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Alaska’s remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinning Saturday and no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby. A narrow ash pl...
Updated : 2013.05.19 17:13
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Last-minute fortune seekers across the U.S. rushed to buy lottery tickets Saturday, undeterred by the astronomically low odds of winning a Powerball jackpot that could reach a near-historic $600 mill...
Updated : 2013.05.19 17:13
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Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal’s Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women’s sports are severely restricted, tourism o...
Updated : 2013.05.19 17:07
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Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China’s new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary ...
Updated : 2013.05.19 17:07
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Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women’s freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encoura...
Updated : 2013.05.19 13:41
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LONDON (AP) ― A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-governm...
Updated : 2013.05.19 13:40
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Jorge Rafael Videla BUENOS AIRES (AP) ― Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a ...
Updated : 2013.05.19 13:39
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Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the c...
Updated : 2013.05.19 13:38
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British pop star George Michael suffered minor injuries in a car crash on a motorway north of London, his publicist said Friday. The 49-year-old, who shot to fame as a member of the 1980s pop duo Wh...
Updated : 2013.05.19 13:36
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MANILA (AFP) ― The Philippines on Saturday rejected Taiwan’s allegations that Filipino coastguards had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic spat...
Updated : 2013.05.19 13:36
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Rescuers searching for 23 trapped workers at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia spotted six bodies Saturday but weren’t able to immediately retrieve them because of falling debris, ...
Updated : 2013.05.19 13:35
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France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwid...
Updated : 2013.05.19 09:22
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President Barack Obama said U.S. military leaders told him they are "ashamed'' of their failure to end sexual abuse in the armed services. Obama pledged to take all efforts to halt the abuse, which h...
Updated : 2013.05.17 16:53
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The dire manners and “uncivilized behavior” of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country's image, said a top official who lamented their poor “quality and breeding,” according to state-run...
Updated : 2013.05.17 15:50
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A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing lava and ash clouds. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Thursday a continuous cloud of ash, steam and gas from Pavlof Volcano has been seen 20,00...
Updated : 2013.05.17 12:44
