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Strong Quake Kills 4 In Italy Cheese Region
Posted 8:33 PM 5/20/2012 by Associated Press
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy (AP) - A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy, killing four people, knocking down a clock tower and other centuries-old buildings and causing millions in losses to the region known for making Parmesan cheese.The quake (More)
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Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62
Posted 8:31 PM 5/20/2012
LONDON - Robin Gibb, a founding member of the Bee Gees who helped propel the group to international stardom, has died. He was 62.Gibb's representative Doug Wright announced in a statement that Gibb passed away Sunday "following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery." (More)
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Syrian Car Bomb Leaves At Least 9 Dead
Posted 8:46 PM 5/19/2012
BEIRUT - At least nine people have been killed by a car bomb in Syria today.The bomb went off in the parking lot of a military compound in an eastern city (Deir al-Zour).
Video broadcast on Syrian state TV showed damaged buildings, smoldering cars and trucks flipped upside down as (More)
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Mexican General Questioned About Possible Cartel Ties
Posted 7:37 AM 5/18/2012
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's army said it had detained a third general for questioning on Thursday, hours after a judge placed the two other officers under a form of house arrest pending an investigation for possible links to the Beltran Leyva drug cartel. A Defense Department (More)
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Filipino Christian Group Protests Lady Gaga Concert
Posted 7:35 AM 5/18/2012
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts. Sold-out crowds and (More)
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Mexican Authorities Charge 8 People In Grisly Cult Murders
Posted 7:26 AM 5/17/2012
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) - Mexican prosecutors have formally charged eight people in the grisly cult slayings of two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman. The suspects are mainly members of an extended family whose purported leader has said they killed the victims as an offering to (More)
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Egypt's Military Ruler Promises Model Elections
Posted 7:23 AM 5/16/2012
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's military ruler says the country's upcoming presidential election will be a "model" of a free and fair vote and will reflect the will of the people. More than 50 million Egyptian voters are to choose from among 13 candidates for the country's first president since (More)
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Man Sets Himself On Fire Outside Breivik Trial
Posted 7:20 AM 5/15/2012
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Oslo police say a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre last July Police operations leader Finn Belle told The Associated Press that the (More)
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Somali Pirate Haven Destroyed
Posted 7:18 AM 5/15/2012
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A Somali pirate says an airstrike by the European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean has destroyed speed boats, fuel deports and an arms store. Bile Hussein, a pirate commander, said Tuesday the attack on Handulle village in the Mudug region will (More)
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Syrian Forces Accused Of Targeting Health Workers
Posted 7:11 AM 5/15/2012
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics, an international aid agency warned Tuesday. Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders (More)
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Charges Filed In British Phone Hacking Scandal
Posted 7:02 AM 5/15/2012
LONDON (AP) - Ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others were charged Tuesday over alleged attempts to conceal evidence of Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal, prosecutors said. The criminal charges are the first to be filed since police launched a new (More)
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49 Headless Bodies Dumped On Northern Mexico Highway
Posted 7:19 AM 5/14/2012
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels. Local and (More)
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