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French standoff ends with suspect shot in the head

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- Inspired by radical Islam and trained in Afghanistan, the gunman methodically killed French schoolchildren, a rabbi and paratroopers and faced down hundreds of police for 32 hours. Then he leapt out a window as he rained down gunfire and was fatally shot in the head....

French standoff ends with suspect shot in the head

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- Inspired by radical Islam and trained in Afghanistan, the gunman methodically killed French schoolchildren, a rabbi and paratroopers and faced down hundreds of police for 32 hours. Then he leapt out a window as he rained down gunfire and was fatally shot in the head....

French standoff ends with suspect shot in the head

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- Inspired by radical Islam and trained in Afghanistan, the gunman methodically killed French schoolchildren, a rabbi and paratroopers and faced down hundreds of police for 32 hours. Then he leapt out a window as he rained down gunfire and was fatally shot in the head....

Argentina to stock markets: Falklands oil illegal

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina has asked stock markets in New York and London to warn investors of its claim that five oil exploration companies are working illegally off the Falkland Islands, which Argentina contends were stolen by Britain more than a century ago....

Judges: Ex-Irish leader Ahern took secret payments

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
DUBLIN (AP) -- Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received at least (EURO)209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office and repeatedly lied about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding judicial investigation ruled Thursday in a long-awaited verdict....

Judges: Ex-Irish leader Ahern took secret payments

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
DUBLIN (AP) -- Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received at least (EURO)209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office and repeatedly lied about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding judicial investigation ruled Thursday in a long-awaited verdict....

Colombian police say rebel captured in Venezuela

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A member of Colombia's largest rebel group has been captured in neighboring Venezuela and is wanted for his role in the kidnapping and killing of three Americans in 1999, Colombian police said Thursday....

Colombian police say rebel captured in Venezuela

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A member of Colombia's largest rebel group has been captured in neighboring Venezuela and is wanted for his role in the kidnapping and killing of three Americans in 1999, Colombian police said Thursday....

Russian lawmaker: Assad must pull out troops first

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
MOSCOW (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad must take the first step toward settling his country's yearlong conflict by pulling his forces out of cities and allowing humanitarian assistance, a senior Russian lawmaker said Thursday, in a statement that signaled a marked shift in Moscow's stance....

Nations pledge millions for Syrian opposition

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
ISTANBUL (AP) -- A coalition of more than 70 partners, including the United States, pledged Sunday to send millions of dollars and communications equipment to Syria's opposition groups, signaling deeper involvement in the conflict amid a growing belief that diplomacy and sanctions alone cannot end the Damascus regime's repression....

Russian lawmaker: Assad must pull out troops first

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
MOSCOW (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad must take the first step toward settling his country's yearlong conflict by pulling his forces out of cities and allowing humanitarian assistance, a senior Russian lawmaker said Thursday, in a statement that signaled a marked shift in Moscow's stance....

French standoff ends with suspect shot in the head

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- In a dramatic end to a 32-hour standoff, a masked French SWAT team slipped into the apartment of an Islamist extremist Thursday, sparking a firefight that ended with the suspect jumping out the window and being fatally shot in the head....

Pope visits heart of conservative Catholic Mexico

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
SILAO, Mexico (AP) -- The last time a pope visited Mexico, more than 1 million believers cheered and wept in the streets of the capital. Aztec dancers shook rattles and blew conch shells inside the cathedral where John Paul II canonized the first Indian saint in the Americas....

Syria's Assad in firm control after a bloody year

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
BEIRUT (AP) -- As world leaders close ranks against Syrian leader Bashar Assad, the U.S. president summed up the popular wisdom during a recent White House press conference: "Ultimately, this dictator will fall."...

Syria's Assad in firm control after a bloody year

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
BEIRUT (AP) -- As world leaders close ranks against Syrian leader Bashar Assad, the U.S. president summed up the popular wisdom during a recent White House press conference: "Ultimately, this dictator will fall."...

Syria's Assad in firm control after a bloody year

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
BEIRUT (AP) -- As world leaders close ranks against Syrian leader Bashar Assad, the U.S. president summed up the popular wisdom during a recent White House press conference: "Ultimately, this dictator will fall."...

Mali's Tuareg rebels declare independence

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's Tuareg rebels, who have seized control of the country's distant north in the chaotic aftermath of a military coup in the capital, declared independence Friday of their Azawad nation....

Brazil's poor get free beauty treatment

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A machine purrs as it delivers electrical pulses deep into the saggy skin on Barbara Penha's jawline, a high-tech treatment used first to tighten her jowls and then to sculpt her tummy....

Brazil's poor get free beauty treatment

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A machine purrs as it delivers electrical pulses deep into the saggy skin on Barbara Penha's jawline, a high-tech treatment used first to tighten her jowls and then to sculpt her tummy....

Brazil's poor get free beauty treatment

Thu, 2024-11-28 04:42
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A machine purrs as it delivers electrical pulses deep into the saggy skin on Barbara Penha's jawline, a high-tech treatment used first to tighten her jowls and then to sculpt her tummy....