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Iraqi police: 1 killed in funeral bombing
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:46PM September 16, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a car bomb has killed one mourner and wounded 15 other people when it exploded near a funeral procession south of Baghdad.
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South Sudan army sinks its own boat, killing 10
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:22PM September 16, 2012 CommentKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An official says the South Sudanese military sank a boat carrying 170 of its own soldiers on the Nile river, killing at least 10, after mistaking them for enemy forces.
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Iran's Guard admits advisers in Syria, Lebanon
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:21PM September 16, 2012 CommentTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The top commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard says the elite unit has high-level advisers in Lebanon and Syria but remains undecided on whether to send military reinforcements to help save Bashar Assad's regime.
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Paris prosecutor to probe protest at US Embassy
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:53PM September 16, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation Sunday regarding a protest around the American Embassy that drew hundreds of people angry over of a film produced in the United States that insults the Prophet Muhammad.
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25 bodies found in northeast Nigeria after flood
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:37PM September 16, 2012 CommentYOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian Red Cross officials say they've found 25 corpses after a massive flood washed through northeast Nigeria.
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Report: Reward for Rushdie's death boosted in Iran
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:35PM September 16, 2012 CommentTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A semi-official religious foundation in Iran has increased a reward it had offered for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie to $3.3 million from $2.8 million, a newspaper reported, days after protests coursed through the Muslim world over alleged insults to the Prophet Muhammad.
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Niger Islamic Council urges peaceful protests
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:07PM September 16, 2012 CommentNIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The Islamic Council of Niger asks Muslims not to attack Christian churches to protest the recent film on the Prophet Muhammad.
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Report: German police had lead on neo-Nazis in '02
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:47AM September 16, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Information that could have led to the arrest of three fugitive neo-Nazis later implicated in a string of far-right murders may have remained unused in German police files for a decade, according to a newspaper report Sunday.
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Somalia's new president inaugurated
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:55AM September 16, 2012 CommentGALKAYO, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's new leader was inaugurated Sunday amid tight security in the capital, Mogadishu, four days after President Hassan Skeikh Mohamud survived an assassination attempt.
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Zimbabwe PM: I have found true love
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:46AM September 16, 2012 CommentHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's prime minister said at his marriage ceremony Saturday that he had to date several women to find the one he truly loves.
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Police: Roadside bomb kills 15 in NW Pakistan
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:04AM September 16, 2012 CommentTIMERGARAH, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb ripped through a minibus in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border Sunday, killing 15 passengers and wounded 12 others, police said.
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China aims at Japan's economy in island protests
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:03AM September 16, 2012 CommentBEIJING (AP) — Chinese are trying to hurt Japan economically for leverage in a bitter dispute over contested islands, turning to angry protests and calls for boycotts of Japanese businesses, abetted in part by China's government.
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Freed Israeli soldier: Never lose hope
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:59AM September 16, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — The former Israeli soldier freed almost a year ago in a lopsided deal with Gaza militants says people should always have hope despite their troubles.
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Cambodia genocide defendant freed due to illness
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:57AM September 16, 2012 CommentPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's war crimes tribunal set free a former leader of the Khmer Rouge on Sunday, upholding a decision that has outraged survivors seeking an explanation of the mass killings committed more than 30 years ago.
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Namibia: 40 babies, fetuses dumped monthly in city
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:30AM September 16, 2012 CommentWINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — The Namibia Press Agency reports that some 40 babies and fetuses are dumped and flushed down toilets every month in Windhoek, Namibia's capital of just 350,000 people.
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Spanish police arrest 4 'suspected terrorists'
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:18AM September 16, 2012 CommentMADRID (AP) — The Interior Ministry says four people have been arrested in northwest Spain on suspicion of belonging to a violent, regional pro-independence group.
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Last big group of Iranian exiles moves to Baghdad
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:07AM September 16, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — The last big batch of a group of controversial Iranian exiles in Iraq reluctantly left their decades-old home in northeast Iraq on Sunday and moved to a refugee camp outside Baghdad, taking what officials say is a necessary step towards resettling them in other nations.
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Israeli airline vows to cancel flights to Cairo
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:54AM September 16, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's national airline will stop flying to Cairo, even though the Israel-Egypt peace treaty mandates flights to the country, the CEO of EL AL Airlines said in a letter published Sunday.
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Turkey: 8 police killed in landmine blast
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:45AM September 16, 2012 CommentISTANBUL (AP) — Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a landmine along a highway in eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing eight police officers and wounding nine, Turkish media reported.
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Panetta concerned Asia disputes could expand
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:04AM September 16, 2012 CommentTOKYO (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Sunday he is concerned the territorial disputes in the Asia-Pacific region could spark provocations and result in violence that could involve other nations, such as the United States.
