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Libya army chief vows end to militias this year
June 12, 2013 TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's interim army chief of staff insisted Tuesday that militias will have to lay down their arms or join the military by year's end after 31 people were killed in protests... more »»
Argentina soccer player sent off for harming dog
June 12, 2013 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine soccer player was expelled from a minor league game and fired from his team for mistreating a dog that wandered onto the field. more »»
UN envoy: 'Streets are heating up' in south Yemen
June 12, 2013 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. more »»
Official: Shooting breaks out near Niger base
June 12, 2013 NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Shooting erupted late Tuesday near a college for Niger's paramilitary police in a suburb of the capital, the minister of defense said. more »»
Taliban bomber in Kabul kills 17 at Supreme Court
June 12, 2013 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber struck outside Afghanistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday, killing 17 people in the deadliest attack in Kabul in over a year and a half. more »»
Pope confirms 'gay lobby' at work at Vatican
June 12, 2013 VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis lamented that a "gay lobby" was at work at the Vatican in private remarks to the leadership of a key Latin American church group — a stunning acknowledgment that... more »»
Syrian rebels reeling from loss of Qusair
June 12, 2013 BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian rebels' defeat in Qusair cost them more than a strategic stronghold. It has left them with a battered spirit and deep frustratio. more »»
Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens
June 11, 2013 BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit the country in years. more »»
Canadian, nicknamed 'Black Widow,' pleads guilty
June 11, 2013 SYDNEY, Nova Scotia (AP) — A Canadian woman nicknamed the "Black Widow" for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her pleaded guilty on Monday to drugging a man she married days earlier. more »»
Brazil govt to perform crash tests after AP report
June 11, 2013 SAO PAULO (AP) — After a decade of spiking fatalities from passenger car wrecks, the Brazilian government said Monday it plans to build its first auto crash test facility in an effort to improve the... more »»
Charges sought for Iraqi held at Guantanamo
June 11, 2013 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — U.S. more »»
Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea linked to jealousy
June 11, 2013 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — On a tropical island where most people live in huts, assailants armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed the wooden house by nigh. more »»
Korea talks raise hopes; history may scuttle them
June 11, 2013 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity marked by recent threats o... more »»
US secrets leaker has options to stay in Hong Kong
June 11, 2013 HONG KONG (AP) — The American defense contractor who says he leaked information on classified U.. more »»
Insurgents battle Afghan forces near Kabul airport
June 10, 2013 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least five heavily armed insurgents were engaged in an hours-long gunbattle with security forces near Afghanistan's main airport Monday after they apparently tried to... more »»
2 Koreas to hold senior-level meeting in Seoul
June 10, 2013 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed early Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclea... more »»
Anti-Hezbollah protester killed in Lebanon
June 10, 2013 BEIRUT (AP) — Men wielding batons and wearing yellow arm bands evoking Lebanon's Hezbollah attacked protesters outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Sunday during a rally against the militant group'... more »»
South Africa: family visits Nelson Mandela
June 10, 2013 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela received visits from family members on Sunday at a hospital where the former president and anti-apartheid leader was being treated for a recurring lung infection,... more »»
Libya army chief resigns after clash in Benghazi
June 10, 2013 TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — One of Libya's highest military officers resigned Sunday after clashes between protesters and a government-aligned militia he was in charge of left 31 people dead in the easter... more »»
Turkey's leader lambasts protesters
June 10, 2013 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In a series of increasingly belligerent speeches to cheering supporters Sunday, Turkey's prime minister demanded an end to the 10-day anti-government protests that have spread... more »» |
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