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Russian police search protest leaders' apartments

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian investigators searched the apartments of several protest leaders Monday and called them in for questioning Tuesday, making it difficult if not impossible for them to lead a mass demonstration against President Vladimir Putin planned for the June 12 national holiday....

Russian police search protest leaders' apartments

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian investigators searched the apartments of several protest leaders Monday and called them in for questioning Tuesday, making it difficult if not impossible for them to lead a mass demonstration against President Vladimir Putin planned for the June 12 national holiday....

Observers chief in Syria warns of violence

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in violence is derailing the monitoring mission, which is the only functioning part of an international peace plan to calm the country's spiraling crisis....

Up to 100 feared dead in Afghan earthquake

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- As many as 100 people are feared dead in an earthquake and landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said....

Doctors twice use defibrillator on Egypt's Mubarak

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
CAIRO (AP) -- Doctors used a defibrillator twice on Hosni Mubarak when they could not find a pulse Monday, the latest health crisis for the ousted Egyptian president since he was sentenced to life and moved to a prison hospital nine days ago, security officials said....

Spain bank rescue glee morphs into markets rout

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
MADRID (AP) -- Euphoria over a lifeline of up to (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) to rescue Spain's hurting banks morphed into a financial markets rout in a matter of hours Monday, as investors digested the still-undefined plan and became concerned the country may be unable to repay the new loans....

Spain banks rescue fails to restore confidence

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
MADRID (AP) -- A (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) plan to rescue Spain's banks failed to restore confidence in the country's financial future, with stocks and bonds unable to hold on to early gains on Monday....

Ex-UK PM Brown: Murdoch lied under oath to inquiry

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
LONDON (AP) -- Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown lambasted Rupert Murdoch before Britain's media ethics inquiry on Monday, claiming the media mogul had lied under oath to the inquiry and saying that a Murdoch tabloid had undermined the British war effort in Afghanistan....

Lithuania vigilante case exposes social divides

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
KAUNAS, Lithuania (AP) -- A desperate father launches a bloody vendetta against an alleged pedophile network of judges and politicians that he says preyed on his 5-year-old daughter. After two murders, Drasius Kedys hides in the countryside until he is found dead under mysterious circumstances....

Cybersleuths see new link between Flame, Stuxnet

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
LONDON (AP) -- Cybersecurity researchers say they've uncovered a new link between the infrastructure-wrecking Stuxnet program and the recently-discovered Flame virus....

Ethnic strife continues in western Myanmar city

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) -- With residents cowering indoors, security forces patrolling a tense town in western Myanmar collected bodies Monday from homes burned to ashes in some of the country's deadliest sectarian bloodshed in years....

UK PM Cameron leaves 8-year-old daughter in pub

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
LONDON (AP) -- It's every parent's nightmare: To get home from an event and realize that a child is missing. But it can turn out to be a political minefield as well if you happen to be the prime minister....

UK PM Cameron leaves 8-year-old daughter in pub

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
LONDON (AP) -- It's every parent's nightmare: To get home from an event and realize that a child is missing. But it can turn out to be a political minefield as well if you happen to be the prime minister....

Doctors twice use defibrillator on Egypt's Mubarak

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
CAIRO (AP) -- Doctors used a defibrillator twice on Hosni Mubarak when they could not find a pulse Monday, the latest health crisis for the ousted Egyptian president since he was sentenced to life and moved to a prison hospital nine days ago, security officials said....

Iran's Ahmadinejad wounded but wily in final year

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's president hardly seemed like a fading political force at a security summit in Beijing last week. Leaders from China and Russia carved out time to hold private talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and gave him center stage to unleash his pet theories about the unraveling of Western power....

$257 billion invested in renewable energy in 2011

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
GENEVA (AP) -- Global investment in renewable energy reached a record of $257 billion last year, with solar attracting more than half the total spending, according to a U.N. report released Monday....

UK PM Cameron leaves 8-year-old daughter in pub

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
LONDON (AP) -- It's every parent's nightmare: To get home from an event and realize that a child is missing. But it can turn out to be a political minefield as well if you also happen to be the prime minister....

Doctors use defibrillator on Egypt's Mubarak

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
CAIRO (AP) -- Doctors used a defibrillator twice on Hosni Mubarak Monday when they could not find a pulse, the latest health crisis for the ousted Egyptian president since he was sentenced to life and moved to a prison hospital nine days ago, security officials said....

Iran's Ahmadinejad wounded but wily in final year

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's president hardly seemed like a fading political force at a security summit in Beijing last week. Leaders from China and Russia carved out time to hold private talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and gave him center stage to unleash his pet theories about the unraveling of Western power....

Police collect bodies in strife-torn Myanmar town

Wed, 2024-11-27 02:26
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) -- With fearful residents cowering indoors, security forces patrolling a tense town in western Myanmar collected bodies Monday from the debris of homes burned down over the weekend in some of the country's deadliest sectarian bloodshed in years....