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Mali coup leader promises polls

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
The leader of this week's coup in Mali, Capt Amadou Sanogo, tells the BBC he has no intention of staying in power, but the former leaders will face justice.
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EU expands range of its anti-piracy strikes

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The EU will expand its seagoing anti-piracy mission to include for the first time the Somali coast itself and waterways inside the country, the bloc said Friday....

EU expands range of its anti-piracy strikes

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The EU will expand its seagoing anti-piracy mission to include for the first time the Somali coast itself and waterways inside the country, the bloc said Friday....

Solicitor jailed for client theft

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
A solicitor from Leeds is jailed for 26 months for stealing more than £50,000 from an elderly client he had known for 30 years.
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Romney marks 2nd anniversary of Obama health law

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
METAIRIE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Friday called President Barack Obama's signature health care law an "unfolding disaster" and said he would replace it by giving Medicaid money to states and changing the tax code to encourage people to buy insurance....

EU imposes sanctions on Assad's wife, relatives

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
BRUSSELS (AP) -- EU foreign ministers imposed sanctions Friday on Asma Assad, the stylish, British-born wife of the Syrian president, banning her from traveling to European Union countries and freezing any assets she may have there....

Borat tune stuns Kazakh medallist

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
A Kazakh shooting gold medallist is stunned as the comedy national anthem from the film Borat is played for her victory in Kuwait instead of the real one.
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Borger: Time to concede to Romney?

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
Gloria Borger says prolonging the GOP race doesn't make much sense since it's clear Romney will eventually prevail.
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Arrest demands grow in Fla. teen's shooting death

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The investigation into last month's shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in an Orlando suburb is out of the hands of the beleaguered police chief and the county prosecutor with the Justice Department looking at possible civil rights violations and a grand jury perhaps considering charges....
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Trayvon Martin death won't go to Fla. grand jury

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A grand jury will not look into the Trayvon Martin case, a special prosecutor said Monday, leaving the decision of whether to charge the teen's shooter in her hands alone and eliminating the possibility of a first-degree murder charge....
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APNewsBreak: Europe faces jihadist threat

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
BERLIN (AP) -- With France's deadly attacks, Islamic terror has apparently struck once more in the heart of Europe - and authorities say there's a dangerous twist: the emergence of homegrown extremists operating independent of any known networks, making them hard to track and stop....

Officials: Gunman's brother transferred to Paris

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
PARIS (AP) -- The mother of the man accused of killing seven people in a shooting rampage in France is set to be released, but his older brother has been transferred to Paris to face possible charges, a police union official said Saturday....

A Point of View: Hi-yo, silver screen

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
Can box-office bait Johnny Depp save the Western now he's signed up for a silver screen remake of The Lone Ranger? Or are the golden days of this genre long gone, asks historian David Cannadine.
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VIDEO: Could GPS be used to predict earthquakes?

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
Professor Kosuke Heki of Hokkaido University in Japan believes he has found a way to predict earthquakes.
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SPIN METER: GOP claims about Obama puzzle enviros

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama blocked construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a gift to environmentalists. Newt Gingrich calls Obama "President Algae" for supporting research on biofuels. And Rick Santorum says Obama's environmental views constitute a "phony theology" that prioritizes the earth over people....

SPIN METER: GOP claims about Obama puzzle enviros

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama blocked construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a gift to environmentalists. Newt Gingrich calls Obama "President Algae" for supporting research on biofuels. And Rick Santorum says Obama's environmental views constitute a "phony theology" that prioritizes the earth over people....
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SPIN METER: GOP claims about Obama puzzle enviros

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama blocked construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a gift to environmentalists. Newt Gingrich calls Obama "President Algae" for supporting research on biofuels. And Rick Santorum says Obama's environmental views constitute a "phony theology" that prioritizes the earth over people....

S Lanka minister in media threat

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
A Sri Lankan cabinet minister threatens violence against journalists and human rights activists who he says have been opposing the government.
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For long-unemployed, hiring bias rears its head

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information technology position....
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Obama's sorrow for shot teenager

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 07:01
President Obama says the "tragedy" of a black teenager killed by a neighbourhood watchman in Florida should prompt national soul-searching.
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