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Chavez will run for reelection in 2012

World News July 25, 2011

Couples wed on first day gay marriage is legal in New York

NEW YORK (AP) ― Hundreds of gay couples dressed in formal suits and striped trousers, gowns and T-shirts recited vows in emotion-choked voices and triumphantly hoisted their long-awaited marriage certificates on Sunday as New York became the sixth and largest U.S. state to recognize same-sex weddings.Couples began saying “I do” at midnight from Niagara Falls to Long Island, though New York City be

World News July 25, 2011

Couples wed on first day gay marriage is legal in New York

China’s No. 1 fugitive sent back after 12 years

BEIJING (AP) ― The fugitive at the center of a 12-year extradition court battle in Canada was returned Saturday to China, where he is accused of running a $10 billion smuggling ring that dealt in everything from cars to oil in a scandal touching the government’s highest levels. Chinese businessman Lai Changxing is escorted by Chinese authorities after he landed in Beijing on Saturday. (AFP-Yonhap

World News July 24, 2011

China’s No. 1 fugitive sent back after 12 years

Protest marches converge on Spain’s capital

MADRID (AP) ― Several hundred Spaniards angry about their country’s economic crisis protested on the outskirts of Madrid Saturday after spending about a month marching to the capital from their hometowns.The marchers set off from Barcelona and Bilbao in the north, Valencia in the east and Cadiz in the southwest on June 25. En route, they were joined by other people angry about Spain’s economic woe

World News July 24, 2011

Protest marches converge on Spain’s capital

Chavez returns from Cuba after chemo

CARACAS (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he soldiered through his first week of chemotherapy in Cuba with only minor discomfort but that a long process of additional treatment lies ahead as he confronts cancer.Chavez, 56, made an unannounced return to Venezuela late Saturday after spending a week in Cuba undergoing treatment. He strode away from the plane down a red carpet while troop

World News July 24, 2011

Egypt refuses international election monitors

CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s council of military rulers will not allow international monitors to observe upcoming parliamentary elections designed to move the country back toward civilian rule, a council member said Wednesday.The decision, which is part of a new election law approved by the country’s ruling generals, was swiftly criticized by activists who said it raises questions about the transparency o

World News July 21, 2011

Somalis dying in worst famine in 20 years

U.N. declares crisis in parts of the country, tens of thousands feared deadNAIROBI (AP) ― Tens of thousands of Somalis are feared dead in the world’s worst famine in a generation, the U.N. said Wednesday, and the U.S. said it will allow emergency funds to be spent in areas controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants as long as the fighters do not interfere with aid distributions.Exhausted, rail-thin w

World News July 21, 2011

Somalis dying in worst famine in 20 years

British P.M. drags opponents into hacking scandal

LONDON (AP) ― Prime Minister David Cameron dragged his political foes into Britain’s phone-hacking scandal at a raucous session of Parliament, distancing himself from a former aide at the heart of the allegations and denying his staff tried to thwart police investigations.Cameron, who flew back from Africa early for Wednesday’s emergency session, defended his decision to hire former News of the Wo

World News July 21, 2011

Serbia arrests last key war criminal

World News July 21, 2011

Pakistan appoints first-ever female foreign minister

ISLAMABAD (AFP) ― Pakistan’s first woman foreign minister ― and also its youngest ― was sworn in on Tuesday, ending a five-month job vacancy a week before crucial peace talks in India.Hina Rabbani Khar, 34, is also expected to meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the regional ASEAN forum in Indonesia this week. “On the advice of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the pr

World News July 20, 2011

Iran says installing new uranium centrifuges

World News July 20, 2011

Israeli navy takes over Gaza-bound French ship

JERUSALEM (AP) ― Israeli naval commandos on Tuesday seized control of a French ship attempting to break Israel’s sea blockade of the Gaza Strip and towed it into port, reporting no resistance during the takeover in international waters.The takeover was the latest in a series of run-ins on the high seas between the Israeli navy and pro-Palestinian activists trying to breach the blockade. In the mos

World News July 20, 2011

Iraq wants U.S. trainers, not troops, after 2011

World News July 19, 2011

U.N. draws DMZ for Cambodian, Thai troops

THE HAGUE (AP) ― The U.N.’s highest court Monday created a demilitarized zone around a 1,000-year-old temple on the disputed border between Cambodia and Thailand, and ordered the armed forces from both countries to withdraw.Both countries said they were satisfied with the ruling by the International Court of Justice, meant to end clashes that have claimed about 20 lives in the last three years and

World News July 19, 2011

U.N. draws DMZ for Cambodian, Thai troops

More attacks as Petraeus hands over command

World News July 19, 2011

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