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Ukraine marks 26th anniversary of Chernobyl

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Urging all nations to be extremely cautious with nuclear energy, Ukraine's president thanked donors for financing the construction of a new, safer shelter over the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster....

Reports: Bin Laden family set to leave Pakistan

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A minivan has arrived at the house where the three widows and children of Osama bin Laden are staying amid media reports they will soon be deported to Saudi Arabia....

Sierra Leone victims cheer Charles Taylor verdict

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
TOMBODU, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Rebels captured Samuel Komba, tied him up with more than a dozen other villagers and set them on fire. Badly burned, he broke free, only to be caught by fighters who tried to chop off his right hand....

Thousands defy Norwegian mass killer with song

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- They gathered by the tens of thousands in the drenching rain to face down terrorism with song....

Thousands defy Norwegian mass killer with song

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- They gathered by the tens of thousands in the drenching rain to face down terrorism with song....

Murdoch, politicians under pressure after report

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
LONDON (AP) -- Not fit to run a major company. It is a damning judgment on Rupert Murdoch, a threat to his British assets - and a headache for Britain's government....

Taylor conviction sends warning to tyrants

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday became the first head of state since World War II convicted by an international war crimes court, a legal landmark observers say sent a clear message to tyrants around the world that their days of impunity are numbered....

UK minister: Briton found dead in China not a spy

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Thursday took the unusual step of publicly insisting that a U.K. businessman who died in suspicious circumstances in China was not working as a British spy....

Photo: North Korea's big show visible from space

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography....

Secret Gaza ballot kicks off Hamas leadership vote

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas officials say the Islamic militant movement has secretly chosen new leaders for Gaza, including previously sidelined pragmatists....

Hard-line Iraqi cleric urges political unity

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- A hard-line Shiite cleric is meeting with the president of Iraq's Kurdish region to try to end a political crisis that has deadlocked the nation's government....

Bahrain lawyer presses to visit hunger striker

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- The lawyer for a jailed Bahraini activist on a lengthy hunger strike said Thursday he will seek a court order granting him visiting rights to his client....

France threatens to pull out of borderless Europe

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- In the heat of France's presidential election campaign, the French government insisted Thursday that if the European Union didn't back its tougher line to fight illegal immigration it would lead to the demise of the continent's borderless travel zone....

Syria blames rebels for blast that killed 16

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers on Thursday inspected the site of a deadly explosion that flattened a block of houses in the central Syrian city of Hama a day earlier and killed at least 16 people....

Official: Ominous calm returns to South Sudan

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) -- An official says that for the second day there were no reported attacks by Sudan on South Sudan, following a week or military incursions by both sides and aerial bombardments by Sudanese warplanes....

Analysts say North Korea's new missiles are fakes

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
TOKYO (AP) -- Analysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt on the country's claims of military prowess....

Thousands defy Norway mass killer Breivik in song

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- They gathered by the tens of thousands, aiming to face down terror with the power of music....

Court: Taylor responsible for Sierra Leone crimes

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds."...

US issues security alert to Americans in Pakistan

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States has issued a fresh security warning to Americans in Pakistan....

Religious edict seen as aiding embattled Iraq PM

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 00:49
BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iranian-based Shiite Muslim cleric on Sunday published a religious edict that could undermine efforts to unseat the Iraqi prime minister and also signaled Iran's growing influence over Iraq's politics....
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