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Report says Taliban using sophisticated media network to undermine government
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through so...
Israel to build new Jewish settlement in West Bank, official says
JERUSALEM - An Israeli official says a key committee has approved construction of the first new Jewish settlement in the West Bank in a decade. The news infuriated Palestinians, who said the decisi...
North Korea signs nonaggression pact with Southeast Asian nations
SINGAPORE - North Korea's reclusive communist regime, long seen as a nuclear threat to the region, signed a nonaggression pact Thursday with Southeast Asia, in a largely symbolic move. The move has...
Australian prime minister revives plans to include Aborigines in constitution
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister, who has won applause for apologizing to Aborigines for past wrongs, has revived plans for a constitutional revision to recognize the country's indigen...
Aftershocks kill 1, injure at least 10 in China earthquake, media reports
BEIJING - Xinhua News Agency is reporting three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday killing one person and injuring more than 10. Xinhua says a six magnitude earthquake hit parts of Shaan...
Helicopter rescues 2 Italian climbers from Pakistani mountain
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani official says an army helicopter has saved two Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains. Walter Nones and Simon Kehrer had been struggling to des...
Denmark says 2 soldiers injured in rocket attack in Afghanistan
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The Danish army says two soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, when a rocket hit their armoured vehicle in a battle with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The army says...
Famous American speeches in Berlin
Berlin has been fertile ground for speeches by sitting U.S. presidents. John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan are remembered for their bold declarations during the Cold War, and Bill Clinton made a simple...
Dolly's winds drop, but soaking rain continues in Rio Grande Valley
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Widespread flooding was expected Thursday from hurricane Dolly that has loitered as a tropical storm overnight, soaking deep south Texas and northeastern Mexico with heavy rain. ...
Japanese, Mongolian scientists recover complete skeleton of young dinosaur
TOKYO - A nature museum says Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a young dinosaur that likely died 70-million years ago. Takuji Yokoyama, a spokes...
4 climbers, all members of 1 family, killed in fall from Mount Blanc
MILAN, Italy - Italian rescuers say four people have fallen to their deaths while climbing Mount Blanc, Europe's highest peak. Italian news agency ANSA reports that the victims were a Dutch man and...
Obama, Merkel hold 'vey open' talks on Iraq and Afghanistan
BERLIN - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as climate and energy issues at Germany's chancellery Thu...
UN war crimes court fines Kosovo journalist US$11,000 for publishing name of witness
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted and fined an award-winning journalist US$11,000 Thursday for publishing the name of a witness who testified anonymously in the trial...
Serbia says it will reinstate ambassadors to European Union countries
BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic says the government has decided to reinstate ambassadors withdrawn from European Union countries that supported Kosovo's independence. Jeremi...
Yushchenko believes former ally involved in his near-lethal poisoning
KYIV, Ukraine - President Viktor Yushchenko says he believes a former ally and friend was involved in his near-fatal poisoning four years ago. Yushchenko Thursday named David Zhvania, a member of a...
4-year-old French girl beaten by father in Rome awakes from coma
ROME - A pediatric hospital says a four-year-old French child who was savagely beaten by her father in Rome has awaken from a coma and is improving. Bambino Gesu hospital officials said in a releas...
Former U.S. narcotics official says Afghan president hurting drug war
KABUL, Afghanistan - A former top U.S. counter-narcotics official alleges that President Hamid Karzai is obstructing the fight against the country's burgeoning narcotics trade. Thomas Schweich, who...
Serbia vows to track down people who helped Radovan Karadzic
BELGRADE, Serbia - Radovan Karadzic assumed his false identity during the autocratic rule of his mentor, an official said Thursday, promising to track down the people who helped the Bosnian Serb warlo...
Berlin police investigate suspicious package at Obama's hotel
BERLIN - Berlin police say that they are investigating a suspicious package found at the hotel where U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is staying. Police spokesman Bernhard Schodrowski says ...
French legislators approve plan for longer work week than just 35 hours
PARIS - France took a step toward ending its decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week, with legislators passing a bill that gives companies greater latitude to extend working hours. The new ...
Motor racing boss Max Mosley wins lawsuit against tabloid over orgy story
LONDON - Motor racing boss Max Mosley won a closely watched privacy-invasion lawsuit Thursday over a British tabloid's claims he took part in a Nazi-themed orgy, and the judge ordered the newspaper to...
Libya halts oil shipments to Switzerland to protest arrest of Gadhafi's son
CAIRO, Egypt - A Libyan shipping company says it has halted oil deliveries to Switzerland to protest the arrest there of Moammar Gadhafi's son. The head of Libya's General National Maritime Transpo...
9 killed in Kashmir attacks; curfew imposed to prevent Hindu protests
SRINAGAR, India - Suspected Muslim separatist rebels killed nine people in two separate attacks in Kashmir on Thursday, as authorities imposed a curfew on a main city in the region to clamp down on a ...
NKorea vows to retaliate against SKorean defence chief's 'enemy' remarks
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea lashed out Thursday at the South Korean defence chief for labeling the communist state an enemy. Earlier this week, South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee told ...
At least three dead in explosion aboard Philippine bus
MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine military spokesman says a bomb has exploded in a bus in the country's south, killing at least three people. Maj. Armand Rico says people also were wounded in Thur...
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