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  • 14 killed in new anti-terror Philippine offensive

    Updated: Sun, May 26, 2013

    MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 14 Philippine marines and Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a clash in a new U.S.-backed offensive aimed at rescuing six foreign and Filipino hostages and stopping the al-Qaida-linked gunmen from staging more kidnappings in the country's south, a military...

  • Suspected rebels kill 17, wound 24 in east India

    Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013

    NEW DELHI (AP) — About 200 suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 17 people and wounding 24 others, police said. Senior police officer M. Gupta...

  • BC-WEA--Global Weather-Fahrenheit, WEA

    Updated: 4 min ago

    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 each city as of 0100 GMT: ;MIN;MAX;COND;PRECIP;MIN;MAX;COND;MIN;MAX;COND...

  • Huge crowd cheers Argentine leader's 10-year rule

    Updated: 49 min ago

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a victorious decade, "won not by a government but by the...

  • Female suicide bomber injures 18 in Russian region

    ARSEN MOLLAYEV

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by...

  • 16 children, 1 teacher die in Pakistan bus fire

    ZAHEER BABAR

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Sixteen schoolchildren and a teacher burned to death in eastern Pakistan early Saturday when a short-circuit near a leaking gas tank caused their minibus to burst into flames, police said. Police officer Ijaz Ahmad said five children were also injured, three of whom...

  • Suspected rebels kill 17, wound 24 in east India

    ASHOK SHARMA

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    NEW DELHI (AP) -- Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire Saturday on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 17 people and wounding 24 others, police said. Senior police officer M. Gupta...

  • French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris

    LORI HINNANT

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    PARIS (AP) -- A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the brutal killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists. French President Francois...

  • Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria

    BASSEM MROUE

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    BEIRUT (AP) -- The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period." In a televised...

  • Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier

    SYLVIA HUI

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    LONDON (AP) -- Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation. Metropolitan Police investigating the killing...