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Morning News


May.18   Gaza     Israel launches new strikes against Hamas  According to Palestinians, the strikes on Thursday and Friday killed at least 11 Palestinians

  Russia   EU-Russian talks end in acrimony  German chancellor Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin have traded sharp criticism over human rights, at a summit exposed the divisions
 Merkel expressed alarm at the detention of activists intending to protest. Putin said that Estonia's ethnic Russians were being persecuted


  CAR Rebels to liberate child soldiers  United Nations: rebel leaders had agreed to begin sending several hundred child soldiers home to their families

  Australia Rain helps ease drought  Drenching rains have fallen across most of parched southeast, delighting farmers who have endured seven years of drought

  Japan Police end gangster standoff  Police have nabbed a former gangster, ending a more than 24-hour standoff during which the man killed a policeman after wounding 3 people

  Southern California LeMond testimony stuns Landis hearing  Tour de France champion Greg LeMond disclosed he had been sexually abused as a child

  Paris Sarkozy brings socialist to team  French President has named socialist human rights campaigner Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister in a broad-based cabinet

Day News


  Gaza   Clashes continued for 6th day
  2 Hamas men and a passer-by were killed when a van was hit close to a Hamas post. Israel launched a series of air strikes on Hamas targets


  Florida   Shipwreck yields record treasures
  Treasure hunters have recovered half a million silver coins and hundreds of gold coins and worked gold from a colonial-era shipwreck in the Atlantic


  Colombia   President vows to free Betancourt  Alvaro Uribe has ordered the army to step up efforts to rescue former presidential candidate from rebel captors

  Southern India 13 die in mosque blast, violence  A bomb ripped through a historic mosque, 11 killed in the blast and 2 in clashes between angry Muslim worshippers and security forces

  Northern Iraq 4 arrested in 'honor killing'  Dua Khalil, a 17-year-old Kurdish girl whose religion is Yazidi, was dragged into a crowd, kicked, beaten and stoned to death

  Shanghai Africa's borrowing itch a theme  African Development Bank annual meeting: A debt write-offs by international financial institutions and Western governments is $50 billion

Evening News


  Romania Vote on president's fate  A referendum will decide the fate of the country's suspended President Traian Basescu

  Texas Spurs clinching series win over Suns  San Antonio closed out their contentious series with Phoenix with a 114-106 victory in Game 6
San Francisco Bay Area , May 18, 2007 Timeline