated President Sebastian Pinera, waves the the crowds after his swearing-in ceremony in Valparaiso, Chile, Thursday, March 11, 2010.(AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)AP - Calling on Chileans to dry their tears and get to work to rebuild the nation, Sebastian Pinera is already setting an example.


British Airways cabin crew to strike in late March (AFP)

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British Airways aircraft parked outside Terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport in London. British Airways cabin crew will strike for seven days later this month after failing to reach agreement in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, union officials said on Friday.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - British Airways cabin crew will strike for seven days later this month after failing to reach agreement in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, union officials said on Friday.


Indonesian police kill 2 suspected militants (AP)

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Supporters carry the coffin containing the body of the most wanted  Indonesian terror suspect Dulmatin during his burial in Pemalang, Central Java, Indonesia, Friday, March 12, 2010. The death of the senior terror suspect in a gunfight with police has been both a trophy for Indonesia and an unsettling reminder ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit that the country's battle against resurgent extremists is far from over. (AP Photo/Budi N.D. Dharmawan)AP - Indonesian police killed two suspected Islamist militants in a firefight in remote Aceh province Friday during the latest in a series of raids made since an extremist training camp was discovered there last month. Eight other suspects were arrested.


Grave likely holds East Timorese freedom fighters (AP)

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AP - Nine blindfolded and buried bodies found during construction of a beachfront luxury hotel likely were East Timorese freedom fighters executed and put in a mass grave early in the Indonesian occupation, experts said Friday.

Pope meets with German bishop amid sex scandal (AP)

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Pope Benedict XVI looks on during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Pope has appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria between Christians and Muslims that has taken more than 200 lives. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI met Friday with Germany's top bishop amid the spiraling abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church in his homeland.


Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers (AP)

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** SPECIFIES THE ZOO WHERE TIGERS DIED ** FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, an endangered Siberian tiger runs away with a chicken tossed by tourists at the Harbin Tiger Park in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province.  Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at the cash-strapped Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province in China's frigid northeast, state media said Friday March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - Eleven rare Siberian tigers, starving and kept in small cages, have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country, where activists say profiteering off the carcasses of endangered species sometimes drives over-breeding.


Somali official to residents: Flee battle zones (AP)

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Residents load their belongings onto a donkey cart and a minibus as they flee their neighborhood in the capital, Mogadishu, Somalia, where intense fighting broke out for the third day between Somali government forces backed the AU forces and Islamist insurgents on Friday March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Farh Abdi Warsameh)AP - Fighting erupted in Somalia's capital for the third straight day Friday in some of the worst violence in nearly a year, as government-backed troops shelled the front lines of rebels trying to advance into government-held territory.


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