Group: Founder of Tibetan Web site gets 15 years
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The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday. Kunchok Tsephel, 39, was convicted and sentenced Nov. 12...
Venezuela: Colombia detained troops illegally
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A Venezuelan commander contends Colombia wrongly detained four of his soldiers last week along the border separating the South American nations. National Guard Gen. Orlando Mijares says the troops were navigating the...
UN: Once-secret Iran nuke plant to start in 2011
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Iranian construction of a previously secret uranium enrichment site is at an advanced stage, with high-tech equipment already in place at the fortified facility ahead of its 2011 startup, the International Atomic Energy...
Obama: No need to change "one-China" policy
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President Barack Obama says he sees no need to change Washington's "one-China" policy, which acknowledges China's position that Taiwan is part of its territory. Taiwan and China split amid civil war in 1949. Beijing...
Landslide in northern China kills 23
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A state media report says a massive landslide in northern China partially has buried a village and killed at least 23 people, and that rescuers are seeking survivors. The official Xinhua News Agency says the landslide...
Canada Supreme Court hears media appeal
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News blackouts unjustifiably prevented the public from learning why charges were dropped or suspended for some terror suspects, media lawyers told Canada's Supreme Court on Monday. Several media organizations,...
Schwarzenegger drops in on US troops in Iraq
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped in on U.S. troops in Iraq on Monday, thanking them for the sacrifices they and their families are making. Schwarzenegger entered a crowded dining hall at Camp Victory on...
12 Afghans killed in attack on meeting with French
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Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local...
Peru president rebukes Chile over alleged spying
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Peruvian President Alan Garcia accused Chile of assaulting Peru's sovereignty, throwing his weight behind allegations that Chile paid a Peruvian military officer to spy. "These repulsive acts do not correspond to a...
El Salvador honors 6 Jesuits slain by army in 1989
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Six Jesuit priests killed by the army during El Salvador's civil war two decades ago were decorated with the country's highest honor Monday. Mauricio Funes, El Salvador's first leftist president, called the decorations...
Buenos Aires grants first marriage license to gays
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Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina's capital on Monday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage. Jose Maria Di Bello and his partner Alex Freyre won the right to get...
Chinese censors block Obama's call to free the Web
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President Barack Obama prodded China about Internet censorship and free speech, but the message was not widely heard in China where his words were blocked online and shown on only one regional television channel. China...
US softball players try sports diplomacy in Cuba
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Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children's ball field at a faded sports complex under...
Mistress' diary: Mussolini was fierce anti-Semite
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Benito Mussolini was a fierce anti-Semite, who proudly said that his hatred for Jews preceded Adolf Hitler's and vowed to "destroy them all," according to previously unpublished diaries by the Fascist dictator's...
Gunmen kill 13 men execution style west of Baghdad
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Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed 13 people whose bodies were found Monday with gunshot wounds to the head, including a local leader of Iraq's largest Sunni party, which once helped fight al-Qaida. ...
Palestinians seek EU support for independence
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The Palestinians asked the European Union on Monday to back their plan to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an independent Palestinian state without Israeli consent. The idea of seeking U.N. intervention has...
Yet another anti-corruption unit for Afghanistan
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Afghanistan's newly unveiled anti-corruption unit drew guarded praise Monday from a wary international community, which has heard President Hamid Karzai promise before to end the graft and thievery that's bleeding his...
UK war criminal: Troops kicked and punched Iraqis
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Britain's first convicted war criminal said Monday that some of his fellow soldiers frequently beat Iraqi detainees. Former Cpl. Donald Payne, who was jailed for a year in the death of hotel receptionist Baha Mousa and...
Gadhafi hosts Italian women, tries to convert them
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran, a news report said Monday. ...
Police: French bank heist suspect turns himself in
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A French armored car driver suspected of stealing euro11.6 million ($17.4 million) in cash has turned himself in to authorities in Monaco following a massive manhunt, police in France and Monaco said. Suspect Toni...
Aid group: 24,000 infant deaths preventable daily
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More than 24,000 infants die daily from preventable diseases in developing countries because governments have failed to spend more on health care, an international aid group said Monday. A report from World Vision said...
Judge frees Rwandan, overturns genocide conviction
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A U.N. appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of the former Rwandan president's brother-in-law, who had been sentenced to 20 years for organizing a massacre that left about 1,000 dead during the 1994...
Tourists return to Zimbabwe as economy recovers
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The number of tourists visiting Zimbabwe this year has more than tripled, a trade official said Monday as entrepreneurs tried to lure investors to the troubled southern African country. Emmanuel Fundira, president of...
Environmentalists: bluefin tuna quota too high
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Environmentalists on Monday said an international deal to reduce catches of Atlantic bluefin tuna didn't go far enough to protect the species from extinction. The International Commission for the Conservation of...
Carter defends his handling of Iran hostage crisis
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died. ...
New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty
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An African took over as director of Greenpeace Monday, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming. Greenpeace...
Japanese engineer kidnapped by Yemen tribesmen
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Armed tribesmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer working in Yemen and demanded the government release one of their imprisoned tribe members, the Japanese Embassy and a Yemeni security official said Monday. Kohei...
Reports: Iran's Russian reactor startup delayed
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Moscow on Monday dashed Iranian hopes that a Russian-built nuclear reactor will be switched on this year, a blow to Tehran amid persistent tension over its nuclear program. Officials in Russia and Iran had previously...
Dennis Rodman temporarily detained in Germany
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Former basketball star Dennis Rodman was temporarily detained in Germany for allegedly skipping out on a euro3,400 ($5,100) hotel bill for a post-game party, a prosecution official said Monday. Senior prosecutor...
Report: Muslim extremists recruiting from UK jails
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Two of Britain's most high-profile Muslim extremists have been given free rein to recruit fellow inmates in prison and are spreading propaganda from behind bars, a think-tank founded by two former Islamic radicals said...
Environmentalists alarmed by Puerto Rico policies
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Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight...
EU officials question Afghan gov't competence
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European Union officials questioned Monday whether Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government can face up to the country's challenges but did not echo a U.S. pledge to withhold civilian aid without more accountability. ...
Swine flu infects Ukraine's presidential elections
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In Ukraine, swine flu is causing electoral fever. In a hard-fought presidential campaign, critics of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accuse her of stirring up panic to grab the spotlight from rivals by closing all...
Germany launches databases on fate of POWs
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A new database with the names of some 70,000 Soviet prisoners of war held in Germany during the Third Reich is now available online, the Saxony state government said in a statement Monday. The names of another 10,000...
Australia apologizes to Brit kids sent to colonies
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When John Hennessey was 10 years old, he was sent from a war-weary Britain to an orphanage in Australia, where he was told food was plentiful and children rode kangaroos to school. Instead, he was beaten and sexually...
US Air Force official expects UAE role to continue
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A senior U.S. Air Force official said Monday he expects the force's involvement in the United Arab Emirates to continue and potentially expand. Air Force Deputy Under Secretary Bruce Lemkin offered few specifics while...
Serbs mourn their patriarch
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Thousands of people waited on long lines Monday to pay their respects to the late Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle at a church in Belgrade. Pavle's body remained on display in an open coffin at the main Saborna...
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Japanese Embassy says Japanese engineer has been kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen. ...
Envoy says US to attend war crimes court meeting
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The United States will attend an annual meeting of the International Criminal Court, a body it has so far refused to participate in, the U.S. envoy for war crimes said Monday. Stephen Rapp said the U.S. will for the...
AP IMPACT: Kenyans recruited to fight in Somalia
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The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks, which were covered with heavy canvas, and driven through the night. It was so hot inside they could...
SAfrican woman survives after thrown from bridge
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Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge. Police Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said Monday that no arrests have been made although four...
Briton arrested in serial rape investigation
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In one of Britain's longest running hunts for a serial rapist, Scotland Yard detectives charged a 52-year-old man Monday with a string of nearly a dozen assaults and burglaries. The man dubbed the "Night Stalker," left...
Obama speaks out against Web censorship in China
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President Barack Obama is telling Chinese students that unrestricted Internet access in the United States is a source of strength and an open exchange of information makes all countries stronger. Obama on Monday told a...
Spain moves to win hostage sailors' freedom
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Spain moved Monday to win the release of 36 fishermen held hostage on a Spanish trawler off Somalia by indicting two captured pirates in a fast-track procedure so they can be returned to Somalia as demanded by the...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi seeks meeting with junta chief
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Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sent a letter to the head of the country's junta seeking a meeting to discuss how they can cooperate for the national interest, a spokesman for her party said...
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UN nuclear agency: Iran will start up once-secret facility outside holy city of Qom in 2011. ...
Saudi cleric accuses Iran of ties to Yemeni rebels
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Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric accused Iran on Monday of supporting Shiite rebels whose war with the government of neighboring Yemen has spilled across the border and drawn in Saudi firepower. Yemen and the Saudis...
US military: American soldier dies in Iraq
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The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of noncombat-related injuries in Iraq. A military statement says the Multi-National Division _ North soldier died on Monday of injuries sustained in a vehicle...
Czech, US officials discuss missile defense
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The Obama administration hopes the Czech Republic will play an important role in a reworked U.S. missile defense plan, a top American official said Monday. Ellen Tauscher, the U.S. undersecretary of state for arms...
Australian doctors operate on conjoined twins
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A team of Australian surgeons were working Monday on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head. The 2-year-old Bangladeshi orphans, Trishna and Krishna, share...