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Western nations expel Syrian envoys over massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
BEIRUT (AP) -- Eyewitness accounts from the Syrian massacre emerged Tuesday, describing shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes and targeting the most vulnerable in poor farming villages. Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the killing of more than 100 people....

Greek experts find Roman wrecks nearly a mile deep

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found in deep water off a western Greek island, challenging the conventional theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to coastal routes rather than risking the open sea, an official said Tuesday....

Sudan pulls troops from oil-rich region

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan withdrew its army Tuesday from the disputed Abyei border region that contains rich oil fields and is contested by neighboring South Sudan, handing it over to U.N. forces, a semiofficial media agency reported....

Workers among 16 dead in latest big Italian quake

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
SAN FELICE SUL PANARO, Italy (AP) -- Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck Tuesday morning, collapsing the roof....

Egypt Islamist candidate vows break with old ways

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidential runoff promised Tuesday he would break sharply with the ways of ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, a day after angry protesters burned down the headquarters of his challenger who served as prime minister in the old regime....

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation....

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation....

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation....

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation....

Iran, other Mideast states hit by computer virus

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
LONDON (AP) -- Iran and other Middle East countries have been hit with a cunning computer virus that can eavesdrop on computer users and their co-workers and filch information from nearby cellphones, cybersecurity experts said Tuesday. And suspicion immediately fell on Israel as the culprit....

Qatar probes mall fire as young victims mourned

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Investigators in Qatar carried out their first extensive probes through a fire-ravaged daycare center and other charred areas inside the country's biggest mall Tuesday after a blaze killed 19 people, 13 of them children....

Qatar probes mall fire as young victims mourned

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Investigators in Qatar carried out their first extensive probes through a fire-ravaged daycare center and other charred areas inside the country's biggest mall Tuesday after a blaze killed 19 people, 13 of them children....

17 dead in latest killer quake in northern Italy

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:36
MIRANDOLA, Italy (AP) -- Rescue workers combing through the rubble of Italy's latest deadly quake say they have found the bodies of two workers in a collapsed factory, raising the death toll to at least 17....
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