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MOSCOW (AP) -- Vladimir Putin's lavish promises of higher wages and benefits for soldiers, doctors and teachers were a key element in winning a new term in the Kremlin. But the price tag, estimated at $160 billion or more over his six-year term, worries economists....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Vladimir Putin's lavish promises of higher wages and benefits for soldiers, doctors and teachers were a key element in winning a new term in the Kremlin. But the price tag, estimated at $160 billion or more over his six-year term, worries economists....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan government is giving companies extensions ranging from a few weeks to 90 days to change from private security guards to a government-run force, officials said Sunday....

MINSK, Belarus (AP) -- Two men convicted of carrying out a deadly subway bombing last year in Belarus' capital have been executed, drawing strong condemnation from activists and the European Union....

LONDON (AP) -- Britain has added volcanoes and solar storms to floods, flu and terrorism on a list of threats to national security....

PARIS (AP) -- The French butcher who cuts and tresses your meat with care, and serves as city dwellers' link to the land, is falling on hard times, unable to find new blood to keep his iconic image alive - as supermarkets and Arab butchers selling halal meat at cheaper prices thrive....

KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- Kuwait Airways, the Gulf state's national carrier, extended flight cancellations across its route network into a second day Sunday as it scrambled to cope with a strike by workers....

DHULIYAN, India (AP) -- Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her palms....

DHULIYAN, India (AP) -- Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her palms....

MINSK, Belarus (AP) -- Two men convicted of carrying out a deadly subway bombing last year in Belarus' capital have been executed, drawing strong condemnation from activists and the European Union....

PARIS (AP) -- The French butcher who cuts and tresses your meat with care, and serves as city dwellers' link to the land, is falling on hard times, unable to find new blood to keep his iconic image alive - as supermarkets and Arab butchers selling halal meat at cheaper prices thrive....

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Treasury chief says he is planning to loosen restrictions on Sunday trading during this summer's London Olympics....

KOLKATA, India (AP) -- A former Mr. Universe who has just turned 100 said Sunday that happiness and a life without tensions are the key to his longevity....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea vowed Sunday to go ahead with plans to launch a long-range rocket, rejecting criticism in the West that it would scuttle recent diplomacy....

KOLKATA, India (AP) -- A former Mr. Universe who has just turned 100 said Sunday that happiness and a life without tensions are the key to his longevity....

TOKYO (AP) -- A new poll suggests that most Japanese favor phasing out nuclear power following last year's tsunami-generated crisis....

BERLIN (AP) -- John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name - a legal battle that had not yet ended when he died Saturday at age 91 - made him one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Activists say Syrian troops are shelling the rebel-held neighborhood of Khaldiyeh in the central city of Homs....

KOLKATA, India (AP) -- A former Mr. Universe has turned 100 in India and says happiness and a life without tensions are the key to his longevity....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea says it will go ahead with plans to launch an observation satellite into space and that criticism of it is provocative....