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New Rage Keeps Somali Boys Off Street: Video Games
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Nintendo Wii
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Inside a hot, cramped room in the Somali capital, 10 sweating children sat on wooden desks, not unlike those found in schools. These boys, though, were not in class. They were staring at a small TV and tightly gripping video-game controllers.
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Leaders fall in Europe crisis: Sarkozy next?
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:30PM May 04, 2012 CommentMADRID (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he'll be in good company: Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader.
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Dagestan bombs shadow Putin's return to presidency
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:24PM May 04, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — The twin thundering car bombs that shook the capital of Dagestan and killed at least 13 people were grisly reminders that Vladimir Putin, who came to power a dozen years ago as a hardliner against Caucasus insurgents, will have to confront more violence as he returns to a third term in the Kremlin.
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Al-Qaida papers highlight tense dealings with Iran
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:50AM May 04, 2012 CommentDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In the rigid enemy-or-ally world view of Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenants, Iran occupied a spot somewhere in between — a state seen as arrogant, enigmatic and driven by self interest, according to newly released al-Qaida documents.
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New French accusations: Strauss-Kahn in Washington
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:36AM May 04, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — French investigators are studying accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010 while he was chief of the International Monetary Fund, a judicial official said Friday.
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London re-elects Boris Johnson as mayor
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:05AM May 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — London's comic and outspoken mayor Boris Johnson won re-election Friday, triumphing in a closer-than-expected vote to secure a second term and his status as the unvarnished and unpredictable host of the 2012 Olympics
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Pope Benedict to attend La Scala Beethoven concert
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:48AM May 04, 2012 CommentMILAN (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI will attend a concert at the La Scala opera house of Beethoven's Ninth symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
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The economy France's next president will inherit
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:33AM May 04, 2012 CommentAmid a global slowdown, France's economy is suffering. Here is a look at what the country's next president will inherit — compared to when President Nicolas Sarkozy came to power on May 16, 2007.
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Presidential Rivals Fight Over France's Economy
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy adjusts his tie before addressing reporters during an interview on French television at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Jan. 29, 2012.
PARIS (AP) — When he came to power in 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy seemed just the man to shake up France's sclerotic economy with his promises of a break from the past. However, any optimism surrounding his victory five years ago has been replaced by cynicism and recrimination.
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S. Africa toll debate raises governance questions
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:15AM May 04, 2012 CommentJOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African unions took to the streets. Big business added its opposition to proposed tolls to pay for road upgrades for the nation's commercial hub, saying an irrational plan was being imposed on citizens by the governing African National Congress.
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Tymoshenko to be treated at Ukrainian clinic
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:25AM May 04, 2012 CommentKIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's jailed and ailing ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko tentatively agreed Friday to have her back condition treated at a local hospital under the supervision of a German doctor.
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French court gives 5-year sentence in terror plot
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:10AM May 04, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — A French court sentenced an Algerian-born nuclear physicist to five years in prison Friday for his role in plotting terrorism with al-Qaida's north African wing.
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It's raining, again: Britain endures damp drought
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:05AM May 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Sodden fields. Deep puddles. Flash floods. This is what drought looks like in Britain.
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Leader urges election boycott in eastern Libya
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:55AM May 04, 2012 CommentTRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The head of eastern Libya's self-declared semiautonomous region on Friday called for a boycott of next month's national vote for an assembly that would form a government and prepare for the country's new constitution.
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2 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:20AM May 04, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says that two coalition service members have been killed in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan.
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Egyptian troops, protesters clash in Cairo
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:15AM May 04, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense Ministry Friday in clashes that left one soldier dead and scores of people injured just three weeks ahead of presidential elections.
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Europe's far-right in steady crawl toward power
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:21AM May 04, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — Marine Le Pen wants to bust the French political system — and people across Europe and beyond should take note.
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Court hears autopsy reports from Norway massacre
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:56AM May 04, 2012 CommentOSLO, Norway (AP) — Families of Anders Behring Breivik's victims sought to balance the technical details of how they died with testimony Friday of how they lived before he unleashed a shooting spree on an island youth camp.
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Polls suggest close result in French election
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:51AM May 04, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — The final polls before France's presidential election Sunday show President Nicolas Sarkozy making up ground on Socialist challenger Francois Hollande — but still predict a Hollande victory.
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Austerity-weary Greece faces electoral impasse
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:22AM May 04, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — After more than two years of financial crisis, international bailouts, a huge debt writedown and Europe's harshest austerity program, Greek voters have been given a chance to hit back at the parties that got them into this mess.
