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Reporter criticizes FARC for release as propaganda

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
SAN ISIDRO, Colombia (AP) -- A French journalist freed by leftist rebels Wednesday said he had no complaints about his captivity other than its 33-day duration and lamented that Colombia's war is an "invisible conflict" where the poor kill the poor....

Reporter criticizes FARC for release as propaganda

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
SAN ISIDRO, Colombia (AP) -- A French journalist freed by leftist rebels Wednesday said he had no complaints about his captivity other than its 33-day duration and lamented that Colombia's war is an "invisible conflict" where the poor kill the poor....

Reporter criticizes FARC for release as propaganda

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
SAN ISIDRO, Colombia (AP) -- A French journalist freed by leftist rebels Wednesday said he had no complaints about his captivity other than its 33-day duration and lamented that Colombia's war is an "invisible conflict" where the poor kill the poor....

Suu Kyi offers hope to Myanmar workers in Thailand

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
MAHACHAI, Thailand (AP) -- Downtrodden but hopeful migrants from Myanmar crowded the streets for a look at opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who said she will do all she can to reverse decades of economic ruin and make it possible for them to go home....

Suu Kyi offers hope to Myanmar workers in Thailand

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
MAHACHAI, Thailand (AP) -- Downtrodden but hopeful migrants from Myanmar crowded the streets for a look at opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who said she will do all she can to reverse decades of economic ruin and make it possible for them to go home....

Reporter criticizes FARC for release as propaganda

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
SAN ISIDRO, Colombia (AP) -- A French journalist freed by leftist rebels Wednesday said he had no complaints about his captivity other than its 33-day duration and lamented that Colombia's war is an "invisible conflict" where the poor kill the poor....

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

World powers worry Syria sliding to civil war

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
GENEVA (AP) -- World powers share a belief that Syria could descend into civil war and plan to map out possible ways to avoid such a disaster for the region, a deputy to international envoy Kofi Annan said Wednesday....

Brazil prosecutors seek payment from Shell, BASF

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Brazilian prosecutors said Wednesday that they asked a court to force oil company Shell and the world's largest chemical company, BASF, to immediately pay $500 million into a compensation fund for hundreds of workers who may have been contaminated at an agricultural chemicals plant....

Brazil prosecutors seek payment from Shell, BASF

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Brazilian prosecutors said Wednesday that they asked a court to force oil company Shell and the world's largest chemical company, BASF, to immediately pay $500 million into a compensation fund for hundreds of workers who may have been contaminated at an agricultural chemicals plant....

Ex-Cameron aide arrested, charged with perjury

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
LONDON (AP) -- The former top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested and charged with perjury Wednesday in the trial of a flamboyant ex-Scottish lawmaker - the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers....

Ex-Cameron aide arrested, charged with perjury

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
LONDON (AP) -- The former top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested and charged with perjury Wednesday in the trial of a flamboyant ex-Scottish lawmaker - the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers....

UK PM Cameron testifies at phone hacking inquiry

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister David Cameron says press regulation needs to be improved in Britain as he testified before a U.K. media ethics inquiry....

UN: Civilian deaths drop 36 percent in Afghanistan

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The number of Afghan civilians killed has dropped 36 percent so far this year compared with last, the U.N. said Wednesday, the first time the death toll has declined over multiple months since the United Nations started keeping track....

13 corpses found in Syria amid massacre fallout

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
BEIRUT (AP) -- Thirteen bound corpses, many apparently shot execution-style, have been discovered in eastern Syria, U.N. observers said Wednesday, days after the massacre of more than 100 people provoked international outrage and the coordinated expulsion of Syrian diplomats from world capitals....

UN team sees massacre site in Syrian village

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers could smell the stench of burned corpses Friday and saw body parts scattered around a Syrian farming hamlet that was the site of a massacre this week in which nearly 80 men, women and children were reported slain. The scene held evidence of a "horrific crime," a U.N. spokeswoman said....

Closing bank account will cost you, group finds

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:53
Want to close your bank account? It could cost you as much as $55....
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