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Sarkozy targets far-right in bid to win runoff

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
PARIS (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy starkly laid out his path to re-election Monday: He will be plunging deep into far-right territory to hunt the votes he needs to beat Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in the runoff....

Sarkozy targets far-right in bid to win runoff

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
PARIS (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy starkly laid out his path to re-election Monday: He will be plunging deep into far-right territory to hunt the votes he needs to beat Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in the runoff....

Sarkozy targets far-right in bid to win runoff

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
PARIS (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy starkly laid out his path to re-election Monday: He will be plunging deep into far-right territory to hunt the votes he needs to beat Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in the runoff....

Russia denies discussing Syria's post-Assad future

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's foreign minister said Friday that Moscow isn't discussing Syria's future without President Bashar Assad as Washington has claimed, in the latest volley in a contentious back-and-forth on how to end the bloody conflict....

Wild bison with TB may have to be killed in Poland

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A herd of 25 wild European bison infected with tuberculosis should be killed to prevent the disease from spreading to other herds in southeastern Poland, officials said Monday....

Wild bison with TB may have to be killed in Poland

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A herd of 25 wild European bison infected with tuberculosis should be killed to prevent the disease from spreading to other herds in southeastern Poland, officials said Monday....

Wild bison with TB may have to be killed in Poland

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A herd of 25 wild European bison infected with tuberculosis should be killed to prevent the disease from spreading to other herds in southeastern Poland, officials said Monday....

Wild bison with TB may have to be killed in Poland

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A herd of 25 wild European bison infected with tuberculosis should be killed to prevent the disease from spreading to other herds in southeastern Poland, officials said Monday....

Trial sharpens focus on Breivik's mental state

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik vehemently defended his sanity Monday after a forensic panel found flaws in a psychiatric report that declared him sane in the eyes of the law....

AP Interview: Palestinian doubts 2-state solution

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
ABU DIS, West Bank (AP) -- With gloom deepening over prospects for peace, a leading Palestinian is suggesting they might drop the "two-state solution" that has underpinned two decades of negotiations, aiming for Israel and a Palestinian state next to each other....

Official: Sudan bombs 3 areas in South Sudan

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
RUBKONA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudanese warplanes bombed a market and an oil field in South Sudan on Monday, killing at least two people after Sudanese ground forces had reportedly crossed into South Sudan with tanks and artillery, elevating the risk of all-out war between the two old enemies....

Euro setup is unsustainable, ECB chief warns

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The setup of the 17-country euro currency union is unsustainable, the head of the European Central Bank has told EU leaders, warning they must quickly come up with a broad vision for the future to get the bloc through the current financial crisis....

EU imposes new sanctions on Syrian regime

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The European Union on Monday banned the sale of luxury goods and products to Syria that can have military as well as civilian uses as the U.N. political chief demanded that the Syrian government stop using heavy weapons and comply with a cease-fire....

Coroner opens inquest into death of UK spy

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
LONDON (AP) -- A British codebreaker had complained of friction at the country's overseas spy agency before his naked and decomposing body was found inside a padlocked sports bag, his family told an inquest Monday....

Fringes cast shadow over French election

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
PARIS (AP) -- Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative Nicolas Sarkozy are going head-to-head in France's presidential runoff, but a third figure looms large in the campaign: the leader of the nation's far-right National Front....

Sanctions lifting could revive Myanmar industry

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Looking across a sea of young workers perched behind rows of buzzing sewing machines, factory owner Myint Soe has one main hope for Monday's suspension of European sanctions on Myanmar - the restoration of some of the 80,000 garment industry jobs lost here over the past 10 years....

Sanctions lifting could revive Myanmar industry

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Looking across a sea of young workers perched behind rows of buzzing sewing machines, factory owner Myint Soe has one main hope for Monday's suspension of European sanctions on Myanmar - the restoration of some of the 80,000 garment industry jobs lost here over the past 10 years....

Official: Sudan bombs South Sudan, killing a boy

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudanese warplanes bombed a major town Monday in South Sudan, hitting a market and killing a boy while wounding at least 10 people. South Sudanese troops fired back as the threat of full-scale war between the two nations loomed....

Breivik claims 'racist' plot to cast him as insane

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Anxious to prove he's not insane, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court Monday that questions about his mental health are part of a racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology....

Breivik claims 'racist' plot to cast him as insane

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-02 21:34
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Anxious to prove he's not insane, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court Monday that questions about his mental health are part of a racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology....
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