Israel: Iran nearing atomic bomb capability
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Iran is close to a "technological breakthrough" that would enable it to build nuclear weapons, Israel's military intelligence chief said in a rare public assessment Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin said Iran has enriched...
China official's royal audience stirs ire in Japan
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Japan's prime minister is under fire over allegations that he injected politics into the imperial palace by using his clout to arrange a last-minute audience between Emperor Akihito and China's vice president. The...
Hamas blames Israel for breakdown in Schalit talks
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Israeli intransigence caused a breakdown in negotiations to release an Israeli soldier held by the militant Palestinian group Hamas, its leader said Tuesday. Speaking in the Iranian capital of Tehran, Khaled Mashaal...
Israeli officials routinely face UK legal threats
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It's not likely that any Israeli officials will be coming to London this holiday season. Not because British Airways may go on strike, but because they face the threat of arrest while giving speeches, shopping or...
Europe marks 150th birthday of Esperanto creator
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Pomoj and pantalono _ Esperanto for apples and trousers _ went on sale in some Warsaw shops Tuesday as Europe marked 150 years since the birth of the creator of the international language. Dr. Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof,...
Body of British soldier returns to England
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The road out of this quiet market town was strewn with red and yellow roses on Tuesday, flowers that fell from the hearse carrying the body of Lance Corporal Adam Drane _ the 100th British soldier to die this year in...
Sierra Leone woman appeals for right to be chief
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A woman barred from running for chief of her district because of her gender said Tuesday she has appealed for a new election and a place on the ballot. Elizabeth Kumba Simbiqa Torto said she wants a new election...
Demjanjuk witness probed for link to WWII crimes
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German authorities are investigating whether a man due to testify at the war-crimes trial of John Demjanjuk may have committed killings himself as a concentration camp guard, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Kurt Schrimm,...
Berlusconi attacker apologizes to premier
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The man who attacked Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi apologized to him for his "superficial, cowardly and uncontrolled" attack as a judge considered whether he should be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Massimo...
20,000 evacuated as Philippine volcano oozes lava
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The Philippines' most active volcano oozed lava and shot up plumes of ash Tuesday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and face the possibility of a bleak Christmas in a shelter. State volcanologists...
Suicide blast kills 22 in crowded Pakistani market
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A suicide car bomb exploded in a market close to the home of a politician in Pakistan's most populous province Tuesday, killing 22 people and wounding 70 others. The blast in the Punjabi town of Dera Ghazi Khan was the...
Soviet industrial collapse reaps climate credits
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As other countries struggle to cut greenhouse gas emissions, two ex-Soviet industrial powerhouses have found themselves heirs to an unlikely windfall. Russia and Ukraine head into the Copenhagen summit with credits for...
China accuses developed countries on climate
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China accused developed countries Tuesday of backsliding on what it said were their obligations to fight climate change and warned that the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen had entered a critical stage. In sharp...
Suicide bombing blast near former VP home in Kabul
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A suicide car bomber struck Tuesday near the home of a former Afghan vice president and a hotel favored by Westerners, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens in one of the safest neighborhoods in the city. ...
Explosions in 2 major Iraq cities kill 9 people
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Car bombs and other explosions ripped through Iraq's capital and a major northern city on Tuesday, killing nine people and highlighting once again the apparent ease with which insurgents can slip past security. The...
Plane seized by Thais linked to alleged smugglers
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A weapons-laden cargo plane impounded in Bangkok has links to at least two men accused of global arms trafficking, including one fighting extradition to the U.S. from Thailand, an analyst said Tuesday. The five-man...
Mexico leader proposes sweeping political reform
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Mexico's president is proposing a runoff election for future presidential contests and says all other elected officials should be able to seek re-election. President Felipe Calderon's plan is the most dramatic reform...
Pakistani police get more time to quiz Americans
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A Pakistani court granted police another 10 days on Tuesday to question five Americans held on suspicion of links to Islamist militants, a government official said. Authorities also said they had released the father of...
China says Uighur asylum seekers are criminals
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China on Tuesday warned the United Nations refugee program not to be a "haven for criminals" as it signaled it wanted the return of 22 Muslim Uighurs who fled to Cambodia after deadly ethnic rioting this summer. The...
Barack Obama statue attacked by Facebook critics
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A statue of President Barack Obama as a boy erected in a Jakarta park has been targeted in a Facebook campaign by thousands who say it should be removed. The Indonesian-language Facebook group named "Take Down the...
Abkhazia says Nauru recognizes its independence
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Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia on Tuesday won recognition by the South Pacific island nation of Nauru, one of the world's smallest states. Russia recognized Abkhazia and another Georgian separatist province...
Harassment across Arab world drives women inside
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The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab world is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said activists at the first-ever regional conference addressing...
Berlusconi joins long list of targeted politicians
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The souvenir-flinging man who attacked Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi joins a long list of gatecrashers, shoe-throwers and other security breachers who have embarrassed, bruised and even killed leaders worldwide. As...
Mullen: Most of surge troops will arrive by August
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The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday that he's confident that most of the 30,000 additional troops that are being sent to Afghanistan will be there by August. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
Japan needs more time for decision on US base
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Japan needs several more months to decide on the relocation of a major U.S. military base on the southern island of Okinawa, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Tuesday, a delay likely to frustrate Washington. The U.S....
Pope calls for action on climate change
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Pope Benedict XVI called for urgent action to protect the environment, saying Tuesday that climate change and natural catastrophes threaten the rights to life, food, health _ and ultimately peace. In his annual message...
Iran prosecutor says Web sites insulted president
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The Tehran prosecutor has filed a lawsuit against two Web sites and their license holders for insulting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state TV reported Tuesday. The suits target the conservative Jahannews and Alef...
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Rescue official says 22 killed in bombing in central Pakistani city. ...
Philippine clashes kill 9 rebels, 1 soldier
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At least nine communist rebels and one army soldier were killed in clashes Tuesday as troops closed in on a guerrilla encampment in a southern Philippine province, a regional military spokesman said. Troops recovered...
3 dead after tropical cyclone hits Fiji
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Thousands of Fiji villagers fled to shelters as a tropical cyclone battered the South Pacific nation, causing flooding, damaging homes and power lines, and killing three people, officials said Tuesday. Cyclone Mick,...
Red Cross in first visit to Taliban-held detainees
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The international Red Cross has made its first visit to Afghan prisoners held by the Taliban in the northwest of the country, the organization said Tuesday. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it visited...
Afghan president calls for large-scale govt reform
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai responded to international criticism of corruption in his administration by calling Tuesday for large-scale reform to stamp out the bribery and graft that permeate ministries and state...
Report: NKorea ups limit for currency exchange
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North Korea raised the amount of old currency that citizens can turn in for new bills after merchants rioted against the rules, a news report said Tuesday. North Korea redenominated its national currency, the won, late...
China rejects call to free dissident
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China on Tuesday rejected U.S. calls to release a high-profile dissident who has been indicted on subversion charges after calling for political reform in China. The United States and the European Union this week both...
Jailing of judge provokes debate in Venezuela
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A Venezuelan judge is in jail on charges of corruption and abuse of power for freeing a high-profile banker, and an angry President Hugo Chavez has demanded she be kept in a cell for the maximum sentence _ 30 years. ...
China cop labeled a martyr after drinking death
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A Chinese policeman who died after drinking too much at a banquet he was made to attend has been deemed a martyr who died in the line of duty, in an apparent attempt to meet his family's demands for compensation, a...
Thais probe destination for seized NKorean weapons
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Thai authorities focused Tuesday on the mammoth task of inspecting 35 tons of weapons seized from a cargo plane loaded in North Korea, as details of the aircraft's alleged shady past emerged but its ultimate destination...
Report: UN-backed Congo troops killing civilians
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U.N. peacekeepers in Congo are violating the laws of war and should immediately stop backing Congolese troops who have deliberately killed hundreds of civilians in an operation to oust rebels in eastern Congo, Human...
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Iraqi police say four killed, multiple wounded in series of car bombs outside Green Zone. ...
Castro says US on offensive in LatAm despite Obama
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Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama's "friendly smile and African-American face" are hiding Washington's sinister intentions for Latin America _ more evidence of a new cooling in U.S.-Cuba relations after a thaw...
Giant iceberg off Australia breaking up
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A massive iceberg edging slowly toward Australia's southwestern coast is breaking up into hundreds of smaller icebergs as it drifts into warmer waters, creating potentially hazardous conditions for ships trying to...
Attack on Italian PM reveals nation's divisions
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Even hospitalized and in pain, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi can polarize Italians. The bloody image of Berlusconi, reeling after being attacked as he signed autographs following a rally Sunday, has created...
Officials: World power meeting on Iran canceled
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An upcoming meeting by five world powers on trying to curb Iran's nuclear program has been canceled at China's request, senior officials from three of the countries involved said Monday. One of the officials said China...
Honduran president-elect willing to meet Zelaya
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Honduras' president-elect said Monday he is willing to meet with ousted leader Manuel Zelaya anywhere to help end the political impasse over last June's coup. Porfirio Lobo said he is ready to talk with Zelaya outside...
Canada gets the Yes Men treatment in climate talks
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The news release read too good to be true. Canada, a laggard at these climate talks, was announcing a radical shift, ready to embrace a 40 percent cut in its emissions by 2020 versus its 1990 levels, and 80 percent by...
Pakistan police probe Americans in terror case
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Pakistani police Monday seized luggage and a cell phone from a hotel where three of five Americans arrested on suspicion of militant links stayed, while a court ruled the men cannot be deported until judges review the...
Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed Iraqi border
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Iran said Monday a court will try three Americans who wandered across the border from Iraq last July and became ensnared in an increasingly bitter standoff with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. Iranian Foreign...
UK appeals court decision over Guantanamo detainee
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A lawyer for the British government argued Monday that two judges acted irresponsibly when they ordered officials to disclose confidential documents relating to the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo detainee. ...
PR ex-mayor defends seizure of cops' citation pads
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A former Puerto Rican mayor is accused of seizing police officers' traffic citation books to boost his image in city elections. Puerto Rico Government Ethics Office spokeswoman Lorna Castro says that Marcos Irizarry is...
Spain: 11 guilty of belonging to terror group
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A Spanish court has found 11 men guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization that was plotting to stage what would have been the country's first suicide attacks, judges said in a statement Monday. The National...