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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
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AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
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AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
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AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
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AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
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AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
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AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
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AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
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AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
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AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
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AP, Dakar
Elite soldiers in junta-ruled Guinea are taking advantage of an anti-corruption drive to rob, extort and beat intimidated civilians in the West African nation with...
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AP, Tengzhou
Even 20 years later, the shooting, chaos and death of the final assault on Tiananmen Square remain vivid in the mind of former soldier Zhang Shijun. Today, he has...
made popular Mar 18 2009
AP, Washington
In a Feb. 25 story about a U.S. crackdown on Mexican drug cartels, The Associated Press reported erroneously the name of a city and state affected by the syndicate. The...
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AP, Washington
Mexican drug cartels are shipping more than massive quantities of drugs north of the border. Increasingly, they’re also exporting bloody mayhem.
made popular Feb 26 2009
AP, Washington
Federal agents have rounded up more than 700 suspects in a wide-ranging crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating inside the United States.
made popular Feb 25 2009
AP, Seoul
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reportedly ordered a crackdown on street markets in an apparent move to reassert control over the economy amid an influx of foreign...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel has gotten fed up with spam. Anyone who sends out messages without receiving the recipient’s consent can now be slapped with a big fine.
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel has gotten fed up with spam. Anyone who sends out messages without receiving the recipient’s consent can now be slapped with a big fine.
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AP, Houston
Law enforcement officials in Texas say they’ve cracked down on one of the nation’s largest dogfighting operations. They filed charges against 55 people and...
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AP, Philadelphia
Lawyers for a small eastern Pennsylvania city asked a federal appeals court Thursday to uphold a local law that would keep illegal immigrants from working or renting...
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At least 11 Taliban terrorists were killed and 10 other left wounded when military helicopters and fighter jets pounded their hideouts in Bajaur Agency on Tuesday, 21st...
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AP, Albany
The U.S. financial meltdown is creating brighter job prospects for at least one occupation: tax collector.
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AP, Warsaw
Poland’s last communist leader denied Thursday that he led an organized criminal group intent on depriving people of freedom when he imposed martial law in a 1981...
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AP, Bangkok
As the crowd marching through the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city swelled to 100,000, the question wasn’t what did they want, but when would the...
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AP, Warsaw
Poland’s last communist leader and other former top-ranking officials went on trial Friday for imposing martial law in 1981 as the Soviet-backed regime tried to...
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AP, Urumqi
As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China’s northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic...
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AP, Nairobi
A human rights group called on Monday for suspension of international military cooperation with Kenya, saying Britain helped train Kenyan troops who are accused of...
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Ethnic minorities, migrant workers, petitioners and social activists are among the key targets of the Chinese security crackdown that has swept through Beijing in...
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AP, Wufu
Angry parents whose children were crushed to death in schools that collapsed in China’s mighty earthquake are no longer being allowed to march, wave banners and...
made popular Jul 8 2008
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Zhang Shijun points to a picture of him as a young People’s Liberation Army soldier at his home in Tengzhou, China, Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Zhang marched on Tiananmen Square, not as a student protester but as a soldier sent in to quell the democracy...
