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Clashes in rival towns kill 22 in western Libya

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Militias from rival towns in western Libya battled each other with tanks and artillery on Tuesday in fierce fighting that killed at least 22 people, local officials said....

Clashes in rival towns kill 22 in western Libya

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Militias from rival towns in western Libya battled each other with tanks and artillery on Tuesday in fierce fighting that killed at least 22 people, local officials said....

French Socialist's big idea: tax the rich

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
PARIS (AP) -- French presidential candidate Francois Hollande, leading in polls but lacking in ideas that stick in voters' minds, finally dropped a bombshell: As president, he would levy a 75 percent tax on anyone who makes more than (EURO)1 million ($1.33 million) a year....

APNewsBreak: Nuke agency cautious on NKorea visit

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
VIENNA (AP) -- As international tensions rise over a planned North Korean rocket launch, the U.N. nuclear agency is taking a wait-and-see attitude on an offer from the North to allow agency experts back into the country, according to a letter shared Tuesday with The Associated Press....

APNewsBreak: Nuke agency cautious on NKorea visit

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
VIENNA (AP) -- As international tensions rise over a planned North Korean rocket launch, the U.N. nuclear agency is taking a wait-and-see attitude on an offer from the North to allow agency experts back into the country, according to a letter shared Tuesday with The Associated Press....

UN in Haiti sees jump in cholera cases

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency said Tuesday....

Shiites, Sunnis in post-US Iraq: separate, unequal

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq's ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate - and unequal....

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan snarls US war efforts

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- U.S. diplomatic efforts to persuade Pakistan to reopen NATO supply lines to the Afghan war are proving no match for rampant anti-Americanism here, with Pakistani lawmakers increasingly unwilling to support a decision that risks them branded as friends of Washington....

Sports, art, streetlights: A new life in Mogadishu

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The crowd - both men and women - cheered wildly as two Mogadishu basketball teams entered an old stadium that once bore the bloodstains of war....

Sports, art, streetlights: A new life in Mogadishu

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The crowd - both men and women - cheered wildly as two Mogadishu basketball teams entered an old stadium that once bore the bloodstains of war....

James Murdoch steps down as BSkyB chairman

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
LONDON (AP) -- Once his father's heir apparent, James Murdoch stepped down Tuesday as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, surrendering one of the biggest jobs in the Murdoch media empire....

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan snarls US war efforts

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- U.S. diplomatic efforts to persuade Pakistan to reopen NATO supply lines to the Afghan war are proving no match for rampant anti-Americanism here, with Pakistani lawmakers increasingly unwilling to support a decision that risks them branded as friends of Washington....

Sports, art, streetlights: A new life in Mogadishu

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The crowd - both men and women - cheered wildly as two Mogadishu basketball teams entered an old stadium that once bore the bloodstains of war....

Pit bulls in Philippine dog fights to be put down

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- At least nine pit bulls rescued from a dogfighting ring in the Philippines were euthanized Tuesday and dozens more are likely to be because there are no facilities to rehabilitate them and prevent them from reappearing in underground arenas....

James Murdoch steps down as BSkyB chairman

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
LONDON (AP) -- Media executive James Murdoch, under pressure over his role in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal, has stepped down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting PLC, the company announced Tuesday....

From war victims to world champions in Bosnia

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Two decades ago, young Bosnians worshipped the tall, muscular basketball players who smiled down on them from posters plastered across their rooms....

German magazine cleared of defaming Greece

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A Greek court dismissed defamation charges Tuesday against a German magazine that had illustrated an article on Greece's economic crisis with a doctored photo of the Venus de Milo statue making a lewd gesture....

Survey: petty corruption costing Greeks millions

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- An international watchdog says petty corruption in the public sector is still costing Greeks millions of euros (dollars) a year, even though the country's financial crisis has led to a reduction in the size of bribes....

BkyB confirms James Murdoch steps down as chairman

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
LONDON (AP) -- British Sky Broadcasting PLC says James Murdoch has stepped down as chairman, but will remain a member of the broadcaster's board....

Pit bulls in Philippine dog fights to be put down

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 19:19
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Veterinarians and animal welfare workers Tuesday euthanized at least nine pit bulls rescued from a dogfighting ring in the Philippines because there are no facilities to rehabilitate them and prevent them from again being used in underground arenas....
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