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TEHRAN (AP) ― Iran’s top leader warned the Arab world Wednesday not to allow Western powers and Israel to “confiscate” the region’s pro-reform uprisings, in comments that appear to reflect the I...
Updated : 2011.09.01 19:33
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The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses during the September 11 terrorist attack in 2001. (AP-Yonhap News) WASHINGTON (AP) ― As the United States prepares for the 10-year anniversary of...
Updated : 2011.09.01 19:29
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The secret airlift of terrorism suspects and American intelligence officials to CIA-operated overseas prisons via luxury jets was mounted by a hidden network of U.S. companies and ...
Updated : 2011.09.01 18:42
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DENVER (AP) — Jon Hutt was doing logging work all alone in a remote Colorado forest when his six-ton trailer fell onto his right foot. The pain was excruciating, no one was around to hear his cries...
Updated : 2011.09.01 16:37
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HEISHA, Libya (AP) ― Libyan rebels say they’re closing in on Moammar Gadhafi and have issued an ultimatum to regime loyalists in the fugitive dictator’s hometown of Sirte, his main remaining bastion:...
Updated : 2011.08.31 20:20
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- When Said Abdullah arrived in Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison in 1996, he said he was ``welcomed with blows and torture'' for membership in an Islamist group. He was held in...
Updated : 2011.08.31 19:56
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KAMPALA (AP) ― An official says the death toll has risen to 40 from landslides that buried homes in an eastern district of Uganda. Relatives mourn for their loved ones who died in landslides in Gom...
Updated : 2011.08.31 19:51
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TRIPOLI (AP) ― Attacks by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces on engineers deep in the Libyan desert caused the massive water shortage that has left the capital without running water for a week, a rebel officia...
Updated : 2011.08.31 19:50
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On anti-government sentiment, brash Texan becomes favorite less than 3 weeks into race WASHINGTON (AP) ― Gov. Rick Perry has ridden a wave of anti-government sentiment to the top of a crowded field...
Updated : 2011.08.31 19:49
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BAY, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man who wanted to capture aerial photos of his home during his first plane ride instead helped catch two men burglarizing it. Steven Lynn said he could see the two takin...
Updated : 2011.08.31 13:58
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U.K. business confidence in the economic outlook plunged this month to its lowest level since the depths of the recession in 2009, Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets said. An index of British companies’ ...
Updated : 2011.08.30 19:18
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BEIJING (AP) ― Twenty-two coal miners were rescued Tuesday from their flooded pit in northeastern China after being trapped underground for a week. State broadcaster CCTV showed the men being broug...
Updated : 2011.08.30 18:52
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― Astronauts may need to take the unprecedented step of temporarily abandoning the International Space Station if last week’s Russian launch accident prevents new crews...
Updated : 2011.08.30 18:51
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MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) ― The full measure of Hurricane Irene’s fury came into focus Monday as the death toll passed 44, while towns in the northern U.S. region of New England battled epic floods ...
Updated : 2011.08.30 18:50
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Libyan troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a p...
Updated : 2011.08.30 16:55
