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Lonmin to SAfrica strikers: Work Monday or fired
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:55PM August 19, 2012 CommentMARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Miners must return to work Monday or face being fired from the platinum mine where rivalry between unions exploded into violence that led to the deaths of 44 people in a week, Lonmin PLC said Sunday. Thirty-four strikers were gunned down by police in one of the worst displays of state violence since apartheid ended in 1994.
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Car bombs explode in Libya's capital, killing 2
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:04PM August 19, 2012 CommentTRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Two car bombs exploded in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, killing two people and injuring several others early Sunday, a security official said. Two others were dismantled safely.
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Jordan: 4 Syrian rockets wound Jordanian girl
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:38PM August 19, 2012 CommentAMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's information minister says four Syrian rockets have fallen on a northern Jordanian border town, slightly wounding a 4-year-old girl.
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Officials: crazed gunman kills 9 Yemenis in prayer
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:27PM August 19, 2012 CommentSANAA, Yemen (AP) — Medical and security officials say a crazed gunman opened fire Sunday on worshippers marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in southern Yemen, killing nine.
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US drones kill 10 militants in northwest Pakistan
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:12PM August 19, 2012 CommentISLAMABAD (AP) — American drones fired a flurry of missiles in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan Sunday, killing a total of 10 suspected militants, Pakistani officials said.
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Iraqi Sunni cleric's convoy struck by bomb
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:56PM August 19, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb struck the convoy of a senior Sunni cleric in western Baghdad on Sunday, killing four and critically wounding the anti-extremist Muslim leader, police said.
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New Somali parliament votes for president Monday
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:37PM August 19, 2012 CommentMOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Members of Somalia's new parliament hold a vote to name a new president of the fledgling government on Monday, which marks the end of eight years of rule by a U.N.-backed leadership structure known as the Transitional Federal Government.
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Madonna sued in Russia for supporting gays
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:04PM August 19, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — Some Russian activists have sued Madonna for millions of dollars, claiming they were offended by her support for gay rights during a recent concert in St. Petersburg.
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AP Interview: Envoy seeks unified voice on Syria
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:49AM August 19, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — The new U.N. special envoy to Syria admitted on Sunday that he faces a difficult job trying to broker peace in Syria and said his first task is overcoming divisions within the Security Council that stymied the efforts of his predecessor.
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Sudanese helicopter crash kills 32
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:05AM August 19, 2012 CommentKHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese helicopter carrying a government delegation crashed in a mountainous southern region on Sunday, killing all 32 people on board including a Cabinet minister, a former presidential adviser, two generals and a TV crew.
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Island authorities denounce attack on tax police
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:34AM August 19, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Local authorities on the Greek island of Hydra have denounced an attack by a local crowd on tax police after they detained a restaurant owner who did not provide receipts to clients.
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India says Pakistan websites caused migrant panic
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:09AM August 19, 2012 CommentNEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian home secretary has accused websites in Pakistan of spreading false rumors that caused thousands of people from India's remote northeast to panic and flee from southern and western India. They feared they would be attacked in retaliation for ethnic violence in their home state.
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Rescuers search for Philippine minister, 2 pilots
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:07AM August 19, 2012 CommentMANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 300 rescuers searched Sunday for Philippine Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and his two pilots after their small plane crashed into the sea while attempting an emergency landing. An aide of Robredo made a dramatic escape from the plane and was helping in the search, officials said.
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Bomber kills 7 Russian policemen at funeral
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:07AM August 19, 2012 CommentROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up as policemen in southern Russia gathered Sunday for the funeral of a slain colleague, killing at least seven of the policemen and badly wounding 12 other people, investigators said.
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Report: Merkel ally rejects concessions to Greece
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:21AM August 19, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — A senior ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that there is no room for concessions to Greece on fulfilling the conditions of its aid program and said in an interview published Sunday that he sees little chance of Germany's governing coalition supporting a third rescue package.
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New role for drones - wildlife, eco conservation
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:03AM August 19, 2012 CommentPRANBURI, Thailand (AP) — They're better known as stealthy killing machines to take out suspected terrorists with pinpoint accuracy. But drones are also being put to more benign use in skies across several continents to track endangered wildlife, spot poachers and chart forest loss.
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Japan activists land, raise flags on disputed isle
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:47PM August 18, 2012 CommentSENKAKU ISLANDS, Japan (AP) — A group of Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags early Sunday on one of a group of islands at the center of an escalating territorial dispute with China.
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Militants attack Yemen intelligence HQ, killing 20
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:43PM August 18, 2012 CommentSANAA, Yemen (AP) — The death toll of an al-Qaida suspected attack on a Yemeni intelligence headquarters rose to 20 on Saturday, in the worst such attack in a year that highlights the challenges faced by the country's new leadership as it struggles to bring security and reconcile a military with split loyalties.
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Egypt president to visit Iran, a first in decades
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:15PM August 18, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi will attend a summit in Iran later this month, a presidential official said on Saturday, the first such trip for an Egyptian leader since relations with Tehran deteriorated decades ago.
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Airstrike kills 8 in Syria town near Turkey border
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:58PM August 18, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian warplane on Saturday bombed a small town partially controlled by anti-regime fighters near the Turkish border, killing eight people and wounding at least 20, the latest escalation in the use of air power by President Bashar Assad's government in the Arab nation's civil war.
