China's Hu Says Wants Better Relations with Japan Reuters
Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Saturday he wanted better relations with Japan but also told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during ice-breaking talks that Tokyo needed to reflect on its wartime past. Speaking after the talks in Jakarta, Hu said differences between the two Asian powerhouses needed to be resolved through dialogue.
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Pope Benedict Says He Wants a `Fruitful' Rapport With the Media Bloomberg
Pope Benedict XVI, in his first address to the press, said he would cultivate his relationship with the media, which has focused the world's attention on Vatican during the past few weeks.
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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi reads the list of ministers of his newly named government at Rome's Quirinale Presidential Palace, Saturday, April 23, 2005. Berlusconi received the mandate to govern during a meeting Friday with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, only two days after he quit as prime minister in a power struggle with his center-right coalition.
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Nasdaq to buy Instinet network San Francisco Chronicle
The brewing stock exchange war heated up on Friday as the Nasdaq Stock Market said it will buy Instinet Group Inc.'s electronic trading network for $934.5 million. The announcement, which had been widely anticipated, came two days after the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq's biggest rival, announced that it will merge with electronic trading firm Archipelago and become a for-profit, publicly traded company.
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US Forces Detain 6 Linked to Helicopter's Downing Reuters
The US military said on Saturday it had detained six Iraqi men in connection with the shooting down of a commercial helicopter this week in which 11 people were killed, including six Americans.
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Hu warns on Japan dispute CNN International
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Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi formed a new government Saturday that will face the same problems as his last one: a sluggish economy and public discontent with Italy's presence in Iraq.
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April 24, 2005

The World Bank said it will provide up to $500 million in loans and grants to fight malaria over the next five years.

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New Pope Stresses Bonds at Installation ABC News
In this photo released by the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, Pope Benedict XVI with the woollen Pallium and Fisherman's Ring - both symbols of papal authority -, celebrates his installment Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 24, 2005. The Pallium is a narrow shawl of white wool embroidered with five red silk crosses, which symbolizes the Pope's role as a shepherd taking care of his flock. In a broad message of outreach to formally begin his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI stressed his church's shared bonds with Jews and other Christians and promised followers Sunday he would not ignore their voices in leading the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.
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Twin car bombs killed six Iraqi police officers and injured at least 30 at a police academy in Tikrit today. In Baghdad, 15 people were killed and at least 57 were hurt in two bomb blasts near a Shiite mosque, as insurgents continued their campaign of violence against Iraqis. A statement from Yarmook hospital reported the number of casualties from the blast, which took place in a Shiite neighborhood of the capital. Attacks on Shiite targets have raised concern over increased sectarian strife. The United States military also said it had captured four more Iraqis suspected of involvement in the downing of a civilian helicopter last week that killed six American security contractors and five others. The four Iraqis join six other Iraqi suspects seized early Saturday morning after Iraqi informers led soldiers to the suspects' truck and homes, according to military officials.
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