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Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she will travel to France and meet President Nicolas Sarkozy now that she is free after more than six years of captivity among Colombian rebels.The former Colombian presidential candidate says she probably is alive...
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Red Cross workers stopped treating gunshot victims for several hours in a violent city across the border from Texas after receiving death threats over their radio...
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AP, Lucknow
Monsoon rains pummeled northern India, bringing dozens of buildings crashing down and killing 74 people, police said Thursday.
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AP, Kabul
U.S.-led coalition troops battled a group of militants in eastern Afghanistan, killing over 30 insurgents, while three NATO soldiers were killed in a roadside blast...
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The U.S.-led coalition says over 30 militants were killed in a battle with its troops in eastern Afghanistan.
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NATO says three of its soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in central Afghanistan.
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AP, Lucknow
Police say at least 74 people have been killed as heavy monsoon rains lash northern India.
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AP, San Juan
The governor of Puerto Rico denied new charges of alleged campaign finance violations on Wednesday, accusing federal authorities of political sabotage.
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AP, Thessaloniki
Police arrested the country’s most wanted man while tracking down the alleged kidnappers of a prominent businessman, officials said Thursday.
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AP, Madrid
A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of...
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As of Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, at least 4,145 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press...
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Christie’s says it will auction an Aboriginal boomerang collected by the explorer Capt. James Cook.
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AP, Baghdad
Top Sunni politicians on Wednesday accused Iraq’s Shiite-dominated security forces of carrying out political arrests, and warned that this could push Iraq into...
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AP, Beijing
Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later...
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AP, Toronto
An outbreak of listeriosis has killed one person and sickened at least 16 others, Canadian public health officials said Wednesday as a food company suspended production...
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AP, Madrid
A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the vacation season crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from...
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The Beijing bishop appointed by China’s state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and...
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The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia _ a move followed swiftly by a new warning from...
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AP, Tbilisi
Georgia’s president has told The Associated Press he does not believe Russia will fulfill its promise to withdraw from most of the country in the coming days.
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Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.
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Leo Abse, a colorful Welsh politician who took a leading role in liberalizing laws on homosexuality and divorce, has died at age 91.
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China sought to assure French visitors that they would receive a warm welcome at next month’s Olympic Games on Thursday, a day after President Nicolas Sarkozy...
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President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office says freed hostage Ingrid Betancourt will be greeted in France with a welcome ceremony at an air base and an invitation to the...
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AP, Bogota
Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she will travel to France and meet President Nicolas Sarkozy now that she is free after more than six years of captivity among...
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AP, Paris
President Nicolas Sarkozy was in combative mood Monday as France assumed leadership of the European Union, criticizing the bloc’s trade chief and warning...
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France plans to ask its European partners to suspend part of the value-added tax on fuel to counter rising oil prices, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday.Lowering...
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Tens of thousands of protesters put the squeeze on President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday as they blocked ports and demonstrated in the streets amid discontent over...
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Teachers, postal workers and other public servants staged a one-day strike and tens of thousands marched through French cities Thursday, a widespread protest against...
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AP, Paris
Some French citizens held as hostages around the globe have died in captivity, sometimes in total anonymity. President Nicolas Sarkozy doesn’t want that to happen...
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Christie’s auction is set to aution a nude portrait of French first lady Carla Bruni. This portrait was taken some ten years back while the present wife of...
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AP, Cherbourg
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a modest cut Friday in France’s nuclear arsenal, to less than 300 warheads, and urged China and the United States to commit to...
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AP, Cherbourg
President Nicolas Sarkozy says France will cut its total nuclear arsenal to less than 300 warheads.Sarkozy did not say how many warheads France currently has as that...
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AP, Paris
French voters dealt a stinging warning to President Nicolas Sarkozy by throwing his party out of office in a string of towns and cities, a ballot box setback that...
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President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative party braced for a possible setback as voting got under way Sunday in local elections seen as the new conservative...
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France’s local elections usually focus on issues like garbage pickups, nursery schools and neighborhood parks. But this year’s vote stars President Nicolas...
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