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Reuters - World War Two was at its height and British officials worried about a menace loose on the streets of London -- runaway schoolgirls infecting American GIs with venereal disease.

Tax preparer H&R Block on Thursday said it saw a 8.6 percent increase in clients in the first half of March.

AP - Iran's foreign minister said Friday his country would not use oil as an economic weapon against those countries pressing Tehran over its suspect nuclear program.

Reuters - A strong earthquake hit western Iran on Friday, killing at least 66 people and devastating villages, a provincial official said.

AP - A mortar round slammed into a street in northeastern Baghdad Friday, killing three women when shrapnel hit their home, and soldiers discovered the bullet-riddled bodies of six men wearing handcuffs in western Baghdad, police said.

Reuters - A car explosion outside a Gaza mosque killed a top Palestinian militant on Friday, triggering a street gunbattle after fighters loyal to him accused Palestinian security forces of collaborating with Israel in the attack.

AP - Delphi Corp., the nation's leading auto-parts supplier, appeared poised Friday to ask a bankruptcy judge to cancel its union contracts, after months of unsuccessfully trying to negotiate a wage decrease for its 34,000 U.S. hourly workers.

AP - Mexican President Vicente Fox said his government was preparing to extradite at least 24 drug traffickers to the United States, but he ruled out using police to stop migrants on Mexico's side of the border.

AP - Three strong earthquakes and several aftershocks reduced villages to rubble in western Iran early Friday, killing at least 66 people and injuring about 1,200 others, officials said.

Reuters - President Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada will try to paper over their immigration and trade disputes on Friday as they wrap up a North American summit with little progress in easing tensions.