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Greece secures high participation in bond swap

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece took a critical step toward staving off an imminent bankruptcy after securing the support of the vast majority of its bondholders to accept steep losses on their holdings of Greek debt, a move that should pave the way for the country's second massive international bailout....

Tunisian Islamists spark fear of culture war

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Every Friday, bearded men in shin-length robes demonstrate in Tunisia's capital against perceived insults to Islam in a country once known for its aggressive secularism. They have occasionally turned violent, attacking secular intellectuals and harassing women for their style of dress....

Locklear takes over at US Pacific Command

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
HONOLULU (AP) -- The commander of NATO-led operations that helped Libyan rebels overthrow Moammar Gadhafi is taking over as the top U.S. military commander in Asia and the Pacific....
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Japan barely improves nuclear regulatory system

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Right after three reactors in northeastern Japan sank into meltdowns, the government vowed to sever the cozy relations between the nuclear industry and its regulators. One year later, it has yet to even appoint committee members to scrutinize the "revolving door" of officials landing jobs in the very industries they regulate....

Japan barely improves nuclear regulatory system

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Right after three reactors in northeastern Japan sank into meltdowns, the government vowed to sever the cozy relations between the nuclear industry and its regulators. One year later, it has yet to even appoint committee members to scrutinize the "revolving door" of officials landing jobs in the very industries they regulate....

Japan barely improves nuclear regulatory system

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Right after three reactors in northeastern Japan sank into meltdowns, the government vowed to sever the cozy relations between the nuclear industry and its regulators. One year later, it has yet to even appoint committee members to scrutinize the "revolving door" of officials landing jobs in the very industries they regulate....

Saudi crown prince in US for medical tests

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef is in the United States for medical tests, the kingdom's state media reported on Friday....

Va. Tech president to testify about '07 massacre

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Tech's president was set to testify Friday in a civil trial seeking official accountability for the slaying of 32 on the Tech campus on April 16, 2007....
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China says not changing from its path of socialism

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
BEIJING (AP) -- China's government vowed Friday that it will not deviate from its socialist path, defending anew its authoritarian system and saying Western capitalist political systems are not suitable for China....

Romney heads South into evangelical states

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
Mitt Romney's struggle with white evangelical voters doesn't bode well for him as he moves through the GOP presidential primary, with Mississippi and Alabama just ahead....

Romney heads South into evangelical states

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
Mitt Romney's struggle with white evangelical voters doesn't bode well for him as he moves through the GOP presidential primary, with Mississippi and Alabama just ahead....

Romney heads South into evangelical states

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
Mitt Romney's struggle with white evangelical voters doesn't bode well for him as he moves through the GOP presidential primary, with Mississippi and Alabama just ahead....

Romney heads South into evangelical states

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
Mitt Romney's struggle with white evangelical voters doesn't bode well for him as he moves through the GOP presidential primary, with Mississippi and Alabama just ahead....

$100 or $1,000? Wide price range for birth control

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What does birth control really cost anyway?...
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Bite mark was undoing of ex-policewoman in murder

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- There were no witnesses, no fingerprints, no gun and little forensic evidence when a woman was found slain 26 years ago. But there was a human bite mark on her arm - a bite that came back to haunt a female police detective who was unmasked as the killer of her former lover's wife....
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Bite mark was undoing of ex-policewoman in murder

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- There were no witnesses, no fingerprints, no gun and little forensic evidence when a woman was found slain 26 years ago. But there was a human bite mark on her arm - a bite that came back to haunt a female police detective who was unmasked as the killer of her former lover's wife....
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Hiker missing for almost month found in New Mexico

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- An Albuquerque woman who had been missing for nearly a month has been found alive in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, authorities said Thursday....
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Police may issue death photo to ID Pitt shooter

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Investigators are trying to get a medical examiner's photo of the dead Pittsburgh clinic gunman in hopes the public can help identify him....
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Fire at Bangkok high-rise hotel kills 1 foreigner

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
BANGKOK (AP) -- A fire at a high-rise hotel in Bangkok's main tourist district sent smoke billowing through the upper floors, killing at least one foreigner and injuring almost two dozen other people, authorities said Friday....

Immigration: Ex-Rutgers student won't be deported

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 18:40
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A former Rutgers University student convicted of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate will not be deported to his native India, federal immigration authorities said Monday....
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