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Friday, 18 May 2007

News Roundup; Friday 18th May 2007

Yahoo! News US: British Lottery chiefs have turned down some strange requests for funding.

WTOP 103.5: An "alleged dominatrix" has been found in Maryland and returned to Virginia to face sharges of Prostitution and Crimes Against Nature.

Voice Of America: World AIDS Vaccine Day; May 18th 2007.

MSNBC: Two Iraqi jounalists working for US network ABC News have been killed in an ambush whilst driving home from work. From MSNBC's Worldblog: Is it still safe to report from Iraq?

This is Plymouth: Four women who recieved suspended prison sentences for forcing two toddlers to fight and filming it, will not have their sentences reviewed.

SwissInfo: Swiss government refuses negotiations with European Union over corporate tax system.

Reuters: Third Party White House bid could shake up the race to 2008.

CBC News: Opposition parties in Ottawa are demanding that the Conservatives make public a 200-page parliamentary dirty tricks manual.

Al Jazeera: A former CIA detainee has been arrested and sent to a psychiatric hospital for attacking a wholesale market in Germany.

BBC News: A man wanted in Italy on suspicion of four murders connected to the Naples Mafia has been arrested in Lancashire.
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