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Bahraini lawyers, activists face lost citizenship
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:39PM November 09, 2012 CommentMUHARRAQ, Bahrain (AP) — Off a road guarded by three police checkpoints, Bahraini lawyer Taimoor Karimi wonders about his future in a country that no longer considers him a citizen.
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French ex-minister sues tycoon for paternity
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:26PM November 09, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when — while serving as France's justice minister — she had a daughter and refused to say who the father was.
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US donates $34 million to UN plan to help Syria
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:01PM November 09, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — A U.N. plan to provide $836 million in emergency aid to Syrians battered by their nation's civil war ran into funding problems Friday despite an additional U.S. donation of $34 million.
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Estonia opts for online voting; how about the US?
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:54PM November 09, 2012 CommentTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — In his victory speech, President Barack Obama acknowledged millions of voters' frustration when he said that it was time to fix the long lines at voting stations that have become an Election Day blight in America.
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A look at drop in bond yields across Europe
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:47PM November 09, 2012 CommentFinancial market turbulence in the 17-country eurozone has eased dramatically since mid-summer. That is most evident in the interest rate, or yield, on countries' bonds. When bond yields fall, it means investors are more confidence in a country's public finances.
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Sudan's Bashir denounces Israel as enemy
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:21PM November 09, 2012 CommentKHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says his country is seeking the capability to defend itself against Israeli strikes, and will never normalize relations with the Jewish state.
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A look at Syrian president's statements on crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:07PM November 09, 2012 CommentPresident Bashar Assad has rarely deviated from his statements on the crisis in Syria since it began nearly 20 months ago. Here is a look at his latest remarks, in an interview shown Friday by broadcaster Russia Today:
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Morocco activists slam African migrant treatment
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:48PM November 09, 2012 CommentRABAT, Morocco (AP) — Dozens of Moroccan and foreign activists demonstrated Friday in front of a Rabat courthouse where a Guinean advocate for sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco is being tried in what the demonstrators called part of a wider crackdown.
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Iraq official: Exxon seeks exit deal this year
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:38PM November 09, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — Exxon Mobil expects to reach a deal by year's end to sell its stake in a major oil field in southern Iraq, an Iraqi official said Friday.
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Ireland to vote on expanding rights for children
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:38PM November 09, 2012 CommentDUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's leaders issued last-minute appeals Friday for voters to amend the constitution to include stronger rights for children, making it easier for state agencies to protect children from abuse and for neglected kids to be adopted.
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'Coronation Street' actor Bill Tarmey dies at 71
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:34PM November 09, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Actor Bill Tarmey, who for 30 years played loveable rogue Jack Duckworth on the British soap opera "Coronation Street," died Friday at the age of 71, the show's producers said.
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Slovenia presidential vote comes amid debt crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:23PM November 09, 2012 CommentLJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Three candidates are vying for the presidency in Slovenia, a tiny, economically troubled European Union nation that is riven by deep political divisions and is in danger of needing a bailout.
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Anti-Putin protester gets 4 ½ years in jail
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:03PM November 09, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — The first of 19 defendants being tried for participating in a massive rally against President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin that turned violent pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison.
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Ex-oilman Welby named archbishop of Canterbury
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:02PM November 09, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — How will Justin Welby lead the world's Anglicans and heal their deep divisions? Even he is not sure yet.
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Clinton says US to increase anti-poaching efforts
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:02PM November 09, 2012 CommentNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Alarmed that rebel militias could be profiting from a sharp increase in the poaching of elephants and rhinos, the U.S. plans to step up efforts to build a global coalition to combat the illegal wildlife trade, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says.
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SAfrica police destroy illegal homes
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:44AM November 09, 2012 CommentLENASIA, South Africa (AP) — Bulldozers moved in on a South African town Friday, destroying homes that officials said were constructed on illegally sold land, despite efforts by protesters to stop the demolitions.
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Nobel laureate Soyinka: Nigeria 'at war' with sect
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:29AM November 09, 2012 CommentLAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on Friday dismissed calls for peace negotiations with the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram and said Nigerian society is at stake in what he described as a war for survival.
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UN nuke agency to meet with Iran next month
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:23AM November 09, 2012 CommentVIENNA (AP) — Officials from Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog will meet in Tehran next month in an attempt to restart stalled nuclear talks, the international agency announced Friday.
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Iraq's ousted bank chief professes his innocence
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:07AM November 09, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — The ousted governor of Iraq's central bank on Friday criticized his removal amid accusations of financial wrongdoing as an attempt by the government to seize control of the institution.
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Norwegian killer complains of prison conditions
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:03AM November 09, 2012 CommentOSLO, Norway (AP) — Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage last year, has complained that he is being held in inhumane conditions and is being denied freedom of expression, his lawyer said Friday.
