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Bin Laden marks Israel anniversary with combat vow

DUBAI - Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape timed to coincide with Israel's 60th anniversary to continue to fight the Jewish state and its allies in the West. Bin Laden has placed growing emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent pronouncements.

China buries quake dead as new aftershock hits

BEICHUAN, China - China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000. President Hu Jintao flew to the battered province of Sichuan and Premier Wen Jiabao said the quake damage could exceed the devastating 1976 tremor in the north-eastern city of Tangshan that killed up to 300,000 people.

New storm deepens misery in cyclone-hit Myanmar

YANGON - Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Friday, deepening the misery of an estimated 2.5 million destitute survivors of Cyclone Nargis and further hampering the military government's aid efforts. In the storm-struck town of Kunyangon, around 100 km southwest of Yangon, thousands of men, women and children stood in mud and rain, their hands clasped together in supplication at the occasional passing aid vehicle.

Lebanese head for crisis talks in Qatar

BEIRUT - Rival Lebanese leaders head for Qatar on Friday aiming to end a protracted political conflict that pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war. One of the most influential members of the U.S-backed ruling coalition, which was dealt a military blow by Hezbollah in six days of fighting, called for concessions to avoid more conflict.

Indian police suspect Bangladeshi hand in blasts

JAIPUR, India - Police probing bombings in western India that killed 61 people said on Friday that new evidence pointed increasingly towards Indian Islamists backed by a Bangladeshi militant group as being behind the blasts. Eight bombs, all strapped to bicycles, ripped through a crowded shopping area in the popular tourist city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening. Another 216 people were wounded.

Pakistan's Zardari rejects ally's resignations

ISLAMABAD - The head of Pakistan's ruling coalition has refused to accept the resignations of ministers from the party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and aims to persuade it to rejoin their six-week-old government. Nine ministers from Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League , or PML , quit the cabinet led by the party of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday after their leaders failed to reach agreement on the restoration of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf in November.

Zimbabwe presidential run-off set for June 27

HARARE - Zimbabwe said on Friday it would hold a delayed presidential election run-off on June 27 in which the opposition hopes to oust veteran leader Robert Mugabe after almost 30 years in power. "A poll shall be taken on Friday the 27th June, 2008, for the purpose of electing a person to the office of president," a notice in a government gazette said.

Suspected suicide blast kills 10 in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber rammed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, killing 10 people, the military and hospital authorities said. Doctors at the National Hospital in Colombo said eight policemen and two civilians were killed and more than 85 people were wounded in the blast, which happened in a commercial quarter of the capital near the Hilton Hotel.

Bush in Saudi to press king on oil and Iran

RIYADH - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday to renew his appeal to help tame record oil prices and shore up Arab support for his efforts to contain Iran's growing influence. "We do count on the OPEC countries to keep adequate supplies out there, so the president will talk again with the king about that," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters travelling with Bush.

Bluetongue animal vaccination starts in most of EU

BRUSSELS - EU farmers have mostly started vaccinating animals against bluetongue, the virus that ravaged northern Europe's cattle and sheep in 2007, but success depends on vaccine supply and speed of applying it, officials say. Bluetongue swept across around 11 EU countries last year and struck again recently in parts of Italy and France as warmer weather took hold in central and northern Europe.

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