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Morning News


May.8   Israel   King Herod's ancient tomb 'found'
  An archaeologist has found the tomb of the ruler of Judea while it was under Roman administration in the 1st century BC


  Northern Ireland   Power sharing begins
  Major Protestant and Catholic parties joined together to form a overnment, marking a 'new era of politics' and an end sectarian conflict
 5 years of direct rule ended. DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness took office as first and deputy first ministers. Blair and Ahern witnessed the creation of the new executive. VIP guests at Stormont included US Senator Ted Kennedy


  Turkey Government backs popular vote  Parliament gave initial approval to a constitutional amendment to make the presidency a popularly elected post
 The move could rekindle tension between the government and secularists


  New Jersey Arrests over army base 'plot'  Six nationals of the former Yugoslavia planned to use automatic weapons to enter the base and kill soldiers at Fort Dix

  Southern Iraq Car blast near mosque kills 16  A parked car exploded near a prominent Shiite mosque in Kufa, killing 16 civilians and wounding at least 64 others

Day News


  Texas   US drops Cuban militant's charges
  A judge has dropped immigration charges against Luis Posada Carriles, who has been accused of blowing up a Cuban airliner
 The Cuban government accuses him of being involved in the downing of a Cuban passenger plane, which killed 73 people


  Haiti   Migrants claim boat rammed by naval ship  Haitian migrants claim a Turks and Caicos naval vessel rammed their crowded sailboat twice before it capsized, killing dozens of people

  Qatar Al-Jazeera airs suicide-bombing video  The footage, created by al Qaeda in the Maghreb, showing one of the suicide bombings last month in Algeria that killed at least two dozen people

  Washington U.S. to maintain Iraq buildup  About 35,000 soldiers have been told to prepare for deployment in late 2007 to replace troops already in the fight

Evening News


  Nigeria   4 Americans seized  Gunmen seized 4 more workers amid a dramatic rise in violence that has roiled southern petroleum-producing region

  New York Clinton unveils Aids drugs deal  The agreements with drug companies is to lower the price of 'second-line' drugs for people in the developing world for less than $1 a day
San Francisco Bay Area , May 8, 2007 Timeline