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British politicians hit the campaign trail for May 6 poll (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 08:13 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (C) meets members of staff and customers at a supermarket in Rochester, Kent. Britain entered its first full day of campaigning Wednesday for a May 6 general election, with party leaders set for a final parliamentary showdown ahead of the vote(AFP/Pool/Mark Large)AFP - Britain entered its first full day of campaigning Wednesday for a May 6 general election, with party leaders set for a final parliamentary showdown ahead of the vote.

Direct Democracy: Citizen Initiatives Come to Europe (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:25 PM PDT

Time.com - The European Union is launching a new experiment to empower -- and excite-- voters: giving them the right to propose new laws for the entire27-member bloc

Messi magic smashes Arsenal's Champions League dreams (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:29 PM PDT

Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates scoring his first goal against Arsenal during the Champions League quarter-final second-leg match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona. Messi's first ever four goal haul saw holders Barcelona reach the Champions League semi-finals here on Tuesday in a 4-1 defeat of English side Arsenal.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi's first ever four goal haul saw holders Barcelona reach the Champions League semi-finals here on Tuesday in a 4-1 defeat of English side Arsenal in their quarter-final second leg clash to win 6-3 on aggregate.

Vatican blasts anti-Catholic 'hate' campaign (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful during the Regina Coeli prayer from the window of his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the hills south of Rome, on Easter Monday, April 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - The Vatican heatedly defended Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, claiming accusations that he helped cover up the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic "hate" campaign targeting the pope for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

IAEA allowed access to Damascus research reactor (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 01:48 PM PDT

AP - Experts from the U.N.'s atomic watchdog have been allowed to re-inspect a Syrian research reactor in the country's capital Damascus linked to suspicions of a secret nuclear program, diplomats said Tuesday.

Messi magic crushes Arsenal's Champions League dream (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 01:47 PM PDT

Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring against Arsenal during their Champions League quarter-final second-leg match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona. Barcelona won 4-0 with all the goals scored by Messi.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Holders Barcelona qualified for the Champions League semi-finals here on Tuesday, beating English side Arsenal 4-1 in their quarter-final second leg match to win 6-3 on aggregate.

Police probing origin of Sarkozy infidelity rumors (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, sits in a jet of the French aerobatic squadron 'Patrouille de France', during an exhibition in Salon de Provence, southern France, Friday April 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jean-Paul Pelissier, Pool)AP - Police are investigating who started rumors of infidelity involving President Nicolas Sarkozy and France's first lady that began on a blog and spread to newspapers overseas, the Paris prosecutor's office said Tuesday.

Power struggle escalates in Turkish coup plot case (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:36 PM PDT

Lawyers speak to the media as retired Turkish army generals arrive at a courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Turkish prosecutors have started questioning six retired officers, including retired army commander Gen. Sukru Sariisik, to determine whether they plotted several years ago to overthrow the Islamic-rooted government of Turkey. Gen. Sariisik led the country's National Security Council, an influential advisory body that brings military's top brass together with civilian leaders. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - A power struggle between Turkey's Islamic-rooted government and its fiercely secular military escalated Tuesday when a court formally charged a senior general with plotting to overthrow the civilian leadership.

Britain's election finally set for May 6 (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:23 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, center right, and his wife Sarah, center left, arrive at St Pancras Station, London Tuesday April 6, 2010 to take the train to Rochester in Kent, after Brown called a May 6 general election. Britain will hold a national election May 6, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday. The bitterly contested race will be dominated by a recession-wracked economy and a sense that 13 years of Labour rule may be coming to an end. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, Pool)AP - Britain is bracing for a May 6 general election that may alter the landscape of its politics — a race that offers at least three unpredictable outcomes and one of the most dramatic since Tony Blair defeated the Conservatives in 1997.

Greece battered on markets, denies u-turn on IMF (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:06 PM PDT

Riot policemen walk in front of the Bank of Greece during a rally against austerity measures in Athens March 16, 2010. REUTERS/John KolesidisReuters - Markets pushed Greece's risk premium to a euro lifetime high on Tuesday amid growing doubts over the country's capacity to resolve its debt crisis and fresh skepticism about a European Union-International Monetary Fund aid mechanism.

Nearly 2,700 call German church abuse hot line (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 11:35 AM PDT

AP - Nearly 2,700 people have called the church's sexual abuse hot line in Germany in the first three days it was operating, a Catholic church spokesman said Tuesday.

Correction: Britain-Pope story (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:44 AM PDT

AP - In an April 4 story about lawyers examining papal immunity, The Associated Press erroneously described Liberia's Charles Taylor. He was president of Liberia, not Sierra Leone, at the time of his U.N. trial for alleged war crimes committed in Sierra Leone.

Dutch sidestep EU red tape to rescue German ship (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:00 AM PDT

In this image released by the Royal Dutch Navy Monday April 5, 2010, a boarding party slides down a rope from the frigate Tromp's Lynx helicopter onto the mv Taipan. The Dutch Defense Ministry says one of its Navy frigates has freed a German merchant ship and its 15-strong crew from pirates off the coast of Somalia after the Dutch ship's helicopter fired on the captured freighter's bridge and arrested 10 pirates who had boarded the ship on Monday morning about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of Somalia. The German ship's crew members had locked themselves into a secure area of the ship and were unharmed. One Dutch marine was slightly injured during the boarding. The Defense Ministry statement says that despite damage to its bridge, the German container ship was able to resume its voyage. (AP Photo/Royal Dutch Navy) ** NO SALES EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Gaining fast on the pirates who had seized a German freighter, Dutch naval captain Col. Hans Lodder had no time to waste on bureaucracy.

Russia says teacher was 2nd subway suicide bomber (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:30 AM PDT

This undated picture provided Friday, April 2, 2010 by the Russian news agency NewsTeam, is claimed by the Russian Kommersant newspaper to show Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, left, and her husband Islamist rebel Umalat Magomedov. Russian newspaper Kommersant said Friday that one of the Moscow subway suicide bombers was Abdurakhmanova, the 17-year-old widow of Magomedov, an Islamist rebel from the North Caucasus killed by Russian government forces in December, 2009. The March 29 subway bombings in Moscow killed 39 people. (AP Photo/NewsTeam)AP - Investigators confirmed Tuesday that one of the two suicide bombings on Moscow's subway last week was carried out by a 28-year-old teacher from the North Caucasus, whose father recognized a photograph of her severed head.

Pope names Mexican-born Gomez to take over in LA (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:54 AM PDT

AP - Archbishop Jose Gomez was named Tuesday to succeed the archbishop of Los Angeles, the Holy See's most significant acknowledgment to date of the growing importance of Latinos in the American church.

Russia reserves opt-out of arms treaty with US (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 06:40 AM PDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the press in Moscow on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Lavrov says that Moscow reserves the right to withdraw from the new arms control treaty with the United States if it sees that perspective U.S. missile defense systems threaten its security. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev are to sign the new nuclear arms reduction treaty in Prague Thursday.(AP Photo/ Mikhail Metzel)AP - The new U.S.-Russian arms control treaty is a much better deal for Russia than its predecessor, but Moscow reserves the right to withdraw from it if a planned U.S. missile defense system grows into a threat, Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday.

L'Aquila honors quake victims with candlelit vigil (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:23 AM PDT

AP - Thousands of Italians held a candlelight vigil to remember the 308 people killed in the earthquake that devastated the central city of L'Aquila a year ago.

(AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:11 AM PDT

AP - Pope names Jose Gomez of Texas as next archbishop of Los Angeles when incumbent retires.

Khodorkovsky to speak in own defense (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 01:03 AM PDT

AP - Imprisoned former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is in court and expected to testify for the first time since his second trial began more than a year ago.

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