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SA defense minister says sorry for shot miners
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:04PM August 21, 2012 CommentMARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's defense minister apologized Tuesday to angry miners who held up plastic packets of bullet casings, the first government official to beg forgiveness for the police shootings that killed 34 striking miners, wounded another 78 and shocked the nation. It was the most deadly display of state violence since apartheid ended in 1994.
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Is Ethiopia's new leader in place for long?
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:38PM August 21, 2012 CommentADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The death of Ethiopia's prime minister pushed his relatively unknown successor, Hailemariam Desalegn, into the spotlight on Tuesday, and he may be merely a placeholder or might hang on to become Ethiopia's next long-time leader.
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110 families evacuated in Ecuador eruption
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:30PM August 21, 2012 CommentQUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorean authorities say 110 families have been evacuated from the vicinity of the Tungurahua volcano, which has been spewing molten rock, ash and lava since the weekend.
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UK lawmaker criticized over Assange rape comments
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:30PM August 21, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Two lawmakers on different sides of the Atlantic were lambasted by women's rights campaigners and colleagues on Tuesday after making contentious comments about rape.
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Top Israeli official talks Iran with senior rabbi
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:00PM August 21, 2012 CommentJERUSAEM (AP) — The Israeli prime minister's national security adviser met with an influential rabbi to persuade him to support a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites, a party official said Tuesday.
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Israel says Egypt violating peace treaty in Sinai
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:38PM August 21, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officials said Tuesday that Egypt is violating the historic 1979 peace treaty between the two countries by deploying tanks in the demilitarized Sinai desert near the Israeli border.
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US drone kills 5 militants in northwest Pakistan
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:18PM August 21, 2012 CommentISLAMABAD (AP) — An unmanned American aircraft fired missiles at a vehicle in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan Tuesday, killing five suspected militants and injuring two, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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Greek secret service to investigate wildfires
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:13AM August 21, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's secret service will join investigations into an unusually large number of wildfires across the country to see if arson has been involved, an official said Tuesday.
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Death toll from bomb in Turkey rises to 9
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:10AM August 21, 2012 CommentISTANBUL (AP) — A 12-year-old girl became the ninth victim Tuesday of a bomb blast in Turkey's southeast, which has highlighted fears that Kurdish rebels seeking self-rule are becoming emboldened by moves toward autonomy by the Kurdish minority in war-torn Syria.
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NKorea completes key step in reactor construction
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:41AM August 21, 2012 CommentSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A new satellite image shows North Korea has completed a key step in the construction of a light-water reactor at its main nuclear complex, though it may take several more years before it is fully operational, an analyst said Tuesday.
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Attacks on Palestinians kindle debate on values
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:27AM August 21, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — Two vicious attacks on Palestinians, presumed to be the work of Jews, have some Israelis worried that their society is increasingly tolerant of hate crimes.
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UN calls on nations to adopt drought policies
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:14AM August 21, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — The world urgently needs to adopt drought-management policies as farmers from Africa to India struggle with lack of rainfall and the United States endures the worst drought it has experienced in decades, top officials with the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.
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26 alleged neo-Nazis on trial in Germany
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:01AM August 21, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Twenty-six alleged neo-Nazis are on trial in Germany on accusations they were responsible for a spate of attacks on leftists in western Germany.
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Team of doctors set up secret Syria field hospital
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:59AM August 21, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — An international team of doctors turned a villa under construction in Syria into a secret field hospital, spending two months treating wounded who sometimes traveled two days for help, a small group of physicians said Tuesday upon their return.
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Austria investigates alleged anti-Jewish cartoon
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:42AM August 21, 2012 CommentVIENNA (AP) — Austrian authorities are investigating a cartoon on a rightist political leader's Facebook page that critics say smacked of anti-Semitism by showing a repulsive fat banker with a large hooked nose and what appeared to be Star of David patterns on his cufflinks, an official said Tuesday.
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Balloons to transform Hadrian's Wall into artwork
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:41AM August 21, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — A group of American artists is using 450 balloons and thousands of light emitting diodes to turn the 2,000-year-old Hadrian's Wall into the world's longest work of art.
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Guy Spitaels, Belgian socialist leader, has died
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:33AM August 21, 2012 CommentBRUSSELS (AP) — Guy Spitaels, a Belgian socialist leader who in 1998 was convicted of corruption along with ex-NATO Secretary General Willy Claes, has died. He was 80.
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Japanese journalist killed covering Syria fighting
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:27AM August 21, 2012 CommentTOKYO (AP) — A veteran Japanese war correspondent was shot and killed while covering Syria's civil war, her family and the government said Tuesday.
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Floor plans of French presidential palace stolen
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:57AM August 21, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — The French government says thieves who broke into a vehicle at a Paris train station made off with a USB drive and discs containing floor plans for the French presidential palace, the country's main security agency and the Paris police department.
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Israel chief rabbi in German circumcision talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:23AM August 21, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Israel's chief rabbi is in Germany for talks aimed at smoothing over a controversy over the legality of circumcising young boys.
