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- Police remove students from occupied Paris university site
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 10:43 AMPARIS (AP) -- French police removed students from a Paris university building Friday that had been occupied for a month to protest admission changes that also are causing turmoil at other campuses....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Case of Jewish boy taken by pope flares over doctored memoir
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 08:39 AMVATICAN CITY (AP) -- It's an incident that has stained the Vatican for 160 years: a 6-year-old Jewish boy taken from his family by papal police and brought to Rome to be raised Catholic after church authorities learned his housekeeper had secretly had him baptized....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - South Africa's leader cuts short UK visit after protests
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 04:33 AMJOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's president has cut short a visit to Britain to return home and deal with violent protests in a provincial capital....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As doors close in the US, China's Huawei shifts to Europe
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 12:21 AMSHENZHEN, China (AP) -- As trade disputes simmer, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the No. 3 smartphone brand, is shifting its growth efforts toward Europe and Asia in the face of mounting obstacles in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- FBI offers $1M for info on US reporter missing in Syria
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 04:05 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal authorities for the first time are offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to an American journalist who has been missing in Syria for more than five years....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US easing rules on sales of armed drones, other weaponry
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 02:00 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration moved Thursday to make it easier for U.S. defense contractors to sell armed drones and other conventional weapons to foreign governments....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trade issues expose the limits of Trump-Abe 'bromance'
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 09:49 AMPALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe courted the new American president with a golden driver not long after Donald Trump won the White House. He's met with the billionaire businessman more than any other world leader, and he is Trump's second-most frequent caller....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Calif. governor says deal reached on National Guard mission
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 07:45 AMSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California reached an agreement with the federal government that the state's National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as drug and gun smugglers, Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 2,000 Kachin trapped by Myanmar fighting lack food, medicine
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 03:34 AMBANGKOK (AP) -- Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where they fled to escape clashes between the Myanmar's army and the Kachin guerrillas in the country's north....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - North Korea has a new budget and it's full of fiscal hijinks
Wednesday - 04/18/2018 - 11:24 PMTOKYO (AP) -- Imagine a national budget that reflects steady growth, gives a healthy boost to science and technology while reserving big slices of the overall pie to defense and social spending.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Zimbabwe's Mugabe summoned over alleged diamond looting
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 08:39 AMHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A Zimbabwean parliamentary committee is summoning former leader Robert Mugabe to explain past comments on alleged diamond looting - the first time a public institution has called him to account for such claims made during his 37-year rule....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Large area of Berlin center evacuated for WWII bomb disposal
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 06:38 AMBERLIN (AP) -- Berlin police were evacuating thousands of people from a central area of the German capital Friday and shutting down the main train station in preparation for the removal of an unexploded World War II bomb found during recent construction work....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indonesia's Aceh canes couples for public shows of affection
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 02:27 AMBANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province on Friday caned several unmarried couples for showing affection in public and two women for prostitution before an enthusiastic audience of hundreds....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Woman's win of nursing home money a rarity in aging Japan
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 10:15 PMTOKYO (AP) -- When her stay at the glamorous Grancreer residence turned into a nightmare of disrupted sleep and difficulties with the staff, retired harpist Yumi Makino opted out, and after a two-year legal battle got her deposit money back in a rare victory over a big real estate company....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Latest: US lawmaker sees no real change in Cuba
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 02:00 PMHAVANA (AP) -- The Latest on Raul Castro's handover of Cuba's presidency (all times local):...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Turkey's weak opposition scrambles to challenge Erdogan
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 11:54 AMANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- One party leader is in jail. Another doesn't have a candidate. A third might face eligibility issues for her party. Turkey's weak opposition is scrambling to mount a meaningful challenge against strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with just nine weeks to prepare for snap elections....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russia joins bid to win compensation over US metals tariffs
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 07:45 AMGENEVA (AP) -- Russia has joined the European Union, India and China in demanding compensation from the United States for its tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trade issues expose the limits of Trump-Abe 'bromance'
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 07:45 AMPALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe courted the new American president with a golden driver not long after Donald Trump won the White House. He's met with the billionaire businessman more than any other world leader, and he's Trump's second-most frequent caller....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trade issues expose the limits of Trump-Abe 'bromance'
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 01:30 AMPALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe courted the new American president with a golden driver not long after Donald Trump won the White House. He's met with the billionaire businessman more than any other world leader, and he's Trump's second-most frequent caller....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russia takes heavy hand to internet to block messaging app
Wednesday - 04/18/2018 - 05:09 PMMOSCOW (AP) -- Russian authorities are freezing up vast swathes of the country's online world in what critics call a heavy-handed - and so far unsuccessful - attempt to block a popular messaging app, Telegram....
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- Saudi women spend big on makeup, even if it's just a glimpse
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indonesia's Aceh canes couples for public shows of affection
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 04:33 AMBANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province on Friday caned several unmarried couples for showing affection in public and two women for prostitution before an enthusiastic audience of hundreds....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Koreas set up hotline between leaders ahead of summit
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 04:33 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North and South Korea installed a telephone hotline between their leaders Friday as they prepare for a rare summit next week aimed at resolving the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Moon faces tough challenges ahead of summit with Kim
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 10:15 PMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The meeting next week between the leaders of the rival Koreas will be the ultimate test of South Korean President Moon Jae-in's belief that his nation should lead international efforts to deal with North Korea....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Poland marks 75th anniversary of uprising in Warsaw Ghetto
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK mulls plan to ban plastic straws and cut waste
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 11:54 AMLONDON (AP) -- The British government wants to take action to ban plastic straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds - and is urging other Commonwealth nations to follow suit....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Latest: Raul Castro had left Cuba's presidency
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 09:49 AMHAVANA (AP) -- The Latest on Raul Castro's handover of Cuba's presidency (all times local):...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Latest: AP source: Pompeo, Kim discussed held Americans
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 05:39 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the United States and North Korea (all times local):...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Corruption watchdog: G-20 moving slowly against tax havens
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 01:30 AMBERLIN (AP) -- An international corruption watchdog group says two years after the Panama Papers revealed how the rich have stashed wealth in shell companies, the world's Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations have made only slow progress improving the legal tools to ensure transparency....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Polish ghetto survivor worries about rising nationalism
Wednesday - 04/18/2018 - 05:09 PMWARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Marian Kalwary can still hear the faint chant of a thin little girl trying to sell insoles to people on a street of the Warsaw ghetto and get food.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share