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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's president on Sunday ordered his atomic agency to significantly enrich the country's stockpile of uranium, angering Western nations that want the Islamic republic to halt its nuclear program.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad maintained, howev ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — About 90 factories sit vacant in the economic capital of southern Afghanistan. They could fight militants in a way no army could, employing thousands of people and giving them a reason to shun the Taliban.A lack of reliable el ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
MEXICO CITY -- Decapitated bodies dumped on the streets, drug-war shootings and regular attacks on police have obscured a significant fact: A falling homicide rate means people in Mexico are less likely to die violently now than they were more than a ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
EVOLENE, Switzerland (AP) -- A skier was buried beneath an avalanche for 17 hours in the Swiss Alps before being pulled from the snow with only mild hypothermia, police said Sunday.The 21-year-old man appeared to have survived because he was trapped ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
LONDON (AP) -- Britain is tightening its rules on student visas to prevent people from flouting the rules and working illegally.The changes -- which are effective immediately -- won't stop genuine students from traveling to Britain to study but will ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Israeli troops broke down the door of an apartment in the Palestinian-ruled West Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday and arrested two pro-Palestinian activists from Spain and Australia, their roommate said.The Israeli military ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
RIO DE JANERIO (AP) -- Brazilian health officials have kicked off an AIDS awareness campaign and will hand out 55 million condoms during the annual Carnival festival that begins next week.A new television ad features a talking condom that loudly remi ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
PARIS (AP) -- A French agronomist who was kidnapped in Chad in November was freed Saturday in Sudan after 89 days in captivity, International Committee of the Red Cross reported.The organization said employee Laurent Maurice "is tired but appears to ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
MUNICH (AP) -- Western powers pressured Tehran on Saturday to commit to a proposal designed to dispel concerns about its nuclear program, dismissing conciliatory comments from Iranian officials as mere rhetoric meant to forestall new sanctions.U.S. D ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's government says it will spend $15 billion over the next five years to increase electricity production.Energy Minister Ali Rodriguez said Saturday the projects will add 15,000 megawatts by 2015.Venezuela imposed ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Shiite militants kidnapped an Iraqi-American contractor after luring him into central Baghdad with promises of visiting distant relatives, an Iraqi defense official said Saturday, after a video showing the man surfaced online.The U.S. ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The Hamas government in Gaza on Saturday backtracked on its apology earlier this week in which it expressed regret for harming Israeli civilians in rocket attacks.The apology had signaled a rare deviation from Hamas' violent ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
By ROBYN DIXONLos Angeles TimesJOHANNESBURG -- President Jacob Zuma already has three wives and numerous children. He has survived a trial on charges that he raped the daughter of an old friend, and in a country with one of the highest HIV rates on E ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
SKRUNDA, Latvia — Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million at an unusual auction Friday, officials said.The town formerly known as Skrunda-1 housed about 5,000 people during the Co ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
BERLIN -- Publish Hitler's infamous memoir Mein Kampf in Germany? It sounds like the ultimate taboo.But a group of German historians is lobbying to do just that, arguing that it's necessary to get an authoritative annotated edition ready for bookshop ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
BRUSSELS -- Fears of another crisis spiral for the world economy deepened Friday after the Portuguese parliament defeated a government austerity plan, triggering renewed concern that the financial crisis in that country and in Greece could spread thr ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland will take over its own law-and-order powers from Britain by April 12, the British and Irish leaders announced Friday as they unveiled a breakthrough that saves the province's Catholic-Protestant gover ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
RIO DE JANEIRO -- She is the Shirley Temple of samba, a 7-year-old named to a coveted Carnival role normally reserved for barely clad models who have undergone more plastic surgeries than little Julia Lira has seen birthdays.Naming the girl drum corp ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
CULIACAN, Mexico -- Gunmen killed six people at a bar Saturday in the northern state of Sinaloa, a drug-violence hotspot, state prosecutors said.At least three gunmen walked into Las Herraduras bar in the resort city of Mazatlan early Saturday and op ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
IQALUIT, Nunavut -- Top finance officials of the seven major industrial countries sought to calm jittery markets by pledging Saturday to keep providing government aid to sustain a fledgling economic rebound.But officials of the Group of Seven countri ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Bernice Chamblain keeps a machete under her frayed mattress to ward off sexual predators and one leg wrapped around a bag of rice to stop nighttime thieves from stealing her daughters' food.She's barely slept since Haiti's ca ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
CACERES, Spain -- A 16-year-old Spanish matador killed six bulls in one afternoon Saturday, pulling off a feat normally attempted only by seasoned veterans and winning trophies for his skill — ears from animals he had just slain.Jairo Miguel Sanchez ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
KHADAN, Afghanistan -- By the crack of dawn, the Royal Canadian Dragoons' armor was in position, fanned out across a dusty vineyard for Operation Tazi to secure a key land route into Kandahar from the Taliban.It was a mission the Canadians have done ...
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Published Saturday, February 06, 2010
KABUL -- Most of the soldiers were still asleep when gunfire rang out and insurgents stormed their isolated base from all sides. Eight Americans and three Afghan soldiers died.The Americans weren't even supposed to be there. Combat Outpost Keating ha ...
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Published Saturday, February 06, 2010
TOKYO -- Toyota's president emerged from seclusion Friday to apologize and address criticism that the automaker mishandled a crisis over sticking gas pedals. Yet he stopped short of ordering a recall for the company's iconic Prius hybrid for braking ...
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