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Palestinian prime minister tries to calm protests
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:02PM September 11, 2012 CommentRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Authority's prime minister announced a package of subsidies and tax cuts on Tuesday in an effort to quell protests against the high cost of living in the West Bank and the government's failure to pay full salaries to civil servants.
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Europe space agency eyes manned flights with China
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:59PM September 11, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — European astronauts could hitch a ride into orbit aboard Chinese spacecraft before the end of the decade, a senior official at the European Space Agency said Tuesday.
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Wounded flood hospitals in Syria's largest city
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:38PM September 11, 2012 CommentALEPPO, Syria (AP) — It had been a calm day in Aleppo's Shifa Hospital, said Dr. Osman al-Haj Osman, his face etched with exhaustion from just three hours of sleep. Then, a man burst in bearing the shrieking bundle of a 6-year-old girl who'd had a machine-gun bullet rip through both her knees.
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SAfrican politician calls for national mine strike
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:36PM September 11, 2012 CommentDRIEFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — In a speech punctuated by the cheers of thousands of miners and the blowing of whistles and vuvuzelas, firebrand politician Julius Malema called Tuesday for a national strike in all of South Africa's mines, encouraging the escalation of labor unrest that has already halted production at two platinum and gold mines.
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Putin: Romney helped Russia by calling it top foe
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:21PM September 11, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a comment made by U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney has made Russia feel justified in opposing America's missile defense plans in Europe.
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Mammoth fragments from Siberia raise cloning hopes
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:21PM September 11, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the "Jurassic Park" possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission's organizer said Tuesday.
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HRW: Rebels in Congo commit widespread war crimes
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:09PM September 11, 2012 CommentGOMA, Congo (AP) — The 25-year-old lay on a hospital bed in the Congolese city of Goma, his leg wrapped in a bandage tinted by the blood still seeping from his bullet wound.
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Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:57PM September 11, 2012 CommentQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — In the Shiite Muslim graveyard of this provincial Pakistani capital, entire sections are dedicated to the hundreds killed by Sunni militants over the past two years, their portraits line the cobblestone entrance, some garlanded with wilted flowers.
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German court ruling is key moment in debt crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:40PM September 11, 2012 CommentFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A closely watched ruling by Germany's Federal Constitutional Court could trip up European leaders' efforts to calm the region's debt crisis.
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Religious meeting calls for world peace
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:09PM September 11, 2012 CommentSarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Representatives of some of the world's major religions have concluded a three-day interfaith meeting in Sarajevo by calling for peace around the world.
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Jolie hears 'horrific' accounts of Syrian refugees
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:04PM September 11, 2012 CommentZAATARI, Jordan (AP) — Her eyes welling up with tears, actress Angelina Jolie said she heard "horrific" and "heartbreaking" accounts from Syrian refugees she met Tuesday during a visit to a camp in Jordan that has provided shelter for those fleeing the civil war in the neighboring country.
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Wife sees American jailed in Cuba, fears he'll die
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:44PM September 11, 2012 CommentHAVANA (AP) — The wife of imprisoned American Alan Gross said Tuesday she has returned from a trip to Cuba to see her husband, and is fearful he will not survive his long incarceration.
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2 Norwegians rescued from basket stuck over fjord
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:37PM September 11, 2012 CommentOSLO, Norway (AP) — Two Norwegian electricians trapped for an entire day in a basket 85 meters hanging (280 feet) above a fjord successfully rappelled down to a boat waiting below, rescue workers said Tuesday.
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Massive anti-tax protest in Spain's Catalonia
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:30PM September 11, 2012 CommentMADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of people angered by Spain's financial crisis are protesting in Barcelona on the Catalonia region's 'National Day," claiming they pay more than their fair share in taxes to the federal government in Madrid.
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Iraq opens controversial refugee camp to diplomats
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:18PM September 11, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq offered foreign diplomats on Tuesday a rare glimpse at a camp that is the new temporary home of an Iranian exile opposition group that has a long-running feud with Baghdad, winning from the envoys cautious praise of the conditions there.
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Fire at Russian factory kills 14 Vietnamese
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:09PM September 11, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Emergency Ministry says 14 Vietnamese workers have been killed by fire at a clothing factory near Moscow.
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Israeli leader ratchets up feud with US over Iran
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:57PM September 11, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister, ratcheting up a public feud with the U.S. over Iran, made it clear Tuesday that he was dissatisfied with Washington's refusal to spell out what would provoke a U.S.-led military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Police officer killed in Turkey suicide attack
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:52PM September 11, 2012 CommentISTANBUL (AP) — A suicide bomber threw a hand grenade and then blew himself up at the entrance to a police station in Turkey's biggest city, killing a police officer and injuring seven others, authorities said Tuesday.
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Prince William, Kate start Asia tour in Singapore
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:40PM September 11, 2012 CommentSINGAPORE (AP) — Prince William and his wife Kate saw an orchid named for them and another for his late mother Princess Diana in Singapore on Tuesday, 15 years after she was to have viewed the flower herself.
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Cattle herders kill 4 farmers in Kenya clashes
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:28PM September 11, 2012 CommentNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An official says armed raiders killed four people in Kenya's southeast despite a dusk-to-dawn curfew to prevent further clashes between two tribes that have left more than 100 people dead.
