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Australia: No deal was made in Indonesia drug case
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:05AM May 23, 2012 CommentCANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia on Wednesday denied reports it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker.
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Hunt for trafficker terrorizes Honduran villagers
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:23PM May 22, 2012 CommentAHUAS, Honduras (AP) — A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English as they battered down doors and detained locals in the hunt for a drug trafficker.
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APNewsBreak: NKorea upgrading rocket launch site
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:15PM May 22, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a U.S. institute claimed Tuesday.
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London police investigate corruption allegations
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:52PM May 22, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — London's Metropolitan Police say they are investigating allegations that police officers accepted illegal payments from a private investigation agency in exchange for information.
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Egyptians vote in first free presidential election
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:20PM May 22, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — More than 15 months after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians streamed to polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in generations. Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last minute over their vote in a historic election pitting old regime figures against ascending Islamists.
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Legion's latest admission revives hypocrisy charge
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:03PM May 22, 2012 CommentVATICAN CITY (AP) — The Legion of Christ religious order, already discredited for having covered up the crimes of its pedophile founder, suffered another blow to its credibility after its superior admitted Tuesday that he knew in 2005 that his most prominent priest had broken his vows of celibacy and fathered a child, yet did nothing to prevent him from teaching and preaching about morality.
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Taliban, Afghan neighbors could hamper NATO's exit
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:47PM May 22, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The NATO summit's plan to "responsibly wind down" the Afghan war is not entirely in the hands of President Barack Obama and his fellow world leaders.
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NKorea vows to push ahead with nuclear program
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:32PM May 22, 2012 CommentSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday vowed to push ahead with its nuclear program because of what it called U.S. hostility, as an outside analysis of satellite images suggested it has ramped up work at its nuclear test site over the past month.
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Tunisia to extradite ex-Libyan prime minister
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:26PM May 22, 2012 CommentTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia said Tuesday it will soon extradite Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his homeland, after detaining the former Libyan prime minister for eight months.
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Cuba's first daughter has gone beyond Castro name
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17PM May 22, 2012 CommentHAVANA (AP) — She has her uncle's penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity.
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Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:52PM May 22, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan — a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation.
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Europe's leaders to tackle growth at summit
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:55PM May 22, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — The leaders of the 27 countries that make up the European Union are to meet in Brussels Wednesday to try and find a way to keep the debt crisis in Europe from spiraling out of control and promote jobs and growth.
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Egypt's election fever comes to Garbage City
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:52PM May 22, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Election fever has even come to Cairo's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on — and living from — the waste of the Egyptian capital.
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Loach in Cannes with spirited 'The Angels' Share'
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:29PM May 22, 2012 CommentCANNES, France (AP) — Paul Brannigan, the untrained actor who stars in Ken Loach's latest movie, has gone from being unemployed in a rough Glasgow neighborhood to nude scenes with Scarlett Johansson.
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Elephant and Pig Tapped to Predict Euro 2012 Games
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:24PM May 22, 2012 Comment
Asaam, an Asian elephant bull, plays in the sand during the first appearance in the outdoor enclosure at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant — or a pig.
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EU 'concerned' over conviction of Palestinian
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:57PM May 22, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — The European Union says it is "concerned" over Israel's conviction of a prominent Palestinian protest leader.
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Greek party leader warns austerity threatens euro
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:44PM May 22, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — The leader of a radical left Greek coalition some see as the front-runner in fresh elections due next month warned the EU Tuesday that austerity measures championed by Germany could ultimately bring down the eurozone as a whole.
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Syria says sanctions have cost country $4 billion
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:30PM May 22, 2012 CommentDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's oil minister acknowledged the heavy toll international sanctions have taken on the country's oil sector, saying Wednesday that they had sucked about $4 billion from the economy.
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Tunisia to extradite ex-Libyan prime minister
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:11PM May 22, 2012 CommentTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's Justice Ministry says it will extradite former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi — currently being held in Tunis — back to Libya.
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Suu Kyi to address UN body in Geneva next month
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:46AM May 22, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver her first speech outside the country since at least 1988 before a U.N. labor conference in Geneva on June 14, the head of the U.N. labor office said Tuesday.
