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Federer Again Stretched to 4 Sets at French Open
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Switzerland's Roger Federer returns the ball to Serbia's Novak Djokovic during their semifinal match at the Italian Open tennis tournament, in Rome, Saturday, May 19, 2012.
PARIS (AP) — Again far from his best, Roger Federer still managed to win at the French Open.
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BP Considers Selling Its Stake in TNK-BP
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JACKSON, MISSOURI - SEPTEMBER 27: A sign advertises the price of gas at a BP Service Station on September 27, 2006 in Jackson, Missouri. The Jackson service station is one of the lowest in the country where the cost of regular unleaded gas is a $1.80 per gallon.
MOSCOW (AP) — British oil giant BP said Friday it is considering selling its 50 percent stake in its Russian joint venture TNK-BP, in a deal that could fetch at least $15 billion.
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Oil Falls $2 on New Signs of Global Slowdown
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An oil tanker cruises towards the Strait of Hormuz off the shores of Khasab in Oman.
Oil is plunging as a dismal report on U.S. job growth adds to worries about a slowing global economy.
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Obama Offends Poland, Apologizes for 'Death Camp' Comment
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Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for an inadvertent verbal gaffe that caused a storm of controversy in Poland this week.
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Worldwide Cancer Incidence Predicted to Rise 75% by 2030
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:00AM June 01, 2012 Comment (4)Man receiving medical scan for prostate cancer diagnosis
Infection, lifestyle tied to which cancer types are most common in different countries
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Putin Visits Berlin, Paris Amid Divide Over Syria
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Vladimir Putin meets in Moscow, Russia.
BERLIN (AP) — Vladimir Putin can expect to face pressure from the leaders of Germany and France for a change of heart on Syria when he visits Berlin and Paris on Friday — but there's little sign that the Russian president is prepared to tighten the diplomatic screws on Bashar Assad.
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Madonna Kicks Off World Tour in Israel
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U.S pop icon Madonna performs at the Ramat Gan stadium near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, May 31, 2012.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Pop music star Madonna treated tens of thousands of ecstatic fans in Israel to the inaugural show of her "MDNA" world tour on Thursday, performing in a country where she has long claimed a special bond.
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Retired Russian Colonel Convicted of Spying for U.S.
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A Russian military officer stands guards at a radar station at the missile defense facility in Sofrino, 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Moscow, Friday, May 4, 2012.
MOSCOW (AP) — A retired Russian military officer has been convicted on charges of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to 12 years in prison, the counterintelligence agency said Thursday, the latest in a raft of espionage cases that come amid tensions between Moscow and Washington.
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U.S. Remains Opposed to Military Action in Syria
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A Syrian soldier looks over as pale smoke is seen in the background following a rocket-propelled grenade attack near a team of U.N. truce observers during their visit to the Damascus suburb of Douma.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shocking as it was, the massacre of more than 100 Syrian villagers is unlikely to galvanize a military assault like last year's campaign in Libya to oust Moammar Gadhafi. The killings, however, did provoke the strongest international condemnation the United States and other nations could muster.
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Suu Kyi visits Myanmar refugees in Thailand
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:45PM June 01, 2012 CommentMAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (AP) — Aung San Suu Kyi turned her attention to Myanmar's long-standing refugee crisis Saturday with a visit to a sprawling camp on Thailand's border to get her first glimpse of the hardships faced by hundreds of thousands who have fled war in her homeland.
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Rio closes its massive Jardim Gramacho dump
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:33PM June 01, 2012 CommentRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand, will close this weekend after 34 years in malodorous service.
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Argentine official denies devaluation planned
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:08PM June 01, 2012 CommentBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A top Argentine official denied on Friday that the government plans to devalue the peso amid rumors that drastic official actions are looming.
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French president says Syria's Assad has to go
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:44PM June 01, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — France's president says the only way to end the violence in Syria is for its president, Bashar Assad, to go.
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Diamond Jubilee: Britain marks Queen's reign
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:23PM June 01, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — The patriotic bunting is ready, the golden carriage on standby, the boats freshly painted, the shops filled with royal souvenirs.
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PepsiCo's Mexico snack subsidiary attacked again
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:20PM June 01, 2012 CommentMEXICO CITY (AP) — Assailants in western Mexico burned another delivery truck of a PepsiCo-owned Mexican snack company, shortly after a drug cartel claimed responsibility for last week's arson attacks against the company, police said Friday.
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Euro 2012: Ukraine rocked by racism controversy
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:16PM June 01, 2012 CommentKIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Victor Chikelu, a Nigerian medical student, was punched and told to go back to Africa by a drunk in the Kiev subway two years ago. But he, like other Africans who have suffered racist abuse in Ukraine's capital, has a message for soccer fans: Don't boycott Euro 2012.
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Global growth concerns batter world markets
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:46PM June 01, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Fears of a sharp slowdown in the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China, and concerns over the stability of Europe's currency union combined to batter global financial markets on Friday.
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Panel slams report finding Norwegian killer sane
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:42PM June 01, 2012 CommentOSLO, Norway (AP) — Forensic scientists have criticized a report that says confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was sane when he massacred 77 people last year in a bomb attack and shooting spree.
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Colombian rebels want French negotiating help
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:25PM June 01, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — Colombia's FARC rebels are asking France's new Socialist president for help in facilitating talks with their country's government, according to a French journalist freed from captivity in the Colombian jungles.
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Turkish pianist charged with insulting Islam
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:03PM June 01, 2012 CommentANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Friday formally charged an internationally known pianist and composer with insulting Islamic religious values in comments he made on Twitter.
