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Reuters - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping thaw relations between
Moscow and Washington. Now he is warning that the two countries
could slide into a new Cold War.

AP - Now that immigrants have grabbed the nation's attention, what next?

AP - President Jalal Talabani met with representatives of seven armed groups and is optimistic they may agree to lay down their weapons, his office said Sunday. It was the first time a senior Iraqi official has acknowledged talks with insurgents.

AP - Two boys were charged Sunday with setting weekend brush fires that have destroyed or damaged more than two dozen homes and burned more than 1,500 acres in southwest Florida, authorities said.

AP - President Bush's new chief of staff said Sunday that the White House plan to address high gasoline prices will have only a modest impact and the ultimate goal must to be reducing dependence on foreign oil.

MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)–Australia’s Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd. (PBL.AU) has signed an agreement with Russia’s Crocus Group and is expected to manage a casino and a hotel in Moscow, according to a report in Friday’s Russian business daily Vedomosti.

DJ Australia’s PBL In Deal To Run Russian Casino - Report MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)–Australia’s Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd. (PBL.AU) has signed an agreement with Russia’s Crocus Group and is expected to manage a casino and a hotel in Moscow, according to a report in Friday’s Russian business daily Vedomosti. Under the deal, signed late last week, PBL will be the first foreign company managing a

AFP - Iran has said it was digging in for a confrontation with the West over its disputed nuclear programme, vowing that neither UN Security Council resolutions nor US military action could force a climbdown.

The enormous Grand Hall at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort filled with screams of joy Sunday afternoon as 750 lucky people each won a pair of tickets to see the popular daytime talk show Live with Regis and Kelly when the show rolls into Niagara Falls, Canada, for two tapings on May 22.

Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice on Sunday defended the Bush administration's Iraq war
planning after her predecessor, Colin Powell, said he had made
a case to send more troops to deal with the war's aftermath.

Reuters - Israel's acting Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert won over enough parties to form a majority coalition on
Sunday, clearing the way for his plans to re-shape the West
Bank and set final borders with the Palestinians.

PUBLISHING and Broadcasting Ltd is set to dive into Russia’s $US6 billion ($A7.9 billion) a year gambling market through an agreement with a Moscow real estate company to develop Russia’s largest casino and entertainment complex.