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Army: PTSD treatable; some diagnosed return to war

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- It is still not known if the soldier accused of killing 17 Afghans was ever diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder - but even if he had been, that alone would not have prevented him from being sent back to war....
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Redknapp quashes Spurs slump talk

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp denies his link to the England job has contributed to Spurs's downturn in form.
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Chariots of Fire set for return

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire is to be digitally re-mastered and brought back to the big screen as part of the London 2012 Festival.
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Asian stocks lower as traders eye Greece, China

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Asian stock markets were lower Friday as traders eyed political upheaval in Greece and signs of slowing economic growth in China....

N.J. middle school: Don't hug, please

ABERDEEN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A New Jersey school superintendent says there's no policy against hugging in the district, and says the issue of middle schoolers being told by their principal not to hug each other anymore is being blown out of proportion.

The district says Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School Principal Tyler ...

Guinea-Bissau ex-military boss seeks refuge

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- A relative of Guinea-Bissau's former military chief says he is seeking refuge at a European Union compound in the capital after another ex-official was killed hours after national elections this week....

African Union force to step up hunt for Kony

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) -- The African Union will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony in a new military mission officials say is necessary to remove the Lord's Resistance Army from Central Africa's vast jungle....

Pope decries drug violence in Mexico

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI denounced the drug-fueled violence wracking Mexico and urged Cubans to use dialogue to find new models to replace Marxism as he began a pilgrimage Friday that will take him to both countries....

AP sources: Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a surprise pick for the international financial institution's top job, senior administration officials said....
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African Union force to step up hunt for Kony

ENTEBBE, Uganda — The African Union will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony in a new military mission officials say is necessary to remove the Lord's Resistance Army from Central Africa's vast jungle.

The mission is to be launched in South Sudan on Saturday ...

VIDEO: 'It is such an honour, I'm shocked'

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
Royal Naval Reservist Aircraft Engineer Mechanic Michelle Ping was mentioned in dispatches for her bravery during her first tour of Afghanistan last year.
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Annan wants powers to 'twist arms' over Syria

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N.'s special envoy on Syria has asked governments with influence to "twist arms" to halt the escalating violence in the country, his spokesman said Tuesday....

Murderer showed 'little remorse'

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
A Newry woman is given a minimum tariff of 14 years on her life sentence for the murder of a homeless Polish man who was beaten to death in the city.
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For long-unemployed, hiring bias rears its head

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
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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Somalia ex-President Yusuf dies

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
Somali ex-warlord Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed - the first president of the country's interim government - dies aged 77 in the United Arab Emirates.
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Arrest demand grows in Fla teen's shooting death

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
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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Mali: rebels claim northern town amid coup chaos

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Ethnic Tuareg rebels in Mali say on their website that they have taken a northern town a day after mutinous soldiers declared a coup in the capital....

Highway bill becomes House Republican headache

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bill that Republican leaders were promoting as the centerpiece of their job-creation agenda has instead turned into one of their biggest headaches, thanks largely to tea party conservatives who want to get the federal government out of transportation programs and hand them over to the states....

Highway bill becomes House Republican headache

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bill that Republican leaders were promoting as the centerpiece of their job-creation agenda has instead turned into one of their biggest headaches, thanks largely to tea party conservatives who want to get the federal government out of transportation programs and hand them over to the states....

Official: No sign French suspect had al-Qaida ties

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 05:58
PARIS (AP) -- French authorities have no evidence that al-Qaida commissioned a French gunman to go on a killing spree that left seven people dead, or that he had any contact with terrorist groups, a senior French official said Friday....
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