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Uganda suggests Joseph Kony getting Sudan support

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan officials are renewing a claim made with some frequency over the years: That rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army are receiving backing from the government of Sudan....

Pakistanis dead; got 'blood money' in CIA killing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The widow and mother-in-law of a Pakistani man killed by a CIA contractor last year were murdered Monday, allegedly by the widow's father who may have feared she would remarry and take the "blood money" she received with her, police said....

Pakistanis dead; got 'blood money' in CIA killing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The widow and mother-in-law of a Pakistani man killed by a CIA contractor last year were murdered Monday, allegedly by the widow's father who may have feared she would remarry and take the "blood money" she received with her, police said....

Pakistanis dead; got 'blood money' in CIA killing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The widow and mother-in-law of a Pakistani man killed by a CIA contractor last year were murdered Monday, allegedly by the widow's father who may have feared she would remarry and take the "blood money" she received with her, police said....

Pakistanis dead; got 'blood money' in CIA killing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The widow and mother-in-law of a Pakistani man killed by a CIA contractor last year were murdered Monday, allegedly by the widow's father who may have feared she would remarry and take the "blood money" she received with her, police said....

Indian ferry capsizes; 35 dead, 165 feared missing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
GAUHATI, India (AP) -- A packed ferry boat capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote northeastern India late Monday, leaving at least 35 people dead and 165 others feared missing, police said....

Palestinian prisoners in Israel on hunger strike

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian rights group said Monday that half of about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel are on a hunger strike, demanding an end to imprisonment without trial as well as better conditions....

Greek election uncertainty overshadows markets

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
LONDON (AP) -- Elections in Greece renewed uncertainty over Europe's debt crisis, causing a massive drop on the Athens exchange, though losses elsewhere were trimmed as investors regained their poise and Spain announced it will help its banks....

Rise of far right in Greece worries mainstream

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Reeling from a vicious financial crisis that has cost them pensions and jobs, Greeks have been turning away in droves from the mainstream politicians they feel have let them down. Another political force is trying to tap the void, with blunt promises to "clean up" the country....

Indian ferry capsizes; 35 dead, 165 feared missing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
GAUHATI, India (AP) -- A packed ferry boat capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote northeastern India late Monday, leaving at least 35 people dead and 165 others feared missing, police said....

10 killed in suicide blast in northeast Nigeria

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
JALINGO, Nigeria (AP) -- A motorcycle-riding suicide bomber drove into a convoy carrying a top police official in northeast Nigeria on Monday, detonating his explosives and killing at least 10 people, rescue officials said....

Pakistanis dead; got 'blood money' in CIA killing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Police say the widow and mother-in-law of one of two Pakistani men shot and killed by a CIA contractor last year have been murdered in the eastern city of Lahore....

Prime Minister Netanyahu's father dies at 102

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the historian and Zionist activist whose skepticism about peacemaking with the Arabs helped to shape the world outlook of his son, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died on Monday. He was 102....

Activist confident China will allow him to leave

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States said Monday he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas....

Indian parents protest 'B is for Bomb' books

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Angry parents are demanding to know why their kids are being taught about bombs and knives at nursery schools in a northern Indian state....

Colombian troops killed, French journalist missing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A French journalist was missing Sunday along with five Colombian security force members following combat with leftist rebels that claimed the lives of three soldiers and a police officer, Colombia's Defense Ministry said....

US diplomat in Beijing as activist custody unknown

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
BEIJING (AP) -- A senior U.S. diplomat arrived in China on a hurried mission Sunday as new problems - from possible U.S. arms sales to Taiwan to the custody of a blind dissident - threaten to complicate relations with Beijing ahead of high-level talks....

Sudan: Arrested foreigners have military history

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan's army spokesman says that three foreigners and a South Sudanese national arrested by authorities in a disputed area on the Sudanese-South Sudanese border had military hardware and an armored vehicle in their possession....

Saudi Arabia: Bin Laden wives not tied to terror

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia says there is no evidence that Osama bin Laden's wives and family members deported to the kingdom are involved in terrorism....

Anti-military rule protester killed in Egypt

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-01 14:16
CAIRO (AP) -- Assailants attacked demonstrators gathered outside the Defense Ministry in Egypt's capital to call for an end to military rule with rocks and firebombs, killing one protester and wounding 30, security officials said on Sunday....
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