TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s presidential campaign has taken a dark turn, with the opposition challenger accusing intelligence services under the control of incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou of tracking her campaign events for political advantage…
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HAVANA (AP) — A leading human rights activist says a Cuban prisoner who launched a hunger strike because he was not part of a large prison amnesty has died of an apparent heart attack….
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CAJAMARCA, Peru (AP) — Demonstrators in Peru resumed their protests on Monday against plans to develop a $4.8 billion gold mine, saying they fear the mine will harm their water supplies….
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters on Monday jeered Hungarian leaders outside a glitzy gala to mark the country’s brand new constitution, accusing the government of exerting control over everything from the media, to the econ…
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ROME (AP) — Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II and who lost much of his family to Nazi death camps, has died in a Rome clinic, his widow said Monday. He was 90….
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LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron issued a blunt message to Britons on Monday, saying that though the Summer Olympics and the queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration will raise the country’s profile 2012 will still be a tough year….
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LONDON (AP) — Olympic fencer and movie sword master Bob Anderson appeared in some of film’s most famous dueling scenes – though few viewers knew it….
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LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch has begun the new year by setting up in a new field of communications – he’s started tweeting….
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside their differences and step up support for the battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, militan…
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Monday it will begin enforcing a law that allows only females to work in women’s lingerie and apparel stores, despite disapproval from the country’s top cleric….
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SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Kiro Gligorov, the first democratically elected president of Macedonia who shepherded his nation through a bloodless secession from the former Yugoslavia and narrowly survived an assassination attempt, has died. He was 94….
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A 15-year-old Afghan girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment, an Afghan official said Monday….
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Two men have been arrested in central India for allegedly killing a 7-year-old girl and cutting out her liver in a ritual sacrifice to ensure a better harvest, police said Monday….
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LONDON (AP) — A 20-year-old British man charged with the murder of an Indian student said in court that his name was “Psycho” during an appearance Monday….
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BEIJING (AP) — The strain of H5H1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man cannot spread among people, a health agency said Monday, appealing for calm after the country’s first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 months….
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities have yet to decide what to do with three Iranian border guards detained for allegedly crossing into southwestern Pakistan and killing a man, a government official said Monday….
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Would the sex, drugs and rock-n-roll fueled TV show “Californication” be worth watching without the sex, drugs and rock-n- roll? What about serial killer series “Dexter” without the gore?…
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