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Soldier to testify against peer in prisoner deaths

2009-02-18T12:38:00.000-08:00

Prosecution to call sergeant who had charges against him dropped

The Associated Press

A U.S. Army sergeant will testify against a fellow patrol member accused in the killing of four Iraqi prisoners who were bound, blindfolded, shot in the head and dumped in a Baghdad canal, a military judge ruled Tuesday.

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Border crossings to Mexico closed by protests

2009-02-18T12:33:00.000-08:00

Largest display of discontent against the army's crackdown on drug cartels

The Associated Press

Hundreds of people blocked bridges to the United States in three border cities Tuesday, demanding the army leave in another challenge for the Mexican government as it struggles to quell escalating drug violence.

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AIDS becomes top infectious disease in China

2009-02-18T12:28:00.000-08:00

Virus killed nearly 7,000 in the first nine months of 2008

The Associated Press

AIDS was the top killer among infectious diseases in China for the first time last year, with 6,897 people dying in the nine months through September, a state news agency said.

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Child workers rescued in India factory raid

2009-02-06T10:51:00.000-08:00

By Harmeet Shah Singh

Indian labor authorities rescued 18 child workers in raids at metal-embroidery units in the western state of Gujarat, officials said Friday.

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Second Mexican City Invites All To Come Kiss

2009-01-23T13:39:00.000-08:00

Not To Be Outdone, Second Mexican City Invites All To Come Kiss

The Associated Press

Inviting people to pucker up seems to be all the rage in Mexican cities.

The Mexico City government is urging people to converge on the huge Zocalo city center and simultaneously kiss on Valentine's Day. City Tourism Secretary Alejandro Rojas says the goal is to break the world record for the most people kissing at one time.

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Japan Launches Satellite To Monitor CO2

2009-01-23T13:15:00.000-08:00

First Orbiting Probe Dedicated To Carbon Emissions Research Goes Up On Japanese Rocket

The Associated Press

The first satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide emissions was launched into space Friday from a center in Japan, where officials hope to gather information on climate change - and help the country compete in the lucrative satellite-launching business.

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Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 10 in Pakistan

2009-01-23T09:23:00.000-08:00

From Reza Sayah

Ten people were killed Friday evening in a suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan's tribal region, said a local political official and two military sources.

The suspected strike would be the first since President Obama took office Tuesday.

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Children dead in Belgian nursery knife attack

2009-01-23T09:18:00.000-08:00

CNN

Two children and one adult were killed Friday after a man with a painted face launched a knife attack at a children's daycare center in Belgium.

Officials said two adults and 10 children, some of whom were in a critical condition, were being treated in hospital following the attack in Dendermonde, 25 kilometers (16 miles) northwest of Brussels.

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Doctors amputate Brazilian model's hands, feet

2009-01-23T09:07:00.000-08:00

By Hilary Whiteman

During one beauty pageant, Brazilian model Mariana Bridi, 20, confided in friends that she was "living the dream."

Now she's fighting for her life in intensive care in a hospital in the Brazilian city of Serra, following a series of operations to bring a potentially fatal infection under control.

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Americans Held In Romania In Kidnap Probe

2009-01-16T15:14:00.000-08:00

Three Questioned In 8-Year-Old Boy At Center Of Custody Dispute

The Associated Press

Three U.S. citizens have been asked to remain in Romania while authorities investigate the alleged kidnapping of a child that has been the subject of a custody dispute, a Romanian prosecutor said Friday.

The three Americans are being questioned in the alleged abduction of Stefan Barbat-Alexander, 8, in the central Romanian town of Sacele on Tuesday, prosecutor Claudiu Sandu said.

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Hugo Chavez Seeks Unlimited Rule

2009-01-16T15:10:00.000-08:00

Venezuelan Lawmakers OK Bill Wiping Out Term Limits For All Officials; But Voters Will Decide

The Associated Press

Venezuelan lawmakers on Wednesday approved amendments to the constitution that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely, the final step before the proposal goes before voters in a referendum.

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Israel resumes Gaza offensive after lull

2009-01-10T08:58:00.000-08:00

Heavy black smoke rose in Gaza City, apparently from explosions, during a three-hour lull Saturday afternoon during which Israel was to halt its attacks on Gaza militants so Palestinians could stock up on supplies.

CNN's Ben Wedeman said the lulls, which have been tried before, aren't "rock solid."

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Giant panda in China bites third victim

2009-01-10T08:55:00.000-08:00

By John Vause

Gu Gu is not your typical soft and cuddly giant panda.
For the third time, he's tasted the flesh of an unwitting intruder in his pen at the Beijing Zoo.

His most recent victim was 28-year-old Zhang Jiao.

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Top cartel suspect arrested in Mexico

2009-01-10T08:50:00.000-08:00

Mexican authorities have arrested a top drug cartel suspect and two other men and seized drugs, weapons, explosives, vehicles and cash, the state-run news agency said.

Adrian Rivera Garcia, known as "El Primo Rivera," is the presumed head of one of the cells in the Beltran-Leyva brothers cartel, the Notimex news agency said Thursday, citing a Mexican army release.

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Obama's inaugural choice sparks outrage

2008-12-18T09:40:00.000-08:00

By Alexander Mooney

Prominent liberal groups and gay rights proponents criticized President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday for choosing evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration next month.

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Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush asks for pardon

2008-12-18T08:28:00.000-08:00

Journalist describes his behavior as 'an ugly act,' faces up to 2 years in jail

The Associated Press

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, Egypt, could face two years imprisonment for insulting a foreign leader. He remained in custody Thursday night.

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Sony To Cut 8,000 Jobs Worldwide

2008-12-10T15:52:00.000-08:00

Gadget Giant Says 4 Percent Of Global Work Force, From Electronics Division, Will Go

The Associated Press

Sony is slashing 8,000 jobs, or 4 percent of its global work force, aiming to cut costs by $1.1 billion a year as a global downturn and stronger yen batters profits at the Japanese electronics maker.

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Clashes Erupt at Greek Court as Police Are Jailed in Teen's Death

2008-12-10T15:48:00.000-08:00

Associated Press

A court has ordered two policemen to be held in jail pending trial for a teenager's fatal shooting, which has sparked five days of rioting in Greek cities.

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Historic Center of Venice Flooded

2008-12-01T09:36:00.000-08:00

Highest Water Levels in 20 Years Flood Venice's Historic Center, St. Mark's Square

The Associated Press

The worst flooding in Venice in more than 20 years forced residents and tourists to wade through knee-high water Monday.

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Five Mumbai Terrorists May Have Escaped Capture

2008-12-01T09:30:00.000-08:00

The Times

At least five terrorist gunmen have evaded capture in Mumbai and could make a secondary strike on India's financial capital, police feared Monday morning.

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Terrorists attack several sites in Mumbai

2008-11-26T12:13:00.000-08:00

NBC News and news services

Terrorists armed with automatic weapons and grenades attacked at least seven sites in Mumbai on Wednesday and were holding Western hostages at a hotel, authorities said. Indian media reported at least 80 people were killed and 250 wounded.

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Oil dives towards $60 on deep economic gloom

2008-11-06T09:17:00.000-08:00

By David Sheppard

Oil dived to just above $60 a barrel Thursday, extending the previous day's 7 percent drop, after the International Monetary Fund warned developed economies would deliver their worst performance since World War II.

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Asian Markets Fall as Investors Refocus on Economy

2008-11-06T09:08:00.000-08:00

By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ

Asian Stock Markets Retreat as Investors Refocus on Economy, Profits After U.S. Election Rally

Asian stock markets tumbled Thursday, following Wall Street lower as U.S. presidential election euphoria gave way to fears of a deep and protracted recession in the world's largest economy.

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Threats, deaths show world what Obama faces

2008-11-06T09:03:00.000-08:00

The Associated Press

Headlines around the globe a wake-up call for next U.S. president

Nothing quite like Russian missiles to stomp on a guy's big election buzz. Before Barack Obama even got up to savor a first day as president-elect, Russia threatened to station missiles alongside U.S.-ally Poland.

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Bhutan celebrates coronation of new king

2008-11-06T09:00:00.000-08:00

The Associated Press and Reuters

U.S.-educated prince is crowned in colorful day-long ceremony

With medieval tradition and Buddhist spirituality, a 28-year-old with an Oxford education assumed the Raven Crown of Bhutan on Thursday, to guide the world's newest democracy as it emerges into the modern world.

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Bank of England, ECB slash interest rates

2008-11-06T08:54:00.000-08:00

The Associated Press

Swiss, Czech central banks also cut rates as they fight recession

The European Central Bank cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 3.25 percent on Thursday and the Bank of England made an even more aggressive reduction of 1.5 percentage point in an effort to ease the financial crisis and boost their flagging economies.

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Mob Muscles Its Way Into Politics in Bulgaria

2008-10-16T13:02:00.000-07:00

By DOREEN CARVAJAL and STEPHEN CASTLE

Politics is played to the death in Bulgaria, where the lives of politicians can be as cheap as spent bullets and murky business groups wage a murderous struggle for their cut of everything from real estate deals to millions in European aid.

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25 years later, bombing in Beirut still resonates

2008-10-16T12:40:00.000-07:00

By Rick Hampson

A quarter-century later, the sergeant of the guard that morning says he can still see the face of the man driving the truck.

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Gen.: Enemy Numbers Swell In Afghanistan

2008-10-16T12:36:00.000-07:00

by Jeff Newton and Peter Klein

A top general in charge of U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan tells correspondent Lara Logan the enemy has increased by up to 30 percent in the last year and he is seeking re-enforcements.

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Spanish Terror Raid Leads to Suspected Extremist Network Arrests

2008-10-16T12:31:00.000-07:00

Associated Press

Spanish police on Thursday arrested 13 men accused of harboring Islamic extremists, including several suspects in the Madrid terror bombings of 2004, and helping them flee the country, the Interior Ministry said.

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Official: Wire likely ripped off blades in fatal chopper crash

2008-10-16T12:24:00.000-07:00

Marsha Walton

The rotor blades on a critical-care helicopter that crashed -- killing all four passengers -- likely clipped a guy wire, causing the blades to break off, an air safety investigator said Thursday.

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Freed Americans Back In Jordan

2008-10-10T15:45:00.000-07:00

Shafika Mattar

Two American journalists who went missing during a vacation in Lebanon were quoted Friday as saying they were "kidnapped" by their taxi driver and taken into Syria, where they were held in custody for a week before being released.

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Pakistan: U.S. missile attacks helping terrorists

2008-10-10T15:37:00.000-07:00

msnbc.com News Services

U.S. missile attacks on suspected militants in Pakistan's northwest near Afghanistan are undermining the war on terror and "helping the terrorists," the Muslim nation's Foreign Ministry said Friday.

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Ex-Finnish president wins Nobel Peace Prize

2008-10-10T15:19:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East.

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House Passes Economic Recovery Bill

2008-10-03T10:56:00.000-07:00

By JAKE TAPPER and Z. BYRON WOLF

'Sweetened' Bill Passes 263-171 as Congress Addresses Economic Crisis

The House of Representatives passed a sweeping, $700 billion economic rescue package after reconsidering the measure it failed to green-light earlier this week. The vote was 263 to 171, well above the 218 votes needed to pass the bill.

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Thai and Cambodian troops wounded in clash

2008-10-03T10:53:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Soldiers from both Cambodia and Thailand were wounded Friday in a brief clash along their volatile border, officials from the two countries said.

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121 arrested in Spain for child porn

2008-10-03T10:51:00.000-07:00

By Al Goodman

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish police have arrested 121 men and seized millions of computer files in the country's biggest operation against child pornography on the Internet.

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Melamine found in 18 more food products

2008-10-03T10:49:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam's health ministry has discovered the industrial chemical melamine in 18 food products imported from China and three other countries and has ordered them recalled and destroyed, officials said Friday.

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Bailout Hope Fails To Boost World Markets

2008-10-03T10:45:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

Stock Indices In The Red As Investors Show Little Confidence Bailout Can Beat Recession

World markets fell Friday in the wake of another plunge on Wall Street amid doubts that Washington's bank bailout plan will prevent a recession in the U.S. and an economic slump around the world.

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Mexicans In U.S. Sending Less Cash Home

2008-10-03T10:42:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

12% Drop In Remittances In August Is The Largest Reduction Since The Bank Of Mexico Started Keeping Track

Mexicans living in the U.S. sent home 12 percent less money in August, the largest drop on record since the Bank of Mexico began tracking remittances 12 years ago, the central bank reported on Wednesday.

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2 Terror Suspects Arrested on KLM Airplane En Route to Amsterdam

2008-09-26T10:24:00.000-07:00

By CHRISTEL KUCHARZ

German Police Arrest Pair on KLM Flight to Amsterdam

KLM flight 1804 from Cologne to Amsterdam was sitting on the tarmac at Cologne's airport as crew members prepared for departure when SEK, Germany's special police, entered the plane and arrested two passengers suspected of planning terrorist attacks.

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Russia, Venezuela Sign Oil and Gas Deals

2008-09-26T10:21:00.000-07:00

By STEVE GUTTERMAN

Chavez, Medvedev oversee signing of oil, gas deals, increasing Russian-Venezuelan ties

Russia and Venezuelan officials on Friday signed agreements meant to bolster cooperation in the oil and gas industry, playing up energy ties between two nations trying to decrease U.S. influence around the world.

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Russia, U.S. Will Seek New Iran Sanctions

2008-09-26T10:06:00.000-07:00

AP) Russia and the United States have reached a deal to seek a new U.N. resolution on Iran, Britain's U.N. ambassador said Friday.

Ambassador John Sawers spoke before heading into a high-level meeting at U.N. headquarters of nations concerned with events in Pakistan.

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White House alters defense of economy's strength

2008-09-17T15:53:00.000-07:00

By BEN FELLER

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House throttled back its description of the U.S. economy on Wednesday, labeling it resilient enough to withstand some shocks to the system but refusing to say it is fundamentally sound - the phrase that has jolted the race for the presidency.

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3 U.S. soldiers charged with murder in Iraq deaths

2008-09-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

From the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Three American soldiers were charged with murder today in the deaths of four Iraqis who were bound, blindfolded, shot in the head and dumped in a Baghdad canal last year.

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16 Are Killed in Attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen

2008-09-17T10:48:00.000-07:00

By ROBERT F. WORTH

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Heavily armed militants opened fire on the United States Embassy in Sana, Yemen, on Wednesday and detonated a car bomb at its gates, in an attack that left at least 16 people dead including six of the attackers, Yemeni officials said.

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Revelers Killed in Mexican President’s Hometown

2008-09-16T16:41:00.000-07:00

By MARC LACEY

MEXICO CITY — Explosions apparently caused by lobbed grenades tore through a crowded Independence Day celebration in the Mexican state of Michoacán late Monday night, killing at least seven people, injuring more than 100 others and casting a pall over a country that has experienced unprecedented levels of violence in recent months.

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Bolivia death toll rises

2008-09-15T15:57:00.000-07:00

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

At least 28 have died in violence. Evo Morales' government and the opposition accuse each other of arming paramilitaries.

SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA -- The death toll in last week's violence in a remote northern province rose to more than two dozen, Bolivia's government said Sunday, as it held frantic talks with opponents to avert further bloodshed.

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U.N. watchdog reports growing frustration with Iran's nuclear push

2008-09-15T15:55:00.000-07:00

By Borzou Daragahi

The group's report says Iran continues to dodge questions about its alleged nuclear weapons research and has expanded its ability to produce radioactive material.

BEIRUT -- Iran failed to resolve lingering questions about alleged nuclear weapons research and modestly expanded its ability to produce sensitive radioactive material that could potentially be used for a bomb, said a report issued Monday by the U.N.'s atomic watchdog for its board of directors.

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Israel asks U.S. for arms, air corridor to attack Iran

2008-09-12T15:05:00.000-07:00

By Amos Harel and Aluf Benn

The security aid package the United States has refused to give Israel for the past few months out of concern that Israel would use it to attack nuclear facilities in Iran included a large number of "bunker-buster" bombs, permission to use an air corridor to Iran, an advanced technological system and refueling planes.

Officials from both countries have been discussing the Israeli requests over the past few months. Their rejection would make it very difficult for Israel to attack Iran, if such a decision is made.

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