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German Inflation Down to 1.9 Percent in May
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Germany
BERLIN (AP) — An official estimate shows that the annual inflation rate in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, fell to 1.9 percent in May.
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Trouble With Spanish Banking Keeps Markets on Edge
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Aerial view of Barcelona, Spain
LONDON (AP) — Concerns that Spain's ailing banking sector might worsen the European debt crisis weighed on markets Tuesday, though Asian indexes eked out gains on hopes that China will take new measures to boost its economy.
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Pakistan Court Shuts Power Plants
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A Pakistani farmer works in his field near the site of the demolished compound of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in northern Abbottabad.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — David Walters saw a business opportunity where few other foreign investors would dare to tread: Pakistan's power sector. He forecast profit by importing power stations, linking them to the national grid and selling the electricity to the energy-starved country.
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New Telescope To Be in South Africa, Australia
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ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the world’s most advanced ground-based facility for astronomy.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.
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Olympic Mystery: Where is the London Cauldron?
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Torchbearer Dimitrios Chondrokoukis, a Greek high jump athlete, lights a cauldron with the Olympic Flame atop the Athens Acropolis.
LONDON (AP) — London's Olympic Stadium is ready, with a pristine track, a well-manicured grassy field and rows of gleaming seats to welcome 80,000 fans. But one thing is clearly missing.
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Lady Gaga Meets Thai 'Lady Boys'
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LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 24: Singer Lady Gaga performs at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 24, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
BANGKOK (AP) — Lady Gaga has met Thailand's premier "lady boys" at a Bangkok drag show featuring busty dancers who were not born that way.
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UN: 18 million in West Africa to go hungry in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:19AM May 29, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — U.N. officials say they expect 18 million people in West Africa will go hungry this year, including three million young children whose lives or health will be at risk.
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Somali farmers rejoice at end of militant tax
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:13AM May 29, 2012 CommentAFGOYE, Somalia (AP) — The farmers in Afgoye, a town on the outskirts of Mogadishu long controlled by militants, are rejoicing at the African Union's latest success: The capture of Afgoye — the biggest military success in Somalia since militants abandoned Mogadishu last August.
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Friends suspected Norway killer was dejected, gay
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:56AM May 29, 2012 CommentOSLO, Norway (AP) — Former friends of confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik say he often came across as deeply depressed, expressed feminine tendencies and led some to believe he may be gay.
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Qatar probes mall fire as young victims mourned
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:51AM May 29, 2012 CommentDOHA, Qatar (AP) — Investigators in Qatar carried out their first extensive probes through a fire-ravaged daycare center and other charred areas inside the country's biggest mall Tuesday after a blaze that killed 19 people, including 13 children.
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15 dead in latest killer quake in Italy
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:39AM May 29, 2012 CommentMIRANDOLA, Italy (AP) — Italian authorities say a powerful earthquake has killed at least 15 people and others may be missing in the latest deadly temblor to hit northern Italy.
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Greek experts say they find Med's deepest wrecks
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:27AM May 29, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's culture ministry says two Roman-era shipwrecks found in deep waters off the country's western coast disprove the accepted theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to coastal routes rather than risking the open sea.
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Egypt: Islamist candidate reassures women, Copts
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:07AM May 29, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — The presidential candidate for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday sought to expand his support base ahead of a tight runoff against an ex-regime figure next month, vowing to ensure the full rights of Christians and women if he is elected.
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European nations, Australia expel Syrian diplomats
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:44AM May 29, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — British officials say the U.K. is expelling three Syrian diplomats in protest at the killing of civilians, including the deaths of 108 people shot in their homes last week.
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UN: Most of 108 killed in Syria were executed
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:30AM May 29, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — The U.N.'s human rights office said Tuesday that most of the 108 victims of a chilling massacre in Syria last week were shot at close range, some of them women and children who were gunned down in their homes.
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Danish police arrest 2 men in terror plot
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:14AM May 29, 2012 CommentCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two Danish brothers originally from Somalia have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, Denmark's security service said Tuesday.
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Lebanese hostages in Syria could ignite tensions
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:26AM May 29, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — The mysterious case of 11 Lebanese Shiites who were taken hostage in Syria last week is raising fears of renewed street battles in Beirut as Lebanon increasingly gets drawn into the swirling chaos next door.
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Former Beijing mayor: '89 crackdown was a tragedy
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:53AM May 29, 2012 CommentBEIJING (AP) — A forthcoming book quotes the disgraced former mayor of Beijing as saying that the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protesters was an avoidable tragedy and that he regrets the loss of life, though he denies being directly responsible.
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Israeli court sentences Palestinian protest leader
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:32AM May 29, 2012 CommentOFER MILITARY BASE, West Bank (AP) — An Israeli military court Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian protest leader to 13 months in jail, time he already served for urging youths to throw rocks at Israeli soldiers.
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Yemen: 11 militants and 5 soldiers killed in south
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:30AM May 29, 2012 CommentSANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's army pressed an offensive on Tuesday against southern towns held by al-Qaida-linked fighters, with 11 militants and five soldiers killed in the clashes, military officials said.
