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Myanmar: Calm restored after rioting that killed 7

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Security forces in western Myanmar have restored order after rioters burned hundreds of homes in sectarian violence that killed at least seven people, state-controlled media reported Saturday....

Lew Rockwell: Ron Paul and Rand Paul are different

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
RT | Senator Rand Paul shocked many supporters yesterday when he endorsed Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate for the upcoming November election.

‘Shaking Booms’ Snapped Trees in Half Days Before Indiana Radiation Incident

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
Mike Barrett | It was recently reported that a rather significant, concerning, and mysterious spike in radiation occurred in the north Indiana / south Michigan area.

Euro fin mins to discuss potential Spain rescue

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
MADRID (AP) -- Finance ministers from the 17 countries that use the euro will discuss a potential rescue for Spain on Saturday, a eurozone official said, as pressure grows on Madrid to sort out its troubled banks even if it means seeking a European bailout....

Obama pushes Congress to help states hire teachers

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to help states rehire teachers and act on a key part of last year's jobs bill. He says the last thing the U.S. needs is to have fewer teachers in our schools....

China punishes 12 police officers over 11 murders

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
BEIJING (AP) -- Authorities have fired or disciplined 12 police officers - including two police chiefs - for inadequately investigating a series of murders in southwest China in which victims were dismembered and buried, state media reported Saturday....

Myanmar: Calm restored after rioting that killed 7

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Security forces in western Myanmar had to open fire on rioters who burned hundreds of homes in sectarian violence that killed at least seven people, state-controlled media reported Saturday, adding that calm had been restored....

Syria observer chief says violence derails mission

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, raising questions about how effective the unarmed force can be in a conflict that every day looks more like a civil war....

Report: China plans manned space launch this month

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
BEIJING (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday....

Report: China plans manned space launch this month

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
BEIJING (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday....

Police collect bodies in strife-torn Myanmar town

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) -- With fearful residents cowering indoors, security forces patrolling a tense town in western Myanmar collected bodies Monday from the debris of homes burned down over the weekend in some of the country's deadliest sectarian bloodshed in years....

What France's parliamentary elections mean

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
PARIS (AP) -- France's upcoming parliamentary elections will determine whether new President Francois Hollande can push his tax-the-rich, down-with-austerity agenda, and how much of a voice the far right will have in policies on immigration and Muslim practices....

Hollande's leftists ahead in parliamentary vote

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 16:37
President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party, bolstered by leftist allies, stands positioned to take control of the lower house of parliament so he can revamp a country his partisans see as too capitalist for the French, and push to save the eurozone through growth, not austerity....
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