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Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
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 18:30
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 Crown Prince Nayef has died

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz, the hard-line interior minister who spearheaded Saudi Arabia's fierce crackdown crushing al-Qaida's branch in the country after the 9/11 attacks and then rose to become next in line to the throne, has died. He was in his late 70s....

Pro-bailout conservatives win Greek election

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
BERLIN (AP) -- Fears of an imminent Greek exit from Europe's joint currency receded Sunday after the conservative New Democracy came first in critical elections and pro-bailout parties won enough Parliamentary seats to form a joint government....

Greeks to vote with a global audience

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is shaping up as a challenge to this time-honored rule of democracy....

Greeks to vote with a global audience

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is shaping up as a challenge to this time-honored rule of democracy....

Greeks to vote with a global audience

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is shaping up as a challenge to this time-honored rule of democracy....

Greeks to vote with a global audience

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is shaping up as a challenge to this time-honored rule of democracy....

Greeks to vote with a global audience

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is shaping up as a challenge to this time-honored rule of democracy....

Greek, Spanish savings flee eurozone crisis

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Savers across Europe are fleeing the continent's debt crisis. In Europe's most economically stricken countries, people are taking their money out of their banks as a way to protect their savings from the continent's growing financial storm. Worried that their savings could be devalued, or that banks are on the verge of collapse and that governments cannot make good on deposit insurance, people in Greece, Spain and beyond are withdrawing euros by the billions - beh...

Greek, Spanish savings flee eurozone crisis

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Savers across Europe are fleeing the continent's debt crisis. In Europe's most economically stricken countries, people are taking their money out of their banks as a way to protect their savings from the continent's growing financial storm. Worried that their savings could be devalued, or that banks are on the verge of collapse and that governments cannot make good on deposit insurance, people in Greece, Spain and beyond are withdrawing euros by the billions - beh...

China sends first woman into space

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week....

China sends first woman into space

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week....

China sends first woman into space

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week....

UN observers in Syria suspend activities

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
BEIRUT (AP) -- The chief of U.N. observers in Syria says the mission is suspending its activities and patrols because of escalating violence in the country....

2nd bomb hits Iraq pilgrimage; total of 25 killed

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi police say a second car bombs exploded in Baghdad on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage, killing 11 people and bringing the day's death toll to 25....

Saudi Crown Prince Nayef has died

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Crown Prince Nayef, the hard-line interior minister who spearheaded Saudi Arabia's fierce crackdown crushing al-Qaida's branch in the country after the 9/11 attacks in the United States and then rose to become next in line to the throne, has died. He was in his late 70s....

China sends first woman into space

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week....

Highlights of Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize speech

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:30
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize speech explored her views on the ideals of peace, the seeds of war, the bonds of our common humanity, and the rare power of kindness. Here are the highlights....
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