Brazil student expelled after wearing mini-dress
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A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class _ publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality. The private Bandeirante University in...
China executes 9 Uighurs over July ethnic riots
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Chinese state media says an initial group of nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in July's deadly ethnic rioting in the country's far west. The China News Service reported Monday that the nine were put to...
Iran still wants nuke talks with world powers
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Iran still wants talks with world powers over fuel supplies to a Tehran nuclear reactor _ despite the country's apparent rejection of a U.N. plan to curb Iran's enriched uranium stockpile. The Iranian top nuclear...
Iraq election head wants national vote on Jan. 21
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The head of Iraq's electoral commission is proposing national elections be held on Jan. 21, five days after the scheduled date. Parliament cleared the way for the vote when it passed a crucial election law Sunday....
Report: NKorea's Kim rides on tricked-out trains
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il _ known for shunning air travel _ has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported...
French envoy in NKorea for talks on ties, nukes
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy began talks Monday with North Korea on establishing diplomatic relations and the international standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear programs. Envoy Jack Lang's trip to the...
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China executes first group of 9 Uighurs over July ethnic riots in country's far west. ...
Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall
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With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's...
Rain-triggered landslides kill 14 in Indonesia
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Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday. The downpours sent a mass of mud slamming into about...
Zimbabwe lawyer: witness tortured in weapons trial
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Prosecutors want to prevent a top aide to Zimbabwe's prime minister from arguing that evidence against him in a weapons trial was obtained through torture. Roy Bennett's trial, which has strained Zimbabwe's coalition...
Key facts about the Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall stood for nearly three decades, the most potent symbol of Cold War divisions. Its collapse helped herald the wider collapse of communism across eastern Europe. The East began construction of the barrier...
Germany marks anniversary of anti-Semitic pogrom
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As Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday, more subdued tributes were held to mark the 71st anniversary of the Nazi's Kristallnacht anti-Semitic pogrom. On Kristallnacht _ the...
Prosecutors demand life for court killing suspect
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Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a man who has admitted to fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian in a German court in a case that triggered outrage across the Muslim world. Prosecutor Frank Heinrich said in...
Soldiers wary of often corrupt Mexican police
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When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup. In minutes, police from 40 patrol cars surrounded the troops, drawing...
World markets get G-20 boost
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World stock markets rose Monday after the Group of 20 leading rich and developing countries agreed to maintain their stimulus measures in the wake of weak U.S. employment figures. At a meeting in Scotland, the...
Police say suicide bomber kills 3 in Pakistan
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A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said. The attack was the latest in a string of...
Clinton: Berlin Wall festivities not just a party
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton congratulated Germans on the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at a meeting Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "I am delighted to be here in...
India limits media on contentious Dalai Lama trip
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Indian officials clamped down Monday on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's trip to a disputed border area in an apparent effort to minimize tensions with neighboring China. China has protested the Tibetan spiritual...
US military: 3 US military personnel die in Iraq
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Two American pilots were killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq while a Marine died of noncombat related injuries in a separate incident, the U.S. military said Monday. The two pilots were killed on Sunday when their...
Highlights of Obama's trip to Asia
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A day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's weeklong trip to Asia: Thursday, Nov. 12: Departs for Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea, through Nov. 19. En route to Tokyo, Japan, stops at Elmendorf Air Base,...
Obama confronts an Asia reshaped by China's rise
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Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China _ one that would exclude the United States. Some in Washington took it as a snub from...
Oil prices near $79 on US hurricane, weaker dollar
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Oil prices climbed toward $79 a barrel Monday in Asia as Hurricane Ida threatened oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico. Benchmark crude for December delivery was up $1.32 to $78.75 a barrel at late afternoon...
Taliban prisoners on hunger strike in Kandahar
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About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints. Mohammad Shafiq,...
Binge drinking kills 3rd China official this year
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A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such alcohol poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business work, an official...
Philippines vows action after teacher is beheaded
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The Philippine government on Monday promised to hunt down al-Qaida-linked militants suspected of beheading a schoolteacher whose family failed to raise a ransom demanded by his kidnappers. Workers at a gas station on...
Rescuers dig for survivors in buried Salvador town
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Soldiers and residents dug through rock and debris looking for dozens of people missing when a mudslide covered a town in El Salvador, part of a wave of flooding and landslides that has killed at least 124 people in...
Fighting the odds to keep Indian tongues alive
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In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his Amazon...
2 killed by strong central Indonesian quake
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A strong undersea earthquake killed two people and damaged buildings on the remote island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, officials said Monday. At least 20 people were hospitalized on the island after the...
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Civil defense officials in El Salvador raise death toll from floods, landslides to 124. ...
Brazil student expelled after wearing mini-dress
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A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class _ publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality. The private Bandeirante University in...
Chavez to troops: Prepare for war with Colombia
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President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela's military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country's soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between...
Gunmen ambush, shoot at Honduras AG; no injuries
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Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying Honduras' top prosecutor, but neither he nor his bodyguards were harmed, police said Sunday. Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi was riding on a...
Iraq electoral law passes, sets up national vote
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Iraq's parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis that could have delayed the U.S. troop withdrawal. The...
Karzai vows to keep corrupt officials out of govt
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The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration _ a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops...
Germany celebrates memory of Berlin Wall falling
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With concerts and memorials on Monday, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago. On that cold night, they danced atop the wall, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship...
Clinton: Berlin Wall festivities not just a party
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Europeans and Americans on Sunday to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a call to action against new global threats. On the eve of celebrations...
New fair targets France's 260,000 annual divorces
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The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital's first divorce fair. In France, nearly one out of two marriages ends in divorce, according to the country's...
AP interview: Pablo Escobar's son asks forgiveness
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After notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, the son who many thought would succeed him fled Colombia, assumed a new identity and lived a low-profile life as an architect in Argentina. The former Juan Pablo...
Saudis take mountain from Yemen rebels
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Saudi Arabian forces seized a strategic mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels after five days of fighting that have left three Saudi soldiers dead, a Saudi defense official said...
Pakistan bomb kills anti-Taliban mayor, 11 others
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A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the Taliban,...
Pakistani gov't pressured on post-offensive plan
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As Pakistan's army plows ahead with its offensive in South Waziristan, its success is at risk because the government has yet to come up with a plan to run and rebuild the lawless territory so that the Taliban and...
Queen leads Britain's ceremony for war dead
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Queen Elizabeth II led Britain's annual ceremony for the country's war dead Sunday, honoring them with a moment of silence as the military reported that more than 200 British soldiers have been killed in combat in...
Italy: Wig-wearing mob fugitive nabbed near Naples
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Italy on Sunday hailed the capture of a wig-disguised mobster who had been on the list of the country's top 30 fugitives. Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa's office said paramilitary police arrested Luigi Esposito on...
Press group: Latam governments moving in on press
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Latin American governments are increasingly intervening in the news business, creating and favoring official media, regulating content and distribution and using other legal methods to silence their critics, a newspaper...
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Iraqi lawmakers pass long-delayed election law, paving way for nationwide-vote ...
Turkey: Indicted Sudan leader won't attend summit
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Turkey said Sunday that Sudan's internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul. Turkey had faced criticism for its planned welcome of al-Bashir,...
Chinese premier pledges funds, aid to Africa
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China's premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in new low interest loans to African nations over three years, offering the beleaguered continent sorely needed cash while dismissing criticism that Beijing's motives in...
Dalai Lama visits town near Tibet, angering China
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Joyous Buddhist pilgrims welcomed the Dalai Lama back Sunday to the Himalayan town he first set foot in five decades ago while fleeing Chinese rule in his native Tibet _ a rare trip close to his homeland that has...
Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace
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Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal. Thousands held umbrellas or pulled jackets tightly about them as a chilly rain...
Swiss open probe of al-Qaida nuke physicist case
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Switzerland has opened its own investigation into the case of a nuclear physicist France suspected of al-Qaida links, an official said Sunday. The French suspect, who worked at the world's largest atom smasher on the...