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Eastern European wives of Syrians fleeing war
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:05PM August 06, 2012 CommentKIEV, Ukraine (AP) — They forged lives of promise in an unfamiliar land. Now war is tearing those lives apart.
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Hiroshima marks 67th anniversary of A-bomb attack
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:14PM August 06, 2012 CommentTOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the 67th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack with a ceremony Monday that was attended by a grandson of Harry Truman, the U.S. president who ordered the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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6 soldiers killed in attack in Ivory Coast
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:37AM August 06, 2012 CommentABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Gunmen assailed an army base in Ivory Coast's commercial capital on Monday killing at least six soldiers, officials said, in another brazen attack on the country's most important city.
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Olive oil used to rescue squirrel
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:31AM August 06, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — A squirrel with olive oil? For police in northern Germany, that was a winning combination to free an animal trapped in a manhole cover.
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UK gov't abandons plan to reform House of Lords
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:24AM August 06, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Britain's coalition government is under its most acute strain since the partnership of unlikely allies was formed in 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg acknowledged Monday as he confirmed his cherished hope of reforming the House of Lords had been doomed by opposition from his own colleagues.
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HERO'S WELCOME
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:22AM August 06, 2012 CommentGold medalist fencer Ruben Limardo returned home to Venezuela to find dozens of cheering fans waiting for him at the airport with flags and balloons.
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Wear it proud: The flag as a fashion statement
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:34AM August 06, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — There was no mystery as to which team Varun Pemmaraju was supporting: His American flag was tied around his neck, the Stars and Stripes floating like a cape behind him.
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Russian opposition leader finds bug in his office
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:30AM August 06, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — Russia's opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has discovered a listening device in his office in central Moscow.
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Mogadishu celebrates 1 year since al-Shabab's exit
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:43AM August 06, 2012 CommentMOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Thousands of Somalis gathered in a Mogadishu sports stadium Monday to celebrate the one-year mark since African Union and Somali soldiers forced militants out of the capital, a military victory that ushered in a year of relative peace and progress.
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Greece: 6,000 detained during raids on immigrants
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:26AM August 06, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece are rounding up thousands of suspected illegal immigrants in a large-scale deportation drive to combat what a government official compared to a prehistoric invasion.
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Hillary Clinton visits Nelson Mandela at home
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:16AM August 06, 2012 CommentQUNU, South Africa (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited with Nelson Mandela at his home on Monday to pay her respects to the aging South African icon.
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Poland wants own segment in US missile defense
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:37AM August 06, 2012 CommentWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's president says his nation should build its own protective segment within the missile defense system the U.S. is planning to develop in Europe.
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NATO announces new head of Norfolk command
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:24AM August 06, 2012 CommentBRUSSELS (AP) — NATO said Monday that France's air force commander will take over the military alliance's strategic command based in the United States, which is in charge of maintaining NATO's military capabilities in an age of austerity and shrinking defense budgets.
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Cambodians find possible Khmer Rouge mass grave
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:33AM August 06, 2012 CommentPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Villagers in northwestern Cambodia unearthed what could be a mass grave from the Khmer Rouge era with about 20 skulls and some leg bones bound with rope, officials said Monday.
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1 Chinese worker killed, 2 injured at Zambia mine
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:19AM August 06, 2012 CommentJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Clashes at a Chinese-owned mine in Zambia have killed one Chinese worker and injured two others.
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EYES ON LONDON: Gabby Douglas back on balance beam
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:18AM August 06, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:
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NATO airstrike kills Haqqani leader
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:11AM August 06, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO forces killed a local commander for the Haqqani insurgent group in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, the military alliance said Monday.
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4.4-magnitude quake rattles Scandinavian sea
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:35AM August 06, 2012 CommentCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish geologists say a 4.4-magnitude quake has rattled the seabed between Denmark and Sweden, causing no damage or casualties.
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Jamaica gets rain as TS Ernesto passes to south
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:24PM August 05, 2012 CommentPORT ROYAL, Jamaica (AP) — Tropical Storm Ernesto brushed past the Caribbean country's southern coast Sunday, causing heavy rains but few problems as it took a course expected to carry it by Honduras and across the Yucatan Peninsula into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Chile marks second anniversary of mine collapse
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:26PM August 05, 2012 CommentSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A cross in the middle of the world's driest desert now marks the spot where a mine collapse trapped 33 men a half-mile under the earth for 69 days.
