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Myanmar conflict spurs hatred for Asia's outcasts

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
BANGKOK (AP) -- They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse - when their existence is even acknowledged....

Myanmar conflict spurs hatred for Asia's outcasts

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
BANGKOK (AP) -- They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse - when their existence is even acknowledged....

Myanmar conflict spurs hatred for Asia's outcasts

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
BANGKOK (AP) -- They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse - when their existence is even acknowledged....

Who doesn't pick up their Nobel Prize? A look

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
HELSINKI (AP) -- On Saturday, Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will give her much-awaited Nobel Lecture at Oslo City Hall, 21 years late. The Myanmar democracy activist, held under house arrest by the military-led government for 15 years, was unable to accept her award at the time and it was handed over to her 18-year-old son. Suu Kyi arrives in Oslo on Friday on the Norwegian leg of her European tour - her first visit to the continent in 24 years....

Vatican offers traditionalists way to reconcile

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican has formally proposed a way to reconcile with a breakaway group of ultra-traditionalist Catholics in a final bid to end a quarter-century of schism, offering it a special legal status in the church currently enjoyed only by the conservative Opus Dei movement....

A closer look at Russian arms sales to Syria

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
MOSCOW (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has accused Russia of sending attack helicopters to Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejects the claim, saying that Russia is only shipping air defense systems under previously signed contracts....

Egypt's court says parliament is dissolved

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's highest court on Thursday ordered the country's Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved, saying its election about six months ago was unconstitutional....

Merkel firmly behind euro, but will she act?

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted repeatedly that "if the euro fails, Europe fails."...

Merkel firmly behind euro, but will she act?

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted repeatedly that "if the euro fails, Europe fails."...

Italian borrowing rates jump as debt fears spread

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
MILAN (AP) -- Italy's borrowing costs jumped on Thursday, a symptom of market fears the country may follow Spain in needing foreign financial aid, as Premier Mario Monti prepared to meet France's new president, Francois Hollande, to discuss how to save the 17-nation eurozone....

Hamas informer in Israel on lecture tour

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The son of a Hamas founder who renounced his father's militant group to spy for Israel has returned to the Jewish state on a pro-Israel lecture tour, an Israeli official said Thursday....

Myanmar conflict spurs hatred for Asia's outcasts

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:27
BANGKOK (AP) -- They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse - when their existence is even acknowledged....
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