Embattled Mexican mayor sent family to live in US
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The mayor of a wealthy suburb of this northern industrial city said Monday that he has sent his family to the United States for their own safety as he pursues his campaign against extortion and kidnapping gangs. Mayor...
Honduran leader: US weakened anti-coup movement
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Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Monday the United States has weakened efforts to reverse the coup that ousted him, while a U.S. envoy says his country has clearly opposed the ouster and will examine upcoming...
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
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Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that groups of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. The alert comes three years...
China to send two pandas to Australia
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China will send two giant pandas to an Australian zoo this Friday as part of a joint research program. Four-year-old male Wang Wang and 3-year-old female Fu Ni will be loaned to Australia for 10 years, according to...
China activist who spoke out on quake gets 3 years
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A veteran dissident was sentenced to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children during China's massive earthquake last year _ an apparent...
Kangaroo tries to drown dog, attacks owner
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A kangaroo startled by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, pinning the pet underwater and slashing the owner in the abdomen with its hind legs. The Australian, Chris Rickard, was in stable condition Monday after...
Bombings, shooting kill 12 around Afghanistan
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Bombings and shootings killed 12 people across Afghanistan, including four American troops and three children, as President Barack Obama convened his war council again Monday to fine-tune a strategy to respond to the...
Inability to compromise may delay Iraqi election
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Iraq's parliament failed Monday to produce an election law that pleased minority Sunni Arabs, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to say that nationwide balloting scheduled for January "might slip"...
AP Enterprise: Bullet tears open Somali boy's face
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The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his...
TV: Israel proposing 10-month settlement freeze
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Israel TV reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proposing a 10-month freeze in construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The TV report said the freeze would not apply to Jewish neighborhoods in...
Japanese engineer released by Yemeni tribesmen
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A Japanese engineer seized by Yemeni tribesmen seeking to swap him for a prisoner with al-Qaida links was released Monday after a week in captivity. Takeo Mashimo returned to the capital, San'a, after a day of...
Argentina's president urges Middle East peace
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Argentina's president says Israel and the United States should do more to push for peace in the Middle East. Cristina Fernandez said while hosting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday that every participant...
Israel, Hamas near swap of prisoners for soldier
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Hamas leaders raced to Egypt on Monday amid signs of progress on a deal to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captive Israeli soldier held by the Islamic militant group for more than three years. The exchange...
Woman found 25 hours after Indonesia ferry sank
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Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned, and 20 others were missing. A...
Formerly conjoined twins leave intensive care
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Conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated in a marathon surgery last week left intensive care on Monday and were adjusting well, hospital officials said. Trishna and Krishna, who turn 3 next month, had been joined...
UK begins inquiry on Iraq war
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A panel investigating Britain's role in the Iraq war begins questioning witnesses this week in an inquiry that critics hope will humble former Prime Minister Tony Blair and expose alleged deception in the buildup to...
UK's Thatcher sweeps back to 10 Downing Street
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Former British leader Margaret Thatcher returned to London's Downing Street Monday as she unveiled her own portrait, which has been installed in the official residence of Britain's prime minister. Thatcher, British...
Former aide to Duchess of York escapes from prison
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A convicted murdered who once served as the personal assistant to the duchess of York has escaped from a low-security prison in southern England, British officials said Monday. The Ministry of Justice said Jane Andrews...
Canadian woman loses benefits over Facebook photo
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A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits after her insurance agent found photos of her apparently having fun on Facebook. Nathalie Blanchard said Monday she was diagnosed with major...
4 UK lawmakers could face charges over expenses
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Four British lawmakers could face criminal charges over the expenses they claimed from taxpayers, prosecutors said Monday, marking the latest twist in a scandal over lavish spending by elected officials. Prosecutors...
Romania's president, rival in runoff election
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The third-place candidate in Romania's presidential election threw his support Monday behind the Western-backed socialist who faces the centrist president in a runoff seen as key to the country's emergence from...
Iran bans paper for running photo of Baha'i temple
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Iranian authorities have banned the country's largest-circulation newspaper for publishing a photo of a Baha'i temple, state media reported Monday. Iran's Shiite cleric-led regime views the Baha'i religion as heretical...
Hundreds protest trash incinerator plans in China
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Hundreds of residents worried about property values and health risks protested Monday against the planned construction of a trash incinerator in the southern boomtown of Guangzhou. Many of the demonstrators were...
Camus' children torn over Pantheon transfer bid
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Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Paris' Pantheon, the final resting place of other French greats like Voltaire and...
China activist who spoke out on quake gets 3 years
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A veteran dissident was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed during China's massive earthquake last year, killing thousands of children _ an apparent...
Trial of Khmer Rouge prison chief in final stage
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The genocide trial of a prison chief for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge entered its final stage Monday, as closing arguments began in the historic effort to assign responsibility for the deaths of 1.7 million people three...
Report: Russian billionaire buys Hitler's car
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A German newspaper is reporting that Adolf Hitler's original Mercedes has been sold to an unidentified Russian billionaire for several million euros. Express daily wrote Monday that a middleman for the billionaire...
Israel has history of uneven prisoner swap deals
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Palestinians said Monday that negotiators were close to exchanging an Israeli soldier held by Gaza militants for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Israel has carried out such swaps in the past: _June 2008: In exchange for...
London police settle with slain Brazilian's family
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British police have reached a compensation deal with the family of a Brazilian man who was shot dead by police after he was mistaken for a terrorist. Both sides say the amount of the settlement will not be disclosed. ...
Afghan provinces get millions to reduce poppies
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The U.S. on Monday agreed to hand out millions of dollars in development aid to provinces in Afghanistan that have eliminated or reduced the production of opium poppies, the raw ingredient in making heroin. The poppy...
Blast at Russian arsenal kills 8 during cleanup
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Russia's Defense Ministry says eight military personnel were killed when a truckload of ammunition exploded as they cleaned up after a huge conflagration at a munitions depot earlier this month. Ministry spokesman...
Pakistan's army attacks militants in northwest
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Pakistan's army fought Islamist militants for control of a northwestern district on Monday, killing 18 of them in an escalating campaign against insurgents intent on toppling the U.S.-allied government. It was the...
France shows off cutting-edge navy ship in Russia
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A cutting-edge French warship sailed into St. Petersburg Monday to show off its capabilities to potential buyers in the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring...
Iranian official in fake degree scandal dies
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Former Iranian Interior Minister Ali Kordan, who was dismissed after being accused of faking a law degree from the University of Oxford, has died, reports said Monday. He was 51. Kordan died of heart failure Sunday...
Attack on election convoy kills 21 Filipinos
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Dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy carrying journalists, and family and supporters of a candidate for provincial governor, killing at least 21 of the travelers Monday in the southern Philippines' worst political...
EU: Nearly half of unemployed out of work a year
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Nearly half of Europe's unemployed stay out of work for at least a year, a European Union report said Monday, far more than in the U.S. Some 4 million people have lost their jobs since last year's financial crisis...
Pirates free hijacked ship bound for Somali port
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A Somali businessman says a ship hijacked by pirates off East Africa two weeks ago has been released. Ali Dheere, the chairman of a group of traders in Mogadishu, says the al-Mizan has arrived in Somalia's capital. ...
Gunfire at home of US teachers in Indonesia's Aceh
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Gunfire hit the home of two American lecturers in Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Monday, but no one was injured. It is the third time this month foreigners have been targeted in Aceh, a poor province on...
Australian blames Scientology for brother's death
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A man who blames the Church of Scientology for his brother's suicide added his voice Monday to calls for an Australia Senate inquiry into the religion. Belfast-born Stephen McBride, 35, flew from the west coast city of...
Sri Lanka president calls for early election
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Sri Lanka's president signed a decree Monday calling for early elections, hoping to take advantage of his popularity after ending the country's 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term. However, President Mahinda...
Residents return to N. England homes after flood
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Residents of flood-battered northern England are struggling back to work, school and homes after swollen rivers inundated roads and caused several bridges to collapse. Police said residents and business owners in the...
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Philippine army says 21 people taken hostage in the volatile south have been found dead. ...
Philippine police search for US suspect
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Philippine police searched for an American who escaped after allegedly killing a government official's son in a road-rage shooting _ the second homicide case against him, officials said Monday. Jason Ivler, 28, from...
China slams US report warning of spying by Beijing
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Beijing on Monday criticized a U.S. government report that said Chinese spies are aggressively stealing American secrets, saying the report was "full of prejudice" and warning that it could damage US-China relations. ...
US sailor cleared of assaulting Sydney prostitute
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A U.S. Navy serviceman was found not guilty Monday of sexually assaulting a prostitute at a brothel while on shore leave in Australia's biggest city. A New South Wales District Court jury cleared Petty Officer Timothy...
8 women set out to ski to South Pole
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Eight women set out Monday from their base camp on Antarctica to ski to the South Pole in a trek to mark the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth grouping of 53 former British colonies. Skiing six to 10 hours a day,...
Mexico City's famed dance-for-peso halls fading
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Mirna Torres salsas with a gray-bearded man for $1.50 a dance in the Barba Azul, a dark yet garish cabaret decorated like an erotic carnival fun house. The place is nearly empty, looking as neglected as its bas-reliefs...
General: Canada halted prison moves more than once
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Canada's top general said Sunday the transfer of prisoners to Afghan authorities has been halted more than once due to concerns detainees would be tortured. Gen. Walt Natynczyk, the country's chief of defense staff,...
Bermuda dismisses ammunition case against US woman
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Bermuda's highest court has struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammunition magazine from her gun to the British island territory. The Supreme Court ruled there was no evidence...
Iran begins war games to protect nuclear sites
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Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel. ...