World News
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Germany backs terror label for Hezbollah militants
Wednesday, May 22, 3:42 am
BERLIN (AP) - Germany says it supports adding the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah to the European Union's list of terrorist groups. Germany's foreign ministry says the decision... Read more...
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Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft
Wednesday, May 22, 3:37 am
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that says his father, the country's first president, presided over... Read more...
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Chinese premier visits Pakistan, praises ties
Wednesday, May 22, 3:23 am
ISLAMABAD (AP) - China's premier began a two-day visit to Pakistan on Wednesday by praising the relationship between the two Asian powers in glowing terms. Premier Li Keqiang said "the... Read more...
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EU leaders discuss fight against tax evasion
Wednesday, May 22, 3:21 am
BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union's leaders are seeking to advance their fight against tax evasion and close loopholes for large corporations' creative tax avoidance schemes. European officials... Read more...
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Octogenarians race to be oldest Everest climber
Wednesday, May 22, 3:14 am
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - An 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier who climbed Mount Everest five years ago, but just missed becoming the oldest man to reach the summit, was back on the mountain Wednesday... Read more...
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Iran's Ahmadinejad denounces election decision
Wednesday, May 22, 3:13 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from an upcoming presidential race is an act of "oppression" and... Read more...
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Diplomats: Iran expands nuke technology
Wednesday, May 22, 3:10 am
VIENNA (AP) - Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday, despite high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing... Read more...
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Japan approves joining int'l child abduction pact
Wednesday, May 22, 3:02 am
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign pressure for Tokyo to address concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away... Read more...
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Afghan students protest women's rights decree
Wednesday, May 22, 2:50 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It... Read more...
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Oil below $96 before crude stocks report, Fed
Wednesday, May 22, 2:41 am
BANGKOK (AP) - The price of oil fell Wednesday as investors waited for a report on U.S. crude stocks and the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. economy. Benchmark crude for July... Read more...
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7 Egyptian security men kidnapped in Sinai freed
Wednesday, May 22, 2:35 am
CAIRO (AP) - Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation,... Read more...
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World stocks mixed ahead of Fed chief testimony
Wednesday, May 22, 2:33 am
BANGKOK (AP) - World stock markets were mixed Wednesday, hours before Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is to deliver remarks before Congress on the state of the U.S. economy. The Fed... Read more...
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Fishermen pay price in Asia's volatile sea rifts
Wednesday, May 22, 2:31 am
MASINLOC, Philippines (AP) - Along the northwestern Philippine coast, poor children with claw hammers clamber aboard an abandoned fishing vessel to pry loose and steal rusty nails from its deck.... Read more...
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6 kids among 7 injured in south China attack
Wednesday, May 22, 2:31 am
BEIJING (AP) - A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday. All... Read more...
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All 28 bodies recovered from Indonesian mine room
Wednesday, May 22, 2:21 am
TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) - Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the last of 28 miners killed last week when an underground room of a giant Indonesian gold and copper mine collapsed, the operator of the... Read more...
