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    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 5:23 PM
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  • Holocaust memorial train completes voyage
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 4:12 PM
    OSWIECIM, Poland, May 9 (UPI) -- A German Holocaust memorial train has ended its six-month voyage with a final stop at the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland.
  • Poll indicates Berlusconi support
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 3:55 PM
    ROME, May 9 (UPI) -- Italians have more confidence in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi than in his government as a whole, a poll indicated Friday.
  • Canadian broadcaster breaks embargo
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM
    EDMONTON, Alberta, May 9 (UPI) -- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was smacked by the province of Alberta for breaching a budget media embargo in April.
  • Mbeki meets with Mugabe in Harare
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM
    HARARE, Zimbabwe, May 9 (UPI) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki spent about four hours in talks Friday with President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
  • Canada restores WWI vet's citizenship
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 3:03 PM
    OTTAWA, May 9 (UPI) -- The Canadian government has restored citizenship to a 107-year-old World War I veteran who became a U.S. citizen by attrition.
  • Police can claim damages for mental injury
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 2:54 PM
    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 9 (UPI) -- Amsterdam police said they are pleased with a new measure allowing them to claim damages from criminals for physical and mental injuries.
  • General's posting in Pakistan scrubbed
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 2:29 PM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- The Pentagon has quietly canceled the assignment of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jay Hood as senior American officer in Pakistan, U.S. military reports said.
  • Panel: FBI slow to join terrorism fight
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:47 PM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- The FBI has lagged in becoming an effective intelligence-gathering unit nearly seven years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a U.S. congressional report said.
  • Judge says young girl 'welcomed' pedophile
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:46 PM
    MANCHESTER, England, May 9 (UPI) -- A British man who had sexual relations with an 11-year-old girl avoided prison when the judge decided she "welcomed" the man's flirtations.
  • Canadian train quarantined after death
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:15 PM
    SUDBURY, Ontario, May 9 (UPI) -- Canadian officials in northern Ontario quarantined a Via Rail passenger train Friday after a passenger died and 10 others became sick.
  • Food group resumes relief trips to Myanmar
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:13 PM
    YANGON, Myanmar, May 9 (UPI) -- The World Food Program said Friday it will send relief aid airplanes to Myanmar despite the government's seizure of previous aid shipments.
  • Bin Laden's 'spiritual ambassador' freed
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM
    LONDON, May 9 (UPI) -- A radical Muslim cleric believed to be the "spiritual ambassador in Europe" for Osama bin Laden is to be freed on bail, a British judge ruled.
  • McCain's 2000 vote for Bush up for debate
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Whether Sen. John McCain voted for President George Bush in the 2000 U.S. presidential election is being debated by a liberal blogger and McCain's office.
  • Fritzl recalls start of incest family
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:50 PM
    VIENNA, May 9 (UPI) -- The Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children says, "I am not the beast the media make me to be."
  • Canada to probe U.S. warships sunk in 1813
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:18 PM
    HAMILTON, Ontario, May 9 (UPI) -- The wrecks of two U.S. warships that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario in 1813 are set to be explored by Canadian scientists using submersible high-tech robotics.
  • Lebanese MP asks army to protect Tripoli
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:18 PM
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 9 (UPI) -- A member of the ruling alliance in the Lebanese parliament, worried about the city in the wake of violence in Beirut, Friday asked the army to defend Tripoli.
  • Americans adopt major driving cutbacks
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:13 PM
    MCLEAN, Va., May 9 (UPI) -- As gasoline prices skyrocket to $4 a gallon, many Americans are seriously cutting back on driving and tightening their budgets, government data indicate.
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    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM
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  • Murder charge possible in incest case
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:55 AM
    VIENNA, May 9 (UPI) -- The 73-year-old Austrian who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children could face murder charges, prosecutors say.
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R&B artist R. Kelly arrives at Cook County criminal court for the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial in Chicago on May 9, 2008. Kelly is charged with allegedly having videotaped sex with a girl believed to be as young as 13 years old. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey)
Jury selection begins in R. Kelly child pornography trial
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