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Former Australian PM Rudd hospitalised (AFP)

AFP - Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was Friday admitted to hospital for surgery to treat severe stomach pain -- one month after he was dramatically removed from office by his own party.

 
 

Pair wanted in US woman's death deported to Panama (AP)

AP - A U.S. couple was deported in shackles Thursday from Nicaragua to Panama, where they face charges of killing two Americans and questioning in the disappearances of 5 other people.

 
 

Saudi king in Syria amid regional tensions (AP)

AP - Syria on Thursday warned the United States to stop trying to interfere as Arab leaders try to defuse heightened tensions in the Middle East.

 
 

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Somali group warns more troops will be annihilated (AP)

AP - Somalia's al-Qaida-linked group has warned African countries against plans to send additional troops to the war-ravaged country, saying they would be "annihilated."

 
 

Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee (AP)

AP - Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog...

 
 

BP says 3.12 billion dollars spent on oil disaster (AFP)

AFP - BP said Monday that it has now spent 3.12 billion dollars on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, up from 2.65 billion dollars last week.

 
 

AXA in talks to sell British businesses (AFP)

AFP - French insurance AXA giant said on Monday that it was in talks with British rival Resolution to sell its life insurance and savings businesses in Britain for 3.3 billion euros.

 
 

Victims of Zimbabwe blitz struggle to build houses (AFP)

AFP - Four years after her house was demolished in a blitz by Zimbabwe's government, Chipo Chama still lives in a grass thatched shack struggling to find a better home for herself and her two...

 
 

Zimbabwe PM's ally seeks new judge in trial (AFP)

AFP - Defence lawyers for a top aide to Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have demanded the judge take himself out of the case because of bias towards the prosecution, a defence lawyer said...