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■ YANGON ? Aung San Suu Kyi house arrest period extended. </B> Myanmar?s military junta has extended the period of house arrest for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Home Ministry source said .
■ WASHINGTON ? US marines to face criminal charges. </B>US Marines could face criminal charges, including murder, over the deaths of up to two dozen Iraqi civilians last year, a defense official said.
■ GAZA ? Hamas discuss recognition plan for Israel. </B>Hamas and other Palestinian factions discussed a plan indirectly calling for recognition of Israel, which President Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to put to a referendum if it is not adopted by early June.
■ KRAKOW ? Pope Benedict on pilgrimage. </B> Pope Benedict visits his predecessor?s childhood home on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Polish-born John Paul II.
■ CIUDAD JUAREZ ? Mexican Revolution. </B>Mexico?s dusty north figured large in national politics in 1911 when bandit Pancho Villa stormed the desert city of Ciudad Juarez with pistols blazing to claim it for the Mexican Revolution.
■ BERLIN ? Mad man arrested. </B>A knife-wielding man attacked people streaming out of a gala ceremony for Berlin?s new central rail station, injuring up to 20 before being arrested, police said.
■ LUXEMBOURG ? Arcelor buys Severstal. </B> Arcelor has agreed to buy Russia?s Severstal to create world?s biggest steelmaker, in a 13 billion-euro deal that would thwart Mittal Steel?s hostile bid for the Luxembourg-based group.
■ IRAN ? Khamenei praises president?s letter to Bush. </B>Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday praised a letter sent this month by the Iranian president to his US counterpart George W. Bush, in his first public comments on the unprecedented message. Iranian analysts and some officials saw the letter as a bid to open dialogue with the USA and analysts said it would probably not have been sent without Khamenei?s approval. The letter was initially dismissed by Bush but, on Thursday, the US president described it as ?interesting?.
■ WASHINGTON ? Michael Hayden appointed as CIA director. </B>The US Senate confirmed Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden as CIA director in a vote that gave a broad bipartisan endorsement to the architect of President George W. Bush?s domestic spying programme.
■ VLADIKAVKAZ ? Hostage-taker sentenced to jail. </B> A Russian judge sentenced the only surviving Beslan hostage-taker to life in jail , saying only an official ban had saved the young Chechen from execution for his part in the 2004 school siege.
■ ISRAEL ? Comatose Sharon moved to long-term care clinic. </B>Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, comatose since a stroke in January, was moved yesterday from a Jerusalem hospital to a long-term care facility near Tel Aviv, where doctors will continue to try to awaken him. But experts cautioned that chances for Sharon?s recovery remained slim.
■ Bolivia ? Chavez delivers anti-US message. </B> Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged $1.5 billion in energy investments in impoverished Bolivia , receiving a hero?s welcome from coca farmers who applauded his anti-US message.
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