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Evacuees return to mud, damage after Manila floods
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:30AM August 10, 2012 CommentMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Evacuees who sheltered at a school in a badly flooded suburb of the Philippine capital were told Friday to return to their homes. Luzviminda Limas worried where her family would sleep.
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BLADE RUNNER REFLECTS
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:26AM August 10, 2012 CommentThe "Blade Runner" did not win a medal, but that doesn't mean these Olympics were any less important.
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Mali Islamists cut off suspected thief's hand
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:08AM August 10, 2012 CommentBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Officials in Mali condemned Islamist militants on Friday for chopping off a man's hand for allegedly stealing sheep, the punishment underscoring hardliners' tightening control over northern Mali.
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Wind, landmines complicate fire fighting in Bosnia
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:59AM August 10, 2012 CommentKONJIC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Heavy winds, steep hills and landmines were complicating firefighters' efforts to battle four blazes in southern Bosnia on Friday, including one close to an ammunition factory, authorities said.
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Activists: Israeli forces enter Egypt for migrants
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:24AM August 10, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Israel has been sending soldiers into Egypt's Sinai desert to stop African migrants before they reach the border, handing them over to Egyptian forces, human rights groups charged in a report released Friday.
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IAEA: Nuke plant near Fukushima largely undamaged
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:24AM August 10, 2012 CommentTOKYO (AP) — The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year's earthquake suffered more ground shaking than Fukushima but was largely undamaged because it was designed with enough safety margins, nuclear inspectors said Friday.
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Rescued Filipino miner 'said a thousand prayers'
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:30AM August 10, 2012 CommentMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers who pleaded for help from tribal deity saved a miner on Friday who had been trapped for a week in a collapsed tunnel in the northern Philippines.
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Secret Weapon: Gold medalist in '48 returns
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:48AM August 10, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — When the U.S. men play Argentina on Friday night, one 89-year-old basketball fan promises to cheer louder than anyone else.
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Mass of volcanic rocks floating off New Zealand
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:45AM August 10, 2012 CommentWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast of New Zealand.
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IOC formally strips Tyler Hamilton of Athens gold
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:16AM August 10, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Just days before the eight-year deadline expires, the IOC formally stripped American cyclist Tyler Hamilton of his 2004 gold for doping Friday and awarded the medal to a Russian rider who now becomes a three-time Olympic champion.
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Nearly 150,000 Syrian refugees seek UN help
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:40AM August 10, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says nearly 150,000 people fleeing Syria's civil war have sought its help, a figure expected to rise significantly.
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Kenyan justice slapped down after gun threat
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:22AM August 10, 2012 CommentNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rebecca Kerubo, a $6-a-day security guard at a Nairobi mall, is one of the city's countless low-wage slum residents. So when she made a formal complaint that Kenya's second most powerful judge threatened her with a gun at a security checkpoint, few thought the struggling mother of three stood a chance.
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Ramadan fast-dodgers indulge in secret
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:21AM August 10, 2012 CommentRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Alongside hundreds of millions of Muslims observing the sunrise-to-sundown fast of Ramadan, a minority in the community goes underground each year during the holy month, sneaking sandwiches and cigarettes when no one is looking.
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Police find 14 bodies stuffed into SUV in Mexico
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:42PM August 09, 2012 CommentMEXICO CITY (AP) — Police found the bodies of 14 men stuffed into a sport utility vehicle near a gas station in a northern Mexican city Thursday and hours later a shootout between soldiers and gunmen killed three people in the same city, authorities said.
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Clear skies reveal messy scope of Philippine flood
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:14PM August 09, 2012 CommentMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine disaster officials were shifting Friday from rescue work to a massive clean-up of the capital following nonstop rains that left tons of muck and debris from floods littering the city.
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Libya elects former Gadhafi foe interim president
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:07PM August 09, 2012 CommentTRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's newly formed national assembly elected former opposition leader Mohammed el-Megarif as the country's interim president on Friday, the latest move to establish a democratically based leadership after decades of rule by deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
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Sinai buildup shifts tenet of Egypt-Israel peace
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:56PM August 09, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Egyptian troops, light tanks, armored vehicles and attack helicopters are pouring into the Sinai desert to root out increasingly aggressive Islamic militants in the most significant easing to date of a key provision in the landmark 1979 peace treaty with Israel: The demilitarization of the peninsula.
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Bolt First With Two Golds in 200; Leads Jamaican Sweep
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:16PM August 09, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Usain Bolt heard all the talk.
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Iran tries to calm Syria crisis as violence rages
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:15PM August 09, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — As Syrian forces struggled to drive rebels from the country's largest city, the regime's key ally Iran tried Thursday to start an alternative political process to address the crisis.
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A YEAR'S TRANSFORMATION
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:09PM August 09, 2012 CommentOne year ago, Woolwich was ablaze. The southeast London town was consumed by summer riots that destroyed shops, horrified locals and left Olympics organisers aghast.
