Tag: international
group name: news
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November 24, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
KABUL (AP) — A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a water truck exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three people including two children, the Interior Ministry said.
Another two children . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police official says 11 more massacre victims found in mass grave, death toll to 35.
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November 24, 2009 06:06 AM EST --
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two former Congolese militia leaders have pleaded not guilty to war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to a 2003 massacre at the opening of the International . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:06 AM EST --
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Solidarity founder Lech Walesa is suing Polish President Lech Kaczynski for damages in a Warsaw court for having called Walesa a communist-era agent.
Walesa, a former Polish . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
NEW DELHI (AP) — A government investigation released Tuesday reportedly implicated dozens of Hindu nationalist politicians — including a former prime minister — in the 1992 demolition . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:05 AM EST --
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters to wipe out a village in a revenge attack that left more than 200 men, women and children dead, . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:05 AM EST --
PARIS (AP) — France's foreign minister has praised the courage of a journalist who has led a fight against a law in Sudan allowing for women to be flogged for wearing pants.
Bernard Kouchner says . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:06 AM EST --
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military says it has carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels.
The military says the aerial . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:06 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — Google is documenting the treasures of Iraq's national museum.
Google chief Eric Schmidt says the company took 14,000 photographs of the museum and its artifacts and will put them . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:06 AM EST --
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Foreign Ministry says the country is ready to exchange its low-enriched uranium with a higher enriched one, but only on its own soil.
Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:05 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi vice president has indicated he will veto an election law for a second time, deepening political uncertainty in a country struggling to recover from years of war.
The dispute . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:05 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi election official says a political dispute has made it "impossible" to hold elections in January as required by the constitution, and that a delay is certain.
Qassim al-Aboudi, . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:00 AM EST --
AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) — A police official says 11 more bodies have been unearthed from a mass grave in the southern Philippines, bringing the death toll from a massacre of political supporters . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:00 AM EST --
AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:01 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.
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November 24, 2009 02:02 AM EST --
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. consular official says an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.
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November 24, 2009 02:02 AM EST --
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.
Brian Quigley, a spokesman . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:00 AM EST --
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.
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November 24, 2009 06:05 AM EST --
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Iran's leader got a welcoming bear hug from the Brazilian president, who urged Western nations to drop threats of punishment over the Iranian nuclear program and instead . . .
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