Iraq: Video appears to show top Saddam deputy
11:45
A video posted online Saturday purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government. It was not possible...
Truck crash in Haiti kills at least 20, injures 40
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A Haitian official says a big truck jammed with people has run off a road and at least 20 people are dead and 40 others injured. Ronald Louis of Haiti's Civil Protection Office says the truck's brakes failed Saturday...
Chavez hikes Venezuela's minimum wage before vote
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By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez hiked Venezuela's minimum wage by almost a third on Saturday as the ailing socialist leader aimed to solidify his political base among the poor and
Pope holds Easter candle at basilica vigil
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Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in Christianity's most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service Saturday night, but voiced fears that mankind is groping in darkness, unable to distinguish...
Colombia: 6 soldiers, 3 rebels die in fighting
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Colombia's military says six of its soldiers have been killed in an attack that it blames on the country's main rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The commander for the region where Saturday's...
Greeks mourn suicide pensioner, vowing to fight on
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By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - In a sombre atmosphere in an Athens graveyard, hundreds of Greeks said farewell on Saturday to Dimitris Christoulas, a pensioner who became a symbol of the pain inflicted
Peru: Hose gets food, drink to 9 trapped miners
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Peruvian authorities say nine trapped miners are being supplied with sports drinks, soup and food while police, firefighters and other workers work to free them. Police chief Jose Saavedra in southern Peru's Ica region...
Fang Lizhi, who inspired Chinese dissidents, dies
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Fang Lizhi, one of China's best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China's 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy...
Egypt's Brotherhood picks alternate candidate
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Egypt's most powerful political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, announced Saturday it is nominating the head of its party as a back-up candidate for president in the face of attempts to disqualify their primary nominee. ...
Bus crash in Argentina kills at least 10, hurts 40
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A bus ran off a road in northern Argentina and plunged into a ravine, killing 10 people and injuring about 40 others, officials said Saturday. Two Germans were reported among the dead. The bus operated by the company...
Mali's parliamentary head returns from exile
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Mali's parliamentary head, who was forced into exile after last month's coup, returned Saturday to this nation in crisis, marking the first step in Mali's path back to constitutional rule. The 70-year-old Dioncounda...
Technology without God is dangerous: pope
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, leading the world's Catholics into Easter, said on Saturday technological progress, in the absence of awareness of God and moral values, posed a thr
Sarkozy dangles "empty chair" threat over Europe
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a Sunday newspaper he is serious about pushing for more trade protectionism in Europe and tighter external border controls, hinting he could take a stand as t
Nine trapped in collapsed wildcat mine in Peru
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LIMA (Reuters) - Nine workers trapped inside a wildcat mine in southern Peru received oxygen and liquids through a giant hose on Saturday while a rescue team toiled to get them out, officials said. The men h
Brussels metro and buses halted after inspector killed
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Bus, tram and metro drivers in Brussels walked out in protest on Saturday and vowed not to return to work until Tuesday after one of their colleagues was beaten to death. The victim, an
Yemen: Ex-president's loyalists attack airport
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Loyalists of former Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh seized the country's main airport Saturday as tanks and armored vehicles occupied the tarmac and forced authorities to cancel flights, a day after a military shake-up...
Saudi crown prince to return home next week: source
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JEDDAH (Reuters) - Saudi Crown Prince Nayef is expected to return to Saudi Arabia next week, a month after travelling to the United States for medical tests, a Saudi official told Reuters on Saturday. Prince
Israeli airstrike wounds 2 Palestinians in Gaza
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An Israeli airstrike wounded two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border on Saturday, officials said. Israel's military said its air force targeted Palestinians in the town of Rafah attempting to launch...
Christians in Holy Land pray on Easter Saturday
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Thousands of Christians gathered near Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday and marched in processions brimming with tradition, taking turns to pray in the site where they believe Jesus was slain...
Malawi's VP sworn in as president amid uncertainty
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Malawi has known rule by Britain and by a mercurial dictator. Over the last few days, however, it wasn't clear who was leading this impoverished southern African country, as doctors disclosed Malawi's President Bingu wa...
Leading Tiananmen-era Chinese dissident dies in U.S
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BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's most famous dissidents from the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy activists has died in the United States, exiled dissidents said on Saturday. Fang Lizhi, 76, whom China had
Libyan gunmen kidnap 5 Tunisian smugglers: source
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Libyan gunmen kidnapped five Tunisian fuel smugglers near the border on Saturday and Tunisian authorities temporarily closed the main crossing of Ras Jder pending negotiations for their release, a
Pakistani troops dig for 135 missing in avalanche
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Pakistani soldiers dug into a massive avalanche in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border on Saturday, searching for at least 135 people buried when the wall of snow engulfed a military complex. More than...
Bahrain releases jailed activist's daughter
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain released the daughter of a jailed activist on Saturday, having detained her during a protest calling for his release, her lawyer said, adding that the life of her father was in danger afte
12:44
Joyce Banda sworn in as Malawi's president following her predecessor's sudden death in office. ...
Bahrain studies Denmark offer for hunger striker
11:56
Bahrain says the Gulf nation's top judges are reviewing a request by Denmark to gain custody of a jailed activist _ who is also a Danish citizen _ on a nearly two-month hunger strike. The official Bahrain News Agency...
Syrian-born cardinal, 81, dies in Rome
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Vatican Radio says Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud, a Syrian-born prelate and Eastern rite patriarch who headed a major Vatican office before retirement, has died in a Rome hospital. He was 81. In 2000, Pope John Paul...
Iran lawmaker: Country can produce nuclear weapons
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Iran has the knowledge and scientific capability to produce nuclear weapons but will never do so, a prominent lawmaker has said. Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam is a parliamentarian not a government official and his views...
Ex-Mubarak spy chief shakes up Egypt vote race
11:29
By Tom Pfeiffer and Marwa Awad CAIRO (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak's former intelligence chief formally applied to enter the presidential race on Saturday, shaking up Egyptian politics as liberals and Islamists
Greece: Clash after service for man who shot self
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A protest that followed a memorial service for a retired pharmacist who committed suicide has turned violent, with some demonstrators badly beating a policeman in Athens and stealing his bulletproof vest and other...
Israeli official: Iran nuclear claim shows threat
10:17
An Israeli official says a prominent Iranian lawmaker's claim that Tehran has the knowledge and scientific capability to produce atomic weapons reinforces Israel's view that the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear...
Myanmar's president meets Karen rebel leaders
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Myanmar's president has met with leaders of the Karen rebel movement in the latest sign of the government's determination to end one of the world's longest-running insurgencies. Saturday's meeting between Thein Sein...
NKorea's Bethlehem is birthplace of Kim religion
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As the snow drifts through the towering evergreen trees, silence enshrouds this remote pilgrimage site, a place some here consider the Bethlehem of North Korea. It was in a rustic log cabin at the foot of Mt. Paektu...
Kashmir on strike after US sentences accused agent
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Shops and businesses have been shut in Indian Kashmir during a strike to protest the U.S. prison sentence given to a Kashmir-born man accused of working for Pakistan's spy agency to influence Washington policymakers. A...
NATO: Militant from al-Qaida-linked group captured
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A member of an al-Qaida-linked group who helped finance attacks against Afghan and foreign forces has been captured in northern Afghanistan _ the third operative from the group detained or killed in the past two weeks,...
Two of Latin America's deadliest gangs join forces
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_ Hardened in the streets and prisons of California and deported in the 1990s to the Central American countries where they were born, the members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang swiftly grew into a force of heavily...
Yemen air force grounds flights at Sana'a airport
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SANAA (Reuters) - Members of Yemen's air force shut down the capital's airport on Saturday, stopping all flights in protest at the sacking of their commander, a half brother of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh,
Myanmar president holds landmark talks with rebels
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's president had a landmark meeting on Saturday with one of the country's biggest ethnic rebel groups, a mediator said, marking one of the biggest steps taken by a government seeking "ever
Correction: Afghanistan story
6:28
In an April 6 story about the assassination of the head of a peace council in Kunar province in northeastern Afghanistan, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the official who died. The victim was...
In tough times, British artists hit the streets
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Christiaan Nagel scrambles up an aluminum ladder, carrying a big blue mushroom. In seconds, the 29-year-old sculptor is on the roof of a once-handsome, now neglected Victorian building in London. Under a crescent moon,...
Christians in Holy Land pray on Easter Saturday
5:41
Thousands of Christians gathered near Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday and marched in processions brimming with tradition, taking turns to pray in the site where they believe Jesus was slain...
After half century, Cubans again celebrate Good Friday
5:08
By Jeff Franks HAVANA (Reuters) - Bells rang from Roman Catholic churches throughout Havana on Friday to remember the death of Jesus Christ as Cubans celebrated a holiday on Good Friday for the first time in
Leading Tiananmen-era Chinese dissident dies in U.S
4:54
BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's most famous dissidents at the time of Beijing's June 4, 1989, crackdown on pro-democracy activists has died in the United States, exiled dissidents said on Saturday. Fang L
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Report: Iran lawmaker says country has capability to produce nuclear weapons but won't do so. ...
Chinese teen sells kidney to buy iPhone, iPad
3:25
Authorities have indicted five people in central China for involvement in illegal organ trading after a teenager sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and an iPad. The case has prompted an outpouring of concern that...
Gaza Hamas rulers hang 3 accused of spying, murder
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Gaza's Hamas rulers say they have executed three men in dawn hangings. An interior ministry statement said one man was spying for Israel. Palestinians who collaborate with Israeli intelligence are widely loathed. The...
Hamas executes 3 in Gaza, including "traitor"
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GAZA (Reuters) - Islamist group Hamas executed three men on Saturday, hanging two convicted murderers and a Gazan found guilty of collaborating with Israel, the Hamas-run ministry of interior said. It did no
Malawi state radio says President Mutharika dead
2:55
LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi state radio announced on Saturday that President Bingu wa Mutharika had died after a heart attack, confirming the news previously given by sources. Medical and government sources
Iran: Navy rescues Chinese sailors from pirates
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Iran's state TV says the country's navy has rescued 28 crew members of a Chinese ship hijacked by pirates. The Saturday broadcast says the Iranian navy also detained nine Somali pirates in the operation in the Arabian...
APNewsBreak: Mali's coup leader to return power
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Under intense pressure from the nations bordering Mali, the junior officer who seized control of the country in a coup last month signed an accord late Friday, agreeing to return the nation to constitutional rule. The...