UN chief urges NKorea to reconsider rocket launch
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging North Korea to reconsider its plan to launch a long-range rocket. Ban's office said in a statement that he made the comments Saturday during a meeting with South Korean...
Suspected Maoist rebels abduct Indian lawmaker
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Officials says suspected Maoist rebels have kidnapped a local lawmaker in India's Orissa state, where two Italian men were abducted by rebels last week. State official Naveen Patnaik told reporters that Jhina Hikaka...
Top New Zealand scientist Paul Callaghan dies
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Sir Paul Callaghan, a top New Zealand scientist who gained international recognition for his work in molecular physics, has died after a long battle with bowel cancer. He was 64. "New Zealand has suffered a tremendous...
Ex-UN chief Annan to visit China for Syria talks
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China says former U.N. chief Kofi Annan will visit next week to discuss efforts to mediate an end to the crisis in Syria. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei says Annan will visit China on Tuesday and Wednesday. Annan...
North Korea to hold first parliament session under new leader
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it will hold an annual parliamentary session next month during which the reclusive country's new young leader, Kim Jong-un, is expected to be appointed officially to t
Indian Maoists kidnap lawmaker during Italian hostage talks
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By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Maoist rebels kidnapped an Indian politician on Saturday, police said, a move that could upset talks over the release of two Italian hostages held by left-wing
Syria's first lady faces sanctions, contempt
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As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin stilettos while her country...
Gangs in crime-plagued El Salvador call a truce
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By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Rival gangs operating in El Salvador have called a truce as the Central American country confronts a plague of violent crime, according to a statement issued on Fr
North Korea's planned rocket test: Why It Matters
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North Korea may have the bomb, but it hasn't perfected ways to put one onto a missile that could strike faraway enemies like the United States. This is why Pyongyang's announcement that it will launch a satellite on a...
After Pope criticizes Marxism, Cuba diplomatic
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Cuba will listen with respect to Pope Benedict XVI during his visit next week even if he differs with island leaders, the country's foreign minister said Friday after the pontiff described Marxism as out of step with...
UN official: Progress in Haiti 2 yrs after quake
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A United Nations official says she sees improvements in Haiti since the powerful earthquake two years ago. Helen Clark of the U.N. Development Program says there is a "huge difference from the desolation" that she...
Chavez says stitches removed after cancer surgery
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says that he's had stitches removed as he recovers from cancer surgery and that he has been doing physical therapy. Chavez says he underwent surgery in Cuba on Feb. 26 to have a tumor...
Europe bishops slam Saudi fatwa against Gulf churches
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By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters) - Christian bishops in Germany, Austria and Russia have sharply criticized Saudi Arabia's top religious official after reports that he issued a fatwa saying a
Venezuela police to be revamped after shooting
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government has announced plans to revamp a police force whose officers shot and killed the daughter of a Chilean diplomat. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami says the judicial police...
US man tells of 'humiliating' arrest in Dominica
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A Southern Californian said Friday that he and his partner were taunted, humiliated and subjected to inhumane treatment when they were arrested and jailed after being escorted off a gay cruise in the Caribbean this...
African Union force to step up hunt for Kony
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The African Union says it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance...
Mali state TV goes off air; fear of countercoup
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Television screens throughout this landlocked country momentarily went black Friday, as residents near the building housing the state broadcaster saw troops erecting barricades, fearing a possible countercoup a day...
Ill flock to Brazil 'psychic surgeon' John of God
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John of God grabs what looks like a kitchen knife from a silver tray and appears to scrape it over the right eye of a believer. The "psychic surgeon" then wipes a viscous substance from the blade onto the patient's...
Arrest warrant revoked for Colombian ex-official
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A Colombian judge has revoked an arrest warrant for a former official who was a close associate of ex-President Alvaro Uribe. Prosecutors last month obtained the order for the arrest of former Peace Commissioner Luis...
Chilean government starts talking with protesters
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Chile's government has agreed to talks with protesters after 40 days of conflict in the southern Aysen region, where people frustrated with the high cost of living have repeatedly blockaded roads and confronted police. ...
France holds provocative Helmut Newton exhibit
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Yves Saint Laurent empowered women and the same could be said of his contemporary, iconic fashion photographer Helmut Newton, the subject of a retrospective at Paris' Grand Palais that is not for the prudish. Several...
Official: No sign French suspect had al-Qaida ties
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Investigators have found no signs the suspected gunman behind a deadly string of attacks in southern France was under orders from al-Qaida or any militant group, a top French official said Friday _ disputing Mohamed...
Argentina declassifies critical report on 1982 war
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President Cristina Fernandez has finally declassified a scathing review of the mistakes made by Argentina's military junta in going to war with Britain in 1982 trying to recover the Falkland Islands. The Rattenbach...
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Pope Benedict XVI lands in Mexico to begin first trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America. ...
Organ recipient testifies at trial in Kosovo
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A Canadian man testified Friday that he paid $105,000 ((EURO)80,000) to an Israeli citizen in 2008 to organize a kidney transplant in a Kosovo clinic allegedly used by an international organ trafficking network for...
Tens of thousands in Syria call for fall of regime
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Tens of thousands of Syrians braved tear gas and gunfire to protest across the country Friday, vowing to storm the capital Damascus to oust President Bashar Assad as the European Union ramped up pressure on the regime...
Mexican police kill Zetas cartel lieutenant
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Mexican police say they have killed a leader of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel in the border state of Tamaulipas during a gun battle in the neighboring state of Veracruz. Federal police say suspect Enrique Delgado...
Egyptians learn fast in campaign for historic vote
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By Tom Perry and Dina Zayed CAIRO (Reuters) - In the final moments of Hosni Mubarak's presidency, Mohamed Elshahawy made a call to the man he thought should replace him. "We need to talk about the fut
Poland exhumes some 2010 plane crash victims
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One autopsy report describes organs that had been removed years before. Another adds 20 centimeters (nearly 8 inches) to a short man, making no mention of bones disfigured by childhood polio. One family doubts whether...
Russia's Medvedev warns West over missile shield
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By Alexei Anishchuk and Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday time was running out for the West to come up with new proposals to secure Russia's agreement to a missile d
Yemen protesters demand ex-president face trial
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Tens of thousands of protesters streamed into city centers across Yemen on Friday, demanding that their ex-president be stripped of immunity from prosecution and be put on trial for the deaths of demonstrators during...
APNewsBreak: Europe faces jihadist threat
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With France's deadly attacks, Islamic terror has apparently struck once more in the heart of Europe _ and authorities say there's a dangerous twist: the emergence of homegrown extremists operating independent of any...
Italy won't rush disputed labor reform
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By Steve Scherer and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti opted on Friday not to rush a heavily contested labor reform through parliament after running into strong resistance fr
Mother, widow of French-Jewish victims issues plea
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The widow of the slain rabbi and mother of two children gunned down at a Jewish school in France this week issued an emotional plea online Friday in the memory of her loved ones. In a letter published on the website of...
Russia moves to simplify registration of parties
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Legislation that would make it much easier to form political parties in Russia sailed through the Kremlin-controlled parliament Friday, part of the government's efforts to respond to a wave of protests against Vladimir...
French gunman's arsenal spotlights illegal arms trade
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By Andrew Osborn Paris (Reuters) - As France asks itself whether it could have done more to prevent Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah shooting dead seven people in a killing spree that shook the nation, there is
Monti's govt approves controversial labor rules
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Premier Mario Monti's government on Friday approved a long-awaited package of labor reforms, refusing to bend to union opposition and insisting the new rules will create a more flexible and inclusive labor market. The...
Myanmar postpones by-election in restive north
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Election authorities in Myanmar have postponed voting in three of 48 constituencies in the April 1 by-election because of what the military-backed government says are security concerns. The postponement represents the...
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US soldier charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in Afghan shootings, could face death. ...
Syria's first lady faces sanctions, contempt
2:21
As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin stilettos while her country...
Bahraini protesters battle police outside Manama
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By Andrew Hammond MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahraini protesters battled with riot police near Manama on Friday after the funeral of a woman whose family said she died after tear gas entered her home twice in the pa
Report: Salvadoran gangs agree to truce
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Leaders of El Salvador's two largest street gangs have reached a truce aimed at reducing the country's homicide rate, one of the highest in the world, according to jailhouse interviews published Friday. The El Diario...
North Korea's planned rocket test: Why It Matters
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North Korea may have the bomb, but it hasn't perfected ways to put one onto a missile that could strike faraway enemies like the United States. This is why Pyongyang's announcement that it will launch a satellite on a...
Iran oil exports fall as sanctions take toll
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By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian oil exports have fallen significantly in March, industry sources said on Friday, as some buyers stop or scale back purchases to abide by Western sanctions aimed at s
U.S. approves Egypt military aid despite rights fears
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By Andrew Quinn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The !a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/barack-obama">Obama!/a> administration on Friday formally released $1.3 billion in military aid for Egypt despite
Maverick centrist stumps for Sarkozy in election
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By Emmanuel Jarry VALENCIENNES, France (Reuters) - Nicolas Sarkozy was joined on the campaign trail on Friday by a prominent, popular centrist politician who gave him a ringing endorsement that should boost
EU expands range of its anti-piracy strikes
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The EU will expand its seagoing anti-piracy mission to include for the first time the Somali coast itself and waterways inside the country, the bloc said Friday. The expansion of the operation appears to herald a...
EU imposes sanctions on Assad's wife, relatives
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EU foreign ministers imposed sanctions Friday on Asma Assad, the stylish, British-born wife of the Syrian president, banning her from traveling to European Union countries and freezing any assets she may have there. ...
Zimbabwe probes Trump brothers' hunting trip
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Zimbabwean conservationists said Friday they are investigating the legality of a hunting spree in the country by the heirs to U.S. magnate Donald Trump's fortune after photos showed up online of the brothers posing with...
US-Pakistan to discuss supply routes soon
11:35
The United States and Pakistan will resume talks about possibly reopening NATO and U.S. supply routes to Afghanistan once Pakistan concludes its debate about new terms of engagement with the U.S., an official said...