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Indonesia volcano unleashes biggest eruption
TOMOHON, Indonesia (AP) ― A volatile volcano in central Indonesia unleashed its most powerful eruption yet Sunday, spewing hot ash and smoke thousands of feet (meters) into the air and sending panicked villagers racing back to emergency shelters. There were no immediate reports of casualties.Mount Lokon, located on northern Sulawesi island, has been dormant for years but rumbled back to life late
World News July 18, 2011
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Syria forces besiege town after defections
World News July 18, 2011
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Berlusconi faces hearings on bribery, sex crime
ROME (AFP) ― Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces trial hearings for bribery and paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl on Monday, as the Italian leader fights off growing unpopularity and financial woes.Berlusconi, 74, is a defendant in three ongoing trials.He had been due to attend one of them, the corruption hearing in which he stands accused of paying a bribe to his former British lawyer, Da
World News July 18, 2011
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Chavez chemotherapy raises re-election doubts
World News July 18, 2011
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Chavez to delegate some duties
CARACAS (AP) ― Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delegated some of his duties to his vice president and finance minister on Saturday as he prepared to fly to Cuba to start chemotherapy and a new stage of cancer treatment.Chavez had refused opposition demands that he temporarily cede power to Vice President Elias Jaua while undergoing chemotherapy in Havana. But shortly after a legislative vote appr
World News July 17, 2011
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Clinton chides NATO ally Turkey on rights curbs
ISTANBUL (AP) ― U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, chiding a NATO ally whose support is critical to American goals in the Mideast, said Saturday that Turkey must act on concerns about backsliding on human rights and its secular traditionsSpeaking politely but firmly about the moderate Muslim nation, Clinton said the recent arrests of dozens of journalists and curbs placed on religious
World News July 17, 2011
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Vietnam police break up anti-China rally
HANOI (AFP) ― Vietnamese police rounded up at least 10 people as they forcibly broke up an anti-China rally on Sunday after a series of protests over tensions in the South China Sea.Around 50 demonstrators, greatly outnumbered by the security forces, were stopped and forced to disperse after they gathered close to the Chinese embassy in the capital Hanoi.“Down with China! Down with arresting patri
World News July 17, 2011
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Serial bombings in Mumbai kill 17, wound 131
Indian militant group suspected for worst terrorist attacks in India since 2008MUMBAI, India (AP) ― Three coordinated bombings tore through the heart of India’s busy financial capital during rush hour Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding 131 in the worst terrorist attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege.Bloody bodies were strewn in the dirt of Mumbai’s crowded neighborhoods and mark
World News July 14, 2011
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Karzai killing highlights Afghanistan’s ‘strongman’ problem
World News July 14, 2011
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Russia lays out ‘step-by-step’ approach on Iran
World News July 14, 2011
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U.S. begins drawdown of troops from Afghanistan
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) ― The first troops to leave Afghanistan as part of the U.S. drawdown handed over their slice of battlefield Wednesday to a unit less than half their size and started packing for home.When the 650 members of the Iowa National Guard’s 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment arrived in Afghanistan in November 2010, bases didn’t have enough housing, translators were in
World News July 14, 2011
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Syria slams ‘provocative’ Clinton comments
Beirut says Assad’s legitimacy is from Syrian people’s willBEIRUT (AP) ― Syria accused Washington of provocation Tuesday after the U.S. said President Bashar Assad had lost legitimacy and the American administration had nothing invested in him remaining in power.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued her strongest condemnation yet of Assad late Monday after mobs of hundreds of regim
World News July 13, 2011
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Cyprus protesters enter presidential palace grounds
NICOSIA (AP) ― Hundreds of angry marchers forced their way into the grounds of the Cypriot presidential palace in Nicosia late Tuesday, during a protest over a fatal blast at a naval base that killed 12, wrecked a key power plant and forced the resignations of the defense minister and top military chief.Protesters chanting “the people demand that the murderers are thrown in jail” were stopped at a
World News July 13, 2011
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Cameron weakened by phone hacking scandal
P.M.’s apparent closeness with News Corp. staff leads to doubts on leadershipLONDON (AP) ― He’s looked defensive. He’s looked outraged. He’s looked scared. But recently, Prime Minister David Cameron has rarely looked like he’s in charge.The British leader has lost his confident aura as his friendships with figures central to the tabloid hacking scandal hand his government its biggest crisis since
World News July 13, 2011
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Chinese general blasts U.S. military
BEIJING (AFP) ― China’s top military officer said Monday the timing of U.S. naval exercises in the South China Sea was “inappropriate,” after talks with his American counterpart aimed at cooling the territorial dispute.General Chen Bingde urged the United States to be “more modest and prudent in words and deeds”, amid growing tensions over China’s claims in the strategic and potentially resource-r
World News July 12, 2011
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