Gunmen kidnap 3 workers in southern Philippines
11:18
Gunmen in camouflage stormed a plywood factory and abducted three workers Tuesday, a day after suspected Muslim militants beheaded a kidnapped schoolteacher on a nearby southern Philippine island, officials said. About...
US State Dept 'deplores assault' on Cuban bloggers
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The U.S. State Department issued a statement late Monday decrying attacks on three Cuban bloggers, including one who has gained international attention for her searing observations about life on the communist island. ...
Mexico declares flood emergency in 2 south cities
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The Mexican government has declared parts of the Gulf coast state of Tabasco disaster zones due to flooding from days of heavy rains, freeing up federal relief funds for the area. The Interior Department decree issued...
Thousands cheer 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall
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Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the barrier's shadow. "It was like a prison," said Sauff, 73, who lived on...
Iran accuses 3 detained Americans of espionage
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Iran accused three detained Americans of spying Monday, signaling Tehran intends to put them on trial. It drew a sharp U.S. response that the charges are baseless because the hikers strayed across the border from Iraq. ...
Canadian teen rescued on Arctic ice
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Battling hypothermia, a 17-year-old hunter stranded on a floating chunk of ice shot and killed a polar bear while trapped for more than a day before being rescued Monday in the Canadian Arctic. The teen and his...
BBC: David Miliband declines EU role
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British foreign minister David Miliband has turned down the chance to become the European Union's envoy to the rest of the world, the BBC reported Monday. The broadcaster said that Miliband ruled himself out of the...
Venezuela, Russia to boost technology cooperation
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Venezuela and Russia say they are working on a series of agreements for Moscow to provide the South American country with technology for the development of industries ranging from robotics to biochemistry. Venezuela's...
Nicaragua government supporters attack opponents
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Rock-throwing supporters of Nicaragua's governing Sandinista party have attacked a small protest march by the opposition. The opposition rally Monday was marking the first anniversary of 2008 local elections that...
Mexican police says they freed US kidnap victim
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Prosecutors in the Mexico state of Baja California say they freed a U.S. citizen who was kidnapped last week near the border. Assistant state prosecutor Fermin Gomez says the 21-year-old woman was found in a closet in...
Salvadoran town hit by landslide buries dead
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Tears streamed down Elsy Portillo's badly bruised face Monday as she walked behind coffins carrying her mother and only child in this town buried by a landslide, one in a series that killed at least 130 people in El...
Honduran Congress awaits court opinion on Zelaya
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The head of Honduras' Congress said Monday there is no guarantee lawmakers will vote on whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya before the Nov. 29 election that will choose his successor. Washington and the...
Tobago police charge 2 in killing of German man
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Two men have been charged in the killing of a 49-year-old German man on the Caribbean island of Tobago. One of the suspects appeared in court Monday, while the other was in the hospital for unknown reasons. The two do...
Pro-government group defends Argentina media law
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Argentine journalists, academics and ruling party lawmakers met Monday to challenge the conclusions of an international media group that Latin American leaders are exerting too much control over the press. Supporters...
Palestinian negotiator: 'Defining moment' is here
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The chief Palestinian negotiator on Monday warned Israel that if it does not take peacemaking seriously, it will find itself dealing with the militant Hamas instead of moderates like him. Negotiator Saeb Erekat and...
Lebanon premier unveils new Cabinet with Hezbollah
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Lebanon's prime minister formed a Cabinet Monday that includes the militant group Hezbollah and its allies, ending a political deadlock that left the deeply divided nation without a government for months and threatened...
Iraq election law delays decision on flash points
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After weeks of hard-nosed negotiations, analysts say the election law passed by Iraq's parliament allowing national polls to go forward in January extends compromises to all sides but with key concessions to the Kurds. ...
Quotes about the Berlin Wall anniversary
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A selection of comments from ceremonies, remembrances of the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. ___ _ "Sometimes people forget today how many could not leave (the country) for years, how many sat in...
Honduras finds alleged drug landing strip
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Honduran authorities said Monday that they have discovered a secret landing strip on property once owned by a slain congressman suspected of trafficking in precursor chemicals for methamphetamine. Almost any size...
Obama pays tribute to fall of Berlin Wall
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President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the fall 20 years ago of the Berlin Wall in a video message to the main anniversary event. Obama said in the message introduced Monday by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
India limits media on contentious Dalai Lama trip
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Indian officials clamped down Monday on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's trip to a disputed border area in an apparent effort to minimize tensions with neighboring China. China has protested the Tibetan spiritual...
Somali pirates hit oil tanker in long-range attack
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Somali pirates attacked an oil tanker and fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades Monday farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting that pirate capabilities are growing as they increase...
French make slow gains in contested Afghan valley
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Shortly before nightfall, an Afghan farmer slipped into this NATO outpost with a bag of ammunition and gear he'd collected from nearby Taliban positions. It turned out not to be much: pieces of 82-millimeter mortar guns...
Sarkozy Berlin Wall claims raise questions
1:11
Where was Nicolas Sarkozy when the Berlin Wall fell? The French president suggests _ in a casual post on his Facebook page _ that he was at Checkpoint Charlie, chipping away at the Cold War with a pickax alonside...
World markets get G-20 boost while dollar slides
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World stock markets rose sharply Monday but the dollar fell after the Group of 20 rich and developing countries agreed to maintain their stimulus measures as long as economies remained weak. The G-20 finance ministers...
9 executed over China's deadly ethnic riots
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China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang region. The men are the first to be put to death for...
Funeral for UK nurse who died 30 years ago
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The body of a British nurse who died 30 years ago in Saudi Arabia was cremated Monday after her father gave up his hope for a new investigation in her case. A funeral was held at a crematory in the Yorkshire town of...
Fighting in north Afghanistan kills 130 insurgents
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Afghan and international troops killed more than 130 insurgents in six days of fighting in a once-stable area of northern Afghanistan that has seen a recent spike in Taliban attacks, NATO said Monday. It was some of the...
NY tourist robbed inside Ritz hotel in Puerto Rico
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A New York lawyer was robbed inside his room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Puerto Rico by assailants who tied him up before dawn Monday and stole $800 in cash, police said. The robbers bound Robert J. Anello with lamp...
Taylor nears end of testifying in his own defense
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor ended 13 weeks on the witness stand Monday by rejecting allegations that he commanded and controlled rebels who murdered and mutilated thousands of civilians during Sierra...
Interview embroils Thai ex-PM in new controversy
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Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, at the center of a political fight between his supporters and those of the current government, has ignited fresh controversy by speaking candidly about the nation's...
UN: Gaza needs construction material before winter
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Thousands of Gaza Palestinians left homeless by an Israeli invasion face a cold and rainy winter unless Israel allows building supplies in, a senior U.N. official said Monday. But Israel has ruled out unrestricted...
Prosecutor: Rwanda genocide suspect 'killed kids'
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A prosecutor at a U.N.-backed tribunal is accusing a Rwandan official of ordering the murder of children too weak to walk during the country's 1994 genocide. Paul Ngarua says that suspect Callixte Nzabonimana used his...
US, Germany increase pressure on Afghan's Karzai
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The United States and Germany stepped up pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday to implement major reforms and crack down on rampant corruption. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and German...
Trial for top Zimbabwean PM's aide gets under way
10:24
Prosecutors sought to throw out testimony that evidence against a top prime minister's aide was obtained through torture as the trial that has strained Zimbabwe's troubled coalition government began Monday. Prime...
Iran still wants nuke talks with world powers
10:03
Iran still wants talks with world powers over fuel supplies to a Tehran nuclear reactor _ despite the country's apparent rejection of a U.N. plan to curb Iran's enriched uranium stockpile. The Iranian top nuclear...
Russian court looks at death penalty ban extension
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Russia's Constitutional Court held hearings Monday on whether a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force next year. The Kremlin has said there are no plans to bring back capital punishment, halted 13...
Troops in Afghanistan fight swine flu amid war
9:44
Hundreds of Afghan and international troops already battling a rising militant insurgency are facing a new fight _ recovering from swine flu, the virus that has left 11 people dead in the country. The Ministry of...
Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy
9:42
Two Swiss businessmen detained by Libya over a spat involving leader Moammar Gadhafi's son have been handed over to their embassy in Tripoli, Switzerland's Foreign Ministry said Monday. Libyan authorities gave no...
Vatican on Anglicans: celibacy rule unchanged
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The Vatican on Monday confirmed that opening the door to married Anglican priests doesn't mean the Roman Catholic church is easing the requirement for celibacy for its clergy. The Holy See press office released rules...
1 dead, dozens injured by strong Indonesian quake
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A powerful undersea earthquake killed one person, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of houses on a remote island in central Indonesia, officials said Monday. At least 20 people were hospitalized on Sumbawa after the...
Clinton calls anew for Iran to release 3 Americans
9:08
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is again calling on Iran to release three Americans as a senior Iranian prosecutor said they have been accused of espionage. Clinton said Monday the U.S. believes...
Police say suicide bomber kills 3 in Pakistan
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A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar on Monday, killing three people, police said. The attack was the latest in a string of...
Iran accuses 3 detained Americans of espionage
8:57
A senior Iranian prosecutor says three Americans detained on the border with Iraq have been accused of espionage. Tehran chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi says the three "have been accused" and that...
Myanmar diplomat: Junta may free Suu Kyi for poll
8:53
Myanmar's military-ruled government may release pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi soon, so she can play a role in next year's general elections, according to a senior Myanmar diplomat. The remarks by Min Lwin _ rare...
French police find millions stolen from bank
8:53
A French prosecutor says investigators have found euro9.5 million ($14.25 million) in cash believed stolen from a Lyon branch of France's central bank, a heist that prompted a nationwide search. Lyon Prosecutor Xavier...
Obama confronts an Asia reshaped by China's rise
8:46
Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China _ one that would exclude the United States. Some in Washington took it as a snub from...
8:38
The state news agency IRNA says Iran has charged 3 detained Americans with espionage. ...
Brown: sorry for wrong Afghan condolence note
8:23
A handwritten condolence note written by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the grieving mother of a soldier slain in Afghanistan caused the government fresh embarrassment on Monday. Jacqui Janes, who lost her 20-year-old...
Report: NKorea's Kim rides on tricked-out trains
8:21
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il _ known for shunning air travel _ has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported...