Kayaker presumed dead after Congo crocodile attack
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An acclaimed outdoorsman who wrote movingly about testing himself against nature is presumed dead after a crocodile snatched him from his kayak while he led an American expedition from the source of the White Nile into...
Group: Near 14,000 murders in Venezuela last year
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Close to 14,000 people were murdered in Venezuela last year and the figure could be significantly higher, a prominent human rights group said Thursday, alluding to the rampant crime that has become a central concern of...
Chinese group awards own alternative 'peace prize'
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A Chinese group has awarded a peace prize to a Taiwanese official too surprised to travel to Beijing to accept the award apparently created to counter the Nobel prize honoring an imprisoned dissident. Instead, a young...
China's top diplomat meets NKorea's Kim Jong Il
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Diplomacy is showing signs of life on the Korean peninsula, two weeks after North Korea shelled its neighbor. China, under intense international pressure, sent a top envoy to meet with Kim Jong Il, and an American...
Pro-govt crowd shouts down protesters in Cuba
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A Cuban opposition group marched through the capital to call attention to jailed dissidents Thursday, amid a shower of jeers, insults and pro-government slogans from counterprotesters. About five dozen members of the...
Alleged boy hit man in Mexico is a US citizen
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U.S. officials say an alleged 14-year-old drug gang killer in Mexico is a U.S. citizen. U.S. Embassy spokesman Alexander Featherstone says U.S. authorities have also confirmed his 19-year-old sister is an American...
Heavy rains flood towns in eastern Australia
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Australia's attorney general declared 45 communities along the country's east coast disaster areas Friday, following weeks of drenching rains that have submerged homes, destroyed crops and killed four people. Despite...
Empty chair left for jailed Chinese Nobel laureate
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When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo's modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be one chair left empty _ for this year's winner. Nobel laureate Liu...
Greece: 1 dead, 2 hurt in train derailment
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Police in Greece say one person has died and two others have been injured after a train derailed in southern Greece. The incident occurred late Thursday, involving a train traveling between the southern cities of Argos...
UK's Charles and Camilla attacked by protesters
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Prince Charles in his tuxedo looks anxiously ahead as a protester's fist pounds on his car. His wife Camilla's mouth gapes in shock above her emerald dress. These are the dramatic images captured by an Associated Press...
Israel draws international rebuke over settlements
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The European Union, the United Nations and the Arab League have rebuked Israel after its refusal to halt settlement construction forced Washington to drop efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks. Palestinian President...
US threatens sanctions against Ivory Coast
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The United States warned Laurent Gbagbo that he faces punitive sanctions if he continues to refuse to step down following a disputed election that the United Nations says were won by his opponent. The African Union,...
Despite arrest, Assange extradition faces hurdles
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Some of the WikiLeaks critics who cheered founder Julian Assange's arrest may want to think again. The prospect of Assange being sent to Sweden in a sex-crimes inquiry may make it less likely that he'll wind up before...
Egypt resort reopens some beach after shark attack
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A top Egyptian official has announced the opening of a kilometer-long section of beach at a Red Sea resort that has been plagued by shark attacks. South Sinai Governor Mohammed Shousha announced in a statement Thursday...
Picasso auction canceled amid mystery
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A Paris auctioneer called off the scheduled sale Thursday of a trove of drawings Picasso gave his longtime chauffeur, after a separate cache of previously unknown Picassos turned up in an electrician's garage _ a...
Newborn baby stolen from German clinic found
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A newborn baby girl was stolen from a hospital on the outskirts of Frankfurt on Thursday but was found several hours later and two suspects have been arrested, police said. The baby was born in the clinic early...
Meet Putin's new dog: Buffy
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Vladimir Putin has named his new dog Buffy, but there was no sign in a walkabout for the cameras Thursday that the Bulgarian shepherd had any vampire-slaying tricks. In fact, Putin said the dog "can't do a thing" in...
Haiti officials to re-count disputed election
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Haiti's electoral council will re-count the vote in the country's disputed election in view of election monitors and potentially the three leading candidates themselves, the council president said Thursday. The...
Clinton concerned about Indian pat-down at airport
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expressing concern that India's ambassador to the U.S. was patted down by a security agent at a Mississippi airport. India's foreign minister called the pat-down of the...
No clear successor should Abbas leave the stage
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Washington's Mideast peace efforts are in trouble as it is, but an additional complication is often overlooked: Should 76-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a heavy smoker prone to threats of resignation,...
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Student protesters in London attack car containing Prince Charles and his wife Camilla. ...
Chile debates prison changes after deadly fire
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera announced a multimillion-dollar plan Thursday to improve conditions for the country's prisoners after 81 inmates were killed by fire in severely crowded cells. The $460 million,...
Czech towns deploy cardboard police in miniskirts
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Authorities say that life-sized cardboards of female police officers in miniskirts placed alongside roads have managed to slow down speeding drivers in several central Czech towns. The mayor of the town of Mrakotin,...
Snow causes European travel chaos
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Travelers in Paris and Frankfurt slept at the airport after snow and ice caused travel chaos. Pop singer Shakira canceled a concert in Germany, while the French prime minister missed a gala at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. ...
Croatian ex-premier leaves amid corruption probe
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A former Croatian prime minister under investigation in a corruption case left the country Thursday, police said, hours before parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution so he could be detained. Ivo Sanader, now a...
Israel checking if rabbis broke law with edict
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Israel's attorney general's office says it is looking into whether a rabbis' edict forbidding property sales to Arabs breaks the law. The ruling, signed by dozens of state-paid municipal rabbis, calls for Jews not to...
Russian 'spy' challenges deportation from UK
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Lawyers for a Russian woman detained in Britain on suspicion of spying challenged her deportation order Thursday, claiming she was the innocent victim of a bungled secret service operation. Ekaterina Zatuliveter, who...
It's a hit: Afghan police nab bombers _ but on TV
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It's the night shift at a Kabul checkpoint, and police officer Mohammed Saleem will soon be searching suspicious vehicles for hidden bombs, checking ID papers _ and watching his favorite TV show. A new TV series called...
Thieves steal voting equipment at Nigeria airport
12:47
Thieves infiltrated Nigeria's main international airport and stole just-arrived equipment needed to register voters in the oil-rich nation ahead of next year's hotly contested presidential election, an official said...
Nigeria: Police arrests 4 alleged sect members
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Police in northeastern Nigeria say they have arrested members of a radical Muslim sect who ambushed security officers at a checkpoint. Borno state police chief Mohammed Abubakar said Thursday that police arrested four...
Italian designer Fausto Sarli dies
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Fausto Sarli, one of Italy's leading high fashion designers, known for his artisan touch and elegant gowns, has died at 83. Alberto Terranova of Sarli's fashion house said the designer died Thursday of cardiac arrest...
Demjanjuk asks for millions in damages
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John Demjanjuk's attorney has filed a motion in the Munich state court where Demjanjuk is on trial saying his client's rights are being violated by keeping him in jail and demanding damages "in the millions." Attorney...
China's top diplomat meets NKorea's Kim Jong Il
12:26
Diplomacy finally showed signs of life on the Korean peninsula Thursday, two weeks after North Korea shelled its neighbor. China got off the sidelines and sent a top envoy to meet with Kim Jong Il, and an American...
12:05
Haiti electoral council says it will recount votes in disputed election. ...
Warsaw: US to send F-16, Hercules planes to Poland
11:17
A Polish official says the United States has offered to periodically station F-16 fighter jets and Hercules planes in Poland starting in 2013 for joint exercises. Roman Kuzniar, an adviser to Polish President Bronislaw...
Dutch inquiry: Child abuse allegations up 100-fold
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The head of a Dutch inquiry into child abuse in the Catholic church school system says yearly complaints are up 100-fold since allegations emerged of worldwide abuse. Wim Deetman said Thursday that between 1995 and...
Jordan names first woman chief district attorney
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Jordan on Thursday appointed a woman as chief district attorney of the country's capital, marking the first time a woman has held a top prosecutor's post in the pro-American Arab kingdom. Ihsan Barakat, a 46-year-old...
Jewish museum in Warsaw now half-complete
10:59
Officials say construction of a major new Polish museum on the history of what was once Europe's largest Jewish community is now half-finished. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a skeleton of concrete walls...
Former Romanian dictator and wife reburied
10:52
Former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife have been reburied, according to their son. Ceausescu ruled Romania for 25 years before being ousted and executed with his wife Elena after a summary trial during...
Report: Famed Iranian blogger granted prison leave
10:43
An Iranian rights group says a pioneering Canadian-Iranian blogger has been temporarily freed from prison on bail of about $1.5 million. Hossein Derakhshan is serving a more than 19-year sentence as part of Iran's...
US cable: Kenya risks new violence without reforms
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The U.S. ambassador to Kenya says in a confidential cable that if Kenya's government doesn't implement significant reforms the nation could be hit by a wave of violence worse than the country's 2007-08 postelection...
Ex-Israeli parliament speaker Shilansky dead at 86
10:19
Dov Shilansky, a former Israeli parliament speaker and advocate for memorializing the victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, died Thursday, a parliament official said. He was 86. Shilansky died at Ichilov...
Lebanese paper's website attacked over WikiLeaks
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A Lebanese newspaper's website has been shut down following a hacker attack, apparently over its publishing of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, an editor with the daily said Thursday. Omar Nashabe said he doesn't want to...
Report: Indian border guards killing with impunity
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India's security forces routinely gun down cattle smugglers and other civilians crossing the border with Bangladesh despite scant evidence of any crime, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The Border Security Force _...
China Catholics pick leaders amid Vatican tensions
9:38
China's government-backed Catholic church elected new leaders on Thursday, including a prelate unrecognized by the Vatican to head its bishops' council, in a move likely to worsen often uneasy relations with the Holy...
UK police arrest suspected killer of Imran Farooq
9:19
British police on Thursday arrested the suspected killer of Imran Farooq, the self-exiled Pakistani politician whose stabbing death in London sparked riots in Karachi. Scotland Yard said officers detained a 34-year-old...
Hariri assassination indictment coming very soon
9:12
The prosecutor of the U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will issue his first indictment very soon, the court's new leader said Thursday. Special...
NATO: Ties with Russia on track, despite WikiLeaks
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Ties with Russia are improving, NATO insisted Thursday, despite strains created by the release of confidential U.S. cables regarding the Baltics. Secret U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks disclosed that NATO...
Yemen, Iran subject of Gates' talks in UAE
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After two days on the warfront in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was turning his attention Thursday to countries where the U.S. is looking to avoid full-blown conflict _ Iran and Yemen. During a meeting...
S Sudan march marks 1 month before referendum vote
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Thousands of people in Southern Sudan marched through the streets of the capital Thursday to show support for a referendum on independence from the north scheduled to be held in one month. Southerners have made their...