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Bin Laden's family to leave Pakistan overnight

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children were scheduled to be deported to Saudi Arabia overnight, almost a year after U.S. Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida chief at a compound in northwest Pakistan, their lawyer said Tuesday....

AP PHOTOS: Flower show celebrates N. Korea founder

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- In North Korea, the birthday of the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, is the biggest holiday of the year, as important to North Koreans as Thanksgiving is to Americans....

Norway killer expounds on fanatical views at trial

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway's worst mass killer got the chance to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world, unrepentant and dressed in a business suit. Prosecutors and lawyers for the families of his 77 victims even shook his hand....

Norway killer expounds on fanatical views at trial

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway's worst mass killer got the chance to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world, unrepentant and dressed in a business suit. Prosecutors and lawyers for the families of his 77 victims even shook his hand....

Norwegian gunman says he lost family after attacks

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The right-wing extremist who confessed to a massacre of 77 people in Norway compared on Monday the pain he caused the families of his victims to his own situation, saying he lost contact with his friends and family after the July 22 attacks....

US stocks jump after strong profits; Spain soothes

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
Stocks stormed higher Tuesday after promising signals about the profitability of U.S. companies and a strong debt auction by Spain. The Dow Jones industrial average rose for the fourth day in five and posted its biggest gain in a month....

Italian freed after 2011 abduction in N. Africa

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) -- An Italian tourist abducted in Algeria by al-Qaida's North African branch headed home Tuesday night after spending more than a year in captivity....

Italian freed after 2011 abduction in N. Africa

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) -- An Italian tourist abducted in Algeria by al-Qaida's North African branch headed home Tuesday night after spending more than a year in captivity....

UN observers in Syria discover 13 bound corpses

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday....

IKEA to sell TV's integrated into its furniture

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Already the one-stop shop for smart and compact home furnishing, IKEA is venturing into the world of technology - with the IKEA TV....

Gulf bloc united over island dispute with Iran

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Gulf Arab states warned Iran Tuesday that they stand united in an escalating dispute over strategic islands controlled by Tehran but also claimed by the United Arab Emirates....

UK: 2 held in protest vigil at Bahrain embassy

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
LONDON (AP) -- British police on Tuesday arrested two activists who had occupied the rooftop of Bahrain's Embassy in a protest against the Gulf kingdom's Sunni rulers....

Islamist claims victory in Egypt presidential vote

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
CAIRO (AP) -- Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi declared victory Monday in Egypt's first free presidential election since Hosni Mubarak's ouster 16 months ago. But just as polls were closing, the ruling military council issued constitutional amendments that gave sweeping authority to maintain its grip on power and subordinate the nominal head of state....

Egypt panel definitively bars 3 president hopefuls

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's election commission rejected the appeals of three main contenders for president Tuesday, definitively removing the most polarizing candidates from the race to become the country's first elected leader since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak....

Bid Laden's family to leave Pakistan overnight

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children were scheduled to be deported to Saudi Arabia overnight, almost a year after U.S. Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida chief at a compound in northwest Pakistan, their lawyer said Tuesday....

Swedish museum evacuated after bomb threat

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A bomb threat closed Stockholm's modern art museum on Tuesday, two days after an exhibit about degrading stereotypes that black people have endured prompted one Swedish organization to demand that the nation's culture minister resign....

UK: Hurdles cleared in bid to deport cleric

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
LONDON (AP) -- A radical Islamist cleric fighting deportation from Britain to Jordan was again behind bars Tuesday, and the U.K. said it hoped to finally expel the preacher after a decade of legal wrangling....

Legal rights on display at Norway's massacre trial

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway's worst mass killer since World War II gets to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world for days dressed up in a business suit....

Legal rights on display at Norway's massacre trial

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-07 22:39
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway's worst mass killer since World War II gets to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world for days dressed up in a business suit....
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