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  • Armed robbers kill 48 in northwest Nigeria

    06/19/13 08:02 AM

    KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Police say armed robbers have shot and killed 48 people in a revenge attack on villagers in northwest Nigeria who have formed vigilante groups to try to end a spree of violent thefts. Police Commissioner Akila Usman of Zamfara state said the gunmen arrived on motorbikes...

  • Obama: Friction in Afghan peace talks no surprise

    06/19/13 07:47 AM

    BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama says it's no surprise that there's friction in early efforts to launch peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan's government. But Obama says even though the war is still ongoing, there must be a parallel track to political reconciliation. Prospects...

  • UK soldiers' families can sue over Iraq deaths

    06/19/13 07:47 AM

    LONDON (AP) — The families of several British soldiers killed or injured in Iraq can sue the government for failing to protect them, the country's highest court ruled Wednesday. The cases have been brought by relatives of soldiers including Cpl. Stephen Allbutt, who died in a "friendly fire"...

  • Afghan president: No peace talks with the Taliban unless only Afghans involved, violence stops

    06/19/13 07:46 AM

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan president: No peace talks with the Taliban unless only Afghans involved, violence stops.

  • UN says 45.2 million refugees and displaced people

    06/19/13 07:32 AM

    GENEVA (AP) — The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday. Those are the highest numbers since 1994, when...

  • President Obama: "Lives have been saved" by surveillance programs, at least 50 threats averted

    06/19/13 07:17 AM

    BERLIN (AP) — President Obama: "Lives have been saved" by surveillance programs, at least 50 threats averted.

  • Obama: NSA programs have saved lives

    06/19/13 07:16 AM

    BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama says lives have been saved by sweeping surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency. Obama says at least 50 threats have been averted because of phone records and Internet information the agency was able to access. He says those threats were...

  • UN chief warns of new peacekeeping threats

    06/19/13 06:31 AM

    BEIJING (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the world body's peacekeeping efforts face growing dangers from non-traditional threats such as suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices. Ban told reporters on a visit to a peacekeeping training base near the Chinese...

  • China, North Korea hold strategic talks in Beijing

    06/19/13 06:00 AM

    BEIJING (AP) — Negotiators from North Korea and China held strategic talks in Beijing on Wednesday as they work to repair strained relations, but offered little indication they will lead to a resumption of nuclear disarmament talks any time soon. Neither Pyongyang or Beijing offered details...

  • Group decries Sri Lanka's proposed media code

    06/19/13 06:00 AM

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Rights groups are criticizing a code of media ethics proposed by Sri Lanka's government, saying Wednesday that the code could have a chilling effect on free speech in the Indian Ocean island nation. New York-based Human Rights Watch said the code is "unnecessary" and...


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