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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a bill that critics say could allow for the teaching of "creationism" alongside evolution in public schools.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As celebrities threw an early 90th birthday party for Nelson Mandela in London's Hyde Park on Friday, U.S. lawmakers erased references to the former South African leader as a terrorist from national databases.

PARIS (Reuters) - A breakaway traditionalist group has told the Vatican it cannot comply with a papal ultimatum on returning to the Roman Catholic Church because it skirts key issues of their dispute, a spokesman said on Friday.

HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid into the occupied West Bank on Friday, local residents and medical workers said.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians should wear sealskin to celebrate the country's birthday on July 1, an Inuit leader said on Friday, in defiance of a European movement to ban the import of Canadian seal products.

MADRID (Reuters) - The Basque Country regional assembly voted on Friday to go ahead with plans for a public vote on ties with the rest of Spain, but Spain vowed to block the move its sees as unnecessarily divisive.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union urged Iran on Friday to halt the imminent execution of a youth convicted of committing a murder while a minor.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed one Republican and two Democratic nominees to fill open commissioner seats at the Securities and Exchange Commission, returning the agency to full strength as it tackles oversight of big U.S. investment banks and other issues.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Governments negotiating a global trade treaty on Friday backed what trade experts said was a "make-or-break" test of the seven-year drive to cut tariffs and subsidies that pinch exporters and constrain growth.

HARARE (Reuters) - Many Zimbabweans boycotted their one candidate-election on Friday, but witnesses and monitors said government militias forced people to vote for 84-year-old President Robert Mugabe in some areas.

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian government commission ruled on Friday that a pregnant 11-year-old girl could legally have a late-term abortion, in a case that has split the Black Sea state's conservative society.

GENEVA (Reuters) - A Swiss man who stood to inherit real estate worth 80 million Swiss francs ($78 million) was convicted on Friday of killing three women, including his adoptive mother and sister, and sentenced to life in prison.

BELFAST (Reuters) - A Northern Ireland court acquitted three men on Friday of involvement in the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney, whose killing three years ago sparked international outrage.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of people in Pakistan have gone missing and women and girls have been left vulnerable to abuse as the government tackles militancy, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A strong earthquake shook India's remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands but no tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of damage, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services said on Friday. "The magnitude is 6.3 and it's centred in the Andaman Islands," Srinivas Kumar, an official at the centre, told Reuters.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said he wants to repeat the 2006 presidential election that gave him a second term, in a combative response to a court ruling that said the vote was tainted by corruption.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors accused two Congolese warlords on Friday of seeking to "wipe out" an entire village and seize survivors as sex slaves and child soldiers in their second case at the International Criminal Court.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The handover of security control in Iraq's Anbar province to Iraqi forces has been put on hold, the U.S. military said on Friday, blaming a sandstorm forecast to hit the region.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The handover of security control in Iraq's Anbar province to Iraqi forces has been put on hold, the U.S. military said on Friday, blaming a sandstorm forecast to hit the region.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will meet European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet next week during a trip to Europe to discuss global economic issues.