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Cambodia suspends land consessions after unrest
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:58AM May 07, 2012 CommentPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen temporarily suspended new land concessions to private companies in an effort to ease political pressure over an issue that has triggered social unrest and occasional violence.
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Armenian president's party wins parliamentary vote
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:50AM May 07, 2012 CommentYEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — President Serge Sarkisian's party has won a majority of seats in a parliamentary election that international observers said Monday were competitive and peaceful, but undermined by organizational problems and some interference by political parties.
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Medvedev era as seen on Twitter
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:26AM May 07, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — It was the end of an era, the kind of moment when a Twitter buff might unleash a barrage of 140-character spurts of sentiment, humor or self-aggrandizement.
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Afghan flash flood kills at least 21 in north
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:10AM May 07, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A flash flood swept through a village in northern Afghanistan, killing 21 people, many of them members of a wedding party, officials said Monday.
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Clinton Presses India to Cut Oil Imports From Iran
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the CEO Summit of the Americas in Cartagena.
NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged energy-starved India on Monday to reduce its Iranian oil imports to keep up pressure on the Islamic republic to come clean about its nuclear program.
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Man Sneaks Fake Bomb Into Olympic Park
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Giant Olympic rings made up of 25,000 flowers at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London with torchbearers, games makers, London 2012 festival participants and parents of TeamGB athletes mark 100 days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, on April 18, 2012. The opening ceremony will take place on July 27, 2012.
LONDON (AP) — Olympic organizers said Monday they were looking into a tabloid's report claiming that a worker had been able to sneak a fake bomb — a plastic container with batteries, a phone and modeling clay — into Olympic Park.
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Tymoshenko's daughter meets German minister
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:21AM May 07, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — The daughter of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko met with Germany's justice minister on Monday in a quest to foster more European pressure on the Ukrainian leadership.
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Greek election impasse heralds lengthy instability
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:16AM May 07, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece sank deeper into a political and financial morass on Monday as initial efforts to form a new coalition government failed a day after angry voters punished parties backing the country's international bailout.
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Swede charged in immigrant shootings
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:06AM May 07, 2012 CommentSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday charged a 40-year-old Swede with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in a string of shootings that spread fear among immigrants in the southern city of Malmo.
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Candidates against austerity lead in Italian vote
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:44AM May 07, 2012 CommentROME (AP) — Several candidates opposed to austerity measures were making a strong showing Monday in Italy's local elections, partial results indicated, in the first nationwide test for Premier Mario Monti since he was named to save Italy from its debt crisis.
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Iraq court rules to release Hezbollah prisoner
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:15AM May 07, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi court on Monday declared a Hezbollah commander accused of killing U.S. solders in Iraq in 2007 not guilty for lack of evidence and ruled that he be set free.
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Activist confident China will allow him to leave
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:15AM May 07, 2012 CommentBEIJING (AP) — A Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States said Monday he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas.
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Socialists key for future Serbian government
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:54AM May 07, 2012 CommentBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The Serbian party founded by late strongman Slobodan Milosevic emerged on Monday as potential kingmakers, after general elections in which neither the pro-EU nor nationalist camps clinched clear victory.
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France president-elect Hollande has full plate
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:12AM May 07, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — On his whirlwind first day since winning the French presidential election, Socialist Francois Hollande was set to embark on a crash course in international politics, with a critical visit to Berlin, an invite to the White House, and two top summits already on the agenda.
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Putin sworn in as Russia's president for 6 years
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:07AM May 07, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in a brief but regal Kremlin ceremony on Monday, while on the streets outside thousands of helmeted riot police prevented hundreds of demonstrators from protesting his return to the presidency.
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Flashy, fiery Sarkozy fades from French scene
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:06AM May 07, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — When Nicolas Sarkozy bounded up the steps of France's presidential palace in jogging shorts and shoes on his first day in office five years ago, many French instantly sensed they were in for something new.
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Taliban kill 14 Pakistani troops, string up heads
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:32AM May 07, 2012 CommentDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban fighters killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheaded all but one of them and hung two of the heads from wooden poles in the center of town, officials said Monday.
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Biodiversity Could Be Casualty of Myanmar Openness
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters from the gate of her house on the occasion of festivities marking the country's new year in Yangon.
As many as 40,000 gorgeously plumed birds known as the Gurney's pitta thrive in the lowland rainforests of economically backward Myanmar. Across the border, Thailand's last five pairs are guarded around the clock against snakes and human predators.
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Nepal flood death toll rises to 17; 47 missing
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:55PM May 06, 2012 CommentKATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers searching through mud and debris for flash-flood victims in northwestern Nepal had found 17 bodies by Monday, police said. Another 47 people, including three Ukrainian tourists, were missing and presumed dead.
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Greek election uncertainty overshadows markets
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:37PM May 06, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Elections in Greece renewed uncertainty over Europe's debt crisis, causing a massive drop on the Athens exchange, though losses elsewhere were trimmed as investors regained their poise and Spain announced it will help its banks.
