Japanese engineer kidnapped by Yemen tribesmen
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Armed tribesmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer working in Yemen and demanded the government release one of their imprisoned tribe members, the Japanese Embassy and a Yemeni security official said Monday. Kohei...
Reports: Iran's Russian reactor startup delayed
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Moscow on Monday dashed Iranian hopes that a Russian-built nuclear reactor will be switched on this year, a blow to Tehran amid persistent tension over its nuclear program. Officials in Russia and Iran had previously...
Dennis Rodman temporarily detained in Germany
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Former basketball star Dennis Rodman was temporarily detained in Germany for allegedly skipping out on a euro3,400 ($5,100) hotel bill for a post-game party, a prosecution official said Monday. Senior prosecutor...
Report: Muslim extremists recruiting from UK jails
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Two of Britain's most high-profile Muslim extremists have been given free rein to recruit fellow inmates in prison and are spreading propaganda from behind bars, a think-tank founded by two former Islamic radicals said...
Environmentalists alarmed by Puerto Rico policies
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Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight...
EU officials question Afghan gov't competence
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European Union officials questioned Monday whether Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government can face up to the country's challenges but did not echo a U.S. pledge to withhold civilian aid without more accountability. ...
Swine flu infects Ukraine's presidential elections
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In Ukraine, swine flu is causing electoral fever. In a hard-fought presidential campaign, critics of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accuse her of stirring up panic to grab the spotlight from rivals by closing all...
Germany launches databases on fate of POWs
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A new database with the names of some 70,000 Soviet prisoners of war held in Germany during the Third Reich is now available online, the Saxony state government said in a statement Monday. The names of another 10,000...
Australia apologizes to Brit kids sent to colonies
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When John Hennessey was 10 years old, he was sent from a war-weary Britain to an orphanage in Australia, where he was told food was plentiful and children rode kangaroos to school. Instead, he was beaten and sexually...
US Air Force official expects UAE role to continue
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A senior U.S. Air Force official said Monday he expects the force's involvement in the United Arab Emirates to continue and potentially expand. Air Force Deputy Under Secretary Bruce Lemkin offered few specifics while...
Serbs mourn their patriarch
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Thousands of people waited on long lines Monday to pay their respects to the late Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle at a church in Belgrade. Pavle's body remained on display in an open coffin at the main Saborna...
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Japanese Embassy says Japanese engineer has been kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen. ...
Envoy says US to attend war crimes court meeting
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The United States will attend an annual meeting of the International Criminal Court, a body it has so far refused to participate in, the U.S. envoy for war crimes said Monday. Stephen Rapp said the U.S. will for the...
AP IMPACT: Kenyans recruited to fight in Somalia
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The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks, which were covered with heavy canvas, and driven through the night. It was so hot inside they could...
SAfrican woman survives after thrown from bridge
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Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge. Police Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said Monday that no arrests have been made although four...
Briton arrested in serial rape investigation
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In one of Britain's longest running hunts for a serial rapist, Scotland Yard detectives charged a 52-year-old man Monday with a string of nearly a dozen assaults and burglaries. The man dubbed the "Night Stalker," left...
Obama speaks out against Web censorship in China
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President Barack Obama is telling Chinese students that unrestricted Internet access in the United States is a source of strength and an open exchange of information makes all countries stronger. Obama on Monday told a...
Spain moves to win hostage sailors' freedom
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Spain moved Monday to win the release of 36 fishermen held hostage on a Spanish trawler off Somalia by indicting two captured pirates in a fast-track procedure so they can be returned to Somalia as demanded by the...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi seeks meeting with junta chief
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Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sent a letter to the head of the country's junta seeking a meeting to discuss how they can cooperate for the national interest, a spokesman for her party said...
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UN nuclear agency: Iran will start up once-secret facility outside holy city of Qom in 2011. ...
Saudi cleric accuses Iran of ties to Yemeni rebels
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Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric accused Iran on Monday of supporting Shiite rebels whose war with the government of neighboring Yemen has spilled across the border and drawn in Saudi firepower. Yemen and the Saudis...
US military: American soldier dies in Iraq
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The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of noncombat-related injuries in Iraq. A military statement says the Multi-National Division _ North soldier died on Monday of injuries sustained in a vehicle...
Czech, US officials discuss missile defense
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The Obama administration hopes the Czech Republic will play an important role in a reworked U.S. missile defense plan, a top American official said Monday. Ellen Tauscher, the U.S. undersecretary of state for arms...
Australian doctors operate on conjoined twins
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A team of Australian surgeons were working Monday on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head. The 2-year-old Bangladeshi orphans, Trishna and Krishna, share...
Greek police capture helicopter fugitive
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A convicted murderer in Greece who made a dramatic prison escape by helicopter earlier this year was arrested near Athens on Monday, police said. Alket Rizaj, of Albania, was arrested with a female companion at an...
Berlusconi's trial resumes in Italy
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The trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a tax fraud charge reopened Monday after a year, but was immediately adjourned until January to allow the premier to attend. The premier was busy with a global food...
Australian doctors operate on conjoined twins
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A team of Australian surgeons were working Monday on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head. The 2-year-old Bangladeshi orphans, Trishna and Krishna, share...
8 dead, dozens missing in Myanmar ferry accident
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A ferry carrying nearly 200 passengers sank after colliding with an oil barge in a river in Myanmar, killing at least eight and leaving more than three dozen missing, officials said Monday. The motorized ferry "Nay Win...
Term of Swede convicted of US murders reduced
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A Swedish woman who was sentenced to life for a double murder in California will be released in 2011, a Swedish court ruled Monday. The Orebro district court said Annika Ostberg has expiated her offense and is not...
Iran media plans stir talk of elite force at helm
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The portfolio of Iran's Revolutionary Guard keeps on growing. Its troops watch over nuclear facilities, its rocket scientists enlarge Iran's missile arsenal and its engineers have taken on a rail line as their latest...
Bombing at police station in Pakistan kills 4
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A pickup truck laden with explosives blew up outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing four people in an area that has become the focal point for militant retaliation against an army offensive...
French forces: Rockets kill 3 at Afghan market
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Insurgents fired two rockets Monday into a crowded market northeast of Kabul where the head of French forces in Afghanistan held a meeting with tribal elders. The attack killed three children and wounded 20 other...
NKorea cargo ship arrives in SKorea after skirmish
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A North Korean cargo ship visited a South Korean port Monday, showing that trade between the rival countries is continuing despite their bloody naval skirmish last week. The ship unloaded 1,750 tons of silica at...
China detains activists as Obama arrives
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Police detained dozens of activists and petitioners in Beijing and elsewhere in China as President Barack Obama arrived on his first state visit to the country, friends, family members and a human rights group said...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Language skills on display
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Chinese students visiting Monday with President Barack Obama during a town hall-style meeting wanted to show off their language skills. The U.S. ambassador to China did the same. Obama's event with students here...
Japan mulls over relocation of US Marine base
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Japan's foreign minister said Monday that Tokyo should honor its agreement to find a new location for a major U.S. Marine base, but he and the prime minister said they were still seeking options on where it should go. ...
Obama: No need to change China, Taiwan policy
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President Barack Obama says he sees no need to change Washington's "one-China" policy, which views Taiwan as part of China. Taiwan and China split amid civil war in 1949. Beijing continues to claim the island as part...
Obama: Key to success is improvement
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President Barack Obama says one of the keys to success is constantly looking for ways to improve and not just accepting "the conventional wisdom." Obama told Chinese students at a town hall-style event that the people...
Obama: Terrorist networks largest threat to US
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President Barack Obama is telling Chinese students that the greatest threat to the United States' security is terrorist networks such as al-Qaeda. Obama on Monday met with students in Shanghai and said al-Qaeda has...
Obama will accept Nobel prize with 'humility'
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President Barack Obama says he will accept the Nobel Peace Prize with "great humility", though it's not an honor he feels he deserves. Obama says he believes the Nobel committee was inspired by the American people. He...
Obama says diversity strength of United States
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President Barack Obama says one of the United States' strengths is its diversity and a family gathering in his home "looks like the United Nations." A Chinese student on Monday asked Obama what he would do to foster...
Obama: US, China must cooperate on global issues
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President Barack Obama says there are very few global challenges that can be solved unless the U.S. and China cooperate. Obama says climate change is one of the most critical challenges. As nations prepare for next...
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Obama: Very few global challenges can be solved unless US, China agree. ...
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Obama tells Chinese students American values of free expression, participation are universal. ...
Bingo! In quieter Baghdad, beloved game is back
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It's Saturday night at the Alwiyah Club, and 21-year-old Sarah al-Kimackchy is doing the hip thing _ playing bingo. The streets outside may still not be as safe as they once were, and the occasional deadly bombing...
Kosovo holds peaceful 1st vote since independence
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Kosovo's first independent elections have ended peacefully, with the prime minister claiming his party won convincingly and some minority Serbs ignoring a call to boycott and casting ballots alongside ethnic Albanians. ...
1,200 people escape supermarket fire that kills 2
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Paraguayan authorities say 1,200 people have escaped a fire that destroyed a supermarket on the outskirts of the capital, killing two people. Officials say firefighters and police recovered the bodies of two dead males...
Mozambique: Watchdog decries killings by police
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The dancer called police to his home because he feared he was being robbed, only to end up being killed by the officers from whom he had sought help, Amnesty International said, offering one example of deadly police...
Colombia: Mob attacks intel agents, frees suspect
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The chief of Colombia's secret police says a mob assaulted three of its agents as they tried to arrest a suspect with alleged guerrilla ties. DAS intelligence agency director Felipe Munoz says Ivan Danilo Alarcon,...
NATO: 2 rockets hit Kabul airport area; no injury
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NATO says two rockets were fired at the military part of Kabul's international airport, but did not cause any injuries. NATO said the rockets were fired on Sunday night. It said one hit inside the airport perimeter....