Russia launches program to save tigers worldwide
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Vladimir Putin has made headlines by championing the endangered Siberian tiger _ posing with a cuddly cub and placing a tracking collar on a full-grown female in the wilds of his country's Far East. Now Russia is...
UK's Brown: Obama's Afghan troop decision due soon
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says President Barack Obama will announce his decision on sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan within days. Brown told lawmakers in the House of Commons on Wednesday that he had...
US troops in Afghanistan observe Veterans Day
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American troops in Afghanistan have been commemorating Veterans Day with ceremonies for those killed in conflict. Also known as Armistice Day, Nov. 11 marks the day in 1918 when the Allies and Germany signed an...
SKorea troops on high alert after navy skirmish
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South Korea warned it was ready to deter any retaliation by North Korea following the two countries' first naval clash in seven years, reportedly deploying two warships to the disputed sea border Wednesday. The...
Make peace _ mom's dying wish to rebel leader son
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The mother of one of Africa's most notorious rebel leaders relayed one last wish for her son before her death Wednesday, according to a nurse at her deathbed: Make peace. Norah Anek, 86, the mother of Ugandan rebel...
Yemeni rebels say Saudis setting up buffer zone
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Saudi Arabia is trying to set up a buffer zone inside Yemen after its week-long offensive against the Yemeni Shiite insurgents along the border, a rebel spokesman said Wednesday. Mohammed Abdel Salam said Saudi...
Iraq PM warns of threat in run-up to January vote
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Iraq's prime minister warned on Wednesday that insurgents will try to undermine the country's fledgling democracy in the run-up to January's national elections. Nouri al-Maliki told tribal leaders from Baghdad's Shiite...
Pirate risk forges unlikely high seas alliances
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World powers including the U.S., Russia and China are teaming up at sea to tackle the pirates plaguing Somalia's lawless coast, as a sharp increase in attacks has forced nations who may be rivals on land to make...
Dalai Lama ends public teaching in northeast India
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The Dalai Lama exhorted thousands of his followers to maintain Buddhist culture as he closed a series of public teachings Wednesday in a northeastern Indian region near his homeland of Tibet in a visit that has drawn...
Italian company says no launch for Iran satellite
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An Italian company that helped build a communications satellite for Iran said Wednesday there are no plans to launch it, denying an announcement made in Tehran this week. Iran's government said Tuesday that it will use...
UN agency calls for global fast against hunger
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The head of a U.N. food agency called on people around the world Wednesday to join him in a day of fasting to highlight the plight of undernourished people, whose ranks have surged past 1 billion in the global economic...
Militants kill 11 in separate attacks in Pakistan
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A roadside bomb killed nine Pakistani security officers close to the Afghan border Wednesday, while two other soldiers died in a separate militant assault on a security post in the same area, officials said. The bomb...
Iran wants Russia to deliver on defense contract
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Iran urged Russia on Wednesday to deliver on an air-defense contract signed with Tehran and ignore Israeli pressures for delaying the deal that has also raised U.S. concerns. Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said...
Taiwan: No quid pro quo for lifting US beef ban
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Taiwan's president says the island has not received anything in exchange for lifting a long-standing ban on the imports of certain U.S. beef cuts. Ma Ying-jeou's statement Wednesday comes amid intense local opposition...
United pilot charged with being over alcohol limit
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A United Airlines pilot who failed a breath test shortly before he was due to take off has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said. Erwin Vermont Washington, 51, is the third U.S....
Norway official: Afghan government must improve
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Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere says Afghans and the international community must focus sharply on improving the competence of the newly elected government of Afghanistan. In a stop in the Afghan capital...
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Officials say roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan has killed 9 security officers. ...
US presses diplomacy with NKorea despite skirmish
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Amid rising tension between North and South Korea after a naval skirmish, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged calm and said diplomatic efforts to resolve the nuclear standoff with the North...
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German man convicted of courtroom stabbing of Egyptian woman, sentenced to life in prison. ...
Zimbabwe judge: Torture can be raised in case
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Defense lawyers for a top prime minister's aide can raise torture allegations at his trial, a judge ruled Wednesday in a case that has shaken Zimbabwe's troubled coalition government. Judge Chinembiri Bhunu also ruled...
Philippines' Mayon volcano spews ash, could erupt
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The cone-shaped Mayon volcano in the central Philippines, which killed scores in an eruption 16 years ago, shot up an ash plume Wednesday _ prompting hundreds of nearby residents to evacuate in case it blows again. ...
ICRC appeals for release of 2 staffers in Africa
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The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of two staff members kidnapped in the African countries of Chad and Darfur. ICRC chief Jakob...
Pope urges Europe to defend religious heritage
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Pope Benedict XVI has urged Europeans to defend their continent's religious and cultural heritage. The pope told pilgrims Wednesday that all those who hold the future of Europe dear to their hearts should "rediscover,...
Clinton: No conditions on Myanmar for better ties
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that Washington will not impose new conditions on Myanmar's junta in exchange for better relations, but will not lift sanctions until it makes progress on...
Netanyahu in Paris with peace efforts in peril
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Growing frustration with Jewish settlements and anxiety about the Palestinian Authority's future set the stage for talks Wednesday between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. ...
Foreign aid worker held in death of Afghan boy
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An international aid worker is being held by police in the shooting death of an Afghan boy in the country's north. Global Partners, a humanitarian aid and development group that has been working in Afghanistan since...
China mining co. accused of damaging Great Wall
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A Chinese gold mining company is being investigated for causing serious damage to one of the oldest sections of the Great Wall of China. Hohhot Kekao Mining Co. is suspected of destroying about 330 feet (100 meters) of...
Cambodia rejects Thai request to arrest ex-premier
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Cambodia turned down a request Wednesday from Thailand to arrest former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year was sentenced in absentia by a Thai court to two years imprisonment for violating a conflict of...
World stocks gain amid positive China, Japan data
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Asian stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday after figures from China and Japan showed the region's two biggest economies were on track to recovering from the global downturn. European shares also traded higher. ...
Iran's opposition steers challenge toward the top
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Just minutes before anti-riot police charged opposition marchers in Tehran last week, a new chant bubbled up from the crowd: "Death to Nobody." It was more than just a play on the "Death to America" slogans that are...
Linden MacIntyre wins Canadian literature award
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Linden MacIntyre, an investigative journalist who wrote a novel about sexual abuse by Catholic priests, has won Canada's richest and glitziest literary award. MacIntyre won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize for...
Taiwan's young democracy struggles with gangsters
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Revelations that Taiwanese Premier Wu Den-yih traveled abroad with a former gangster have excited great interest among this island's sensation-seeking media, but left few of its 23 million people gaping in surprise. ...
Gunmen attack AA meeting in Mexico, killing 1
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Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities said. Investigators have not determined a motive...
Mexico police, angry residents clash over suspects
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Police rescued four suspected kidnappers from a town hall surrounded by hundreds of angry residents who wanted to punish them themselves. The four men, some of whom had been beaten, were hustled out of the town hall...
Outrage over vaccine for Afghan detainees
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Canadian military officials in Afghanistan said detainees are being offered swine flu vaccinations _ a decision the federal health minister on Tuesday denounced as "outrageous" at a time there is a shortage of the...
Mexico's tough-talk mayor has gotten threats
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A Mexican mayor known for his tough anti-crime proposals and seeming advance knowledge of the death of a purported kidnapper said Tuesday that he has received threats and now has a security escort. Mauricio Fernandez,...
New prime minister confirmed by lawmakers in Haiti
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Lawmakers overwhelmingly gave final approval to Jean-Max Bellerive as Haiti's new prime minister Tuesday, making him the sixth person to hold the post since 2004 in this politically unstable nation. The Chamber of...
Brazil, US urge talks in Venezuela, Colombia spat
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Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a possible war with his neighbor. The push for diplomacy...
Venezuela: swine flu contained among Indians
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Venezuela's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu among isolated Amazon Indians has been contained. The appearance of swine flu among the Yanomami Indians has been seen as a major health threat because diseases...
US diplomat in Honduras trying to revive pact
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A senior U.S. diplomat flew in Tuesday to try to revive a U.S.-brokered pact between Honduras' deposed president and the coup-imposed government ahead of elections this month. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya declared...
US imam wanted in Yemen over al-Qaida suspicions
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A radical American imam who communicated with the Fort Hood shooting suspect and called him a hero was once arrested in Yemen on suspicion of giving religious approval to militants to conduct kidnappings. Yemeni...
Vulnerable countries urge world to cut emissions
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A group of 11 countries vulnerable to adverse effects of global warming urged world leaders Tuesday to reach a binding agreement at next month's global conference on the issue. The countries called on President Barack...
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Brazil's energy minister says massive power blackouts caused by failure at huge hydro dam. ...
UA pilot charged with being over alcohol limit
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A United Airlines pilot who was pulled from his trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago shortly before takeoff has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said Tuesday. Scotland Yard said that...
Irishman wins euro46,000 after island home disappears
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A Northern Ireland filmmaker has won euro46,000 ($69,000) in damages after a judge ruled that his Irish island home was transformed into a parking lot while he was overseas for six years. The case of 61-year-old...
Former Gates' exec named foreign aid chief
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The Obama administration nominated a young former executive with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to run the nation's top foreign assistance program Tuesday, ending months of speculation and complaints about who...
Dutch arrest Somali terror suspect wanted by US
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Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have arrested a 43-year-old Somali man wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly financing Islamic extremist terrorists. Prosecutors said in a statement the man lived in Minneapolis...
Anger over Afghan war as 6 UK war dead mourned
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Grieving over the death of her son in Afghanistan, the woman tore into British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. "Mr. Brown, listen to me," she said. "I know every injury that my child sustained that day. I know that my son...
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British police charge United Airlines pilot with being over alcohol limit while on the job. ...
Colombia seizes $19M in forged US bills in 2009
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Colombian authorities say they have seized $19 million in forged U.S. currency so far this year, five times the amount confiscated last year. A statement from the Presidency's press office says 16 people have been...