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MAGDEBURG, Germany (AFP) ― German authorities urged 15,000 more people to flee their homes in a city on the swollen Elbe river Sunday as central Europe’s worst floods in a decade also threatened Hung...
Updated : 2013.06.10 20:21
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Iain Banks LONDON (AFP) ― Scottish author Iain Banks, best known for his novels “The Wasp Factory” and “The Crow Road,” has died aged 59, two months after revealing that he had terminal cancer,...
Updated : 2013.06.10 19:55
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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie about her fight over the pollution of a California town, has been arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated...
Updated : 2013.06.10 19:55
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LONDON (AFP) ― Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip will on Monday celebrate his 92nd birthday in the London hospital where is recovering from exploratory abdominal surgery. The colorful royal...
Updated : 2013.06.10 19:54
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ROME (AP) ― Bruno Bartoletti, an orchestra conductor who was associated with the Lyric Opera of Chicago for a half-century, and who championed modern opera as well as classic works, died on Sunday i...
Updated : 2013.06.10 19:54
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A 29-year-old contractor who claims to have worked at the National Security Agency and the CIA was revealed Sunday as the source of disclosures about the U.S. government's secret surveillance program...
Updated : 2013.06.10 09:08
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German authorities urged 15,000 more people to flee their homes in a city on the swollen Elbe river Sunday as central Europe's worst floods in a decade also threatened Hungary after causing havoc in ...
Updated : 2013.06.10 09:08
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Clashes between protesters and militias aligned with the military in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi left 27 people killed and dozens wounded, a health official said Sunday. ...
Updated : 2013.06.09 21:21
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BERLIN (AP) -- Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in a region of eastern Germany where the Elbe river has flooded and burst through a dam, officials said Sunday. At least 21 pe...
Updated : 2013.06.09 21:08
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ISTANBUL (AFP) -- Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied supporters on Sunday after anti-government protesters burned tyres and hurled fireworks at riot police firing back tear gas in u...
Updated : 2013.06.09 21:02
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RANCHO MIRAGE, California (AFP) ― Barack Obama and Xi Jinping ended their first U.S.-China summit Saturday, forging a rapport and policy understandings, if not breakthroughs, on North Korea, climate...
Updated : 2013.06.09 21:00
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BEIJING (AP) -- The man who once ran China's powerful railways ministry wept as he admitted his guilt and sought leniency Sunday at his trial on corruption charges, one of the country's highest-level...
Updated : 2013.06.09 20:56
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HUAIROU, China (AP) ― A court sentenced the brother-in-law of China’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison Sunday ― an unusually harsh punishment for a business disput...
Updated : 2013.06.09 20:40
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― Eager to quell a domestic furor over U.S. spying, the nation’s top intelligence official stressed Saturday that a previously undisclosed program for tapping into Internet usage is a...
Updated : 2013.06.09 20:39
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Nelson Mandela. (AP-Yonhap News) PRETORIA, South Africa (AFP) ― Nelson Mandela was in a “serious but stable” condition in hospital on Saturday night with a renewed lung infection that has trigger...
Updated : 2013.06.09 20:21
