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18-year-old victim of grisly rape dies in Ukraine

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- An 18-year-old Ukranian woman died Thursday, two weeks after her grisly rape set off protests across the country against corruption and favoritism toward the wealthy....

Muslim leader: Algeria doesn't want gunman's body

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- Religious leaders say a young man who claimed responsibility for France's worst terror attacks in years will be buried in a Muslim cemetery near the southern city where he was killed in a gunfight with police....

Arab summit opens in Iraqi capital

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Arab summit has opened in Baghdad with only 10 leaders from the 22-member Arab League in attendance....

French nuclear physicist faces terror trial

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
PARIS (AP) -- For Adlene Hicheur, France's biggest terror attacks in years could not have come at a worse time....

Spaniards wage general strike over labor reforms

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
MADRID (AP) -- Flag-waving Spanish workers livid over labor market reforms they see as flagrantly pro-business blocked traffic Thursday, formed boisterous picket lines outside wholesale markets and bus garages and kept some TV programming off the air....

Dead Tibetan activist's letter calls for freedom

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The Tibetan who burned himself alive on the eve of a visit by China's president left a letter that urged the world to stand up for his homeland, activists said, while Indian authorities detained more Tibetans on Thursday in the Indian capital....

Hacking scandal fells ex-UK police media chief

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
LONDON (AP) -- The communications chief at London's police department has resigned following an investigation touched off by the phone hacking scandal....

Rising powers say new bank can help development

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The leaders of five of the world's fast-rising powers agreed Thursday to move toward creating a new development bank that would improve access to capital for poor nations....

Swedish defense minister resigns amid Saudi row

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Sweden's defense minister stepped down Thursday, citing the pressure he has faced from the country's media over leaked plans to build a weapons plant in Saudi Arabia....

Activists worry over North Sea platform gas leak

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Environmental groups warned Thursday they fear an oil spill could be triggered at a North Sea offshore platform that has been leaking highly pressurized gas since the weekend....

Pope urges greater openings in vast Cuban Mass

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI demanded more freedom for the Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba and preached against "fanaticism" in an unusually political sermon Wednesday before hundreds of thousands at Revolution Plaza, with President Raul Castro in the front row....

Report: No foul play in Zimbabwe general's death

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- An inquest has ruled there was no foul play in the fiery death of a top power broker in President Robert Mugabe's party, state media reported Thursday, quoting the attorney general as saying the case shrouded in suspicion is now closed....

Israel: New opposition head pledges social reform

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Newly elected Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz says he will shrink Israel's economic inequality....

Spaniards wage general strike over labor reforms

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish workers angry over labor market reforms formed boisterous picket lines outside wholesale markets, some TV stations went off the air and car factories were all but idled in the early stage of a general strike Thursday....

Chavez back in Venezuela after 1st radiation round

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and says the cancer treatments are going well....

Dead Tibetan activist's letter calls for freedom

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The Tibetan who burned himself alive on the eve of a visit by China's president left behind a letter that urged the world to stand up for his homeland, activists said, while Indian authorities detained more Tibetans on Thursday in the Indian capital....

BRICS summit in India to focus on boosting trade

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The leaders of the five fast-growing BRICS powers are meeting in New Delhi to harness their collective clout on the global stage and push plans for a new development bank and for trade in each other's currencies....

Japan hangs 3 in 1st executions since 2010

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
TOKYO (AP) -- Three death row inmates in Japan were executed by hanging on Thursday, the country's first executions in more than a year and a half....

Puerto Rico's police chief quits amid crime spike

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Puerto Rico's police chief quit late Wednesday, less than a year after being appointed to lead a department that federal agents have accused of corruption, illegal killings and civil rights violations....

Puerto Rico's police chief quits amid crime spike

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:56
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Puerto Rico's police chief quit late Wednesday, less than a year after being appointed to lead a department that federal agents have accused of corruption, illegal killings and civil rights violations....
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