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Egyptian military moves to retain power after vote

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
CAIRO (AP) -- Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi claimed a hollow victory Monday in Egypt's presidential vote just hours after the country's military rulers stripped the office of its most important powers....

Distinctive salutes run the political gamut

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
Black power. White power. Nazis. Communists....

Distinctive salutes run the political gamut

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
Black power. White power. Nazis. Communists....

Witnesses describe island massacre in Norway trial

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Witnesses in Norway recounted Thursday how mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik - armed and in police uniform - managed to trick his way onto a ferry to Utoya island, where he massacred 69 people in a shooting spree just hours after killing eight people in a bomb attack....

Norway's mass killer's tears not 'out of pity'

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Anders Behring Breivik shed tears as he went on trial Monday for killing 77 people - but not for his victims. The emotional display came when prosecutors showed his anti-Muslim video....

Israel's Barak: Weigh 'unilateral action'

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
JERUSALEM (AP) -- There are signs the Israeli government is considering taking unilateral action if peace talks with the Palestinians remain stalled, a move which could involve a withdrawal from parts of the West Bank along the lines of a 2005 pullout from the Gaza Strip....

Iran tightens grip on web in 'soft war' with West

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran calls it the "soft war" with the West: Battles to control, defend and monitor the Internet and other high-level telecommunications. The latest move came quietly when the powerful Revolutionary Guard recently launched what it claims is a hack-proof communications network for its high-level commanders....

Iran tightens grip on web in 'soft war' with West

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran calls it the "soft war" with the West: Battles to control, defend and monitor the Internet and other high-level telecommunications. The latest move came quietly when the powerful Revolutionary Guard recently launched what it claims is a hack-proof communications network for its high-level commanders....

Spaniards livid over king's elephant hunt

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
MADRID (AP) -- In one fell swoop, King Juan Carlos of Spain has managed to unite right and left, young and old, those with jobs and those without in universal outrage over his tone-deaf African hunting safari....

As ice cap melts, militaries vie for Arctic edge

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources, long-dreamed-of sea lanes and a slew of potential conflicts....

South Sudan-Sudan clashes spreading, officials say

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Clashes have spread along the border of Sudan and South Sudan, officials said Monday, with Sudanese officials claiming to have seized an area sympathetic to South Sudan....

Breivik hears witnesses recall turmoil after blast

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- After testifying for five days, Anders Behring Breivik listened silently Tuesday as others described the mayhem caused by his bombing of Oslo's government district, a scene one witness described as a "war zone."...

5 killed in Syria's increasingly restive Aleppo

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
BEIRUT (AP) -- A bomb struck a car wash Saturday in Aleppo, killing at least five people, a day after government troops opened fire to break up large protests against a violent university raid in Syria's largest city....

Spain's bond yields jump as bailout fears grow

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
MADRID (AP) -- Spain's cost of borrowing on the international debt markets rose sharply again Monday, increasing concern that the country may become the latest member of the eurozone to seek a financial bailout....

Regional mediators to intervene in Guinea-Bissau

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- West African regional mediators headed to Guinea-Bissau for talks Monday after the military coup leaders who seized power last week said they were forming a transitional government without the country's ruling party....

East Timor holds run-off vote for new president

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
DILI, East Timor (AP) -- Two former guerrilla leaders vied for East Timor's presidency Monday, each hoping to steer the young, often-troubled nation after U.N. peacekeeping troops begin their planned withdrawal later this year....

Iraq: Gunmen kill 4 Shiite farmers near Baghdad

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead four Shiite farmers working in an orchard just north of Baghdad....

US diplomat: NKorea rocket threatens security

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia called a failed North Korean rocket launch a security threat Monday. He declined to talk about possible punishing sanctions but said the world would unite to stop more provocations....

As ice cap melts, militaries vie for Arctic edge

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources, long-dreamed-of sea lanes and a slew of potential conflicts....

Shoe-thrower interrupts Breivik trial

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 00:47
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- An Iraqi man whose brother was killed in Norway's worst peacetime massacre hurled a shoe at the confessed killer and urged him to "go to hell" in a rare outburst Friday that briefly interrupted the terror trial of Anders Behring Breivik....
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