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Italy bombing revives memories of dark era

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
ROME (AP) -- A bomb blast outside a high school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student has revived dark memories of the 70s and 80s, when terrorists, anarchists and organized crime carried out dozens of bloody attacks across the country....

Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Lawyers for Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads that targeted Shiite officials and pilgrims quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges would not let them present evidence at the trial....

Powerful quake kills at least 4 in northern Italy

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy (AP) -- One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least four people, toppled buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said....

Israel blasts foreign proposal on settlement goods

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Palestinian campaign to boycott goods produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank has received a boost from abroad with an unprecedented South African proposal to have the name of Israel dropped from labels on merchandise made in the settlements....

Ex-president seeks comeback in Dominican Republic

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- A former president whose term ended with the worst economic crisis in the modern history of the Dominican Republic will seek to make a comeback Sunday as he faces an old rival in a race to lead the Caribbean's top tourist destination....

Ex-president seeks comeback in Dominican Republic

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- A former president whose term ended with the worst economic crisis in the modern history of the Dominican Republic will seek to make a comeback Sunday as he faces an old rival in a race to lead the Caribbean's top tourist destination....

After Italy bombing, no claim of responsibility

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
ROME (AP) -- A bomb blast outside a high school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student has stirred memories of the dark days decades ago when terrorists, anarchists and organized crime carried out dozens of bloody attacks....

Powerful quake kills at least 3 in northern Italy

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
ROME (AP) -- One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least three people, toppled some buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said....

G-8 warns North Korea about further provocations

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Group of Eight world leaders has warned North Korea that it faces more sanctions if it continues to threaten the stability of the region with provocative acts such as its failed long-range rocket launch in April....

Sri Lanka set to release jailed ex-army chief

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's president has ordered authorities to free the country's jailed former army chief, a man credited with ending the country's long civil war but who later was imprisoned after challenging the president in elections....

Sri Lanka set to release jailed ex-army chief

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's president has ordered authorities to free the country's jailed former army chief, a man credited with ending the country's long civil war but who later was imprisoned after challenging the president in elections....

Myanmar: New deal to end fighting with Shan rebels

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
KENGTUNG, Myanmar (AP) -- A Myanmar negotiator says ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks to end fighting with army troops in the country's east, the latest reported deal between the new reformist government and various ethnic separatist movements....

Reports: 3 dead in quake near Bologna

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
ROME (AP) -- Italian news reports say three people have been killed in a magnitude-5.9 earthquake that struck northern Italy near Bologna....

Taiwan's Ma signals no China change as term starts

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's president began his second term Sunday and signaled he will maintain a China policy that has reduced tensions between the sides, offering Beijing little early hope of realizing its long-term goal of unification....

Taiwan's Ma signals no China change as term starts

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's president began his second term Sunday and signaled he will maintain a China policy that has reduced tensions between the sides, offering Beijing little early hope of realizing its long-term goal of unification....

Taiwan's Ma signals no China change as term starts

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's president began his second term Sunday and signaled he will maintain a China policy that has reduced tensions between the sides, offering Beijing little early hope of realizing its long-term goal of unification....

Obama sees 'emerging consensus' on economic fix

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 19:28
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the European continent and put investors worldwide on edge....
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