Suicide attack kills 3 in southeastern Afghanistan (AP)

Suicide attack kills 3 in southeastern Afghanistan (AP)
Hungary opposition set for poll win
Hungarians vote in second round of general elections
Japanese island set for mass rally against US bases
Season only a success if Chelsea win title: Ancelotti (AFP)
Japanese island set for mass rally against US bases (AFP)
Hungarians vote in second round of general elections (AFP)
Bangkok braces for more unrest after peace plan rejected
Spain protests against Franco-era immunity
Thai Premier Rejects Compromise Offer
IMF Puts Focus on Debt Burden
Paraguay Invokes Emergency Powers
U.S.: Suicide Bomber Killed Soldier on Afghan Base
Xinjiang Official Removed in China
Congo volcano symbolizes death, rebirth (AP)
Long-hated one-child rule may be eased in China (AP)
Thai PM vows to retake protest site
Q+A - What happens if N. Korea is culprit in deadly naval strike
'Cleggmania' faces key test in British commuter town (AFP)
Nine dead in Mississippi tornado

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 10:50 PM PDT

AP - A government official says a suicide attack has killed three people in southeastern Afghanistan.

Hungary opposition set for poll win

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 10:31 PM PDT

Centre-right party poised to win parliamentary majority in second round of elections.

Hungarians vote in second round of general elections

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BUDAPEST -Polls opened at 6:00 am (0400 GMT) on Sunday for the second round of general elections in Hungary that could give the right-wing Fidesz party a crucial two-thirds parliamentary majority.

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 10:13 PM PDT

AFP - Carlo Ancelotti admits he will only regard his first season at Chelsea as a success if the Blues win the Premier League title.

Japanese island set for mass rally against US bases (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 10:20 PM PDT

AFP - Up to 100,000 demonstrators on the Japanese island of Okinawa are set to protest against a US airbase Sunday in a row that is dominating national politics and souring ties with Washington.

Hungarians vote in second round of general elections (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 10:04 PM PDT

AFP - Polls opened at 6:00 am (0400 GMT) on Sunday for the second round of general elections in Hungary that could give the right-wing Fidesz party a crucial two-thirds parliamentary majority.

Bangkok braces for more unrest after peace plan rejected

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 10:26 PM PDT

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Spain protests against Franco-era immunity

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 10:26 PM PDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators took to streets across Spain on Saturday to protest against immunity for Civil War crimes and charges against a prominent judge for investigating deaths under Francsico Franco's 1939-1975 dictatorship.

Thai Premier Rejects Compromise Offer

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 08:57 AM PDT

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejected a proposal to dissolve Parliament within 30 days, renewing fears there may be no peaceful solution to the country's political crisis.

IMF Puts Focus on Debt Burden

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 06:44 PM PDT

Unemployment and the growing burden of sovereign debt in the developed world are the two largest threats to the global economic recovery, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Paraguay Invokes Emergency Powers

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 06:19 PM PDT

Lawmakers gave Paraguay's president and army emergency powers resembling martial law Saturday to pursue a guerrilla group known for its kidnappings in the north of the country.

U.S.: Suicide Bomber Killed Soldier on Afghan Base

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 05:45 AM PDT

The explosion that killed an American soldier, Sgt. Robert J. Barrett, on an Afghan military base this past week was a suicide attack, the Pentagon has confirmed.

Xinjiang Official Removed in China

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 12:22 AM PDT

China replaced the unpopular Communist Party boss for the restive Xinjiang region on Saturday, months after ethnic riots killed nearly 200 in the sprawling far-western region.

Congo volcano symbolizes death, rebirth (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 09:01 PM PDT

AP - I was startled to see it perched at the lip of the volcano's rocky summit: a small cross marking the spot where one visitor tragically slipped from the crater's edge and plummeted to her death.

Long-hated one-child rule may be eased in China (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 09:01 PM PDT

AP - When asked why she and her husband don't want a second child, Shi Xiaomei smiles at her pudgy nine-year-old son and does a quick tally of the family budget.

Thai PM vows to retake protest site

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 09:50 PM PDT

Red shirts brace for crackdown after Abhisit rejects demand to call polls within 30 days.

Q+A - What happens if N. Korea is culprit in deadly naval strike

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 09:20 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has raised the pieces of its warship that exploded and sank near a contested sea border with North Korea and will look for clues that may point to Pyongyang as the culprit in the deadly incident.

'Cleggmania' faces key test in British commuter town (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 08:13 PM PDT

AFP - If Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats are to be the shock success story of Britain's May 6 general election, then the affluent commuter town of Guildford should, in theory, be their first trophy.