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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan government official says 16 Rwandan students who fled to Uganda over alleged recruitment for Congolese rebels are being considered for refugee status despite Rwanda's protestation.David Kazungu, Uganda's commissi ...more

BEIJING (AP) — Fans eager to see soccer superstar David Beckham stormed a police cordon Thursday in a stampede at a Shanghai university that injured seven people including five security personnel.Three police officers, two university security gu ...more

ROME (AP) — Hospital officials in Rome say U.S. actor James Gandolfini died after suffering cardiac arrest.Dr. Claudio Modini, head of the emergency room at the Policlinic Umberto I hospital, said Gandolfini arrived at the hospital at 10:20 p.m. ...more

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan has voted to end the United States' lease on an airbase key to supplying military operations in nearby Afghanistan.Lawmakers in the mountainous Central Asian republic voted 91-5 Thursday in favor of ending t ...more

PARIS (AP) — France is giving Google three months to be more upfront about the data it collects from users — or be fined.The legal action accelerates a Europe-wide fight against Google over its use of personal data. While the fines threatened ar ...more

JERUSALEM (AP) — Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84.The Hasidic Chabad Lubavitch movement in which Green ...more

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Barry bore down on Mexico's Gulf Coast early Thursday as civil defense workers readied emergency shelters and forecasters warned of the possibility of deadly flash floods and mudslides.The second tropical s ...more

DUBLIN (AP) — A torch lit from the eternal flame at President John F. Kennedy's graveside has arrived in Ireland ahead of ceremonies planned to mark the 50th anniversary of his 1963 visit.The flame was flown from the United States and arrived Th ...more

BEIRUT (AP) — The Saudi envoy to Lebanon says the kingdom will deport Lebanese citizens who support the militant Hezbollah group because of its role in the Syrian civil war.Ambassador Ali Awad Assiri told Lebanon's Future TV late on Wednesday th ...more

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) — Iraqis in two Sunni-dominated provinces voted Thursday in provincial elections marked by tight security measures that left streets in former insurgent strongholds largely deserted.Iraq is confronting its worst outbreak of v ...more