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Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:35AM May 22, 2013 CommentNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among those suspected of planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 postelection violence in which more than 1,000 people died and 600,000 were evicted from their homes.
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Mais non! French universities may teach in English
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:31AM May 22, 2013 CommentPARIS (AP) — In France, there's a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite.
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Iceland forms center-right govt, halts EU talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:12AM May 22, 2013 CommentREYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — The leader of the center-right Progressive Party was chosen as Iceland's new prime minister Wednesday and promptly announced a halt to talks with the European Union about joining the 27-nation bloc.
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Kerry: US, allies, ready to step up aid rebels
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:01AM May 22, 2013 CommentAMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria's opposition to help them "fight for the freedom of their country" if President Bashar Assad's regime doesn't engage in peace talks in good faith.
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Malawi finds buyer for presidential jet
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:49AM May 22, 2013 CommentBLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi's cost-cutting president is selling her predecessor's jet.
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Pope issues first appeal for Chinese Catholics
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:40AM May 22, 2013 CommentVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has issued his first appeal directed at Catholics in China, long the source of concern for his predecessor Benedict XVI.
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Monroe's photos for Prague exhibition stolen
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:36AM May 22, 2013 CommentPRAGUE (AP) — A publicist for an upcoming Marilyn Monroe exhibition in Prague says that photographs of the star have been stolen.
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African Union celebrates 50th year
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:35AM May 22, 2013 CommentADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from colonial masters. Now leaders want to map out the next 50 years of political and economic integration.
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UK, Denmark eyes visas for Afghan interpreters
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:51AM May 22, 2013 CommentLONDON (AP) — Britain and Denmark are proposing to give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside their troops the right to settle in the U.K. and Denmark in recognition of the risks to their personal safety.
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Russian drunk driver who killed orphans sentenced
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:40AM May 22, 2013 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — A Russian drunk driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been sentenced to prison.
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Vienna official: Looted Nazi goods returned
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:12AM May 22, 2013 CommentVIENNA (AP) — An official for the city of Vienna says the Austrian capital has handed over nearly 6,000 valuable objects looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs since it started taking inventory of them 14 years ago.
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South Sudan warns it may shut down oil flow again
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:38AM May 22, 2013 CommentJUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan is warning that it may stop exporting oil through Sudan's pipelines again.
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Czech president settles dispute over gay rights
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:34AM May 22, 2013 CommentPRAGUE (AP) — The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him.
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Iraqi PM orders army shakeup after deadly attacks
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:05AM May 22, 2013 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi government spokesman says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered changes in senior ranks of the military in the wake of bloody attacks that have killed dozens of people in the past few days.
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EU bid to label Hezbollah wing terror group
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:04AM May 22, 2013 CommentBRUSSELS (AP) — Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization.
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Canet seeks gritty New York in 'Blood Ties'
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:02AM May 22, 2013 CommentCANNES, France (AP) — The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter.
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Trial for captain in deadly shipwreck in Italy
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:52AM May 22, 2013 CommentROME (AP) — A judge in Italy has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia to stand trial in the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which struck a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people.
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Japan approves joining int'l child abduction pact
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:36AM May 22, 2013 CommentTOKYO (AP) — Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign pressure for Tokyo to address concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse.
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Ryan Gosling breaks Cannes' heart, misses premiere
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:33AM May 22, 2013 CommentCANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling.
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Mortar lands in Congo as UN chief arrives
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:27AM May 22, 2013 CommentGOMA, Congo (AP) — A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's distant capital for a two-day visit that is expected to take him to Goma.
