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Americans train Ugandans for Somalia mission

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
KAKOLA, Uganda (AP) -- American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab....

Groupon's quarterly loss narrows

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
US voucher firm Groupon says its quarterly loss has narrowed from a year earlier and it has a record 36.9 million active customers.
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Met PC found shot dead at station

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
A Metropolitan Police officer dies at a police station after suffering gunshot wounds.
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Vatican mystery intensifies, bones found in grave

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
ROME (AP) -- Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees....

Vatican mystery intensifies, bones found in grave

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
ROME (AP) -- Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees....

Vatican mystery intensifies, bones found in grave

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
ROME (AP) -- Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees....

Syria observer chief says violence derails mission

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, raising questions about how effective the unarmed force can be in a conflict that every day looks more like a civil war....

VIDEO: House of Commons

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
A new regulator will ensure that supermarkets work in the "best, long-term interests of consumers" and "treat their suppliers fairly and lawfully", Business Secretary Vince Cable has told MPs.
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Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed to halt a weekslong hunger strike on Monday in exchange for promises of better conditions, ending a standoff that left several participants clinging to life and drew thousands of Palestinians to the streets in shows of solidarity....

Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed to halt a weekslong hunger strike on Monday in exchange for promises of better conditions, ending a standoff that left several participants clinging to life and drew thousands of Palestinians to the streets in shows of solidarity....

Ron Paul ends 'active campaign'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul ends his active campaign for the White House, his campaign says, with Mitt Romney poised to seal the nomination.
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Pakistani suggests NATO supplies should resume

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's foreign minister suggested Monday that the country should reopen its Afghan border to NATO troop supplies, saying the government has made its point by closing the route for nearly six months in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops....

Pakistani suggests NATO supplies should resume

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's foreign minister suggested Monday that the country should reopen its Afghan border to NATO troop supplies, saying the government has made its point by closing the route for nearly six months in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops....

Pakistani suggests NATO supplies should resume

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's foreign minister suggested Monday that the country should reopen its Afghan border to NATO troop supplies, saying the government has made its point by closing the route for nearly six months in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops....

Paul: 'We will no longer spend resources'

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas and a favorite of tea partyers, effectively ended his presidential campaign Monday but urged his fervent supporters to continue working at the state party level to cause havoc for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney....

Paul: 'We will no longer spend resources'

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas and a favorite of tea partyers, effectively ended his presidential campaign Monday but urged his fervent supporters to continue working at the state party level to cause havoc for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney....

Governor of prison is suspended

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 20:14
The governor of Northern Ireland's third largest prison, Hydebank Wood, is suspended from duty following a report into the death of a 23-year-old female prisoner.
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