Al-Qaida denies killing civilians in Pakistan
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Al-Qaida issued a new English-language video Saturday denying it was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians, calling such attacks un-Islamic. U.S.-born al-Qaida operative Adam...
Pakistan PM says South Waziristan offensive over
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Pakistan has wrapped up its army offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan, but now may send its soldiers after militants in another part of the lawless tribal belt along the Afghan border, the prime minister...
Philippines lifts martial law in southern province
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has approved the lifting of martial law in a southern Philippine province where 57 people were massacred last month in the country's worst political violence. The martial law edict...
Antarctic nations plan tough new shipping controls
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Countries that manage Antarctica plan tough new controls on ships visiting the southern oceans and the fuels they use to reduce the threat of human and environmental disasters as tourist numbers rise, officials said...
Jailed American in Myanmar in 'poor health'
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A jailed U.S. citizen, on a protest hunger strike for more than a week in military-ruled Myanmar, was not able to appear in court because of poor health, his lawyers said Saturday. Myanmar authorities have accused...
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Pakistan PM says S. Waziristan offensive over, army may pursue Taliban in new northwest region. ...
US: Time for 'strategic patience' with NKorea
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The special U.S. envoy to North Korea said Saturday there is no immediate plan for more talks with the reclusive communist nation and urged patience from the countries seeking the North's nuclear disarmament. Stephen...
US military: Soldier dies in Iraq
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The U.S. military says an American soldier in northern Iraq has died of injuries unrelated to combat. The military said in Saturday's statement that the Multi-National Division-North soldier died Friday. He was found...
Taiwan checking report of Iran nuke equipment sale
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Taiwan's government is investigating a report that local companies helped supply equipment to Iran that can be used to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. An official in the Bureau of Foreign Trade said the...
Pakistan officials: US suspects shifted to Lahore
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Intelligence officials say five American Muslims held in Pakistan on allegations of seeking to join militant groups have been taken to a facility for terror suspects in the eastern city of Lahore. They say the five men...
China finds $1.5 billion held by corrupt officials
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China has found $1.5 billion in public money held illegally by officials across the country in a crackdown since June, the latest measure of the widespread corruption that has long infuriated its citizens. The...
Mexican foreign minister meets with Raul Castro
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Mexico's foreign minister met with Cuban President Raul Castro for three hours Friday, the latest sign her country and the island have repaired recently chilly relations. In Havana for a one-day visit, Patricia...
Mexico City police free 12 more `slave workers'
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Mexico City prosecutors says police have freed 12 people who were forced to work in a factory inside a rehabilitation center that could be linked to a drug clinic where 105 "slave workers" were rescued last week. City...
Guatemalan ex-president Laugerud dies at 79
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Former President Kjell Eugenio Laugerud, who is credited with helping rebuild Guatemala after the devastating 1976 earthquake, has died from complications related to cancer. He was 79. Laugerud died Wednesday at his...
DomRep: Ousted Honduras leader, successor to meet
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The leader of the Dominican Republic said Friday that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will meet with his elected successor next week in his Caribbean nation. There was no indication, however, that a deal for...
Paraguay absolves ex-prez with Swiss bank account
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An appeals court in Paraguay has overturned the corruption conviction and prison sentence for a former president, drawing criticism from the current government. Ex-President Luis Gonzalez Macchi had been sentenced to...
Defense secy tells US troops Iraq mission critical
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that plans are on track to reduce American forces in Iraq next year and warned that neighboring Iran risks sanctions soon if it fails to cooperate on its controversial...
6 people shot dead inside home in central Mexico
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Mexican authorities say six people have been shot to death inside a home in Mexico state, which is adjacent to Mexico City. State prosecutors' spokeswoman Guadalupe Huerta says police found the bodies of three women...
Venezuela detains 2 in student's slaying
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Two suspects have been detained in the killing of a university student whose death during a demonstration sparked protests by fellow students across Venezuela, authorities said Friday. The two young men were being...
Student sues Brazilian university over miniskirt
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A Brazilian university student expelled for causing an uproar while wearing a pink miniskirt has sued her school. Geisy Arruda asks for $570,000 in damages from Bandeirantes University in Sao Paulo, her lawyer,...
UK court issues injunction in Woods case
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A British judge has barred journalists in the country from publishing some material about golfer Tiger Woods. An injunction issued Thursday even blocks media including The Associated Press from revealing the details of...
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Dominican president says ousted Honduran leader and elected successor to meet Monday in DomRep. ...
Brazil suspends fines for Amazon razing by farmers
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A presidential decree Friday will suspend up to an estimated $5.7 billion in fines and give landowners two more years to comply with environmental regulations meant to stop the razing of the Brazilian rain forest. A...
Top UN official: Civil effort needs restructuring
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The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will step down early next year after a rocky two-year tenure marked by a fraud-marred national election and a deadly Taliban attack on U.N. employees. The departure...
Saudi crown prince returns after medical treatment
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Saudi Arabia's crown prince returned home Friday after a yearlong absence for treatment of an undisclosed illness that sparked rumors about his health and raised questions about the complicated issue of royal succession...
Trial begins for Argentina's 'Angel of Death'
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A former Argentine navy spy nicknamed the "Angel of Death" went on trial Friday for his alleged involvement in the disappearance and torture of dissidents during the country's military dictatorship. Alfredo Astiz, 58,...
Police: Body of Cyprus president stolen from grave
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Grave robbers stole the corpse of former hardline Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, digging up his coffin during a thunderstorm just before the first anniversary of his death, police said Friday. The body-snatching...
First new EU summit shows old indecision
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The European Union was supposed to make a decisive show of unity at its first summit since sweeping reforms streamlined its decision-making procession. The meeting had a simple agenda: agree on a climate change fund...
Romania's court orders void votes re-examined
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Romania's Constitutional Court ordered a re-examination of voided ballots from the country's disputed presidential election, prolonging months of political uncertainty. Analysts predicted, however, that the ruling was...
Turkey bans pro-Kurdish party over ties to rebels
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Turkey's top court on Friday banned a pro-Kurdish political party on charges of ties to Kurdish rebels, a decision likely to disrupt a struggling reconciliation process between the state and minority Kurds. Hasim...
Amnesty blasts Iraq over treatment of Iran exiles
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Amnesty International on Friday warned that Iraq's plans to move an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in the country's remote south would put them at risk of arbitrary arrest and torture. ...
Nobel award in hand, Obama faces hard work at home
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With a Nobel Peace Prize in hand, President Barack Obama returned to the grind of governing, refocusing on his top domestic priority as the Senate moves toward a pivotal moment on legislation to remake the nation's...
Pope will write letter to Irish Catholics on abuse
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Pope Benedict XVI is deeply disturbed by a child sex-abuse scandal in Ireland and will write a letter to Catholics there on the church's response to a report that found the church shielded more than 100 child-abusing...
Philippines grapples with disarming wild militia
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Thousands of militiamen trained and armed by the Philippine government have protected the country's major cities and towns from Muslim and communist rebels for decades by backing up an overstretched army. But the...
Experts: Somali Islamists improving tactics, bombs
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Somali Islamist insurgents have imported terrorist tactics and technology used with deadly results in Iraq and Afghanistan, threatening the African country's beleaguered government and causing alarm as far as...
NKorea to work with US to resolve 'differences'
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North Korea announced Friday that it will work with Washington to resolve "differences" over restarting nuclear disarmament talks, but observers said it was too early to declare a U.S. diplomat's mission to Pyongyang a...
Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Divisions destroying his party
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Zimbabwe's president said Friday that internal divisions are destroying the party that has kept him in power for nearly three decades. Robert Mugabe told about 10,000 delegates at a gathering of his ZANU-PF party that...
Russia: Officials fired in lawyer jail death probe
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired 20 senior prison officials, including the capital's prison chief, following a probe into the death of a jailed lawyer, officials said Friday. The death of Sergei Magnitsky caused...
Chinese official calls US negotiator irresponsible
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China's Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei on Friday said the chief U.S. climate negotiator either lacks common sense or is "extremely irresponsible" for saying that no U.S. climate financing should be going to China. In...
Decision to create new Indian state sparks protest
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Protesters took to the streets Friday, setting public buses on fire and clashing with police, in anger over India's decision to carve a new state out of the southern region of Andhra Pradesh. The conflict highlighted...
How much EU countries committing to climate fund
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European Union leaders agreed at a summit Friday to come up with $3.6 billion a year through 2012, or a total of $10.8 billion over three years, to help pay developing nations to cut emissions and adapt to climate...
For Iraq, Afghanistan and us, decade of war
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It was early April 2003. The city of Mosul in northern Iraq was in free fall. The holdout units of Saddam Hussein's military had abandoned their posts sometime during the night. By midmorning, looters were helping...
Iranian hard-liners hold pro-government rallies
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Thousands of Iranian government supporters staged rallies Friday to denounce opposition students who burned photos of the country's supreme leader in protests this week. At marches in Tehran and other cities after...
NATO officials: Russian should give Afghan arms
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NATO plans to ask Russia to contribute more to the escalating Afghan war by donating AK-47 assault rifles, grenade launchers, artillery, armored vehicles and other weapons to the expanding Afghan army, officials said...
Pope, Vietnamese president try for closer ties
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The Vatican called a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the president of Vietnam on Friday "a significant stage" in efforts for closer ties between the communist country and the Holy See. President Nguyen Minh Triet...
EU nations commit $3.6 billion to climate fund
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EU leaders agreed Friday to commit euro2.4 billion ($3.6 billion) a year until 2012 to help poorer countries combat global warming, as they sought to rescue their image as climate change innovators and bolster the talks...
Hurdles remain even if climate deal is reached
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For Indonesian farmers, burning down rain forests is the cheapest and fastest way to clear land for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations. The millions of acres they burn every year has made their Southeast Asian...
Australia threatens Japan over whaling program
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Australia's prime minister threatened legal action against Japan on Friday if it does not stop its research whaling program that kills up to 1,000 whales a year. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's comments came as the...
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Afghan police say 2 officers, 3 civilians killed by suicide bomber on a motorcycle. ...
Guinea's No. 2 warns army to remain disciplined
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The No. 2 of Guinea's military junta said Friday that the army has to change and a lack of discipline won't be tolerated. Gen. Sekouba Konate addressed the Guinean army more than a week after a renegade soldier tried...