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• Polish president's plane crashes in Russia; 87 die (AP)
• 4 missing W.Va. miners dead; final toll at 29 (AP)
• AP: Future pope stalled Calif. pedophile case (AP)
• GOP tries to head off liberal Stevens replacement (AP)
• China's $7.24B March trade deficit 1st in 6 years (AP)
• E. coli kills 1 child, sickens 3 at Wash. day care (AP)
• Palin, Obama spar from a distance (AP)
• Stupak, linchpin of health bill, calls it quits (AP)
• Raabe, 'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin actor, dies at 94 (AP)
• Poulter, Westwood lead, but Tiger lurks at Augusta (AP)
• Polish president feared dead in Russian plane crash (Reuters)
• Missing West Virginia miners found dead, blast toll at 29 (Reuters)
• Supreme Court Justice Stevens to resign (Reuters)
• Kyrgyzstan buries its dead, U.S. halts troop flights (Reuters)
• Drug gang hangs two from bridge near Mexico City (Reuters)
• Thai troops repel "red shirts" at Bangkok base (Reuters)
• Rare China trade deficit "won't derail" yuan rise (Reuters)
• Russia eyes U.S. adoption freeze after boy sent back (Reuters)
• Polish president's plane crashes in Russia: ministry (AFP)
• Kyrgyzstan buries uprising victims as nation mourns (AFP)

Polish president's plane crashes in Russia; 87 die (AP) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:59 AM PDT AP - Officials say a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife has crashed in western Russia and that at least 87 people have been killed.

4 missing W.Va. miners dead; final toll at 29 (AP) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 01:17 AM PDT AP - Rescue workers found four bodies deep in a West Virginia coal mine, dashing the fading hopes of finding more survivors of a violent explosion that claimed 29 lives, making it the worst U.S. mining disaster in a generation.

AP: Future pope stalled Calif. pedophile case (AP) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:05 AM PDT AP - Four years after a California priest and convicted child molester asked to be defrocked, his bishop pleaded with the future Pope Benedict XVI to remove the man from the priesthood. Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger replied, urging caution.

GOP tries to head off liberal Stevens replacement (AP) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:44 AM PDT AP - Republicans are promising a "whale of fight" during the congressional election campaign if President Barack Obama picks too liberal a nominee to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

China's $7.24B March trade deficit 1st in 6 years (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:09 PM PDT AP - China reported its first monthly trade deficit in nearly six years in March, a shift expected to be shortlived that may give Beijing only a slight respite from pressure to revalue its currency.

E. coli kills 1 child, sickens 3 at Wash. day care (AP) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:27 AM PDT AP - A recent outbreak of a potentially deadly strain of E. coli at a Washington state day care center has killed one child and sickened three others, health officials said Friday.

Palin, Obama spar from a distance (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:15 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama and Republican Sarah Palin sparred from a distance over nuclear policy with each questioning the other's experience on the issue in a potential preview of the 2012 White House race.

Stupak, linchpin of health bill, calls it quits (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:16 PM PDT AP - Rep. Bart Stupak insists that tea party activists outraged over his crucial support of health care legislation didn't run him out of office, but his decision to retire gives conservatives a rallying point as they target Democrats in the midterm elections.

Raabe, 'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin actor, dies at 94 (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:32 PM PDT AP - Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz" and proclaimed in the movie that the Wicked Witch of the East was "really most sincerely dead," has died. He was 94.

Poulter, Westwood lead, but Tiger lurks at Augusta (AP) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:32 AM PDT AP - Finding himself in a familiar position heading to the weekend at Augusta National, Tiger Woods flashed a smile that oozed with confidence.

Polish president feared dead in Russian plane crash (Reuters) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 01:10 AM PDT Reuters - Polish president Lech Kaczynski was feared dead after his plane crashed on approach to a Russian airport on Saturday, a Polish government official at the airport told Reuters.

Missing West Virginia miners found dead, blast toll at 29 (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:15 PM PDT Reuters - Four missing West Virginia coal miners were found dead early on Saturday, nearly five days after an explosion killed 25 others in the worst U.S. mining disaster in nearly four decades.

Supreme Court Justice Stevens to resign (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:23 PM PDT Reuters - Liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced on Friday he would resign, and President Barack Obama promised to name a successor quickly, setting the stage for an expected partisan election-year Senate confirmation battle.

Kyrgyzstan buries its dead, U.S. halts troop flights (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:29 PM PDT Reuters - About 3,000 mourners gathered on the edge of the Kyrgyz capital at a mass funeral to commemorate at least 78 people who died in protests on Wednesday, during which government troops opened fire on demonstrators outside the presidential building.

Drug gang hangs two from bridge near Mexico City (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:33 PM PDT Reuters - Suspected drug hitmen hung the bodies of two men off a major bridge on Friday in a weekend get-away near Mexico City in the latest brazen act of drug violence near the capital.

Thai troops repel "red shirts" at Bangkok base (Reuters) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:49 AM PDT Reuters - Scores of Thai anti-government protesters tried to force their way into an army base in Bangkok on Saturday but were repelled by water cannon, as their leaders vowed to carry on their fight for new elections.

Rare China trade deficit "won't derail" yuan rise (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:33 PM PDT Reuters - China recorded its first monthly trade deficit in six years, but a customs official called the shortfall a blip and economists doubted it would stand in the way of a resumption in the yuan's rise before long.

Russia eyes U.S. adoption freeze after boy sent back (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:52 PM PDT Reuters - Russia said on Friday it planned to suspend adoptions of its children by U.S. citizens after an American woman sent her adopted son back to Moscow on a plane with a note disowning him.

Polish president's plane crashes in Russia: ministry (AFP) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 01:04 AM PDT AFP - A plane with Polish President Lech Kaczynski on board crashed Saturday on landing at Smolensk in western Russia, foreign ministry spokesman Piotr Pszkowski said.

Kyrgyzstan buries uprising victims as nation mourns (AFP) Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:43 AM PDT AFP - Thousands gathered at a Kyrgyz mountain cemetery Saturday for the funerals of 16 people who died in the bloody uprising that toppled the regime of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

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