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Firefight greets return of Sadr

BAGHDAD, Saturday, (AP) - A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, American forces raided his Sadr City stronghold in Baghdad and killed five suspected militia fighters in air strikes, the U.S. military said in statement today.

 
Castro blasts Bush as 'apocalyptic'

HAVANA, Saturday (AP) - Fidel Castro called George W. Bush ''an apocalyptic person'' yesterday, hours after the U.S. president signed a bill that will pay for military operations in Iraq without setting a timetable for troop withdrawal.

 
India's ”Queerfest” targets anti-gay law, prejudice
NEW DELHI, Saturday (Reuters) - Hundreds of India's closet gays and lesbians came out to celebrate their sexuality with the launch of a 10-day festival in New Delhi, hoping to build on a campaign against the country's strict anti-gay law.
 

   
Vaccines getting to poor nations faster
   
Buddhism woos another 100,000 Dalits
   
US sends more ammunition to Lebanon, truce holds
   
Roadside bomb kills 7 in Assam
   
US objects to G8 climate declaration
   
United or disunited Kingdom?
   
Lankans among top groups granted UK citizenship
   
Pakistan: Whatever happened to Jinnah's dream
   
Alice in land of shame
   
Diego Garcia: It’s your home, British judges tell islanders
   
That man Wayne
   
Miss Universe pageant under fire
   

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