TOP LIEUTENANT: Nuon Chea is believed to have been a key architect of the execution policies of the Khmer Rouge regime, but insists he has no blood on his hands
The murderous Khmer Rouge regime's most senior surviving leader was arrested yesterday, plucked from his home in the Cambodian jungle to face justice at the country's long-delayed genocide trials.

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TROPICAL STORM: The former typhoon sparked the evacuation of 2 million people on China's eastern coast, but weakened very quickly after reaching land
Tropical Storm Wipha lost much of its punch as it roared ashore over densely populated eastern China yesterday, but still raked the region with heavy rains and high winds.

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LONG GONE: Authorities in several countries are looking for a man believed to have abandoned his daughter before flying to the US, while New Zealand police found a body believed to be her mother
Police searching for the mother of a three-year-old girl whose father apparently abandoned her at a train station in Australia found a woman's body locked in the trunk of a car at the family's home in New Zealand yesterday.

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Buddhist monks staged peaceful protest marches for a second day in Myanmar yesterday, challenging authorities who used tear gas and fired warnings shots to break up some protests a day earlier.

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MISINTERPRETATION: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner rephrased his comments on Tuesday, saying war with Iran would be `the worst thing to happen'
France's foreign minister appeared to soften his weekend warning of war with Iran if it develops nuclear weapons, emphasizing instead the need to "negotiate, negotiate, negotiate without respite."

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ALL OPTIONS OPEN: Turkey's new prime minister did not rule out the possibility of military operations against separatists in the area of the country's border with Iran
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused on Tuesday to rule out the possibility of military operations into northern Iraq to root out armed Kurdish separatist groups that he said had taken refuge in the border region.

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Forecasters were predicting on Tuesday further downpours in the coming days over much of Africa, where at least 270 people have already died from flooding and one million are affected.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, making good on election promises of wide-ranging reforms, ordered on Tuesday immediate talks with unions to do away with coveted retirement benefits that he deemed too costly, outdated and unfair.

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A constitutional amendment critics say further consolidates Zimbabwe's ruling party's power was passed in parliament as the government and the main opposition spoke of progress toward easing Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis.

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NEW SENSATION: Various videos of the arrest were viewed more than 400,000 times on YouTube. Meanwhile, students at the University of Florida are planning more protests
Video of police Tasering a persistent questioner of Senator John Kerry became an Internet and TV sensation on Tuesday, generating fierce debate about free speech and the motives of the college student involved -- a known prankster who often posts practical jokes online.

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Washington's 45-year-old embargo has cost Cuba more than US$89 billion to date, wreaking havoc on everything from education to pest control and nearly all other facets of island life, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.

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REAL STORIES: Many Latin activities are planned around Sunday's start of the series, while a PBS spokeswoman said the film honors all veterans
Cartoonist Hector Cantu decided that if the stories of Hispanic US soldiers were going to go untold in Ken Burns' upcoming World War II documentary, a comic strip character would tell them.

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SPLIT: Lana Clarkson was killed by a bullet fired from a gun inside her mouth just hours after the nightclub hostess went home with Spector after finishing work
The foreman of the jury in Phil Spector's murder trial said the panel is at an impasse, and the judge told lawyers he was considering allowing the panel to consider a lesser charge.

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Colombia's largest rebel group refuses to budge on its demand for a New York City-size demilitarized zone as a precondition for talks on exchanging some of its hostages for guerrilla prisoners, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.

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