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Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning. I had trekked...
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20 flights without bags after Egypt airport strike
Published: Sat, May 18, 2013
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say baggage handlers in Cairo's airport have gone on strike to protest a colleague's death, leaving passengers on 20 international flights from Europe and Arab...
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Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's...
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BC-WEA--Global Weather-Fahrenheit, WEA
Updated: Sat, May 18, 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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Member of Pakistani cricket star's party killed
Published: Sat, May 18, 2013
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was...
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Suspected US drone in Yemen kills 4 militants
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to security officials. The officials...
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French president signs gay marriage into law
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
PARIS (AP) — France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending...
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Pope leads pep rally at Vatican, meets with Merkel
Updated: 24 min ago
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis toured St. Peter's Square to greet tens of thousands of people attending a rally of prayer, music and speeches Saturday, and he embraced the brother of a...
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Hot off the press: Seen and heard in Cannes
Updated: 27 min ago
CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: Will a switched-at-birth Japanese drama tug on Steven Spielberg's heart strings? The...
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SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles
Updated: 40 min ago
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest...
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Russia's Karjakin wins Norway chess tournament
Updated: 1 hr ago
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Russia's Sergey Karjakin won the €100,000 ($130,000) Norway chess championship on Saturday after drawing against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. Karjakin needed only a...
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Wrestling rules changed to keep sport in Olympics
Updated: 1 hr ago
MOSCOW (AP) — Wrestling's governing body hopes rule changes designed to make matches more exciting and easier to understand will get the sport back in the Olympics. The federation is also...
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Plane catches fire landing in Moscow; no injuries
Updated: 1 hr ago
MOSCOW (AP) — Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an...
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Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
Updated: 1 hr ago
BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the...
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Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city
Updated: 1 hr ago
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security official says one...
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AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten
Updated: 2 hr ago
GEZIRAT AL-FADEL, Egypt (AP) — In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked...
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Journalist found dead in eastern Congo
Updated: 2 hr ago
GOMA, Congo (AP) — The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said Saturday. "We found...
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Ivory Coast army arrests militia leader
Updated: 2 hr ago
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the national park where his...
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Syria's Assad says he won't step down
Updated: 2 hr ago
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country. The Syrian leader's comments, published Saturday in the Argentine...
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Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city
Updated: 2 hr ago
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers...
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