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- Merkel risks setback, challenger seeks boost as state vote kicks off Germany's election year
Saturday - 01/19/2013 - 11:25 PMBERLIN (AP) — A major state election on Sunday could shake up the campaign for Germany's national election later this year, with the center-left opposition hoping for a morale-boosting victory over Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - West African leaders gather for Mali summit as French-led military operation enters 2nd week
Saturday - 01/19/2013 - 06:55 AMBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — West African leaders headed to a special Mali summit in Ivory Coast on Saturday to discuss how to step up their role as the French-led military intervention to oust Islamic extremists from power entered its second week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lawyer for deceased German banker claims surgeons forgot 16 items in his body after cancer op
Thursday - 01/17/2013 - 06:15 AMBERLIN (AP) — A lawyer in Germany claims surgeons left up to 16 objects in her client's body after an operation for prostate cancer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Defense chief Panetta tells troops he supports Obama's gun control package
Thursday - 01/17/2013 - 05:45 AMVICENZA, Italy (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta fired off a strong defense of gun control legislation Thursday, in front of a decidedly skeptical audience.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta meets Pope Benedict at Vatican
Wednesday - 01/16/2013 - 05:45 AMVATICAN CITY (AP) — U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Blasts inside Syrian university kill dozens; regime and rebels blame each other for attack
Tuesday - 01/15/2013 - 04:13 PMBEIRUT (AP) — Twin blasts ripped through a university campus in Syria's largest city on Tuesday as students were taking exams, setting cars alight, blowing the walls off dormitory rooms and killing more than 80 people, according to anti-regime activists and a government official.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2 alleged Russian spies on trial in Germany in throwback to Cold War
Tuesday - 01/15/2013 - 08:29 AMBERLIN (AP) — Dead letter drops. Fake papers with cover stories to match.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - France girding for new terror threat after Mali operation, including from within
Tuesday - 01/15/2013 - 04:33 AMPARIS (AP) — France's top security official says the country is ready to prevent new terror attacks after its military operation to push back al-Qaida-linked insurgents grabbing territory in Mali.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mali: Islamists gain ground despite French fighting, French pull out citizens from Segou town
Monday - 01/14/2013 - 10:07 AMBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Despite intensive aerial bombardments by French warplanes, Islamist insurgents grabbed more territory in Mali Monday and moved closer to the capital, French and Malian authorities said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - German police: Robbers' 100-foot tunnel into Berlin bank was 'very professional'
Monday - 01/14/2013 - 10:20 AMBERLIN (AP) — German police say robbers dug a 30-meter (100-foot) tunnel into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank and escaped with their haul, setting a fire as they left to cover their tracks.
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- South Africa's poaching epidemic sees rise in wounded rhinos, and vets race to treat them
Saturday - 01/19/2013 - 06:51 AMJOHANNESBURG (AP) — A high-value target survives two attempts on her life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - With Olympic Games approaching, Rio's love hotels clean up for tourists
Friday - 01/18/2013 - 07:29 PMRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One worker strips mirrored paneling off the ceiling, as another pries up the fiberglass shell of a whirlpool bath.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Syrian activists say regime troops kill dozens of people in central city of Homs
Thursday - 01/17/2013 - 05:24 AMBEIRUT (AP) — Activists said Thursday that forces loyal to President Bashar Assad wielding knives and guns swept through a small farming village in central Syria earlier this week, torching houses and killing at least 37 people, including women and children.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nigerians to join fight against Mali Islamists as first W. African forces set to arrive
Thursday - 01/17/2013 - 03:33 AMBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An official with the West African regional bloc says troops from Nigeria are expected in Mali nearly a week after French forces began a military operation to oust radical Islamists from power.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watchdog: Israeli West Bank settlement record shows intent to sabotage Palestinian state
Tuesday - 01/15/2013 - 10:15 PMJERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli watchdog says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's settlement policies during his four-year term show intent to make a Palestinian state impossible to create.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israel's Labor leader takes on Netanyahu with social agenda that downplays party's dovish past
Tuesday - 01/15/2013 - 05:02 PMJERUSALEM (AP) — Just seven years after quitting her job as a high-profile media commentator, the leader of Israel's Labor Party appears to be on track to become head of the country's second-largest parliamentary faction and the leading voice against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iran says supreme leader's ban rules out nuclear weapons for Islamic Republic
Tuesday - 01/15/2013 - 03:45 AMTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A religious decree issued by Iran's supreme leader banning nuclear weapons is binding for the Iranian government, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, suggesting that the edict should end the debate over whether Tehran is pursuing atomic arms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Top UN rights official says North Korea's human rights record remains 'deplorable'
Monday - 01/14/2013 - 09:45 PMGENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights official said Monday that as many as 200,000 people are being held in North Korean political prison camps rife with torture, rape and slave labor, and that some of the abuses may amount to crimes against humanity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A look at what countries are providing to Mali in its fight against Islamic extremists
Monday - 01/14/2013 - 10:18 AMHere's a look at what countries are providing to help Mali's battle against armed Islamic extremists who have occupied the north since March.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Syrian activists say an airstrike on Damascus suburb killed 13 people, including 8 children
Monday - 01/14/2013 - 03:30 AMBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say at least 13 people including eight children have been killed in a regime airstrike on a Damascus suburb.
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- Residents say Islamists leave Malian town of Diabaly after days of French airstrikes
Saturday - 01/19/2013 - 03:28 PMBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Radical Islamists have fled a key Malian town on foot following French airstrikes that began after they seized Diabaly nearly one week ago, the Malian military and fleeing residents said late Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New video game casts players as rebels to explore Syrian civil war
Thursday - 01/17/2013 - 05:25 PMBEIRUT (AP) — A new video game based on Syria's civil war challenges players to make the hard choices facing the country's rebels.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russian official insists US families approved by courts will be allowed to finalize adoptions
Thursday - 01/17/2013 - 04:25 AMMOSCOW (AP) — Russia's children rights ombudsman on Thursday sought to reassure American would-be adoptive parents that they will be allowed to take their children back to the U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Brazilian website creates profiles of fake girlfriends and posts them on Facebook
Wednesday - 01/16/2013 - 08:25 AMSAO PAULO (AP) — Want to make your ex-girlfriend jealous? Need to show your friends you are in a serious relationship when you aren't?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2 dead after helicopter crashes in central London after hitting crane
Wednesday - 01/16/2013 - 04:04 AMLONDON (AP) — A helicopter crashed into a crane and fell on a crowded street in central London during rush hour Wednesday, sending black plumes of smoke into the air as it smashed to the ground.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Egypt's most underprivileged fall victim in train crash that left 19 dead, 100 injured
Tuesday - 01/15/2013 - 05:03 PMBADRASHEEN, Egypt (AP) — Packed in a rickety train speeding through the night, the poorly fed, pale-looking Egyptian conscripts were coming from some of Egypt's most dirt-poor villages to serve in one of the most miserable, lowly jobs of the security forces — as grunts in an anti-riot force usually deployed against protesters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Palestinians say Israeli military shot dead teen at West Bank separation barrier
Tuesday - 01/15/2013 - 03:41 AMRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians say the Israeli military has shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian boy near the West Bank separation barrier.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Court denies Berlusconi bid to halt pay-for-sex trial, verdict could come before election
Monday - 01/14/2013 - 09:18 AMMILAN (AP) — A Milan court on Monday rejected a bid by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi to halt his sex-for-hire trial because of Italy's general election campaign, a ruling that means a verdict could come before the February vote.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israel advances plan to invest in sensitive West Bank sites as its 'national heritage'
Monday - 01/14/2013 - 10:14 AMJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is advancing a plan to invest in places it considers part of its national heritage, including nine West Bank sites, the government said Monday in an announcement that could appeal to hard-line voters a week ahead of elections.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Venezuela's government says Chavez is conscious and responding to treatment for lung infection
Monday - 01/14/2013 - 03:25 AMCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Venezuela's cancer-stricken president held rallies across the nation Sunday, hours before the government announced that Hugo Chavez is responding favorably to treatment for a respiratory infection.
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