PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Actor Sean Penn has been named ambassador at large for Haiti in recognition of his humanitarian work since the 2010 earthquake….
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An international human rights watchdog said Wednesday it has information that sympathetic Philippine military personnel were thwarting attempts by civilian authorities to capture a former army general accused of kidnappi…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Political rivals slammed each other Tuesday over $1.9 million in wads of cash found stuffed into a state official’s luggage at a central Mexico airport. The find inflamed already rampant speculation about whether organized crime…
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HAVANA (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday that her country acted properly in granting an entry visa to Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, but that it’s an internal matter for Cuba as to whether Sanchez is allowed to leave t…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Samsung took a double-hit in its battle against archrival Apple when the European Union announced it would investigate whether it was illegally trying to hinder competitors and Germany blocked sales of some of its tablet computers….
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — King Stitt, a pioneer in rap reggae, died Tuesday in his Caribbean homeland of Jamaica. He was 72….
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Coast Guard boats, tug boats and a helicopter were searching for eight crew members after a Cambodia-flagged freighter ship sank in stormy waters off Turkey’s Black Sea coast on Tuesday, officials said. Three other cr…
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CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian justice minister returned a letter Tuesday from the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt asking him to re-examine the issue of Americans barred from leaving the country….
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One of Moammar Gadhafi’s daughters asked Tuesday to intervene in proceedings against her brother at the International Criminal Court, saying she wants to protect his interests….
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One of Moammar Gadhafi’s daughters asked Tuesday to intervene in proceedings against her brother at the International Criminal Court, saying she wants to protect his interests….
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India is buying 126 French-made combat aircraft in a massive $11 billion deal that will increase the might of the world’s fourth largest air force with the first exported Rafale jets, officials said Tuesday….
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers: nearly all are fearful that their bre…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Now that their country has gained independence, thousands of migrants from South Sudan must leave Israel or face deportation, Israel’s Interior Ministry said Tuesday….
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MOSCOW (AP) — The head of Russia’s space agency said Tuesday that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a low-quality imported component may have been vu…
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KOCINOVAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — They were bitter enemies on opposite sides of the front line during the horrors of the Bosnian War. Now, one side is bailing out the other in an act of once-unimaginable generosity….
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental tourists last year….
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is recalling 1.35 million condoms given away at the African National Congress party’s centenary celebrations amid charges some broke during intercourse and others were porous, an official said Tuesday….
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BEIJING (AP) — The killing of a South Korean coast guard officer by a Chinese fisherman should have been tailor-made for China’s CCTV News as it embarks on an ambitious plan to become a global network with assertive international coverage….
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MUMBAI, India (AP) — India has joined China in saying it will not cut back on oil imports from Iran, despite stiff new U.S. and European sanctions designed to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program….
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s leaders, politicians and union leaders on Monday welcomed the decision by the chief executive of nationalized Royal Bank of Scotland to refuse, under huge media pressure, a million-pound ($1.6 million) bonus….
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s young new leader gets rock star treatment when he visits his troops – just as his father did. But while the late Kim Jong Il mostly stayed aloof in dark shades, his son holds hands and hugs his soldiers….
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Human rights groups harshly criticized a Haitian judge Monday after he recommended former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier face trial only on corruption charges – and not for rights abuses during his brutal 15-year rule….
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CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — The drought in northern Mexico is so bad that it has hurt even illicit drug growers and their normally well-tended crops of marijuana and opium poppies, a Mexican army commander said Monday….
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SHANGHAI (AP) — China’s environmental authorities were redoubling efforts Monday to prevent a toxic cadmium spill from further tainting water supplies of cities downstream, as seven chemical company officials were reported detained in connection w…
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TORONTO (AP) — At least one of the three members of an Afghan family found guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another woman intends to appeal the conviction, the man’s lawyer said Monday….
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — Advocates for persecuted minority groups in Sudan are calling attention to the plight of eastern Sudan’s Be…
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Generation Opportunity Expands Network Across Florida, Issues Online Training Guides in English and Spanish to Organize Young Voters
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HAVANA (AP) — The widow of a Cuban prisoner who reportedly died after a 50-day hunger strike acknowledged Monday that his legal troubles stemmed from a domestic violence incident and that he aligned himself with the opposition only after he was de…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials said Monday they have found a new distribution point for thousands of gallons of gasoline stolen from state-owned pipelines: a seemingly normal gas station with official logos….
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VIENNA (AP) — Far-right Austrian politicians were widely criticized Monday for comparing protests against a fancy ball that attracts extremists to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews….
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LONDON (AP) — Olympic organizers have some travel advice for the millions of people who work and live in London: Be patient. Have a beer. Work from home….
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — Two men were found guilty Monday of involvement in an al-Qaida plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, the first convictions under Norway’s anti-terror laws….
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s population of 128 million will shrink by one-third and seniors will account for 40 percent of people by 2060, placing a greater burden on a smaller working-age population to support the social security and tax systems….
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian authorities say 112 people have been treated for injuries after a magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck the country’s central coast. They say none of the injuries are life-threatening….
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand is welcoming Twitter’s new policy to censor tweets in specific nations where the content might break laws….
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A hard-line Jewish settler who wants to pay Palestinians to leave the West Bank and Gaza is running against Israel’s prime minister in Tuesday’s party primary election….
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CAIRO (AP) — A year later, the neighbors still speak of those killed the night they attacked the police station: The young man shot in the neck while carrying off his wounded friend; the bodybuilder who took a bullet in the hip; the 15-year-old gi…
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Sudanese army has freed 14 Chinese road construction workers, part of a group reportedly abducted by militants in a remote region in the country’s south, officials said Monday….
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Europe’s crippling debt crisis dominated the world’s foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for the first time the growing inequality between the planet’s haves and have-nots became an issue, thanks lar…
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned private banks on Sunday that he will consider nationalizing any that refuse to finance agricultural projects promoted by his government….
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HAVANA (AP) — President Raul Castro delivered a full-throated defense of Cuba’s one-party political system on Sunday, and a sharp warning to Communist Party delegates to fight corruption he said was a greater threat to the revolution than anything…
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian atheist who was jailed and beaten last year for expressing anti-Muslim views on Facebook and in blogs says Palestinian security forces are harassing him again, despite government pledges to respect human ri…
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A high-profile visit to Jordan by the leader of Hamas has revived contacts with the Palestinian militant group, but Jordan will not lift a ban on its activities there, a senior Jordanian official said Sunday….
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MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of cars flying white ribbons or balloons circled central Moscow on Sunday in a show of protest against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin….
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LONDON (AP) — Margaret Thatcher chose Beethoven, Michael Caine picked Frank Sinatra and boxer George Foreman selected The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love.”…
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CAIRO (AP) — A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment….
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — In a rare victory for Pakistani liberals, a private TV station decided to fire a popular morning show host after she sparked outrage by running around a public park trying to expose young, unmarried couples hanging out, a taboo in…
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Police fired guns and used batons on crowds of stone-throwing opposition activists in several Bangladesh towns Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100, a news report and doctors at two hospitals sa…
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ROME (AP) — Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a past president of Italy who helped write its post-war constitution and was a founding member of the former Christian Democrats, died Sunday in Rome. He was 93….
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s minister of petroleum and mining says the nation will not restart oil production unless Sudan accepts a list of demands….
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