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Palestinian debate over timing of next UN bid
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:30PM August 02, 2012 CommentRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The next international showdown over "Palestine" seems inevitable, with President Mahmoud Abbas determined to seek U.N. General Assembly recognition of statehood for his homeland despite U.S. and Israeli objections.
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Annan Quits Syria Role, Blasts UN Security Council
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Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria speaks during a news conference at the United Nations' Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
GENEVA (AP) — Kofi Annan said Thursday he will quit his high-profile role as special envoy to Syria at the end of the month, delivering blistering criticism of world powers' failure to unite to stop the country's escalating violence.
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Rebels use captured tank against Syrian forces
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:40PM August 02, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels on Thursday bombarded a military air base in Aleppo using a tank captured from government troops as activists reported the regime has launched new raids against opposition fighters near the capital Damascus, killing dozens.
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Key quotes from ECB head Draghi's press briefing
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:56AM August 02, 2012 CommentFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank President Mario Draghi held a news conference Thursday at which he indicated the bank stood ready to intervene in the bond markets along with the eurozone bailout fund to help drive down high borrowing costs in some countries.
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Kremlin youth camp seeks image change
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:54AM August 02, 2012 CommentLAKE SELIGER, Russia (AP) — The spirit of rebellion roiling Russia this year stretches even into the Seliger youth camp, an annual Kremlin-funded event that has long been seen as a training ground for truculent Putin loyalists.
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EYES ON LONDON: Track, and a big weekend begins
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:31AM August 02, 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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Somali pirates free 7 Pakistan crew; 15 still held
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:30AM August 02, 2012 CommentDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A negotiator says seven crew members of a Malaysian-owned ship held by Somali pirates since late 2010 are heading home to Pakistan under a partial ransom deal that still leaves 15 merchant seamen held.
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UN chief looking for Annan successor for Syria
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:30AM August 02, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is looking for a successor to Kofi Annan to serve as an envoy to civil-war wracked Syria.
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Questions and answers on the European Central Bank
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:25AM August 02, 2012 CommentFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank is the monetary authority for the 17 countries that use the euro currency. The eurozone has the world's second largest economy after the United States, with annual output of €9.41 trillion, or $11.75 trillion, and a population of 331 million.
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Bio for Mario Draghi, the head of the ECB
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:21AM August 02, 2012 CommentFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — BORN — Sept. 3, 1947, Rome, Italy. Age 64.
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A look at ECB steps to combat Europe's debt crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:12AM August 02, 2012 CommentFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Here are some of the key steps the European Central Bank has taken to try to ease Europe's financial crisis and provide a spark to the weak economy.
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Somali comedian who dared mock militants is killed
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:42AM August 02, 2012 CommentMOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — On one of his recent radio shows, a popular Somali comedian ridiculed commanders of a ruthless Islamist insurgent group that is notorious for forcibly recruiting boys into its ranks and making them fight.
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Ebola was spread widely at funeral of first victim
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:29AM August 02, 2012 CommentKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The aid group Doctors Without Borders says the first victim of the latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda was a 3-month-old girl and that of the 65 people who attended her funeral, 15 later contracted the deadly disease.
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Cameron Takes Putin to Watch Olympic Judo
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with judo wrestlers as he visits Judo Academy in Zvenigorod outside Moscow, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.
LONDON (AP) — The Olympic judo competition has just had a visit from its biggest fan — Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Olympic houses turn London into global party
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:53AM August 02, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Russia wants to knock your socks off. Denmark is stylish and sophisticated. Ireland is up for a party — on a budget.
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Official seeks UNESCO status for D-Day beaches
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:50AM August 02, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — A top official in Normandy is calling for the D-Day beaches where American and Allied troops launched the invasion of German-occupied Europe to be listed among UNESCO's world heritage sites.
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Greece resumes debt talks with inspectors
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:10AM August 02, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's coalition government has resumed austerity negotiations with international debt inspectors, after narrowly avoiding a political crisis that officials said had threatened the country's future in the eurozone.
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Text of statement by ECB President Mario Draghi
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:58AM August 02, 2012 CommentFRANKFURT (AP) — Below is the full text of the speech that European Central Bank President Mario Draghi delivered at his press conference on Thursday.
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Pope finishes Christ trilogy
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:55AM August 02, 2012 CommentVATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has completed the third installment of his planned trilogy on the life of Christ.
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Former Israeli spymaster: Iran should be worried
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:22AM August 02, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — A former Israeli spymaster on Thursday cautioned Iran not to dismiss Israel's talk about possibly attacking Iranian nuclear facilities.
