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AP – Police in southern Mexico say a crowd of villagers chased down a group of alleged kidnappers, freed their victims and shot the three men to death.
Read More: Mexican villagers kill 3 suspected kidnappers
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Reuters – A Canadian captive admitted throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan during an interview eight years ago that an FBI agent described on Wednesday as “comfortable” and “friendly,” once the hood and handcuffs were removed.
Read More: Omar Khadr's interrogation was "friendly": FBI
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AP – Britain’s final TV election debate Thursday saw Prime Minister Gordon Brown scrap for his political future in the most combative showdown of the campaign, trading sharp exchanges with his two chief rivals a day after an embarrassing campaign gaffe.
Read More: Brown loses gamble in final TV debate
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AP – The Argentine presidency’s campaign against media criticism inspired a symbolic “people’s trial” Thursday against some of the nation’s leading journalists.
Read More: Argentine journalists accused in 'people's trial'
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OneWorld.net – UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) – The
blockbuster, critically acclaimed film ‘Avatar’ portrays the ruthless
plundering of a pristine ecosystem on a distant planet by greedy
corporate interests – a scenario that is all too familiar to many
indigenous communities here on Earth.
Read More: 'Avatar' Director: 'A Complete Reboot of How We See Things'
(OneWorld.net)
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AFP – A giant NASA science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia Thursday, destroying its multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly missing frightened observers.
Read More: Giant NASA balloon crashes in Australia
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Time.com – Violent crime is rare in the People’s Republic because of a ban on guns but that has not stopped a recent string of assaults on children
Read More: China's Alarming Spate of School Knifings
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The Christian Science Monitor – Irate demonstrators burned tires and blocked traffic in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday after U.S.-led forces killed an armed relative of an Afghan lawmaker during a night raid on her home, according to military and Afghan officials.
Read More: Afghanistan war: US night raid sparks protest over civilian deaths
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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AP – The screams of the 4-year-olds inside the kindergarten could be heard out in the street. When people ran in to investigate, they found what one witness said was a scene “too horrible to imagine” — blood everywhere as a knife-wielding man slashed 28 children, two teachers and a security guard Thursday in the second such school attack in China in two days.
Read More: Man stabs 28 children at kindergarten in China
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AP – 1. “Deliver Us From Evil” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
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AP – Broadway has chosen its Ray Charles.
Read More: Dixon set to play Ray Charles in Broadway musical
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Playbill – Tony Award-winning actor Chuck Cooper, Amari Cheatom, Michael Sibbery, Sam Numrich and Dion Graham will lead the cast of the Todd Almond-Marcus Gardley musical On the Levee for Lincoln Center Theater’s developmental initiative, LCT3.
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AP – “Avatar” director James Cameron is helping to build a high-resolution 3-D camera on the next-generation Mars rover.
Read More: Cameron helping build 3-D camera for Mars rover
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AP – Colombian singer Shakira visited Phoenix on Thursday, meeting with the city’s police chief and mayor over concerns that a sweeping new state law cracking down on illegal immigration will lead to racial profiling.
Read More: Shakira visits Phoenix over tough immigration law
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AP – Paris Hilton should return up to $1 million she was paid for the 2006 box-office bomb “Pledge This!” because she didn’t plug the film enough, an attorney for the movie’s investors told a federal judge Thursday.
Read More: Film investors: Paris Hilton owes $1M restitution
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Reuters – Language software maker Rosetta Stone Inc’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc has been dismissed by a federal judge.
Read More: Rosetta Stone suit vs Google dismissed
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AP – Roman Polanski’s lawyers asked a judge Thursday to unseal secret testimony by the original prosecutor in the director’s 33-year-old sex case to help Swiss authorities decide his extradition case.
Read More: Polanski lawyers seek sealed prosecutor testimony
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Reuters – “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” the 26-year-old New Line franchise that gave grisly new meaning to the phrase “you snooze, you lose,” is the latest horror entry to go the reboot route courtesy of Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes.
Read More: "Nightmare" a sleep-inducing retread
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AP – John Edwards’ mistress said on Thursday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she doesn’t believe she destroyed the former presidential candidate’s marriage.
Read More: Hunter says she didn't wreck John Edwards' home
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AP – In his first post-”Tonight” show interview, Conan O’Brien said that if he had been in Jay Leno’s shoes, he would not have taken back the show less than a year after publicly handing it off to someone else.
Read More: O'Brien: I wouldn't have done what Jay Leno did
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