Survey: Gov'ts see climate change as aid challenge
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A global network of aid agencies says world powers consider climate change the most significant challenge to humanitarian work. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says rich,...
Zambian editor cleared of pornography charges
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A Zambian newspaper editor has been acquitted of pornography charges after she e-mailed officials photos of a woman giving birth unassisted to a baby who did not survive. The photos were taken in the streets of...
SKorea sets greenhouse gas reduction target
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South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target Tuesday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 4 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The announcement came amid...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi proposes cooperation with junta
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Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Myanmar's ruling junta in lifting foreign sanctions but it remains uncertain if the reconciliation efforts will yield results. In a letter to junta...
2 Thais nabbed on charges of trading African ivory
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Thai police arrested two men on charges of smuggling African ivory into the country to supply shops that sell jewelry and trinkets, including to customers in the United States, authorities said Tuesday. Police said the...
The world's most and least corrupt countries
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A look at the world's 10 most corrupt and 10 least corrupt countries according to the Corruption Perceptions Index report published Tuesday by watchdog Transparency International. The world's ten most corrupt...
Iran says UN watchdog has cleared nuclear program
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Iran's nuclear envoy denied Tuesday that the U.N. inspectors' tour of its recently revealed uranium enrichment site has turned up any evidence that the Islamic republic is seeking nuclear weapons. While the...
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Spain's prime minister announces Somali pirates have freed trawler with crew of 36. ...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama tours Forbidden City
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Playing tourist on his first visit ever to China, President Barack Obama drew a chilly comparison between the Chinese capital and his Illinois hometown. "I have to say I didn't realize that Beijing gets as cold as my...
Cruise ship with 100 tourists stuck in Antarctica
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A Russian shipping company says one of its cruise ships carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists is stuck in the ice around Antarctica. German Kuzin of the Fareastern Shipping Company says the Captain...
Lingering effects of Baghdad blasts on Iraqis
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Sadiya Khadem Rashid just needed a stamp. One stamp from Baghdad's city hall so she could receive $850 in compensation given to displaced Iraqis who return home. But before she could get there, the building was blown...
Death toll passes 30 in Myanmar ferry sinking
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Searchers have recovered more bodies from a ferry accident in Myanmar, bringing the confirmed death toll to 31, with about a dozen people still unaccounted for. An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because...
Campaigner against hate crimes killed in Moscow
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Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow. The Prosecutor General's Investigative Committee says the man killed Monday was an active campaigner against neo-Nazi groups. ...
EU rejects Palestinian statehood appeal
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The European Union rejected requests Tuesday that it support a Palestinian plan for gaining recognition as an independent state at the U.N. Security Council without Israeli consent. Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama tours Forbidden City
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President Barack Obama played tourist Tuesday on his first visit ever to China, spending nearly an hour touring the Forbidden City and its maze of red buildings and cobblestone courtyards. Built in the 1400s, the...
Obama pushes human rights in meetings with Chinese
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President Barack Obama is pushing China on human rights, telling President Hu Jintao the U.S. believes all men and woman have "certain fundamental rights." Obama met with his counterpart during two meetings Tuesday and...
Mozambique opposition claims election fraud
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Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct. 28 presidential election. Opposition member Saimone...
Mexico Indian remains returned from NY for burial
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Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last Indian...
Bomb targeting police chief wounds 6 in Pakistan
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Police say a bomb targeting a police chief's vehicle in southwestern Pakistan has killed one person and injured six others. Officer Mohammed Zaman says Quetta Police Chief Shahid Nizam Durrani was not harmed in...
Obama: Iran, NKorea have choices on nuke programs
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President Barack Obama says there will be consequences if Tehran does not demonstrate Iran's nuclear program is "peaceful and transparent." Speaking with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Obama said Tuesday that the United...
New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty
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An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, 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 was...
Obama: US, China want climate change deal
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President Barack Obama says the United States and China are looking for a comprehensive deal during next month's climate change summit that will "rally the world." Obama says the goal at the Copenhagen meeting should...
Obama: China has helped US pull out of recession
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President Barack Obama says that China's partnership has helped the United States pull out of the worst recession in a generation. Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao appeared together and spoke to reporters after a...
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Obama says Iran will face consequences if it fails to demonstrate peaceful nuclear aims. ...
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...