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03/16/2010 07:26 AM
Cancer Drug May Keep Lockerbie Bomber Alive for 5 Years
The Lockerbie bomber is at the center of a fresh row after it emerged he is taking a cancer drug that could keep him alive for five more years, The Sun reported on Monday.

03/15/2010 10:50 AM
Somalia Signs Deal With Militia in Fight Against Insurgents
Somalia's government signed an agreement with a powerful militia on Monday that offers high-level militants senior government positions in return for their military support during a long-planned offensive against an Islamist insurgency.

03/16/2010 02:54 AM
British Boy Kidnapped in Pakistan Freed
Kidnappers released a 5-year-old British boy unharmed Tuesday almost two weeks after abducting him from his grandparents' house in central Pakistan, British and Pakistani officials said.

03/15/2010 05:45 AM
Pope to Lend 'Decisive Voice' to Catholic Sex Abuse Debate
A top Vatican official says Pope Benedict XVI will speak with a 'clear and decisive voice' when he addresses clerical sex abuses in Ireland in a forthcoming letter.

03/15/2010 10:47 AM
German Diocese Suspends Priest Amid Sex Abuse Charges
Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese says it has suspended a priest convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing minors and accepted the resignation of his superior.

03/15/2010 09:59 AM
Iran Bans Leading Pro-Reform Political Party
Iran's hard-line government says the country's largest pro-reform political party has been banned as part of the crackdown on the opposition.

03/15/2010 06:27 AM
Rocket Attack Kills 1 at NATO Base in Afghanistan
An early morning rocket attack on the largest U.S. military hub in Afghanistan killed one person Monday, NATO said. In the east, meanwhile, Afghan authorities thwarted three would-be homicide bombers from attacking a security post.

03/14/2010 09:15 AM
Yemen Launches Airstrike on Al Qaeda Hideout
Yemen's embassy in Washington says its nation's air force launched an airstrike on an al Qaeda hideout ahead of a likely terror attack.

03/15/2010 08:50 AM
Pakistan Police Find Cache of Explosives in Lahore
Pakistani police discovered a cache of bomb-making equipment and thousands of pounds of explosives Monday in an empty Lahore shop where authorities said a string of attacks on the eastern city may have been plotted.

03/15/2010 10:05 AM
Drug Gang to Blame for Killings of U.S. Consulate Workers
A suspected Mexican drug gang gunned down two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate on Saturday, killing an American couple and a Mexican man in the country's deadliest city.

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09/08/2010 04:49 AM
China's Hu calls for stable ties with US (AP)

U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, fourth from left, reacts during a meeting with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, third from right, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)AP - Trying to smooth over recently rocky relations before a visit to Washington, Chinese President Hu Jintao told American officials on Wednesday that he wants to see healthy and stable ties between the two countries.




09/08/2010 04:57 AM
Poor security to keep more Afghan polls closed (AP)

Afghan children look at a burning pile of 5 tons of expired medicines, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul)AP - Afghan election officials said Wednesday that scores of additional polling stations will be closed during the Sept. 18 parliamentary vote because of the deteriorating security situation in the country.




09/08/2010 01:54 AM
Demjanjuk health issues taking over trial (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2009 file photo, defendant John Demjanjuk sits in a wheelchair as he arrives at a courtroom in Munich, Germany. The case of the retired Ohio autoworker accused of serving as a Nazi death camp guard, which resumes next week after a month-long summer break, broke potentially precedent-setting ground when it opened last year. (AP Photo/Michaela Rehle, Pool-File)AP - John Demjanjuk attends most sessions of his trial in a hospital bed set up in the courtroom, wearing dark sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his face.




09/08/2010 04:34 AM
Gunmen kill Iraqi TV journalist in Mosul (AP)

Iraqi security forces patrol the streets of Baghdad. A car bomb and several roadside blasts killed three people and wounded dozens in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, health and security officials said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi TV journalist, the second to be slain in Iraq in as many days, highlighting the dangers media workers continue to face in the country seven years after the U.S.-led invasion.




09/08/2010 03:46 AM
Servant testifies Filipino warlord ordered killing (AP)

Andal Ampatuan Jr., center, allegedly the prime suspect in the Nov. 23, 2009 massacre of 57 people, which included 30 journalists and staff in Maguindanao province in southern Philippines, is surrounded by security as he attends the formal trial Wednesday Sept. 8, 2010, at Philippine National Police's Camp Bagong Diwa at Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines. The powerful Ampatuan clan is implicated in the massacre. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - A servant of the politically powerful clan accused in last year's massacre of 57 people told a Philippine court Wednesday that the family members plotted the killings of rivals and journalists over dinner six days before the ambush.




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09/08/2010 01:00 AM
NATO: Afghan Forces Can Take Control Next Year
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was in Washington Tuesday to meet with President Obama at the White House. Rasmussen tells Steve Inskeep that U.S.-led NATO troops in Afghanistan should be able to start handing off responsibility for security to government troops beginning next year.

09/08/2010 01:00 AM
Shanghai 5 Years Later: More Money, More Subways
In 2005, NPR's Rob Gifford left his post as Beijing correspondent to move to London. After five years, he has moved back to China to be NPR's Shanghai correspondent. He finds there is plenty that has changed in those years away, but also plenty that has not.

09/08/2010 01:00 AM
Legal Gay Weddings Help Argentina's Businesses
Weeks after Argentina became Latin America's first country to approve gay marriage, wedding planners are retooling for a rush of gay weddings. One company called Gay Planners helps couples choose tuxedos, cupcakes and party favors for their big day.

09/07/2010 09:00 PM
Female Pilot Reflects On War And Evolving Army
Army Chief Warrant Officer Stephanie Rose was among the first women to fly the Apache attack helicopter. She is currently serving her third combat tour, this one in northern Afghanistan. She loves her job but has overcome professional and personal challenges along the way.

09/07/2010 08:06 PM
Nigeria: Assault On Prison Holding Extremists Ends
A state government spokesman said gunmen thought to be members of a radical Muslim sect attacked in hopes of freeing other sect members awaiting trial. But police had brought the situation under control, the government said -- after several hours of gunfire, and apparently some deaths and some escapes.

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09/08/2010 04:49 AM
China's Hu calls for stable ties with US (AP)

U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, fourth from left, reacts during a meeting with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, third from right, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)AP - Trying to smooth over recently rocky relations before a visit to Washington, Chinese President Hu Jintao told American officials on Wednesday that he wants to see healthy and stable ties between the two countries.




09/08/2010 04:49 AM
Myanmar leader wants better China ties as polls loom (AFP)

The head of Myanmar's military junta, General Than Shwe (C) walks out from his plane on arrival at Beijing International Airport. Than Shwe said Wednesday he wanted to bolster ties with China, his regime's main trade partner and diplomatic ally, two months ahead of polls decried in the West as a sham.(AFP/Liu Jin)AFP - Myanmar's junta leader Than Shwe said Wednesday he wanted to bolster ties with China, his regime's main trade partner and diplomatic ally, two months ahead of polls decried in the West as a sham.




09/08/2010 04:28 AM
China-U.S. ties improving, Hu tells White House team (Reuters)

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets devotees as he arrives to give a religious talk at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. The talks, requested by a Southeast Asian group, will end Friday. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)Reuters - China and the United States said on Wednesday that their sometimes rocky relationship is sounder after talks in Beijing, with both putting an optimistic face on ties that have been jolted by economic and security tensions.




09/08/2010 04:21 AM
China calls in Japan envoy over boat collision (AP)

Chinese protesters hold up banners, one of which reads 'Japan get out of Diaoyu island' as they march towards the Japanese embassy in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan's ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands and Tokyo arrested the boat's captain.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan's ambassador for a second time after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands.




09/08/2010 03:54 AM
Beijing protests as Japan arrests China boat captain (Reuters)
Reuters - Japan has arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that collided with two Japanese coast guard boats near disputed islets in the East China Sea, causing anger in Beijing and reigniting territorial tensions.