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Iran, 6 powers may make progress at nuclear talks

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
ISTANBUL (AP) -- After years of failure, Iran and the six world powers may finally make some progress on nuclear negotiations when they meet again Saturday if each side shows willingness to offer concessions the other seeks....

In Colombia, Obama seeks to focus on US economy

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Putting an election year spin on his international agenda, President Barack Obama on Friday cast Latin America's rapid rise as a business opportunity for the U.S. economy. On his way to a regional summit in Colombia, he told voters in Florida, "While I'm in Colombia talking with other leaders, I'm going to be thinking about you."...

In Colombia, Obama seeks to focus on US economy

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Putting an election year spin on his international agenda, President Barack Obama on Friday cast Latin America's rapid rise as a business opportunity for the U.S. economy. On his way to a regional summit in Colombia, he told voters in Florida, "While I'm in Colombia talking with other leaders, I'm going to be thinking about you."...

In Colombia, Obama seeks to focus on US economy

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Putting an election year spin on his international agenda, President Barack Obama on Friday cast Latin America's rapid rise as a business opportunity for the U.S. economy. On his way to a regional summit in Colombia, he told voters in Florida, "While I'm in Colombia talking with other leaders, I'm going to be thinking about you."...

In Colombia, Obama seeks to focus on US economy

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Putting an election year spin on his international agenda, President Barack Obama on Friday cast Latin America's rapid rise as a business opportunity for the U.S. economy. On his way to a regional summit in Colombia, he told voters in Florida, "While I'm in Colombia talking with other leaders, I'm going to be thinking about you."...

Military: Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office....

Military: Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office....

Military: Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office....

Military: Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office....

Military: Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office....

Bin Laden family deportation hits more snags

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The plan to deport Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children from Pakistan ran into more bureaucratic hurdles on Wednesday, making it uncertain when they would leave, their lawyer said....

1 year on from OBL raid, no answers from Pakistan

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- One year since U.S. commandos flew into this Pakistani army town and killed Osama bin Laden, Islamabad has failed to answer tough questions over whether its security forces were protecting the world's most wanted terrorist....

Obama is off to Colombia but has audience at home

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama, determined to connect his upcoming Latin American travels to voters back home, told port workers in Florida that he was headed to Colombia to find more customers for U.S. companies to help fuel the broader economic recovery at home....

Syrian leader likens bloody crackdown to surgery

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad defended his government's crackdown on opponents Sunday, saying a doctor performing messy emergency surgery does not have blood on his hands if he is trying to save a patient....

AP Interview: Focusing US aid projects in Pakistan

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States is drastically reducing the number of aid projects in Pakistan as part of reforms aimed at improving the distribution of billions of dollars in funding, the top U.S. aid official said Friday....

Spain borrowing cost crisis: Rate at euro-era high

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
MADRID (AP) -- Spain's benchmark borrowing rate hit its highest level Tuesday since the country adopted the euro currency, after ratings agency Fitch downgraded 18 banks on Tuesday and investors continued to find more questions than answers in the country's decision to seek help for its ailing bank sector by tapping a (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) eurozone bailout fund....

Spain's banks borrow record amount in March

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish stocks sank and its borrowing costs rose Friday after the government released data showing the country's banks borrowed a record (EURO)316.3 billion ($415.9 billion) from the European Central Bank in March....

Spain sends senior official to US amid crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
MADRID (AP) -- Spain's deputy prime minister is heading to Washington to discuss the country's economic crisis with the U.S. treasury secretary and the head of the IMF....

Spain's banks borrow record amount in March

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish stocks sank and its borrowing costs rose Friday after the government released data showing the country's banks borrowed a record (EURO)316.3 billion ($415.9 billion) from the European Central Bank in March....

Egypt candidate attacks Islamist rival

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-11 06:15
CAIRO (AP) -- Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak's regime, has attacked his Islamist rival by saying he would terrorize Christians and lead Egypt to "the dark ages."...
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