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Myanmar conflict spurs hatred for Asia's outcasts

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
BANGKOK (AP) -- They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse - when their existence is even acknowledged....

Merkel firmly behind euro, but will she act?

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted repeatedly that "if the euro fails, Europe fails."...

Merkel firmly behind euro, but will she act?

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted repeatedly that "if the euro fails, Europe fails."...

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland....

Suu Kyi welcomes world reaching out to Myanmar

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
GENEVA (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed steps by the international community to reach out to her country, long isolated because of its military dictatorship....

US envoy: North Korean isolation hides suffering

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

US envoy: North Korean isolation hides suffering

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

Merkel says euro crisis will dominate G20 summit

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's chancellor says Europe's lingering sovereign debt crisis will likely dominate this weekend's summit of the world's 20 most important economies in Mexico....

Ex-Israeli soldier seeks Palestinian citizenship

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former Israeli soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank....

Ex-Israeli soldier seeks Palestinian citizenship

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former Israeli soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank....

Iran's dreams for influence stymied in Egypt

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
CAIRO (AP) -- Iran once saw the Arab Spring uprisings as a prime opportunity, hoping it would open the door for it to spread its influence in countries whose autocratic leaders long shunned Tehran's ruling clerics. But it is finding the new order no more welcoming. Egypt is a prime example....

Iran's dreams for influence stymied in Egypt

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
CAIRO (AP) -- Iran once saw the Arab Spring uprisings as a prime opportunity, hoping it would open the door for it to spread its influence in countries whose autocratic leaders long shunned Tehran's ruling clerics. But it is finding the new order no more welcoming. Egypt is a prime example....

Iran's dreams for influence stymied in Egypt

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
CAIRO (AP) -- Iran once saw the Arab Spring uprisings as a prime opportunity, hoping it would open the door for it to spread its influence in countries whose autocratic leaders long shunned Tehran's ruling clerics. But it is finding the new order no more welcoming. Egypt is a prime example....

Merkel firmly behind euro, but will she act?

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted repeatedly that "if the euro fails, Europe fails."...

50 aid groups demand Israel lift Gaza blockade

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Fifty international aid groups and U.N. agencies have called on Israel to lift its Gaza border blockade, saying it violates international law....

Explosion in steel plant in south India kills 11

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- An explosion in a state-owned steel plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has killed at least 11 people, police said Thursday....

Japan moves closer to restarting nuclear reactors

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan moved closer Thursday to restarting nuclear reactors for the first time since last year's earthquake and tsunami led to a nationwide shutdown after a mayor gave his support to a plan to bring two of them back online....

US drone strike kills 3 in Pakistan, officials say

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed three suspected militants in an attack on a building in a town close to the Afghan border....

US envoy: North Korean isolation hides suffering

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

Qatar: Electrical fire started blaze killing 19

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:24
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Investigators in Qatar say faulty wiring on a fluorescent light sparked a fire last month that killed 19 people, including 13 children, in the Gulf nation's biggest mall....