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Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
BEIRUT (AP) — Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad unleashed on Saturday their heaviest artillery and rocket barrage in a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from a strategic western...
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Jordan king says extremism 'grown fat' on conflict
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's King Abdullah II says extremism has "grown fat" off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. "Good faith talks must get going,"...
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Balloons bring smiles in war-weary Afghan capital
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after a...
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Kerry makes sub-Saharan Africa visit
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on...
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Female suicide bomber injures 11 in Russian region
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Police in the southern Russian region of Dagestan say a female suicide bomber has injured at least 11 police officers and civilians. Dagestan's police spokesman...
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'Friend' of suspect in UK slaying arrested
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
LONDON (AP) — Counterterrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected of the savage killing of a British soldier. Abu Nusaybah was arrested following a...
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Russian police: Female suicide bomber injures at least 11 in Caucasus region of Dagestan
Published: Sat, May 25, 2013
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Russian police: Female suicide bomber injures at least 11 in Caucasus region of Dagestan.
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Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 'GRIGRIS' ENTRY IN CANNES BRINGS PRIDE TO AFRICAN NATION OF CHAD Director...
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Mosque blast kills 12 in eastern Afghanistan
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque, killing 12...
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2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with the Rohingya's Buddhist...
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16 children, 1 teacher dead in Pakistan bus fire
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Police say that a teacher was among the 17 burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a minibus taking children to school suddenly caught fire. Police earlier said that...
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BC-WEA--Global Weather-Fahrenheit, WEA
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Minimum and maximum temperatures in Fahrenheit, precipitation in inches and weather conditions as recorded for the previous day and forecast for the current and following day in...
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Chile's Indians take on world's largest gold miner
Updated: 22 min ago
EL CORRAL, Chile (AP) — The Diaguita Indians live in the foothills of the Andes, just downstream from the world's highest gold mine, where for as long as anyone can remember they've drunk...
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Gas cylinder blast on Pakistan school bus kills 17
Updated: 51 min ago
ISLAMABAD (AP) — At least 17 children were burned to death in eastern Pakistan on Saturday when a faulty gas cylinder exploded on the bus taking them to school, police said. Police officer...
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Raw: Pakistan Election Results Protested
Updated: 1 hr ago
Hundreds of supporters of one of Pakistan's political parties, Tehreek-e-Insaf, gathered in front of the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on Friday to protest against alleged rigging of this...
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7 Filipino marines, 4 militants killed in clash
Updated: 1 hr ago
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least seven Filipino marines and four Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a clash Saturday as the military launched an offensive against al-Qaida-linked gunmen who...
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High Wire Spectacle Thrills Crowd in Austria
Updated: 2 hr ago
An Austrian daredevil on Friday became the first man to walk a tightrope strung between the two towers of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna's most famous landmark. (May 25) SHOTLIST: AP Television...
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Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
Updated: 2 hr ago
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug....
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NKorean envoy delivers letter to China's president
Updated: 5 hr ago
BEIJING (AP) — A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear...
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Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US
Updated: 6 hr ago
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank...
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