China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth
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China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade _ a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any deal as a...
IAEA chief: Iran investigation at 'dead end'
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The outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday his probe of Iran's nuclear program is at "a dead end" and that trust in Tehran's credibility is shrinking after its belated revelation that it...
China executes 2 for child abductions
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China has executed two men for abducting and selling 15 children, many of whom were taken as babies or toddlers and have not yet been reunited with their parents, state media said Friday. The official Xinhua News...
Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing
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Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who...
Canadian ex-official: Afghan prison claims known
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Canadian federal officials were well aware of allegations of abuse in Afghan jails as the Canadian military was handing over detainees to Afghanistan's intelligence service in 2006, Canada's former top official on...
Freed foreign journalists in Kenyan hospital
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Two foreign journalists freed after 15 months in captivity in Somalia have been receiving medical care in neighboring Kenya, Canada's ambassador said. Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan flew out of...
Brazil, US official discuss differences
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Brazilian diplomats denied Thursday that there is a crisis in relations with the U.S., while acknowledging differences with the government of President Barack Obama on issues such as Iran's nuclear ambitions and...
Brazil miniskirt student will parade in Carnival
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Brazilians will be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades. Geisy Arruda, who became an...
Experts: Bishops covered up priests' child abuse
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Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland's government concluded Thursday. ...
Mujica headed for presidential victory in Uruguay
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Uruguay's likely next president tried to lead an armed revolution as a young man, hiding in sewers, killing a police officer and twice escaping prison through elaborately dug tunnels. Polls suggest Jose Mujica _ now 74...
Iran seizes rights lawyer's Nobel Peace medal
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Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. In Norway, where...
Haiti bans prominent party from 2010 election
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Haiti's electoral council has banned the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from next year's legislative elections. The Fanmi Lavalas party, which remains a major party with support...
UK gov't will not stop extradition of hacker to US
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The British government said Thursday it will not prevent the extradition of an autistic hacker accused of breaking into U.S. military computers. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he will not intervene in the case of...
Cuba military exercise guards against US invasion
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Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion. Americans focused on...
Palestinians urge US to raise pressure on Israel
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Palestinians appealed to the United States on Thursday to raise pressure on Israel, saying an Israeli plan to halt new construction in the West Bank was insincere. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top presidential adviser, said he...
Honduran court: Zelaya shouldn't be restored
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The Honduran Supreme Court recommended Thursday that lawmakers vote against restoring ousted President Manuel Zelaya, another blow for his quickly fading chances of returning to power. The Supreme Court submitted its...
New spy charge against jailed Iranian-American
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Iran brought new espionage charges against an Iranian-American scholar who was already convicted of spying and sentenced to 15 years in prison in the country's crackdown following June's disputed presidential election,...
Quake shakes El Salvador, Guatemala
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A strong earthquake struck off El Salvador's Pacific coast Thursday, sending people running from buildings in this Central American nation and in neighboring Guatemala. Civil protection officials in both countries said...
Watchdog warning about TV in post-Soviet states
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Government-influenced television is hampering democracy in Russia, Belarus and most post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, and it could endanger international peace and security if misused as a...
Mumbai commemorates anniversary of attacks
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A grandfather visited the room where his grandson was orphaned. A young man returned to the hotel where he narrowly escaped death. Mumbai residents went in droves to donate blood at a train station overrun in the...
Canada PM to attend Copenhagen climate meeting
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Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend the Copenhagen climate-change meeting next month. Stephen Harper's spokesman Dimitri Soudas said Thursday Harper decided to attend after the U.S. and...
German military's inspector general removed
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The German military's top official was removed Thursday for failing to properly pass on information to political leaders about a September airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians. The new defense minister,...
China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth
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China promised Thursday to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade _ a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any...
Iraqi PM: Election dispute poses risks to security
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Iraq's prime minister on Thursday vowed there will be no delay in the withdrawal of U.S. troops despite an Iraqi political dispute that is expected to force a January vote to be postponed. In an interview with The...
Soldiers in Afghanistan enjoy turkeys they raised
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As daylight faded and the winter cold set in, soldiers huddled inside a crude wooden hut to tuck into Thanksgiving turkeys the unit itself had fattened and to give thanks for having survived a year of combat in...
Coma recovery case attracts doubters
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Rom Houben's mother remembers her son's amazement when he finally started communicating again after spending 23 years locked in a paralyzed body that was misdiagnosed as vegetative. "Early on, he was surprised that the...
Swiss police: Geneva mosque vandalized
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Swiss police say a Geneva mosque has been vandalized, three days ahead of a national vote on whether to ban the construction of minarets as an Islamic intrusion. Patrick Pulh, spokesman for the Geneva police, says...
Freed foreign journalists in Kenyan hospital
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Two foreign journalists freed after 15 months in captivity in Somalia were receiving medical care on Thursday in neighboring Kenya, Canada's ambassador said. Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan flew...
Ex-UK envoy: US focused on Iraq hours after 9/11
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Tony Blair could have delayed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensured better plans were in place for its chaotic aftermath by taking a tougher stance with President George W. Bush, Britain's ex-ambassador to Washington...
Chile murder mystery: Who killed Victor Jara?
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Who killed Victor Jara? The notorious murder of the popular folk singer _ who became a symbol of resistance after he was tortured and shot to death in the chaotic first days of Chile's 1973 coup _ has never been...
Tunisian court hands journalist 6-month sentence
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A journalist known for his critical stance toward Tunisia's government was sentenced to six months in prison Thursday for what his lawyer called a trumped-up assault charge. The French government expressed regret at...
Russian official admits some blame in lawyer death
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A Russian prison official reportedly admitted Thursday that harsh prison conditions are partially to blame for the death last week of a lawyer being held in a Moscow detention center. Lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was...
Namibian elections to return ruling party to power
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Namibia's longtime ruling party is expected to return to power in Friday elections but its hold on this desert nation may weaken with the emergence of a new opposition party. President Hifikepunye Pohamba is seeking a...
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Prosecutors to file multiple murder charges against suspect in Philippine massacre on Friday. ...
Shooting at Hungarian university leaves 1 dead
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A gunman opened fire in a Hungarian university classroom Thursday, killing one student and leaving three people seriously injured, the state-run news agency said. Police detained a 23-year-old pharmacy student at the...
US demand for cheap wine buoys global market
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Is the world drowning its sorrows in cheap wine? An industry group said Thursday that more wine could be consumed globally this year thanks to crisis-fueled demand for cheaper or discounted tipples. While that might...
Contractor's helicopter missing in Afghanistan
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A helicopter chartered by an international military contractor has disappeared in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday. Supreme Global Service Solutions said in a statement Thursday evening that the helicopter had been...
Georgian FM urges Western security guarantees
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Georgia is very worried about the possible sale of French warships to Russia and intends to press the issue of security guarantees in France, the country's foreign minister said Thursday. "Georgia needs security...
St. Vincent to keep queen, shuns new constitution
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The queen of England will still rule _ formally at least _ over the eastern Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Nearly 56 percent of voters rejected a referendum that would have replaced the British...
International court seeks to open Kenya probe
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The International Criminal Court's prosecutor asked judges Thursday for permission to investigate Kenya's postelection violence that left more than 1,000 people dead. Luis Moreno Ocampo said there is a "reasonable...
Indonesian police stop Greenpeace forest protest
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Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an official and an activist...
Invading camels to be shot in Australian town
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Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies. ...
UN group arrives in Guinea to investigate killings
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A United Nations human rights official says a three-member U.N. commission has arrived in this West African nation to investigate the September massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped...
SKorea confirms some 5,000 wartime executions
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South Korean soldiers and police executed nearly 5,000 citizens during the early months of the 1950-53 Korean War, fearing they could collaborate with invading North Korean troops, a government commission said Thursday....
Large fire hits SE London; 310 people evacuated
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A fierce fire cut through apartment blocks and a construction site in southeast London early Thursday, spreading across a road and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. More than 125 firefighters spent hours...
Experts: Nigerian pirates may be extending reach
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A bloody pirate attack off Benin's coast is raising concerns that Nigerian pirates _ operating on the opposite side of Africa from Somali pirates _ are extending their reach and shows that the waters off West Africa are...
Palestinians urge US to raise pressure on Israel
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Palestinians appealed to the United States on Thursday to raise pressure on Israel, saying an Israeli plan to halt new construction in the West Bank was insincere. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top presidential adviser, said he...
Massive UK treasure haul valued at $5.4 million
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The British Museum says a massive haul of Anglo-Saxon gold found this summer by an unemployed amateur treasure-hunter has been valued at 3.285 million pounds ($5.435 million). The discovery of the hoard of gold and...
Spanish king's daughter to divorce
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Lawyers for Juan Carlos' eldest child, Princess Elena and her husband Jaime de Marichalar say the two have agreed to divorce. In a statement published in several newspapers Thursday, lawyers for the couple said the two...
China's Internet buzzing over woman in black
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While President Barack Obama talked about Internet rights during his visit to China, the Internet here talked about a mystery woman in black. Clad in a black dress and red coat, college student Wang Zifei was snapped...