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What's at stake as 6 European nations vote

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
Six European countries held elections Sunday. Here is a quick look at what was at stake:...

Georgia's patriarch baptizes 400 babies

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- The patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church presided over the baptism of hundreds of babies in a Tbilisi cathedral on Sunday as part of an effort credited with helping raise the birth rate in this former Soviet nation....

Georgia's patriarch baptizes 400 babies

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- The patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church presided over the baptism of hundreds of babies in a Tbilisi cathedral on Sunday as part of an effort credited with helping raise the birth rate in this former Soviet nation....

Angry Greeks redraw election map

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Furious Greeks punished the two parties that have dominated politics for decades in the crisis-battered country Sunday, leaving its multibillion dollar international bailout - and even its future in the euro currency - hanging in the balance....

Angry Greeks redraw election map

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Furious Greeks punished the two parties that have dominated politics for decades in the crisis-battered country Sunday, leaving its multibillion dollar international bailout - and even its future in the euro currency - hanging in the balance....

France gets new leader, Europe new direction

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
PARIS (AP) -- France handed the presidency Sunday to leftist Francois Hollande, a champion of government stimulus programs who says the state should protect the downtrodden - a victory that could deal a death blow to the drive for austerity that has been the hallmark of Europe in recent years....

US airstrike kills senior al-Qaida leader in Yemen

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- An airstrike Sunday killed a top al-Qaida leader on the FBI's most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials said. The drone attack was carried out by the CIA, U.S. officials said....

Sarkozy joins fallen leaders amid Europe crisis

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
Nicolas Sarkozy, defeated Sunday in France's presidential runoff by Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, joins a series of European leaders booted from office because of public anger over government spending cuts and economic crisis. Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader....

Sarkozy joins fallen leaders amid Europe crisis

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
Nicolas Sarkozy, defeated Sunday in France's presidential runoff by Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, joins a series of European leaders booted from office because of public anger over government spending cuts and economic crisis. Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader....

Runoff expected in Serbian presidential race

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- A pro-European Union candidate and a nationalist opponent are headed for a runoff in Serbia's presidential elections, while the ruling pro-Western party is likely to form the next coalition government, independent pollsters said Sunday....

Runoff expected in Serbian presidential race

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- A pro-European Union candidate and a nationalist opponent are headed for a runoff in Serbia's presidential elections, while the ruling pro-Western party is likely to form the next coalition government, independent pollsters said Sunday....

What French election result means for US, world

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
French voters chose Socialist Francois Hollande as their new president Sunday in a race that will have implications for Europe's debt crisis, the Afghanistan war and global diplomacy....

Egypt votes for president to succeed Mubarak

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptians on Saturday voted to choose between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a presidential runoff once billed as the country's long-awaited shift to democracy but now clouded by pessimism over the future....

Israeli leader moves toward September elections

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday signaled he wants to hold new elections in September, more than a year ahead of schedule, setting up a brief campaign that polls suggest will propel him to another term in office....

Projections: Greek conservatives win most votes

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Official projections in Greece's election show the conservative New Democracy party winning the most votes, with 19.18 percent, far short of the amount needed to form a government....

Islamist attacks saint's tomb in Timbuktu

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- A new member of an Islamist group in north Mali attacked and burned a saint's tomb classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Timbuktu, the spokesman for the group said Sunday....

What's at stake as 6 European nations vote

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
Six European countries are holding elections Sunday. Here is a quick look at what's at stake:...

German center-right coalition poised to lose state

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
BERLIN (AP) -- Exit polls in Germany show that voters in the country's northernmost state have likely ousted a governing center-right government made up of the same parties as Chancellor Angela Merkel's federal coalition....

Moscow protesters arrested in march against Putin

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
MOSCOW (AP) -- A protest demonstration by at least 20,000 people on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president boiled into a battle with police after protesters tried to split off from the approved venue and march to the Kremlin....

Palestine's exiles find family bonds thru Facebook

Fri, 2024-11-29 12:46
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) -- As Jewish forces advanced on their village during the war that surrounded Israel's creation in 1948, the Palestinian Faour family piled children and belongings into donkey carts and fled, hoping to return home when the fighting stopped....