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Facts about Egypt as it votes for a new president

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
CAIRO (AP) -- The following is a fact sheet about Egypt, where an election runoff for a new president will be held Saturday and Sunday:...

Facts about Egypt as it votes for a new president

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
CAIRO (AP) -- The following is a fact sheet about Egypt, where an election runoff for a new president will be held Saturday and Sunday:...

A look at Egypt's presidential elections

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
Egypt will choose its first president after the popular uprising that forced Hosni Mubarak to step down last February. Voters are choosing between two candidates, the top vote getters in the first round that ended last month....

A look at Egypt's presidential elections

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
Egypt will choose its first president after the popular uprising that forced Hosni Mubarak to step down last February. Voters are choosing between two candidates, the top vote getters in the first round that ended last month....

Egypt president announcement may be delayed

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian authorities may delay the announcement of the winner in the presidential runoff, which had been expected on Thursday, because of a large number of complaints filed by the two candidates, a senior election commission official said....

Affairs of politics and heart mark French election

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
PARIS (AP) -- Back-room deals, black lists and bitter duels. Political and personal intrigue has wormed its way into Sunday's final round of French legislative elections. President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party is battling to ensure a solid majority and fulfill his vows to boost growth in Europe and redefine the presidency as one beholden to the people....

Affairs of politics and heart mark French election

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
PARIS (AP) -- Back-room deals, black lists and bitter duels. Political and personal intrigue has wormed its way into Sunday's final round of French legislative elections. President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party is battling to ensure a solid majority and fulfill his vows to boost growth in Europe and redefine the presidency as one beholden to the people....

Affairs of politics and heart mark French election

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
PARIS (AP) -- Back-room deals, black lists and bitter duels. Political and personal intrigue has wormed its way into Sunday's final round of French legislative elections. President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party is battling to ensure a solid majority and fulfill his vows to boost growth in Europe and redefine the presidency as one beholden to the people....

AP Photos: Wallenda's trek across Niagara Falls

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) -- With thousands of fans riveted on his every step, daredevil Nik Wallenda walks 1,800 feet on a tightrope spanning across the mist-fogged Niagara Falls....
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AP Photos: Wallenda's trek across Niagara Falls

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) -- With thousands of fans riveted on his every step, daredevil Nik Wallenda walks 1,800 feet on a tightrope spanning across the mist-fogged Niagara Falls....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

AP Photos: Wallenda's trek across Niagara Falls

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) -- With thousands of fans riveted on his every step, daredevil Nik Wallenda walks 1,800 feet on a tightrope spanning across the mist-fogged Niagara Falls....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Japan OKs restart of 1st reactors since tsunami

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's government on Saturday approved bringing the country's first nuclear reactors back online since last year's earthquake and tsunami led to a nationwide shutdown, going against wider public opinion that is opposed to nuclear power after Fukushima....

Japan OKs restart of 1st reactors since tsunami

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's government on Saturday approved bringing the country's first nuclear reactors back online since last year's earthquake and tsunami led to a nationwide shutdown, going against wider public opinion that is opposed to nuclear power after Fukushima....

VIDEO: Obama ends young migrant deportations

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
US President Barack Obama has announced plans to end the deportation of illegal immigrants who came to the US as children.
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Egypt president vote opens slowly

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
Egyptians vote in a two-day run-off to choose their first freely-elected president, amid signs of waning enthusiasm and calls for a boycott.
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Japan PM orders reactor restart

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
Japan is to restart two nuclear reactors - the first to go back online since plants were shut down after the last year's Fukushima crisis.
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Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) -- Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps Friday night for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S. and Canada....
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Massive NM fire prompts rescue of threatened fish

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- As firefighters worked Friday to corral the wildfires burning around the West, a special team of biologists were trying to save a threatened trout in southwestern New Mexico from the post-fire ravages - choking floods of ash, soil and charred debris - that are expected to come with summer rains....
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Nobel 'ended Suu Kyi isolation'

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the Nobel Peace Prize she received in 1991 had given her hope Burma had not been forgotten.
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3 dead, 1 critical after Canada campus shooting

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 04:29
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- Police were searching Friday for a security company employee charged with murder in the attempted robbery of an armored truck at a western Canada university that left three armed guards dead, police said....
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