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Palestinian government debt hurts private sector
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:05PM August 18, 2012 CommentRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian drug importer Ghassan Mustaklem says he can't afford to work with the West Bank's Palestinian government anymore. He recently halted supplies to his biggest client, which now owes $12 million in unpaid bills, or more than half his annual turnover.
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Sale of Niger nomad's last camel is sign of hunger
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:42PM August 18, 2012 CommentSAKABAL, Niger (AP) — In a part of the world where the worth of a man is measured by his animals, Tuareg nomad Soumaila Wantala has come to this market to do the unthinkable: Sell his last camel.
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NATO, Taliban in war of words over Afghan deaths
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:30PM August 18, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bombing at a wedding, a deadly airstrike on a village, grenades in a mosque — hundreds of Afghan civilians are dying violently this summer, while the Taliban and the NATO coalition wage verbal warfare.
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Juncker: Greece won't leave eurozone
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:23PM August 18, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Greece won't leave the 17-nation eurozone, Luxembourg's prime minister said, arguing in an interview published Saturday that an exit wouldn't be politically feasible and would carry unforeseeable risks.
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A guide to Pussy Riot's oeuvre
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:19PM August 18, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — Given how world famous Pussy Riot has become, people are sometimes surprised to learn that the entire oeuvre of the women's punk band is made up of six songs and five videos.
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In Somalia, presidential election with few voters
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:18PM August 18, 2012 CommentMOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali leaders are on the verge of naming a new parliament that is supposed to elect a president by Monday, but it's hard to find any ordinary Somalis excited by the political changes: They don't have the right to vote.
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Gunmen raid homes, kill 6 people in northern Iraq
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:28AM August 18, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen killed six people in Iraq on Saturday, raiding two homes in a northern city in yet another bout of violence to strike the country in what has become a particularly bloody month.
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Prophet depictions shown in mosque demos
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:17AM August 18, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Members of a small far-right group have displayed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during demonstrations outside mosques in Berlin, but officials say their protests have gone peacefully.
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British lawmakers criticize ex-Barclays CEO
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:11AM August 18, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond offered a "highly selective" account to a parliamentary hearing on the banking rate-fixing scandal, British lawmakers said Saturday in a highly critical report.
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US drone kills 5 militants in northern Pakistan
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:15AM August 18, 2012 CommentISLAMABAD (AP) — A missile launched from a U.S. drone struck a suspected militant hideout in a tribal region in northern Pakistan where allies of a powerful warlord were gathered Saturday, killing five of his supporters, Pakistani officials said.
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Legendary expedition ship found off Greenland
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:21AM August 18, 2012 CommentSTOCKHOLM (AP) — A U.S.-based oceanographic institute says it has found the wreckage of a ship that was manned by a crew of doomed Antarctic explorers more than a century ago.
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New papal envoy to Israel hopes to foster peace
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:07AM August 18, 2012 CommentVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto as a new envoy to Israel, who will also serve as apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine.
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Ricard, took family liquor firm global, dies at 67
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:39AM August 18, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — Patrick Ricard, who transformed a small firm based on his father's anis-flavored liquor into a global entity with some of the most famous names in alcohol, has died. He was 67.
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Iran commander 'welcomes' possible Israeli strike
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:15AM August 18, 2012 CommentTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian commander says a possible Israeli airstrike against his country's nuclear facilities is "welcome" because it would give Iran a reason to retaliate and "get rid of" the Jewish state "forever."
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Serb chess grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric dies
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:17AM August 18, 2012 CommentBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Svetozar Gligoric, a legendary Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster who was the national champion 12 times and one of the world's top players in the 20th century has died in Belgrade. He was 89.
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Bomb at Afghan bazaar kills 4 people
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:09AM August 18, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb in a busy Afghan market killed four people on Saturday in the western province of Herat, an official said, the latest attack targeting civilians in the decade-long war. Hours later, a prison director was assassinated in southern Afghanistan by a bomb planted in his car.
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Tropical storm heads for landfall on Mexican coast
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:26AM August 18, 2012 CommentVERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — After forming close to shore, Tropical Storm Helene headed north along Mexico's Gulf coast early Saturday posing a threat to areas where thousands of people were still recovering from flooding spawned last week by Hurricane Ernesto.
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UN: Algeria's Brahimi will replace Annan in Syria
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:15PM August 17, 2012 CommentUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister and longtime U.N. diplomat known as a strong-willed, independent broker, has agreed to replace former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria, the United Nations announced Friday.
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S. African leader vows probe into police shootings
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:49PM August 17, 2012 CommentMARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — President Jacob Zuma rushed home from a regional summit Friday and announced an official inquiry into a police shooting of striking miners that left 34 dead and 78 wounded, an incident that police claimed was self-defense despite video recordings suggesting the protesters were not attacking them but running from clouds of tear gas.
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Infiltration or bad blood behind Afghan attacks?
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:40PM August 17, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. military trainers handed the new recruit, Mohammad Ismail, his AK-47 to defend his remote Afghan village. He turned around and immediately used it, spraying the Americans with bullets and killing two — the latest of nine U.S. service personnel gunned down in two weeks by their supposed Afghan allies.
