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Spain wins again, beating Italy 4-0 at Euro 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:05AM July 01, 2012 CommentKIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Just like clockwork, Spain's "tiki taka" passing game tore Italy apart.
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Strauss-Kahn, wife suing mag for separation report
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:24PM June 29, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — Lawyers for former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn say they're filing a lawsuit against the French magazine Closer for claiming that Strauss-Kahn and his wife have separated.
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Chimps attack American at South Africa sanctuary
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:19PM June 29, 2012 CommentJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Chimpanzees at a sanctuary founded by famed primatologist Jane Goodall pulled a Texas graduate student into their fenced-off enclosure, dragging him nearly a half-mile and biting his ear and hands.
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Egypt president-elect vows to fight for authority
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:26PM June 29, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — In front of tens of thousands of cheering supporters, Egypt's first Islamist and civilian president-elect vowed Friday to fight for his authority and symbolically read an oath of office on Cairo's Tahrir Square on the eve of his official inauguration.
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Paraguay will not face Mercosur economic sanctions
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:22PM June 29, 2012 CommentMENDOZA, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's President said Friday the Mercosur trade bloc has suspended Paraguay from the trade bloc but will not slap economic sanctions against the South American country after the ousting of its president.
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U.S.: Some Taliban at Gitmo Could Go to Afghanistan
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In this image released by the U.S. Military Joint Task Force Guantanamo, the interior of a cell from a disciplinary block known as Five Echo is pictured using an extreme wide-angle lens, at the detention complex at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering a new gambit to restart peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The proposal would send several Taliban detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a prison in Afghanistan.
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Chimps Attack American at South Africa Sanctuary
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Chimpanzees sit in an enclosure at the Chimp Eden rehabilitation center, near Nelspruit, South Africa.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Chimpanzees at a sanctuary for the animals in eastern South Africa pulled an American researcher who was leading a tour into their enclosure, bit him severely and dragged him nearly half a mile (kilometer).
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Al-Qaida-linked Islamists seize north Mali towns
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:31PM June 29, 2012 CommentBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Islamist fighters with ties to al-Qaida declared that they now control the northern half of Mali after driving out an ethnic Tuareg separatist group. However, the Tuareg group says it still controls at least 90 percent of northern Mali, and has lost only the main towns.
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Venezuela channel pays $2 million fine
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:31PM June 29, 2012 CommentCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan television channel Globovision on Friday paid a fine of more than $2 million imposed by regulators, calling it an unfair penalty but saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court ordered an embargo on its assets for nonpayment.
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A look at EU summit decisions and Merkel's stances
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:24PM June 29, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Victor or vanquished: Merkel's stances ahead of the EU summit and what was decided.
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Merkel Defends Concessions in Euro Crisis
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Stralsund, Germany.
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel defended concessions she made at a European Union summit, telling German lawmakers on Friday that help to struggling countries and banks will still come with strings attached and insisting that some decisions were misunderstood.
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Composers' teeth stolen? Austria investigating
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:56PM June 29, 2012 CommentVIENNA (AP) — Have the teeth of two famed 19th-century composers been stolen from their graves? Austrian prosecutors are trying to find out.
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Walesa loves social media, wishes he had it in '80
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:43PM June 29, 2012 CommentWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa is a big fan of social media — and says if he had it back when he founded the Solidarity rights movement in 1980, he wouldn't have had to keep meeting opposition colleagues in stadiums.
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Land reform, Paraguay's ticking political bomb
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:39PM June 29, 2012 CommentASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Along Avenida Republica in downtown Asuncion stands the gleaming facade of the $20 million Legislative Palace, where well-tailored congressional aides on their cellphones come and go and armed police guard the legislature that just impeached one president and installed another.
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Lightning Kills 3 Women on German Golf Course
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Golf course at Augusta National, where the PGA plays the Master's tournament each year
BERLIN (AP) — German police say three women were killed on a golf course when lightning struck a shelter they fled to during a violent thunderstorm.
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Academic panel says Romanian PM plagiarized
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:24PM June 29, 2012 CommentBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Defying an order to disband, an academic panel ruled Friday that Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta plagiarized large sections of his doctoral thesis and called for him to be stripped of his Ph.D. The announcement adds to the political tensions in this Eastern European nation, where the president and prime minister are jockeying for power.
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US officials seek 1984 deserter in Sweden
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:20PM June 29, 2012 CommentSTOCKHOLM (AP) — American officials are trying to convince a man who claims to be a wanted U.S. Air Force deserter to turn himself in after 28 years on the run, his Swedish lawyer said Friday.
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Spanish govt bailout less likely after EU measures
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:17PM June 29, 2012 CommentMADRID (AP) — The risk of Spain having to ask for a government bailout that would strain Europe's finances eased Friday after the continent's leaders agreed to give rescue loans directly to the nation's hurting banks, without adding to public debt.
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Endurance athlete Palfrey begins Cuba-FL swim
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:11PM June 29, 2012 CommentHAVANA (AP) — Marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey set out on a record bid to traverse the Straits of Florida early Friday, a 103-mile (166-kilometer) unassisted swim testing the limits of human endurance and the will of the high seas.
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U2 bassist's ex-aide guilty of stealing millions
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:05PM June 29, 2012 CommentDUBLIN (AP) — An Irish jury unanimously found a former aide to U2 bassist Adam Clayton guilty of embezzlement Friday after she spent more than €2.8 million ($3.6 million) of the musician's savings on 22 thoroughbred horses, pricey plane tickets and other indulgences for herself and her family.
