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...
9:42
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
12:00
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....
No. 2 fugitive mob boss nabbed in Sicily
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Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said. Convicted mobster Domenico Raccuglia, who has been on the run for...
Death toll in El Salvador storms rises to 192
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Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed by floods and landslides that swept through the country last week. El Salvador's Civil Protection agency says in a statement that 89 of the victims were killed...
French envoy talks about trip in North Korea
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy to North Korea said Sunday that he had long talks with officials there about sensitive issues including nuclear proliferation and human rights. Jack Lang, a former...
Frustrated Palestinians to appeal to UN for state
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A Palestinian drive to ask the U.N. Security Council to endorse a state unilaterally, put forward by a top negotiator Sunday, appeared more an expression of frustration with U.S. and Israeli policies and stalled peace...
Reports: Iran ex-deputy minister jailed in Israel
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An Iranian former deputy defense minister who has been missing for nearly three years was abducted by Israeli agents and is now being held in Israel, several Iranian news Web sites reported Sunday. Ali Reza Asgari, a...
Pakistan: Militants attack 2 anti-Taliban figures
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Militants staged a pair of attacks against anti-Taliban figures in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing one of the men as part of an escalating campaign to weaken the country's resolve to fight Islamic extremism. ...
Iraqi Sunni Arab VP threatens to veto election law
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Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president threatened Sunday to veto the country's election law unless changes are made giving Iraqis living abroad more guaranteed seats in parliament, throwing the January vote into question. ...
Serb Patriarch Pavle dies, spoke for Balkan peace
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Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle, who called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic wars of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn extreme Serb nationalism, died Sunday. He was 95. There have been...
Iran's first lady makes rare speech at Rome summit
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Iran's first lady made rare public appearance and even more rare, a speech, at a Rome forum on the eve of a U.N. summit to fight hunger beginning Monday. The wife of Iranian Mahmoud Ahmadinejad almost never appears in...
US, Russia say sanctions a posssibility for Iran
12:58
President Barack Obama said Sunday that "time is running out" for Iran to sign on to a deal to ship its enriched uranium out of the country for further processing, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he still...
Bingo! In quieter Baghdad, beloved game is back
12:30
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...
Germans ID convert, 27, as terror suspect
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Authorities have identified a 27-year-old German convert to Islam as an al-Qaida associate suspected of traveling to Afghanistan and planning to attack German targets. The report could fuel concerns about European...
Egypt to apply for first Arabic domain name
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Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging...
China's plan for Three Gorges' water level stalled
11:58
Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month _ which would mark the symbolic culmination of the decades-old project _ have stalled amid a worsening drought and...
Think tank says British prisons breeding radicals
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A British think tank said Sunday that prison policies are failing to stop Muslim inmates being radicalized, and urged the government to set up a special center to "deprogram" extremists. The Quilliam Foundation said...
Obama tells Myanmar junta to free Suu Kyi
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President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face interaction with a top leader of the ruling military. Obama delivered the strong...
2nd Jordanian this week dies from police beating
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A Jordanian citizen died after being beaten by police, the second time this week, a police spokesman said Sunday, casting a rare spotlight on the nation's U.S.-trained security forces, that may also have worked as proxy...