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Congolese behind rebel lines try to return home

AP - Sat Nov 1, 7:21 AM ET
KIBUMBA, Congo - The French and British foreign ministers were heading to eastern Congo in a diplomatic push for peace Saturday as thousands of people packed the streets behind rebel lines and struggled toward their homes during a fragile cease-fire.

Iraq earmarks $15 billion for reconstruction AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion — nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget — to help rebuild the country's crumbling infrastructure, energy and oil facilities, the finance minister said Saturday

US says it killed 19 militants in Afghanistan AP - 12 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan - A series of operations by U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, the coalition said Saturday

Brazil inks deal to hunt for, produce oil in Cuba AP - Fri Oct 31, 11:24 PM ET
HAVANA - Brazil's state-run oil company signed an agreement Friday to explore for oil in deep Caribbean waters north of Cuba that officials in Havana say could contain 20 billion barrels of crude


EU to send aid to Congo, mulls sending troops Reuters - 2 hours, 15 minutes ago
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The European Union is ready to send humanitarian aid to civilians fleeing conflict in eastern Congo, but needs to consider further whether it will send European troops, France's foreign minister said on Saturday.

Another bombing of Canadian natural gas facility Reuters - Fri Oct 31, 9:37 PM ET
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - An explosion damaged a natural gas wellhead on Friday in the same area of northeast British Columbia where two pipelines have been bombed this month, Canadian police said on Friday.