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China reformer says asset disclosure under study
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:20AM November 09, 2012 CommentBEIJING (AP) — Asset disclosure for Chinese officials is likely to be slowly phased in over time, a senior Communist Party leader said Friday, as the government grapples with the fraught task of rooting out the corruption that has fed widespread public anger.
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Iran Lawmaker: U.S. Drone Violated Airspace
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This image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Forces shows the downing of a drone that entered Israeli airspace in southern Israel, Oct. 6, 2012.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A prominent Iranian parliament member said Friday that a U.S. drone violated Iran's airspace a week ago, when the Pentagon says it was fired on. The U.S. maintains the pilotless craft was over international waters.
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Marilyn Monroe Photos on Auction in Poland
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In this July 20, 2012, photo, gallery curator Anna Wolska presents a photo of Marylin Monroe and Arthur Miller by the late celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene, in Warsaw, Poland. Hundreds of photos of Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities go on auction in Poland.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Who doesn't want a picture of Marilyn Monroe?
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Sri Lankan move to fire top judge stirs fears
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:01AM November 09, 2012 CommentCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — When Shirani Bandaranayake was appointed Sri Lanka's chief justice, rights campaigners assailed her as a puppet of a government that was steamrolling opponents and consolidating power. A year later, she is on the verge of becoming its latest victim.
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Aging Chinese leaders retain huge influence
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:50AM November 09, 2012 CommentBEIJING (AP) — When China's ranking communists file into the Great Hall of the People, you can spot the invited guests, the retired but still-influential men in their 70s, 80s and even 90s: Most of them no longer dye their hair the requisite jet black of Beijing's working leaders.
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Contrasting politics of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:47AM November 09, 2012 CommentChina, Hong Kong and Taiwan, all societies rooted in Chinese culture, have developed very different ways of selecting their leaders and taking part in public affairs. The distinctions are highlighted as China undergoes its once-a-decade transition to a new slate of Communist Party leaders in Beijing this month. Despite China's dramatic transformation into an economic superpower, the authoritarian legacy of communist founder Mao Zedong continues to weigh heavily on the country's politics, leaving the vast majority of the population with little voice or knowledge of how their leaders are chosen. The process remains steeped in secrecy and backroom dealings. China's territory of Hong Kong has a high degree of autonomy, freedom of the press and limited democracy, but its politics remains highly constrained by Beijing's wariness over threats to its authority. The former British colony now directly elects 40 of 70 legislators, but the head of the regional government is still elected by a special body limited to just 1,200 members. Taiwan, in stark contrast to China, shrugged off authoritarian rule and underwent a transition over the past two decades to complete democracy, with sometimes-rowdy elections and a thriving civil society.
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Balkan asylum seekers come under suspicion
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:17AM November 09, 2012 CommentBUJANOVAC, Serbia (AP) — Azra Ajeti's fellow Gypsies have been buffeted by accusations of filing bogus asylum claims in the rich EU, but she says there's nothing phony about her family's life of misery. "We are starving," said the woman from this impoverished southern Serbian town. "Life here is a disgrace."
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A year after lavish funeral, Savile myth in ruins
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:54AM November 09, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — At Jimmy Savile's funeral, a year ago Friday, the priest delivering the homily was emphatic: the DJ and television host "can face eternal life with confidence."
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Authorities detain official in Ghana disaster
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:45AM November 09, 2012 CommentACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Authorities in Ghana have detained a municipal works official accused of allowing a building that collapsed to be built without a construction permit.
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Japan to seek defense talks with US
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:44AM November 09, 2012 CommentTOKYO (AP) — Japan's defense minister says Tokyo is seeking talks with the United States to update their mutual defense guidelines and expressed concern over China's increasingly assertive maritime policies.
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Child rapes, killings terrify parents in Iraq
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:12AM November 09, 2012 CommentBASRA, Iraq (AP) — The brutal crimes struck a nerve, even in a country that has seen a horrific amount of bloodshed in the past decade: Young Iraqi girls kidnapped, repeatedly raped and then bludgeoned to death in two separate incidents near the southern city of Basra.
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UN warns of escalating humanitarian need in Syria
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:56AM November 09, 2012 CommentUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is warning that the number of people inside Syria needing humanitarian aid could rise sharply from 2.5 million now to 4 million by early next year if the civil war grinds on at its current deadly pace.
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UN envoy: Libya must quickly address security
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:27PM November 08, 2012 CommentUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy to Libya urged the country's new leaders Thursday to act quickly to address major security challenges that have led to serious outbreaks of fighting and impose control over rival militias, tribes and armed backers of Moammar Gadhafi's ousted regime.
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Asian stocks sink on US fiscal cliff fears
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:12PM November 08, 2012 CommentHONG KONG (AP) — Asian stock markets sank Friday, weighed down by fears over the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff" that investors see as a big threat to the economic recovery.
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Australia abandons mandatory Internet filter plan
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:10PM November 08, 2012 CommentCANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has abandoned its 5-year-old pledge to mandate a filter blocking child pornography and other objectionable Internet content.
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Argentines protest in huge anti-government march
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:48PM November 08, 2012 CommentBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of people flooded the streets of Argentina's capital for hours Thursday night and many others marched in cities worldwide in the country's biggest anti-government protest in more than a decade.
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Syrian children most common sight at refugee camp
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:43PM November 08, 2012 CommentATMEH, Syria (AP) — Most of the displaced people in the tent camp rising near this village on the Syrian-Turkish border are children.
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Canada PM urges Obama to avoid "fiscal cliff"
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:39PM November 08, 2012 CommentTORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged President Obama on Thursday to work with the U.S. Congress to resolve the "fiscal cliff."
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How selection of China's new leadership works
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:24PM November 08, 2012 CommentChina's communist elite are meeting to install a new generation of leaders in a process that is part public show and part backroom politicking.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad ridicules expense of US vote
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:17PM November 08, 2012 CommentBALI, Indonesia (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ridiculed the expense of the U.S. election, mocking it as a "battleground for capitalists" while speaking at a democracy forum.
