Mexican army makes large opium seizure
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The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico. The 448 pounds (203 kilograms) of opium...
Peres calls on Palestinian leader not to quit
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Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a public commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier. ...
Yemen rebels say Saudi bombardments hit stronghold
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Saudi warplanes and artillery bombarded a Shiite rebel stronghold in northern Yemen Saturday for a third straight day, according to the rebel fighters, and Yemen's president vowed to wipe out the insurrection. The...
TAM: Jet forced to return to JFK
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TAM Airlines says one of its jets took off from New York's JFK airport but was forced to return 20 minutes into the flight because of a mechanical problem. TAM Linhas Aereas SA says that Flight JJ8081 en route to Sao...
Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached
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Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks...
Air France crash memorial in Rio amid criticism
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Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide them with the...
Giant dominoes form tribute to Berlin Wall's fall
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Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three...
Iran releases 3 journalists jailed during rallies
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Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the country's official news agency reported. One of...
West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback
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A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere...
Bruni-Sarkozy tells of 8 years in psychoanalysis
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During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought. But after her father died, the then-28-year-old model dove into therapy "body and soul," and has since spent...
US tourist dies 'car surfing' in Puerto Rico
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Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town. Police spokeswoman Yolanda Hernandez says...
Saudi won't bar hajj pilgrims over swine flu fears
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The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not bar anyone considered high-risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year, though he urged countries where pilgrims set out from to...
To defang Taliban, some look to private schools
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The schoolhouse is so tiny that dozens of pupils have to sit outdoors. They're lucky if their teachers have more than a basic education. And the chanting of math equations and Quranic verses gets so loud that the...
Guyana: US 'mastermind' behind arson attacks
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Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged. Jagdeo made the allegation late...
Madagascar political rivals reach government deal
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Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections following a power struggle that brought months of volatility to the country, an...
UK foreign secretary: Obama critics miss the point
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Saturday accused critics of U.S. President Barack Obama of foolishly expecting him to fix the world's woes single-handedly. In a speech to London's Fabian Society think tank,...
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...
Afghan gov't says UN representative out of line
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Pushing back against international criticism, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instructions on how to rid the government of...
Unique homecoming to Vietnam for US commander
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On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming _ as the commander of a U.S....
Guard arrested for torture in Tijuana prison riots
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Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners. ...
Lock and roll: Presley's hair for sale at auction
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A British auction house says it's selling a strand of Elvis Presley's hair preserved for decades by a fan. The auction house said Saturday the strand is owned by Thomas B. Morgan Jr., an Elvis fan and former...
US: More foreign troops certain in new Afghan plan
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A top Pentagon official says President Barack Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan will be certain to include reinforcements of foreign troops from both the United States and allied nations. Undersecretary of Defense...
Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban
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Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders _ and tattoos _ exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts...
UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan
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The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct. 28 attack that killed five of its workers, but it's still determining exactly how many. U.N. spokesman Adrian...
Pakistan: 12 militants killed in offensive
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Pakistani soldiers killed 12 militants in gunbattles over the past day, officials said Saturday, as government forces pressed on with their offensive in the mountainous Taliban sanctuary of South Waziristan. The...
Rival Lebanon factions agree on unity government
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Lebanon's Syrian-backed factions finally agreed on a unity government proposed by their pro-Western rivals on Saturday, ending a four-month deadlock in the deeply divided country. The announcement by the opposition...
Russia's Medvedev: Sanctions against Iran possible
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Russia could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program, President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday. The statement echoed...
Uncle: Fort Hood suspect loved US
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The Palestinian uncle of Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan says his nephew loved America and wanted to serve his country. Hasan allegedy shot 13 people and wounded 30 others at the Fort Hood military...
Iran lawmakers: No shipment of uranium abroad
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Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether. Prominent...
Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media
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A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be given broadcast access to their...
Paraguay president explains military shake-up
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Paraguay needed a military shake-up to create opportunities for young officers with a proven commitment to democracy, President Fernando Lugo said Friday in his first explanation for removing his top commanders this...
Cuban blogger says she is briefly detained
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A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communist island said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security agents about her opposition...
Tens of thousands of homes flooded in Mexico
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A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns complained that no help had arrived. The flooding in eastern Tabasco...
Venezuelans struggling with water shortages
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While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same. Every two weeks, Naisi Obando and her children join the...
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Afghan Defense Ministry says mistaken NATO airstrike kills 4 Afghan soldiers, 3 police. ...
2 tickets win UK's largest lottery payout
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European lottery officials say two British ticketholders have shared a jackpot of 90 million pounds ($150 million) _ the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the United Kingdom. Lottery organizer Camelot says two...
Obama to meet Myanmar, other ASEAN leaders
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President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights...
Thaksin on a mission to humiliate Thai government
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Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian resorts _ and humiliating the government from a...
Abbas' move reflects deep Palestinian despair
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By saying he wants to step down as president, Mahmoud Abbas has highlighted a deep Palestinian despair rooted in decades of failed peace initiatives and fruitless violence. Neither strategy has yielded a Palestinian...
Ida drenches Central America, might approach US
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Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression Friday and edged back out over the Caribbean, where forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the United States. ...
Danish man dies from wound in Guatemala mugging
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A Danish tourist died Friday, two days after being shot by robbers who tried to steal his camera while he visited a cemetery. Police said two suspected gang members had been arrested. Paul Wolfgang Ritter died at a...
2 Canadians linked to Detroit imam granted bail
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A judge on Friday granted bail for two Canadian men who face extradition to the U.S. on charges linked to the slain leader of a radical Detroit-area Islamic group. Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33, was granted bail of 300,000...
Austrian Holocaust institute loses key members
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Key members of an Austrian Holocaust research center have quit in a dispute with the city's Jewish community. The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies began provisional operations in January after being...
Honduras leadership in limbo as accord dissolves
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They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is defunct. Roberto Micheletti, who took power after a coup, says the same deal has been successfully...
Nominee for Haitian PM clears first hurdle
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Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago. In a 22-0 vote Friday, lawmakers affirmed that planning and external cooperation minister Jean-Max Bellerive...
3 Colombians die in anti-personnel mine blasts
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Colombian officials say three adults have been killed and two children wounded in two related anti-personnel mine blasts in the country's northwest. The top security official in the town of Dabeiba, Wesly Uran, says...
News group: Latin American gov'ts restrict press
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Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday. Tactics include revoking...
Egypt stops opposition leader from traveling to US
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Egyptian authorities have prevented a leading political dissident from traveling to the U.S., saying Friday that the conditions of his early release from prison do not permit him to travel abroad. Ayman Nour, freed on...
World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
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After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in...
France hunts for security driver in big bank heist
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French police conducted a nationwide search Friday for a security driver who vanished with euro11 million ($7.4 million) in cash from a bank in the central city of Lyon, authorities said. Lyon prosecutor Xavier Richard...