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Israel P.M. ready to discuss border ‘package’: official

Aug. 2, 2011

EU to put additional sanctions on Syria

EU, Washington condemn deadly crackdown during the month of RamadanBRUSSELS (AP) ― The European Union expanded its sanctions against Syria on Monday, imposing asset freezes and travel bans against five more military and government officials.The EU decision brings the number of individuals targeted b

Aug. 2, 2011

Cuba vows to change migratory restrictions

HAVANA (AP) ― Cuba is working to overhaul migratory rules that were enacted decades ago out of necessity but have become anachronistic today, President Raul Castro told lawmakers and the nation Monday at the close of the island’s parliament.The session was closely watched for new details of economic

Aug. 2, 2011

Cuba vows to change migratory restrictions

Fears of far-right rise in Greece

ATHENS (AP) ― They descended by the hundreds ― black-shirted, bat-wielding youths chasing down dark-skinned immigrants through the streets of Athens and beating them senseless in an unprecedented show of force by Greece’s far-right extremists.In Greece, alarm is rising that the twin crises of financ

Aug. 2, 2011

Teens face death threat for forbidden love in Afghanistan

An Afghan teen couple is facing death threats from their families for trying to marry outside of their different ethnic groups, the New York Times reported. Traditionally, Afghans marry partners chosen by their parents from the same ethnic group. The boy was an ethnic Tajik while the girl was part o

Aug. 2, 2011

British Royal Zara Phillips weds Rugby star Mark Tindall

Cars containing members of Britain's Royal Family head towards Holyrood Palace from Canongate Kirk after the wedding of Britain's Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips to England rugby player Mike Tindall at Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland Saturday, July 30 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)Britain'

Aug. 1, 2011

British Royal Zara Phillips weds Rugby star Mark Tindall

A Libyan rebel faction unmasked as Gadhafi men

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) ― Libyan rebel leaders said Sunday their forces hunted down and clashed with supporters of Moammar Gadhafi who had been posing as rebel fighters to infiltrate the opposition’s eastern stronghold. The overnight battle killed four from each side and added to a sense of crisis with

Aug. 1, 2011

Syrians mark bleak Ramadan after 80 killed

Aug. 1, 2011

Buenos Aires mayor wins re-election in landslide

BUENOS AIRES (AP) ― Buenos Aires’s conservative Mayor Mauricio Macri won re-election Sunday by a wide margin over the candidate backed by Argentina’s left-of-center president.With 97 percent of the ballots counted, Macri had 64 percent of the votes in the runoff election to 36 percent for Sen. Danie

Aug. 1, 2011

‘Top Juarez cartel figure captured’

MEXICO CITY (AP) ― A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the U.S. border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said Sunday.Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez also is a suspect in last year’s slayin

Aug. 1, 2011

Mexico says a top Juarez cartel figure captured

MEXICO CITY (AP) _ A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the U.S. border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said Sunday.Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez also is a suspect in last year's slayin

Aug. 1, 2011

Insanity ruling not likely in Norway

Norway (AP) -- It's unlikely that the right-wing extremist who admitted killing dozens in Norway last week will be declared legally insane because he appears to have been in control of his actions, the head of the panel that will review his psychiatric evaluation told The Associated Press. A boy lea

Aug. 1, 2011

China blames Pakistan-trained militants for attack

BEIJING (AP) -- China on Monday blamed Muslim extremists trained in Pakistan for an attack that killed six civilians in one of the most troubled ethnic regions where police later fatally shot five suspects.Sunday's attack raised the death toll from weekend violence in the Silk Road city of Kashgar i

Aug. 1, 2011

China blames Pakistan-trained militants for attack

Syrian army kills 100 in Hama crackdown: activists

DAMASCUS (AFP) -- Syrian forces killed nearly 140 people on Sunday including at least 100 when the army stormed the flashpoint protest city of Hama to crush dissent on the eve of Ramadan, activists said.Activists said it was one of deadliest days in Syria since demonstrators first took to the street

Aug. 1, 2011

Obama, Congress reach a debt deal

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders reached historic agreement Sunday night on a compromise to permit vital U.S. borrowing by the Treasury in exchange for more than $2 trillion in long-term spending cuts.Officials said Republican Speaker John Boeh

Aug. 1, 2011

Late attempt at debt-limit deal to avert default

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House and Republican congressional leaders made significant progress toward a deal to avert a potentially catastrophic first-ever government default threatened for early next week, according to officials familiar with the talks.Under a plan negotiated late Saturday night, the nation's debt limit would rise in two steps by about $2.4 trillion and spending would be cut b

July 31, 2011

U.K. watches year’s second, low key, royal wedding

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) ― Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter Zara Phillips married England rugby star Mike Tindall on Saturday ― but Britain’s second royal wedding of the year was largely a low-key affair, with only a hint of the glamor and excitement of Prince William’s showstopping nuptials.Phillips, 30, who is 13th in line to the throne but does not use a royal title, and Tindall, 32, were gre

July 31, 2011

U.K. watches year’s second, low key, royal wedding

Afghans arrest army turncoat, Taliban leader

KABUL (AP) ― A senior Defense Ministry official who allegedly leaked secrets that helped the Taliban stage suicide attacks in Kabul has been arrested by the Afghan Intelligence Service ― one of three high profile arrests announced Saturday by the agency.A spokesman said also arrested were a senior Taliban official accused of leading an insurgent propaganda campaign in eastern Afghanistan, and an i

July 31, 2011

‘Syrian tanks storm Hama, 24 dead’

July 31, 2011

Norway suspect considered other targets to strike

OSLO (AP) ― The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told investigators he also considered attacking other targets linked to the government or the prime minister’s Labor Party, police said Saturday.During a 10-hour questioning session on Friday, Anders Behring Breivik asked interrogators how many people he had killed in the J

July 31, 2011

Norway suspect considered other targets to strike