Coordinated blasts hit Baghdad; kill at least 121
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A series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including two suicide car bombers and another vehicle that blew up near government sites. At least 121 were killed and hundreds wounded in the worst wave of...
Palestinians boycott Israeli settlement goods
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The Palestinian government announced Tuesday that it is enforcing a boycott of goods made in Israel's West Bank settlements and has confiscated more than $1 million in merchandise from shops and companies. Israeli...
Guinea accuses France of complicity in shooting
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Guinea's communications minister on Tuesday accused the French secret service of being complicit in an assassination attempt against the West African country's leader. Former colonial power France called the allegations...
Lawyers for Guantanamo prisoner to get documents
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The last British resident imprisoned at Guantanamo won the right Tuesday to see documents his lawyers believe will show that he was tortured. The British government immediately announced an appeal. Judge Jeremy...
Honduras' top anti-drug official killed
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Gunmen on motorcycles ambushed and killed Honduras' top anti-drug official in the capital Tuesday, just two months before he planned to retire and move to Canada. Former army Gen. Julian Aristides Gonzalez, director of...
Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal
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Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned...
Pope keeps Spanish Steps tradition in Rome
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Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday lamented what he described as a steady diet of news about evil in the world, saying it hardens hearts, as he prayed at the Spanish Steps in a Christmas season tradition. Shoppers who jammed...
Russian court rules against Jehovah's Witnesses
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Russia's highest court on Tuesday upheld a ruling halting the activities of a regional branch of Jehovah's Witnesses and banning dozens of its publications in what the group deplored as an unfair move. Russian Supreme...
Annan: Pressure has seen Kenya implement reforms
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Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said on Tuesday that local and international pressure has pushed Kenyan leaders to act on reforms necessary to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed that followed the disputed 2007 presidential...
Russian fire chief suspended in deadly blaze probe
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The fire chief of a Russian city where a nightclub blaze killed 118 revelers was suspended along with five subordinates Tuesday and authorities said inspection records for the club appear to have been falsified. ...
Obama envoy seeks NKorea's return to nuke talks
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An envoy dispatched by President Barack Obama launched a mission Tuesday to coax North Korea to rejoin international talks on ending its nuclear programs amid warnings of strong sanctions if Pyongyang refuses. Veteran...
Afghan leader: Help needed to pay for larger army
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After meeting Tuesday with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said it may be five years before his army is ready to take on insurgents _ a blunt warning that the planned exit strategy for...
China school stampede kills 8 in crowded stairway
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It was raining hard, and the hundreds of children leaving their evening classes raced down the narrow stairway closest to their dormitory. Somehow, someone stumbled _ and the ensuing crush of bodies left eight children...
Israeli official: Jewish law must become binding
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Israel's justice minister called for Jewish law to become binding in Israel, causing a stir Tuesday that cut to the heart of the country's simmering secular-religious divide. Yaakov Neeman's office tried to contain the...
Students, militia clash in 2nd day of Iran protest
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Pro-government militiamen assaulted university students demonstrating for a second straight day and hard-liners on motorcycles harassed the top opposition leader at his office Tuesday, signs of a possible intensified...
US, Russia face off at World Court over Kosovo
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The United States and Russia faced off over Kosovo at the United Nation's highest court on Tuesday, with the U.S. arguing the world should honor Kosovo's declaration of independence while Russia insisted it was still...
Report: Brazil police killed more than 11,000
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Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Few of the officers have been...
Brazil arrests 6 suspects in $6M tunnel heist
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Police have arrested six men accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever. Police say the arrested men were found with a bag with money that had the...
EU: Jerusalem should be joint capital
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European Union foreign ministers urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to make Jerusalem their shared capital, prompting a swift, angry reaction from Israel. For their part Tuesday, the Palestinians announced a...
Sao Paulo swamped by floods, reports of 6 dead
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BRASILIA, Brazil _ Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain. The floods...
Kenyan police arrest man with 100,000 bullets
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Kenyan police on Tuesday said they arrested a suspected weapons smuggler with up to 100,000 bullets and an assortment of guns, a huge cache in a country with stringent gun laws. Police recovered the weapons and...
FBI sending team to Pakistan in terror probe
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The FBI is sending a team to Pakistan as part of an investigation into links with a Chicago terror suspect, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. The announcement came a day after the probe expanded to include a retired...
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Police say gunmen on motorcycles have killed Honduras' top anti-drug official. ...
Iraq sets parliament elections for March 6
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Iraq's presidential council on Tuesday set March 6 as the date for nationwide parliamentary elections, a seven-week postponement likely to feed concerns about an increase in violence. The decision on the election date...
Suspect in Nazi trial admits killings
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A former member of the Nazi SS being tried for murder admitted in court Tuesday that he killed three Dutch civilians during World War II, but insisted he was following orders. Heinrich Boere told the Aachen state court...
Japanese minister says talks on US base suspended
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Talks on the relocation of a major American military base have been suspended, deepening a deadlock between the United States and Japan. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Tuesday a high-level working group convened...
Russian official: arms deal with US this month
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Russia and the United States expect to strike a new nuclear arms treaty this month, a senior Kremlin aide told Russian news agencies Tuesday. The START I treaty signed in 1991 expired Friday. It obliged each country to...
Afghan gov't says NATO attack killed 6 civilians
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The Afghan government said NATO forces killed six civilians during a pre-dawn operation Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan. NATO disputed the allegation, saying only militants died. Hundreds of people marched on the...
Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide
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An Australian coroner said Tuesday that participation in an intense self-help course led a woman to suffer a psychotic breakdown before she stripped naked and leaped to her death from an office window in front of...
Brazil: No recognition for new Honduras government
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Brazil's presidential spokesman has reiterated that the country does not plan to recognize the incoming Honduran administration and denied that Brazil's president and chief of staff have made contradictory statements...
16 missing after Bangladesh pirate attack
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Sixteen fishermen remained missing Tuesday off Bangladesh's southern coast after pirates attacked their vessel last week, survivors and the boat's owner said. Eighteen fishermen were assaulted in the Bay of Bengal by a...
Australia accused of censorship over NKorean art
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Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday after it denied visas to North Korean artists invited to a rare international exhibition of their work, saying their studio is a propaganda tool of their country's communist...
Police: Attack on Pakistan intel office kills 12
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A team of militants launched a gun, rocket and suicide attack on an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in a strike that showed the insurgents can hit deep in the heart of the country. ...
Turkish court ponders fate of Pro-Kurdish party
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Turkey's highest court began deliberations Tuesday on a case seeking to close down the country's pro-Kurdish party and expel several party members from parliament on charges of ties to Kurdish rebels. A decision to...
China rises and reshapes the world with Olympics
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China's bold rise this decade took many forms. The Beijing Olympics. The billions of dollars lent to the U.S. The rip-roaring economic growth. And then there were the missing manhole covers. Hundreds of them were...
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Officials say Iraq's parliament elections set for March 6 after delay ...
Israel treating Gazans infected with swine flu
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Israel says it's treating five suspected swine flu cases from Gaza in hopes of containing an outbreak of the virus in the blockaded Palestinian territory. The move is a rare loosening of the tight blockade Israel...
Malawi child killed during series of earthquakes
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A police official says a 1-year-old child has died in Malawi following a series of earthquakes in the southern African country. Karongo police spokesman Enock Levason said that the toddler died Tuesday when a kitchen...
Some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq
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Some of the deadliest militant attacks in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003: _ Aug. 14, 2007 _ Four suicide truck bombs detonate simultaneously in the small village of Qahataniya, killing more than 500...
Cambodian court convicts Thai man of spying
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A Thai man was ordered to serve seven years in prison for spying on Thailand's former prime minister while he was in Cambodia as a guest of the government, a case that threatens to worsen a diplomatic feud between the...
Report: injuries in train accident in Netherlands
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Dozens of passengers have been injured in a southern Dutch city after their train slammed into a freight truck that was stuck on a railway crossing, according to local media reports. National broadcaster NOS says four...
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World Meteorological Organization says this decade "very likely" warmest on record. ...
Amnesty urges quick end to Philippine martial law
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Amnesty International called on the Philippine government Tuesday to end martial law soon in a southern province, where troops cracked down on a powerful clan and its armed supporters blamed for the massacre of 57...
Philippines, Muslim rebels resume peace talks
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The Philippine government and a Muslim separatist group Tuesday resumed peace talks that collapsed 16 months ago, restoring formal efforts to end a decades-long rebellion that has claimed at least 120,000 lives. The...
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Police say at least 4 killed, 7 wounded in blast in central Pakistani city of Multan. ...
A look at high-profile US visits to North Korea
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A look at high-profile U.S. visits to North Korea since 2000: _ October 2000: U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits Pyongyang, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. _ October 2002: Assistant U.S....
Afghan lawmakers: Karzai to name Cabinet Saturday
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai will submit a full slate of his new Cabinet to lawmakers this weekend in what will be the first test of his commitment to clean up graft and bribery in his government, two parliament...
Report: Indonesian colonel says reporters killed
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A former Indonesian army colonel has told a magazine that soldiers deliberately killed five Western journalists in East Timor in 1975 _ contradicting the government's longstanding assertion that the deaths were...
Venezuela AG says Chavez opponent violated asylum
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Venezuela's attorney general contends exiled opposition leader Manuel Rosales has violated his asylum in Peru by speaking out in Washington about Venezuelan issues. Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz said Peru should...
SKorean president offers swine flu aid to NKorea
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South Korea's president offered Tuesday to send swine flu medication to North Korea amid reports that the virus killed dozens of people and is spreading fast in its impoverished communist neighbor. The Seoul-based aid...