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World Headlines
- Kenyan opposition calls off march to avoid violence
- Kenya's opposition party called off a march Thursday in the country's capital after riot police fired tear gas and a water cannon against protesters contesting the recent presidential election.
- Tight races in Iowa for presidential hopefuls
- After months of campaigning and millions of dollars spent, Republican and Democratic U.S. presidential candidates are set to face their first real test in Iowa Thursday.
- At least 5 Palestinians reported killed as Israeli troops enter Gaza
- Israeli troops backed by air strikes killed five Palestinians on Thursday, including two civilians, in an operation against rocket launchers in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and Palestinian medics said.
- Crush at Indian temple kills at least 5
- Worshippers at a Hindu temple in southern India stampeded Thursday as they tried to draw close to a goddess's statue, trampling at least five people to death and injuring 15 others, a state official said.
- China to perform more lethal-injection executions: report
- China, which executes more people each year than any other country, will expand the use of lethal injections instead of gunshots for death sentences, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday.
- U.S. begins probe into CIA's destruction of videotapes
- The U.S. Justice Department opened a criminal investigation Wednesday into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes and Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed an outside prosecutor to oversee the case.
- Number of slain journalists up 244% over 5 years: watchdog
- The number of journalists killed in the field has skyrocketed by 244 per cent in the past five years, and more than half of the 86 reporters slain in 2007 fell in Iraq, according to an annual tally compiled by Reporters Without Borders.
- Al-Qaeda says it's behind fatal bombing in Algeria
- The North African arm of al-Qaeda says it is responsible for a suicide bombing in Algeria Wednesday that killed at least four people.
- France racing to save Lascaux cave paintings from fungus
- The French government is taking emergency action to rescue the celebrated cave paintings of the Lascaux caverns from a fungus that threatens to destroy the ancient works of art.
- Vatican plans 'historic' meeting between Catholics, Muslims
- Roman Catholic and Muslim representatives plan to meet in Rome in the spring to start a "historic" dialogue between their respective faiths and ease tensions provoked by Pope Benedict's 2006 comments about Islam and holy war, Vatican officials said.