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Egypt votes for president to succeed Mubarak

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptians on Saturday voted to choose between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a presidential runoff once billed as the country's long-awaited shift to democracy but now clouded by pessimism over the future....

Syrian activists warn of dire conditions in Homs

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian troops intensified shelling of rebel-held neighborhoods in central Homs Sunday, according to activists who say humanitarian conditions are growing more dire and are pressing for the evacuation of 1,000 endangered families and dozens of wounded people who can't get adequate medical care....

Stage collapses before Radiohead concert; 1 dead

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
TORONTO (AP) -- Toronto paramedics say one person is dead and another is seriously hurt after a stage collapsed while setting up for a Radiohead concert....

26 die as last day of Iraq pilgrimage hit by bombs

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two car bombs in Iraq's capital killed at least 26 people Saturday on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit by multiple bombings. The blasts, one in a heavily guarded area close to a revered shrine, raised the week's death toll to more than 100 and cast further doubt on the divided government's ability to secure the country after the American withdrawal....

26 die as last day of Iraq pilgrimage hit by bombs

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two car bombs in Iraq's capital killed at least 26 people Saturday on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit by multiple bombings. The blasts, one in a heavily guarded area close to a revered shrine, raised the week's death toll to more than 100 and cast further doubt on the divided government's ability to secure the country after the American withdrawal....

26 die as last day of Iraq pilgrimage hit by bombs

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two car bombs in Iraq's capital killed at least 26 people Saturday on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit by multiple bombings. The blasts, one in a heavily guarded area close to a revered shrine, raised the week's death toll to more than 100 and cast further doubt on the divided government's ability to secure the country after the American withdrawal....

26 die as last day of Iraq pilgrimage hit by bombs

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two car bombs in Iraq's capital killed at least 26 people Saturday on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit by multiple bombings. The blasts, one in a heavily guarded area close to a revered shrine, raised the week's death toll to more than 100 and cast further doubt on the divided government's ability to secure the country after the American withdrawal....

Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday....

Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday....

Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday....

Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday....

The 'vanishing ink' plot in Egypt vote

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
CAIRO (AP) -- Rumor had it a devious conspiracy was afoot: Egyptians voting for a new president Saturday were being tricked into using pens with disappearing ink so their choice on the ballot would vanish before it was counted....

The 'vanishing ink' plot in Egypt vote

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
CAIRO (AP) -- Rumor had it a devious conspiracy was afoot: Egyptians voting for a new president Saturday were being tricked into using pens with disappearing ink so their choice on the ballot would vanish before it was counted....

The 'vanishing ink' plot in Egypt vote

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
CAIRO (AP) -- Rumor had it a devious conspiracy was afoot: Egyptians voting for a new president Saturday were being tricked into using pens with disappearing ink so their choice on the ballot would vanish before it was counted....

Greek, Spanish savings flee eurozone crisis

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- In Europe's most economically stricken countries, people are taking their money out of banks as a way to protect their savings from the growing financial storm....

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland....

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland....

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland....

Saudi heir's death opens door to younger voices

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- For the second time in less than a year, Saudi Arabia was thrown into the process of naming a new heir to the country's 88-year-old king following the death Saturday of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz....

Saudi heir's death opens door to younger voices

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:16
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- For the second time in less than a year, Saudi Arabia was thrown into the process of naming a new heir to the country's 88-year-old king following the death Saturday of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz....
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