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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.
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16 Egypt border guards killed, Islamists suspected
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:24PM August 05, 2012 CommentEL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Masked gunmen killed 16 Egyptian soldiers Sunday at a checkpoint along the border with Gaza and Israel, the first such attack on troops — and then the attackers drove off, crashing into Israel, officials said.
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MORE GOLD FOR GABBY?
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:24PM August 05, 2012 CommentWith two gold medals in her pocket already, Gabby Douglas is back for more.
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Spain charges terror suspects who went paragliding
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:17PM August 05, 2012 CommentMADRID (AP) — Two Russians suspected of plotting a terror attack in Europe were charged in Spain on Sunday with belonging to an unnamed terror organization and possession of explosives, and placed under indefinite detention.
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Usain Bolt Wins Second Consecutive Olympic 100 Gold
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:16PM August 05, 2012 CommentUsain Bolt won the 100 with the second-fastest time in history, joining Carl Lewis as the only men with consecutive gold medals in the event.
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Civilians killed in Congo as regional leaders meet
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:12PM August 05, 2012 CommentKIWANJA, Congo (AP) — It was before dawn when the bullets started flying. One of heavy caliber smashed into and through the front bedroom of the Ntibatekereza family's home, slammed through a utility room and exited out a third wall, leaving a hole so large that the sun floods in.
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Iran TV airs confessions in murder of scientists
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:03PM August 05, 2012 CommentTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television on Sunday broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.
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Thumbprint readers stir fears in Venezuela vote
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:34PM August 05, 2012 CommentCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With President Hugo Chavez in his tightest re-election race yet, some of his opponents are warning that the use of thumbprint readers at Venezuelan ballot boxes could scare away voters, adding to fears about the fairness of the Oct. 7 vote.
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Car suicide bomber kills 8 in northeast Nigeria
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:30PM August 05, 2012 CommentDAMATURU, Nigeria (AP) — Police in northeastern Nigeria say a suicide bomber has killed six soldiers and two civilians in a city wracked by violence.
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Wildfires rage in western Spain, Canary islands
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:20PM August 05, 2012 CommentMADRID (AP) — Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across a western Spanish region and on the Canary Islands on Sunday, threatening to cut off phone contact with one island, killing an emergency worker and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, officials said.
