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Leaders fall in Europe crisis: Sarkozy next?

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
MADRID (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he'll be in good company: Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader....

Leaders fall in Europe crisis: Sarkozy next?

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
MADRID (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he'll be in good company: Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader....

Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Brazil's top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists....

Woman in Secret Service case calls agents 'fools'

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it....

Woman in Secret Service case calls agents 'fools'

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it....

Woman in Secret Service case calls agents 'fools'

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it....

Woman in Secret Service case calls agents 'fools'

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it....

Egyptian troops, protesters clash in Cairo

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense Ministry Friday in clashes that left one soldier dead and scores of people injured just three weeks ahead of presidential elections....

Ahmadinejad rivals ahead in parliamentary runoff

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Early returns in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections Friday showed conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading in many constituencies in the vote that was billed as an endorsement of the country's controversial nuclear program....

Ahmadinejad rivals ahead in parliamentary runoff

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Early returns in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections Friday showed conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading in many constituencies in the vote that was billed as an endorsement of the country's controversial nuclear program....

Ahmadinejad rivals ahead in parliamentary runoff

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Early returns in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections Friday showed conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading in many constituencies in the vote that was billed as an endorsement of the country's controversial nuclear program....

Ahmadinejad rivals ahead in parliamentary runoff

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Early returns in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections Friday showed conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading in many constituencies in the vote that was billed as an endorsement of the country's controversial nuclear program....

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

New French accusations: Strauss-Kahn in Washington

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
PARIS (AP) -- French investigators are studying accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010 while he was chief of the International Monetary Fund, a judicial official said Friday....

New French accusations: Strauss-Kahn in Washington

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
PARIS (AP) -- French investigators are studying accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010 while he was chief of the International Monetary Fund, a judicial official said Friday....

New French accusations: Strauss-Kahn in Washington

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
PARIS (AP) -- French investigators are studying accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010 while he was chief of the International Monetary Fund, a judicial official said Friday....

New French accusations: Strauss-Kahn in Washington

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 23:16
PARIS (AP) -- French investigators are studying accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010 while he was chief of the International Monetary Fund, a judicial official said Friday....
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