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Ex-UK PM Brown: Murdoch lied under oath to inquiry
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:46PM June 11, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown lambasted Rupert Murdoch before Britain's media ethics inquiry on Monday, claiming the media mogul had lied under oath to the inquiry and saying that a Murdoch tabloid had undermined the British war effort in Afghanistan.
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Albania elects new president despite protests
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:38PM June 11, 2012 CommentTIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's parliament elected its interior minister as the country's new president on Monday, despite a boycott in the vote by opposition lawmakers.
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Up to 100 Feared Dead in Afghan Earthquake
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:36PM June 11, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — As many as 100 people are feared dead in an earthquake and landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.
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A look at how European economies compare
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:23PM June 11, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Spain has become the fourth country in the 17-member eurozone — after Greece, Ireland and Portugal — to seek foreign aid to cope with the impact of the continent's financial crisis. Here's a look at how economies and public finances compare across the euro currency bloc.
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UK: Use of force in Syria can't be ruled out
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:20PM June 11, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Britain's foreign secretary says the U.K. won't rule out the use of an international military intervention in Syria to end the violence there.
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Market relief rally on Spain rescue fades
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:19PM June 11, 2012 CommentBRUSSELS (AP) — A global market rally over a promised European bailout of Spanish banks faded on Monday, as investors worried the country might have trouble paying the money back.
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Cell phone video shows burning of Sudan village
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:10PM June 11, 2012 CommentNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A rare video shot by a soldier in a unit nicknamed the "match battalion" shows Sudanese troops burning a village in southern Sudan last year.
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UK PM Cameron leaves 8-year-old daughter in pub
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:03PM June 11, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — It's every parent's nightmare: To get home from an event and realize that a child is missing. But it can turn out to be a political minefield as well if you happen to be the prime minister.
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Romania's government does well in local elections
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:03PM June 11, 2012 CommentBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Bolstered by what appeared to be a strong showing in local elections, Romania's governing coalition promised on Monday to raise the salaries of some public employees to help ease the pain of austerity measures the country imposed to win its IMF loan.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad wounded but wily in final year
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:52AM June 11, 2012 CommentDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president hardly seemed like a fading political force at a security summit in Beijing last week. Leaders from China and Russia carved out time to hold private talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and gave him center stage to unleash his pet theories about the unraveling of Western power.
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Israeli premier injures leg playing soccer
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:44AM June 11, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says the Israeli leader has injured his leg playing soccer with Jewish and Arab youths.
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Family of French gunman sue over his death
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:34AM June 11, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — The family of a French gunman who targeted a Jewish school and was later shot dead by police filed a lawsuit Monday suggesting he was effectively murdered.
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$257 billion invested in renewable energy in 2011
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:54AM June 11, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — Global investment in renewable energy reached a record of $257 billion last year, with solar attracting more than half the total spending, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
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UK embassy convoy attacked in Libya
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:48AM June 11, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Britain's Foreign Office says that a British embassy convoy has been attacked in eastern Libya.
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Poland vs Russia soccer game evokes national pride
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:27AM June 11, 2012 CommentWARSAW, Poland (AP) — In Warsaw, you could be forgiven for thinking Poland's army is going into battle with Russia rather than its soccer team.
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Homes burn, gunfire heard in riven western Myanmar
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:56AM June 11, 2012 CommentSITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Gunshots rang out and residents fled blazing homes in western Myanmar on Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has killed at least a dozen people and forced thousands to flee.
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Vatican seeks 'reciprocal understanding' with nuns
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:17AM June 11, 2012 CommentVATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says it's hoping to forge a "reciprocal understanding" with U.S. nuns over its recent crackdown on the largest umbrella group of American sisters.
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Greek right-wing extremist who slapped woman sues
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:30AM June 11, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek extreme-right party spokesman who caused an uproar last week by slapping one female politician on live TV and throwing a glass of water on another has sued the two women as well as the television channel that hosted the news show.
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Germans recover Stuka bomber wreck from Baltic Sea
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:27AM June 11, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — German military divers are working to hoist the wreck of a Stuka dive bomber from the floor of the Baltic Sea, a rare example of the plane that once wreaked havoc over Europe as part of the Nazis' war machine.
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Karadzic asks judges to dismiss his genocide case
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:56AM June 11, 2012 CommentAMSTERDAM (AP) — Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has asked UN judges to dismiss his war crimes case halfway through the trial.
