In Asia, Obama attends meeting with Myanmar leader
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President Barack Obama has attended a meeting with the head of Myanmar's repressive government without directly interacting with the military leader. Obama and Gen. Thein Sein were among nearly a dozen leaders who met...
In Asia, Obama attends meeting with Myanmar leader
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President Barack Obama has attended a meeting with the head of Myanmar's repressive government without directly interacting with the military leader. Obama and Gen. Thein Sein were among nearly a dozen leaders who met...
Ship collision kills 4 South Korean fishermen
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A South Korean fishing boat flipped over after colliding with a much larger Hong Kong cargo ship, killing four fishermen and leaving three others missing, officials said Sunday. The two vessels collided Saturday night...
Obama, Medvedev optimistic on START replacement
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President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev say they still plan to have a replacement START nuclear arms reduction treaty ready by year's end. Obama and his Russian counterpart met Sunday on the sidelines...
Iran artists in tug of war with government
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Iran's greatest master of traditional music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, always avoided open clashes with his country's ruling hard-line clerics. So it was a bombshell when Shajarian _ so revered that his audiences pelt...
Ousted Honduran president won't recognize vote
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Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya insisted late Saturday that he will not accept any deal to restore him to office if it means he must recognize elections later this month. In a letter addressed to President...
Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to trade summit
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President Hugo Chavez is inviting former Cuban leader Fidel Castro to next month's meeting of the regional ALBA trade bloc being held in Havana. Chavez says Castro is well enough to attend the conference in...
Colombia to return Venezuela national guard troops
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Four soldiers from Venezuela's National Guard captured in Colombian territory will be repatriated in a bid to ease tensions between the South American neighbors, President Alvaro Uribe's government said Saturday. The...
9 killed, 80 injured when train derails in India
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A speeding train derailed in western India, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80. Fifteen cars of the New Delhi-bound train flew off the tracks Saturday and rolled onto their sides when the driver...
Sweden returns 22 human skulls to Hawaii
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With a solemn ceremony in Stockholm's antiquities museum, Sweden marked the return of 22 skulls looted from a native Hawaiian community more than a century ago. The symbolic ceremony on Saturday _ attended by guests...
US health agency to take 'fresh look' at Vieques
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A U.S. agency has overturned its 2003 research that said no health hazards were caused by decades of military exercises on Vieques, a bombing range-turned-tourist destination off Puerto Rico's east coast. The federal...
Few call Venice home, but it's not history, either
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A dozen gondolas snaked down the Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral procession bemoaning Venice's approach to the dreaded status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000. While the largely symbolic...
Czechs celebrate 20 years since Velvet Revolution
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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel opened the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Velvet Revolution with a concert attended by celebrities. Underground rocker Lou Reed, soprano Renee Fleming and folk singer Joan Baez...
Opposition: Iran rulers more brutal than shah
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Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Saturday, and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown aimed at choking off the reform...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: What time is it?
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What time is it again? Even White House press secretary Robert Gibbs found the time change startling as President Barack Obama's tour of Asia got under way. As he began briefing the traveling press corps, he found he...
US: Iraq needs to do more to help refugees return
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The Iraqi government has taken strides to help refugees displaced by the violence in the country over recent years return home, but still "needs to do a heck of a lot more," a U.S. official said Saturday. Eric...
15 people killed in 1 day in Mexican border city
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Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. State prosecutor's spokesman Arturo Sandoval...
Kenya harvest example on reversing food shortage
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Joram Abiero remembers it was not too long ago that his neighbors went to bed hungry. Now they and thousands of others in the lowlands of western Kenya are able to get year-round work as farm laborers or earn money...
Bill Clinton urges Mideast foes to end conflict
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Former President Bill Clinton, whose energetic efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed, urged both sides Saturday to end their decades-old conflict, saying they cannot escape their common future. ...
Officials: veteran climber Humar dies in Himalayas
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Veteran Slovenian climber Tomaz Humar was found dead in the Himalayas on Saturday, days after he was injured and stranded on a 23,710-foot (7,227-meter) mountain, a mountain rescue company and a close friend said. ...
NATO says insurgents killed during search
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NATO and Afghan forces killed several insurgents, including an armed woman, in a search operation in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the alliance said. The governor of Shindand district in Herat, where the operation...
Suicide attack kills 11 at NW Pakistan checkpoint
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A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing 11 people, including four children, the latest in a wave of militant attacks that have claimed more than 300 lives in the past...
UN food chief stages hunger strike ahead of summit
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The U.N. food chief said Saturday he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of the world's hungry before next week's U.N. food summit. Jacques Diouf...
A president of Europe? Continent's unity is tested
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The European Union has battled long and hard for this moment: the imminent choice of its first president. To get there, the EU strong-armed Irish voters, brushed aside hostile French and Dutch ballots, and pressured...
Iran artists in tug of war with government
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Iran's greatest master of traditional music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, always avoided open clashes with his country's ruling hard-line clerics. So it was a bombshell when Shajarian _ so revered that his audiences pelt...
Malta's bishop announces pope to visit April 17-18
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The bishop of Malta says Pope Benedict XVI will visit the tiny Mediterranean island April 17-18 to mark the 1950th anniversary of St. Paul's shipwreck. Bishop Paul Cremona on Saturday said Benedict will celebrate an...
Britain investigating fresh Iraq abuse claims
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Iraqi civilians who were detained by British troops during the U.S.-led war have leveled some 33 allegations of rape and abuse against male and female soldiers, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Saturday. The...
NKorean cargo ship arrives in South after clash
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A North Korean cargo ship entered South Korean waters Saturday _ a sign that trade has been unaffected by a recent deadly naval clash off their western coasts, an official said. The ship dropped anchor west of Seoul...
Ugandan official suggests caning dead bodies
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A Ugandan government official says the bodies of those who die because of drinking a local illicit gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living. Edwin Komakech spoke Saturday at a security...
Blasts rock Russian ammunition depot, 2 killed
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Huge explosions and flames ripped through a Russian military arsenal for hours, killing two firefighters and sending personnel fleeing to a bomb shelter to wait out the worst of the firestorm, officials said. The...
Fire at indoor SKorean shooting range kills 10
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A fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing 10 people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. Some people were on fire as they ran out of...
No bars, no mistresses, Chinese officials warned
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Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party's efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening its rule and sullying...
South Koreans protest Afghan troop dispatch
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About 200 South Koreans rallied Saturday to protest a government plan to send troops to Afghanistan, days ahead of a visit to Seoul by President Barack Obama. South Korea pulled its troops out of Afghanistan in 2007...
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Police: Suicide attacker carried out car bombing in northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. ...
Indonesia deports Greenpeace activists
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Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction. Immigration official Jumanter Lubis said Saturday the activists violated their tourist...
Lebanon's new Cabinet leery of Hezbollah dispute
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Lebanon's new government, a shaky coalition of Western-backed factions and the militant Hezbollah, is unlikely to tackle the chief challenge the country faces _ a buildup of the Iranian-backed group's weapons _ even as...
Ultra-Orthodox Israelis protest Intel Sabbath work
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More than a thousand devout Jews noisly protested in Jerusalem on Saturday against plans by computer chip maker Intel to operate on the Jewish day of rest. The devout Jews, dressed in their traditional black hats and...
Russian says troops kill 20 militants in Chechnya
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Government forces have killed more than 20 militants in Chechnya, and a bomb blast at a cemetery in a neighboring province killed three relatives visiting the grave of a police officer slain by insurgents, law...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: What time is it?
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What time is it again? Even White House press secretary Robert Gibbs found the time change startling as President Barack Obama's tour of Asia got under way. As he began briefing the traveling press corps, he found he...
Heavy snow storms in northern China kill 40
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Unusually early snow storms in north-central China have claimed 40 lives, caused thousands of buildings to collapse and destroyed almost 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of winter crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said...
White House lawyer who led Gitmo efforts quitting
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The White House's top lawyer is returning to private practice and being replaced by a longtime adviser to Barack Obama. White House counsel Greg Craig, who's leaving in early January, has been the subject of repeated...
Obama speaks of Asian ties
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President Barack Obama is highlighting his personal ties to Asia, as part of his effort to broaden U.S. engagement in the region. In his first major trip to Asia as president, Obama told a group of prominent Japanese...
Obama: US won't 'be cowed' by North Korea
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President Barack Obama says the U.S. and the world will not "be cowed" by North Korea's threats and nuclear belligerence. Obama said in a major address in Tokyo on Saturday that Pyongyang must learn that its failure to...
Cat's demise prompts rumors of Thatcher death
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When Canada's transport minister decided to name his cat Thatcher, he likely never thought it would cause quite the stir it did during a gala dinner earlier this week. During a tribute to Canada's military in Toronto,...
Obama: Human rights only path to security
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President Barack Obama says the U.S. "will always stand" on the side of people who seek the guarantees of liberty and dignity. The U.S. leader dwelt on the need for human rights throughout the Asia Pacific region in a...
Obama urges all nations to fight climate change
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President Barack Obama is calling on all nations to accept responsibility for fighting climate change. But he says he's not expecting that it will be easy to reach an agreement at a climate change summit next month in...
Blasts rock Russian ammunition depot, 2 killed
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Huge explosions and flames ripped through a Russian military arsenal for hours on Friday, killing two firefighters and sending personnel fleeing to a bomb shelter to wait out the worst of the firestorm, officials said. ...
NKorea vows to defend itself after sea clash
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North Korea warned it will aggressively defend itself in disputed waters where a bloody naval clash with rival South Korea took place last week, though tempered its rhetoric by indicating it wants better relations with...
Canada Supreme Court hears Gitmo case
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Canada's federal government is urging the country's top court to overturn a judicial order that obligates the government to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay. ...
Colombia chef school concocts dessert with Viagra
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A Colombian cooking school has concocted a "love dessert" made with passion fruit _ and Viagra. Student chefs at the state culinary school in Quindio province wouldn't give the complete ingredients but say it contains...