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Pakistan journalists' choice: Face death, or jail
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:36PM September 16, 2012 CommentQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The telephone call to local journalists generally comes in the late evening. The voice on the other end is harsh. He has a statement he wants printed, and he prefaces it with a terse order: "Report our messages without making any changes or we will kill you."
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Palace to file criminal complaint over Kate pics
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:35PM September 16, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Lawyers for Britain's royal family will make a criminal complaint against the photographer who took pictures of Prince William's wife Kate sunbathing topless in the south of France, William's office said Sunday.
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South Africa police halt peaceful strikers' march
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:21PM September 16, 2012 CommentRUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) — South African police halted a peaceful march by striking miners without violence Sunday, a day after firing rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse illegal protesters.
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Afghan insider attack kills 4 US troops
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:46PM September 16, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan police killed four American soldiers coming to their aid after a checkpoint attack Sunday, the third assault by government forces or insurgents disguised in military uniforms in as many days.
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Hezbollah: protesters should urge leaders to act
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:40PM September 16, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah: protesters should not only 'express anger' at US embassies but urge leaders to act (Corrects APNewsAlert that said Hezbollah said not to attack embassies.)
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Flights resume from Libya after strike
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:18PM September 16, 2012 CommentTRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — An airport official in the Libyan capital Tripoli says flights resumed out of the country's airports after they were halted for over seven hours due to a strike by air traffic controllers.
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On Jewish new year, Israelis fear Iran strike
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:10PM September 16, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis ushered in the Jewish New Year on Sunday with a sense of uncertainty, fearful that war with Iran could break out this year.
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Civil war keeps many Syrian children from school
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:58PM September 16, 2012 CommentTEL RIFAAT, Syria (AP) — Nine-year-old Rawan Mustafa knew she would miss school this year.
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Multiple personalities of the Muslim rage
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:52PM September 16, 2012 CommentDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At the height of the latest Islamic rage, one of the Muslim world's first media-celebrity imams told worshippers they were indeed witnessing a clash of civilizations. But just not the kind you think.
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Egypt: soldier dies in clash with Sinai militants
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:42PM September 16, 2012 CommentEL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Islamic militants clashed with army and police troops in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday following the arrest of some of their members, killing one soldier and leaving six of his colleagues and two civilians wounded, Egypt's military spokesman said.
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Villages as laboratories in debate on Africa aid
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:37PM September 16, 2012 CommentNABARI, Ghana (AP) — In the village of Nabari on northern Ghana's dry savanna, 80-year-old Wudana Dokurugu lives with other widows in a clump of mud huts. They farm maize and soybeans in impoverished soil, and say their food never lasts to the next harvest.
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Syria accuses Turkey of allowing al-Qaida transit
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:34PM September 16, 2012 CommentDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria accused neighboring Turkey Sunday of allowing thousands of Muslim extremists to cross into its territory, as the government and opposition said an explosion killed at least seven and cut off a main road leading south from the capital.
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Clashes over prophet film; Hezbollah urges demos
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:51PM September 16, 2012 CommentKARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam film broke through a barricade near the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen injured.
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Egypt denounces breaching of US embassy compound
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:51PM September 16, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Egypt's presidential spokesman says the breaching of the U.S. embassy in Cairo during protests over an anti-Islam film was "unjustified," denouncing it in the strongest words to date to come from the nation's highest office.
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Pope makes peace appeal at open-air Mass in Beirut
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:33PM September 16, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI made a sweeping appeal Sunday for peace in Syria and the Middle East, decrying the violence "which generates so much suffering."
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Latest developments on anti-Islam film protests
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:28PM September 16, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Here's a look at protests and reaction across the Middle East and elsewhere Sunday over an anti-Muslim film produced in the U.S. ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad.
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Rebels step up attacks on Colombia energy targets
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:12PM September 16, 2012 CommentBOGOTA (AP) — The port town of Tumaco on Colombia's Pacific coast went dark for more than a week in early August after guerrillas toppled three electricity towers in the remote area.
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Sudan's president meets Egypt counterpart in Cairo
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:50PM September 16, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir met on Sunday with his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo, defiant of the International Criminal Court's two arrest warrants against him for an alleged role in his country's turbulent western Darfur region.
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Iraqi police: 1 killed in funeral bombing
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:46PM September 16, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a car bomb has killed one mourner and wounded 15 other people when it exploded near a funeral procession south of Baghdad.
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South Sudan army sinks its own boat, killing 10
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:22PM September 16, 2012 CommentKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An official says the South Sudanese military sank a boat carrying 170 of its own soldiers on the Nile river, killing at least 10, after mistaking them for enemy forces.
