Honduras police say 4 people, rifles seized
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Honduran police detained two Nicaraguans and two Hondurans along with several rifles, and interim President Roberto Micheletti claimed the weapons were part of a plot to attack him during Sunday's presidential election....
Furry felons rob SAfrican tourists, steal food
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Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons. The cheeky...
New blackout hits Rio's glitzy beach neighborhoods
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Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home. The outage came two weeks...
Docs say formerly conjoined twins recovering well
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Formerly conjoined twin sisters Trishna and Krishna are enjoying a favorite DVD and trying new foods as they continue their recovery from marathon separation surgery, doctors said. Royal Children's Hospital chief of...
NIreland: 2 charged with attack on police
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Two suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents have been charged with attempting to kill an off-duty police officer near the province's border with the Republic of Ireland last week, police said Tuesday. The pair, 26...
Astronaut says Mexico needs its own space program
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A NASA astronaut says he wants to help Mexican officials start the country's first space agency. Astronaut Jose Hernandez says he has no plans to leave his job at NASA, but hopes to help Mexico's program get off the...
Mullen leads US in arms control talks with Russia
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President Barack Obama's top military adviser attended the latest talks with Russia to replace an expiring Cold War-era arms control agreement, the U.S. said Tuesday. Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
Diplomats: Big powers prepare Iran resolution
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Six world powers have readied a resolution critical of Iran's nuclear program, diplomats said Tuesday, as Tehran suggested it was still ready to discuss a U.N.-backed plan meant to delay the Islamic Republic's ability...
Iran's leader gets backing in friendly Bolivia
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Iran's president inaugurated an Iranian-funded hospital and two milk-processing plants Tuesday in a goodwill visit in which his leftist host defended Iran's "peaceful" nuclear aspirations. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and...
China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal
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China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula _ severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest...
Google documents Iraqi museum treasures
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Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday. The museum was ransacked in the chaotic...
Report: Iran lifts ban on popular newspaper
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An Iranian news agency reports that the judiciary has after just a day lifted its ban on a popular newspaper which ran a photo of a Baha'i temple. The spokesman for Tehran's justice department, Zahed Bashirirad, said...
Bolivia police bust 5 cocaine labs, 1 officer shot
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Bolivian police say they have busted five cocaine labs and arrested two people in a remote Indian village after a confrontation in which an officer was shot. Maj. Alex Alfaro says Indians in Qaqachaca village held...
Prisoner swap could win release of popular leader
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At the top of the list of Palestinian prisoners likely to be freed in a possible swap for an Israeli soldier is a firebrand politician many Palestinians believe is a likely future president who can pull them out of...
British panel begins inquiry on Iraq war
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An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration officials were calling for Saddam Hussein's ouster as early as 2001 _ long before...
Jaguar kills gold miner in Guyana jungle
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Police say a jaguar prowling the lush jungles of Guyana killed a gold and diamond miner as he fetched water from a creek. A police statement says fellow miners found 43-year-old Kurt Rodrigues after the mauling. He...
Unnatural selection? Thieves swiped Darwin's notes
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British authorities say they're searching for a leather-bound notebook Charles Darwin used in developing his theory of natural selection. English Heritage made the appeal Tuesday _ the 150th anniversary of the...
Afghan official says 15 ministers face graft probe
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Three Afghan Cabinet officials and 12 former ministers are under investigation for alleged corruption, the attorney general's office said Tuesday, announcing cases that could signal whether the government is serious...
Iraq elections face delay
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A senior official said Tuesday that Iraq must delay a national vote scheduled for January because of a political dispute, and the vice president who triggered the crisis indicated he would veto a key election law for a...
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Man once thought in coma says he feels like newborn baby after regaining power to communciate. ...
Political crisis roils Pakistan as Taliban loom
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The collapse of a deal granting Pakistan's president and thousands of other officials freedom from prosecution on graft charges has triggered fresh political turmoil just as the army wages a major battle against Taliban...
Wooing of Taliban fighters is dangerous game
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A battered taxi sped up a dusty road toward a squad of Afghan soldiers searching for bombs planted in the dirt. Army gunmen who had fanned out for protection readied for a suicide attacker. The car screeched to a halt. ...
Indian probe blames mosque attack on Hindu leaders
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An Indian government investigation released Tuesday into the 1992 demolition of a mosque by a raging mob reportedly accused top Hindu nationalist politicians of complicity in the attack that sparked nationwide ethnic...
UK official: Obama's delay hurts our Afghan case
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British defense secretary Bob Ainsworth says the United States' delay in deciding how many reinforcements to send to Afghanistan has harmed his country's ability to rally public support for the war. Ainsworth told the...
Festival of mass animal sacrifice begins in Nepal
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The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began...
Italy police nab 'paralyzed' Mafia boss on the run
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A convicted Mafia boss who got out of jail by faking paralysis and anorexia has been arrested at a restaurant after more than two months on the run, police in Sicily said Tuesday. Officers arrested Carmelo Di Stefano...
Woman duped out of $50K in Internet love scam
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Authorities say an Australian woman who fell in love online was duped out of nearly $50,000 by a Nigerian man who said he was her "Mr. Right." Lawal Adewale Nurudeen was sentenced to 19 years in prison and ordered to...
2 warlords plead innocent in Congo massacre trial
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Two Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters to wipe out a village in a revenge attack that left more than 200 men, women and children dead, a prosecutor told judges Tuesday at the International...
6.8-magnitude quake rattles Tonga
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A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga, sending panicked residents into the streets at night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Residents in the capital,...
Opposition backs Australian carbon reduction bill
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Australia's opposition leader Tuesday pledged his party's support for contentious legislation proposed by the government aimed at curbing the country's greenhouse gas emissions. Australia is one of the world's worst...
Former Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej dies
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Samak Sundaravej, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as Thailand's prime minister, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 74. Samak died at Bumrungrad...
Prostitute claims Berlusconi offered help with inn
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The prostitute at the center of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal claims in a new book that she slept with him on the understanding he would help her set up a countryside inn but she got "nothing" in return. ...
Walesa takes Poland's president to court
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A Warsaw court on Tuesday began hearing a lawsuit filed by Lech Walesa in which the Solidarity founder is demanding damages from Polish President Lech Kaczynski for having called Walesa a communist-era agent. Walesa, a...
Pakistani officials: 5 army officers detained
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Five Pakistani army officers have been detained for questioning over possible links to two U.S. terror suspects accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, intelligence officials said Tuesday. The...
UK to hold public inquiry into alleged Iraq abuse
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Britain's defense ministry says it will formally order a public inquiry this week into the alleged abuse and killing of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers. The ministry says Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth will make a...
Iran frees activist on bail in mass trial
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Iran's official news agency reports a political activist and former head of the Tehran municipal council has been released on bail in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest. ...
Long prison term sought for Khmer Rouge jail chief
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The former prison chief whose trial by Cambodia's genocide tribunal is coming to an end was a willing, even enthusiastic, participant in atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, prosecutors charged Tuesday. The...
Bomb kills 6 family members in eastern Afghanistan
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A remote-controlled bomb planted in a water station exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing six members of a family, including four children, authorities and a relative said. The victims were caught in the...
Sudanese woman praised for fighting pants law
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France's foreign minister has praised the courage of a journalist who has led a fight against a law in Sudan allowing for women to be flogged for wearing pants. Bernard Kouchner says Lubna Hussein _ who was released in...
Pakistani troops kill 18 Islamist militants
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Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in the main northwestern city of Peshawar. The operation in Bara region was the latest salvo in...
Brazil's president urges West to work with Iran
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Iran's leader got a welcoming bear hug from the Brazilian president, who urged Western nations to drop threats of punishment over the Iranian nuclear program and instead negotiate a fair solution. Brazilian President...
Renowned Chinese translator Yang Xianyi dies
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Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died, China's official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. He was 94. Together with his British wife, Gladys Taylor, Yang translated classics such as the 18th century...
Yemen conflict inflaming Saudi-Iranian rivalry
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For years just an obscure fight raging in remote desert mountains, Yemen's war with Shiite rebels has been dragged up to a new level, inflaming the rivalry between the Middle East's two powerhouses Saudi Arabia and...
Israeli aircraft strike arms operations in Gaza
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Israel's military says it has carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels. The military says the aerial assaults early Tuesday came in...
US woman killed by gunshot in Mexican border city
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A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. Brian Quigley, a spokesman for the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey,...
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...