Tag: international
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December 21, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A cargo train has derailed near residential areas in the Kenyan capital, killing two people.
Several others are still trapped beneath the trainwreck, an Associated Press . . .
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December 21, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A police official and a journalist say a bomb blast and a separate mortar attack on a radio station in Somalia's capital have killed eight people.
Mogadishu's regional . . .
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December 21, 2009 09:02 AM EST --
BEIJING (AP) — China's foreign ministry on Monday defended the repatriation of 20 Muslims who had fled to Cambodia, saying the move was in line with immigration law and usual practice.
The ethnic . . .
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December 21, 2009 12:01 PM EST --
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's embattled government reached out to the opposition Monday as it sought to limit the damage from a recent Supreme Court decision striking down an amnesty protecting several . . .
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December 21, 2009 12:02 PM EST --
VIENNA (AP) — The U.S. ambassador is rejecting Austrian suggestions that Washington has pushed too aggressively for more Austrian troops in Afghanistan.
William C. Eacho III is responding to comments . . .
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December 21, 2009 12:02 PM EST --
LONDON (AP) — Officials in Britain say Chinese authorities plan to execute a British man convicted of drug smuggling before the end of the year.
Britain's Foreign Office says Chinese authorities . . .
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December 21, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
LONDON (AP) — China plans to execute a British man convicted of drug smuggling before the end of the year, officials said Monday, ignoring a personal appeal from Prime Minister Gordon Brown to spare . . .
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December 21, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
LONDON (AP) — A coalition of broadcasters says that Britain's three major political parties have agree to participate in an unprecedented series of U.S.-style television debates.
The BBC and Sky . . .
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December 21, 2009 01:03 PM EST --
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top military officer says that Moscow and Washington are likely to sign a new nuclear arms control deal early next year.
Gen. Nikolai Makarov says that Russian and U.S. . . .
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December 21, 2009 01:03 PM EST --
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Disaster officials in Malawi are appealing for international help after a powerful earthquake killed at least three people and damaged thousands of homes.
Lilian Ng'oma, . . .
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December 21, 2009 02:02 PM EST --
BEIJING (AP) — Ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated over the weekend had warned the U.N. refugee agency they feared long jail terms or even the death penalty if they were sent back . . .
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December 21, 2009 02:03 PM EST --
TURIN, Italy (AP) — Doctors in Italy gave permission Monday for police to question a fugitive American doctor who was found in a tent at the snowy foot of Mont Blanc last week, a hospital spokesman . . .
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December 21, 2009 03:03 PM EST --
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's rival leaders met Monday and announced they had reached two agreements, offering rare reason for hope after a year of impasse and disappointment.
The factions . . .
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December 21, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
KABUL (AP) — Five militants armed with guns and suicide vests attacked a building in an eastern Afghan city early Monday, officials said, sparking a battle with police that left at least three of . . .
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December 21, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's highest court agreed Monday to review the most recent extension of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest.
Suu Kyi's lawyers appealed to the Supreme . . .
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December 21, 2009 07:01 AM EST --
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top ministers on Monday debated whether to approve an emotionally charged deal to trade 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli . . .
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December 21, 2009 09:02 AM EST --
JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is pleading not guilty to charges of illegally accepting funds from an American supporter and double-billing Jewish groups for trips abroad. . . .
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December 21, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Tens of thousands of Iranian mourners — many chanting protest slogans — joined the funeral procession Monday for the country's most senior dissident . . .
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December 21, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top ministers on Monday debated whether to approve an emotionally charged deal to trade 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli . . .
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December 21, 2009 08:00 AM EST --
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Formerly conjoined twin sisters Trishna and Krishna were discharged from an Australian hospital Monday, five weeks after their separation surgery and just in time to . . .
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