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'Black box' found of Russia jet in Indonesia crash
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:21AM May 15, 2012 CommentJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian special forces have found the voice-and-data recorder of a new Russian passenger jet that slammed into a jagged, mist-shrouded cliff on a dormant volcano, an official said Wednesday.
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Czech economy remains in recession
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:57AM May 15, 2012 CommentPRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Statistics Office says the country remained stuck in recession as its economy suffered a sharper downturn than expected and shrank by 1.0 percent.
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SKorea: Myanmar halting arms purchases from NKorea
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:51AM May 15, 2012 CommentYANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's president has confirmed that his country bought weapons from North Korea during the past 20 years and assured his South Korean counterpart that it will no longer do so.
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Allianz profit rises 58 percent on fewer disasters
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:30AM May 15, 2012 CommentFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Insurance company Allianz SE says its profits rose 58 percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago, when it had big payouts for natural disasters including the tsunami in Japan.
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Mexico cartel war latest toll: 49 headless bodies
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:02PM May 14, 2012 CommentCADEREYTA, Mexico (AP) — Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels, with increasing evidence that innocents are being pulled into the bloodbath along with gang rivals.
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BU student in coma after deadly New Zealand crash
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:22PM May 14, 2012 CommentBOSTON (AP) — While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.
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Greek, European woe could cause problems for US
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:50PM May 14, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened.
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Greek negotiations over govt to continue
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:18PM May 14, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, with fractious party leaders summoned to a yet another emergency meeting Tuesday that could see the reins of government surrendered to non-politicians.
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Group: Syria troops target health workers, wounded
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:06PM May 14, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics, an international aid agency warned Tuesday.
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Egypt presidential candidate blasts Islamist MP
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:56PM May 14, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — A leading Egyptian presidential candidate lashed out Monday at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of graft, treating voters to a new spectacle in an already unprecedentedly heated campaign.
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Mladic tries again to delay his war crimes trial
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:23PM May 14, 2012 CommentTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ratko Mladic appealed Monday for a six-month delay in the start of his Yugoslav war crimes trial, saying delays by prosecutors in disclosing evidence could lead to a miscarriage of justice.
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Vatican mystery intensifies, bones found in grave
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:10PM May 14, 2012 CommentROME (AP) — Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees.
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Americans train Ugandans for Somalia mission
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:39PM May 14, 2012 CommentKAKOLA, Uganda (AP) — American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.
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Palestinians march in annual mourning ritual
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:25AM May 14, 2012 CommentRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners proclaiming their right of return.
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IAEA, Iran begin new nuke talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:09AM May 14, 2012 CommentVIENNA (AP) — A senior U.N. nuclear agency official urged Iran on Monday to allow access to sites, people and documents it seeks in its probe of suspicions that Tehran conducted secret research into nuclear weapons development.
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Yemen battles kill 16 al-Qaida militants; 7 troops
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:56AM May 14, 2012 CommentSANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni warplanes pounded al-Qaida fighters on Monday, killing at least 16, while seven soldiers died in clashes with militants in the country's troubled south where the army is trying to uproot the terror group, military officials said.
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Merkel: Election loss won't alter Europe policy
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:52AM May 14, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel is insisting that a heavy state election defeat for her party in Germany's most populous region won't weaken her as she grapples with a deepening European debt crisis.
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Heavy snow surprises Bosnians after a hot weekend
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:14AM May 14, 2012 CommentSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Sunbathing one day, snowstorm the next: Bosnians are getting whiplash from the latest crazy weather to hit the Balkans.
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West African bloc may re-impose Mali sanctions
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:14AM May 14, 2012 CommentBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — West Africa's regional bloc threatened Monday to re-impose sanctions on Mali, saying that the junta's actions "appear clearly designed to disrupt the political transition" after a coup in the West African nation.
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Dalai Lama alleges poison plot; China cries foul
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:27AM May 14, 2012 CommentBEIJING (AP) — China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings.
