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Egypt: Owner of belly dancing TV station arrested

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian security official says vice police have arrested the owner of a TV station that broadcasts belly dancing 24 hours a day for allegedly operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and facilitating prostitution....

S.Africa's ANC fumes over art ridiculing president

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's governing party said Thursday it will demand the removal of a painting from an exhibition by one of the nation's best-known artists that ridicules the party and the president with graphic and provocative imagery....

Flood of refugees hits camp near Sudan border

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
YIDA, South Sudan (AP) -- An unexploded bomb sticks out of the earth. Foxholes have been dug by aid workers fearing more airstrikes from Sudan. Streams of hungry refugees are pouring in....

Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA

TruthNews.US - News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
Courthouse News Service | A federal judge blocked provisions of the 2012 NDAA allowing military to detain anyone accused of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.

Cuban president's daughter gets US visa

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
HAVANA (AP) -- The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend an academic conference in San Francisco and another event, one of her associates confirmed Thursday. The decision has already drawn fire from Cuban-American politicians and on anti-Castro blogs, which argue that she is an apologist for the Communist government her family has led for decades....

Ahmadinejad wants to attend London Olympics

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that he is eager to attend the Olympic Games in London to support Iranian athletes but that Britain doesn't want to host him....

US envoy to Israel: US ready to strike Iran

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The U.S. has plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, Washington's envoy to Israel said, days ahead of a crucial round of nuclear talks with Tehran....

Egypt: Court acquits police in protesters' deaths

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court on Thursday found 14 policemen not guilty in the killing of protesters during last year's popular uprising, the latest verdict in what activists claim to be a pattern of acquittals for police blamed for the deaths of hundreds of people during the revolt....

Police hold diamond-swallower until evidence moves

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) -- Police in the Canadian province of Ontario say they are holding a man who is accused of swallowing a $20,000 diamond as long as it takes for him to produce the evidence....

Pakistani president to attend NATO summit

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-04-25 03:52
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's president announced Thursday that he will attend the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, accepting an invitation that was given after the country indicated it plans to end its six-month blockade of supplies meant for coalition troops in Afghanistan....
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