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Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:46PM May 15, 2012 CommentMEXICO CITY (AP) — Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.
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Australia pledges $300 million to Afghan forces
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:22PM May 15, 2012 CommentCANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 toward the $4 billion a year cost of running the Afghan National Security Forces after they take responsibility for their country's security.
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Reaction to death of Mexican author Carlos Fuentes
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:05PM May 15, 2012 Comment (1)Some reaction to the death of Mexican author Carlos Fuentes:
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Official: 1 dead from attack on Kenya's coast
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:50PM May 15, 2012 CommentNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Attackers fired shots and detonated four grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing a security guard and wounding five people, including one of the assailants, police officials said Wednesday.
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Ex-tabloid boss Brooks faces phone hacking charges
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:32PM May 15, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — One of Rupert Murdoch's most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged Tuesday with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, bringing the scandal that has raged across Britain's media and political elite uncomfortably close to Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Israeli group wins terror suit against Syria, Iran
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:46PM May 15, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group's director said Tuesday.
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Iran talks to continue, both sides see progress
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:25PM May 15, 2012 CommentVIENNA (AP) —
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Iran hangs alleged Israeli agent in shadow war
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:46PM May 15, 2012 CommentTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel's spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected shadow war against Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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Prominent Legion priest admits he fathered child
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:42PM May 15, 2012 CommentVATICAN CITY (AP) — The Legion of Christ religious order was hit by the second scandal in a week with the admission Tuesday that its most well-known priest, a prominent author, lecturer and television personality, had fathered a child.
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Egypt Brotherhood takes harder line in campaign
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:34PM May 15, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi's praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial city in Egypt's Nile Delta.
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Hollande Has a Tough To-Do List
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President-elect Francois Hollande waves from his car as he drives down the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, after the handover ceremony with outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
PARIS (AP) — Francois Hollande campaigned for the French presidency with some pretty radical promises. But his carefully worded agenda and his political record suggest as president he's likely to revert to the moderate consensus-building that has characterized his career.
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2 dead in Bogota bombing targeting former minister
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:20PM May 15, 2012 CommentBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 39 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in the type of brazen attack not seen in Colombia's capital in years.
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Sudans: Trench marks new border as rains approach
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:59PM May 15, 2012 CommentTACHUIEN, South Sudan (AP) — A trench dug across a red dirt road marks part of the shifting border this week between Sudan and South Sudan, old enemies whose forces have clashed in recent weeks. Truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns and 107mm rocket launchers lurk underneath the trees. New foxholes have been dug.
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Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:48PM May 15, 2012 CommentOSLO, Norway (AP) — An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people on July 22.
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Egypt group documents 841 deaths in 2011 uprising
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:37PM May 15, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian rights group released Tuesday the most comprehensive list to date of the more than 800 civilians killed by security forces in last year's uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak last year.
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Francois Hollande takes the helm in France
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:17PM May 15, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — Francois Hollande walked up the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris and walked out Tuesday as France's first Socialist president since 1995, taking the helm of a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to make it a fairer place.
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Pakistan signals readiness to end Afghan blockade
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:55AM May 15, 2012 CommentISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's top military and civilian body has indicated that the country will soon reopen NATO and U.S. supply lines to Afghanistan but stopped short of calling for an immediate end to the war blockade.
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Congolese military hunts evasive ex-warlord
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:47AM May 15, 2012 CommentKINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity.
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India state to probe corruption in low-caste parks
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:54AM May 15, 2012 CommentLUCKNOW, India (AP) — The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India's lowest caste. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh state are now investigating whether the billion-dollar project was an elaborate swindle.
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Eurozone avoids recession as Germany powers ahead
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:37AM May 15, 2012 CommentFRANKFURT (AP) — Germany prevented the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro from falling into a recession in the first quarter of the year despite a raging debt crisis that's raising the specter of the breakup of the currency union.
