Tag: international
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November 23, 2009 06:04 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine army says 21 people taken hostage in the volatile south have been found dead.
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November 23, 2009 06:04 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine army says it has found 21 bodies in the country's restive south after gunmen hijacked a convoy of politicians and supporters filing their nominations for . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:07 AM EST --
LONDON (AP) — Residents of flood-battered northern England are struggling back to work, school and homes after swollen rivers inundated roads and caused several bridges to collapse.
Police said . . .
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November 23, 2009 08:04 AM EST --
LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is returning to London's Downing Street for good — in the form of a portrait installed at the country's official leader's residence. . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:03 AM EST --
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's army fought Islamist militants for control of a northwestern district on Monday, killing 18 of them in an escalating campaign against insurgents intent on . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:05 AM EST --
BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly half of Europe's unemployed stay out of work for at least a year, a European Union report said Monday, far more than in the U.S.
Some 4 million people have lost their jobs . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:05 AM EST --
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali businessman says a ship hijacked by pirates off East Africa two weeks ago has been released.
Ali Dheere, the chairman of a group of traders in Mogadishu, says . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:01 AM EST --
GENEVA (AP) — Scientists working on the world's largest atom smasher say they are now circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:01 AM EST --
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian familiar with the talks says Israel and Hamas are very close to a deal to swap 1,000 Palestinians for an Israeli soldier held for more than three years . . .
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November 23, 2009 07:03 AM EST --
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Gunfire hit the home of two American lecturers in Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Monday, but no one was injured.
It is the third time this month foreigners . . .
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November 23, 2009 07:00 AM EST --
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Closing arguments began Monday in the genocide trial of a Khmer Rouge prison chief, with the prosecution accusing Kaing Guek Eav of having pursued his role with zeal . . .
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November 23, 2009 08:00 AM EST --
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A kangaroo startled by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, pinning the pet underwater and slashing the owner in the abdomen with its hind legs.
The Australian, . . .
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November 23, 2009 01:03 AM EST --
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a veteran dissident convicted of spying to three years in prison.
Huang Qi was convicted of illegally possessing state secrets by the Wuhou district . . .
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November 23, 2009 01:03 AM EST --
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Eight women set out Monday from their base camp on Antarctica to ski to the South Pole in a trek to mark the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth grouping of 53 former . . .
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November 23, 2009 07:00 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops found 21 bodies in the country's restive south after dozens of gunmen on Monday hijacked a convoy of politicians and supporters filing their nominations . . .
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November 23, 2009 07:01 AM EST --
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island. At least 29 . . .
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November 23, 2009 12:04 AM EST --
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mirna Torres salsas with a gray-bearded man for $1.50 a dance in the Barba Azul, a dark yet garish cabaret decorated like an erotic carnival fun house.
The place is nearly empty, . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court on Monday sentenced to three years in prison a veteran dissident who had criticized the government's response to a 2008 earthquake that killed about 90,000 people. . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's centrist president will face a socialist former foreign minister in a Dec. 6 runoff election, partial results showed Monday, in a race key to helping the country . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A French navy ship of the type that Russia hopes to buy arrived Monday for a visit to St. Petersburg, fueling concern in Georgia and other ex-Soviet nations that it . . .
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