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Lahore 'blood money' murder hunt

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
Pakistani police launch a murder hunt after the widow and mother-in-law of a man shot dead by CIA contractor Raymond Davis last year are killed.
Categories: BBC, News

Syrian troops and rebels clash across country

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
BEIRUT (AP) -- Activists are reporting that Syrian troops and helicopters are clashing with rebels in the central town of Rastan....

Woman gets 2 life terms for raping infant daughter

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A judge sentenced a Missouri woman to consecutive life prison terms for sexually assaulting her infant daughter along with a California man she met online.

Attorneys for 22-year-old Tessa Vanvlerah of Ballwin failed to persuade St. Louis County Circuit Judge Colleen Dolan to sentence their client ...

FBI: 5 men charged in Ohio bridge bomb plot

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Five men described by federal authorities as anarchists angry with corporate America and the government were charged Tuesday with plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge linking two wealthy Cleveland suburbs....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

John Edwards' attorneys question wife of ex-aide

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The wife of a former aide to John Edwards rebuffed questions Tuesday about whether she has any incentive to lie to hurt the former presidential candidate....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

After 50 years, Cubans hope to travel freely

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
HAVANA (AP) -- After controlling its citizens comings and goings for five decades, Cuba appears on the verge of a momentous decision to end many travel restrictions, with one senior official saying a "radical and profound" change is weeks away....

Human rights showdown awaits Clinton in Beijing

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is headed to Beijing, scene of a tense human rights showdown as activists say talks are continuing between China and the U.S. over the fate of a blind Chinese lawyer who escaped house arrest....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Workers express anger, gloom, elation on May Day

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
MADRID (AP) -- On the front lines of May Day protests this year, along with the traditional chants, banners and marches, a gamut of emotions flowed through the crowds....

Phone-hacking report 'partisan'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
News Corporation criticises a key conclusion of a parliamentary report - that Rupert Murdoch is not "fit" to run the business - as "unjustified".
Categories: BBC, News

Immigrant, labor, Occupy groups join for protests

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The most visible organizing effort by anti-Wall Street groups since Occupy encampments were dismantled last fall were planned for May Day, a change from recent years when protests on the international workers' holiday focused on immigrant rights....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Border force staff 'cut by 10%'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
Figures obtained by the Labour Party reveal a 10% cut in the number of UK Border Force staff over the past two years.
Categories: BBC, News

Junta takes camp in Mali capital, claims control

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- After fierce fighting in Mali's capital Tuesday, troops loyal to the junta overran the main camp of the soldiers who tried to oust them in a countercoup....

Obama ad accuses Romney of outsourcing US jobs

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a new ad Tuesday accusing Republican Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs and slamming him for keeping money in foreign bank accounts....

Hungry homeless man gets arrested intentionally

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) -- Lance Brown was hungry and homeless, so he decided to get thrown in jail by hurling a brick through a glass door at the Columbus courthouse building....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

WaPo: "Profiled at airport? There's an app for that"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08

WaPo: Profiled at airport? There's an app for that:

A Sikh advocacy group launched a free mobile application Monday that allows travelers to complain immediately to the government if they feel they’ve been treated unfairly by airport screeners. Launched at midnight Monday by the Sikh Coalition, the FlyRights app had fielded two complaints by 10 a.m.

Fans injured at teen band concert

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
Concert organisers have confirmed 'several' people suffered injuries as US teen group Mindless Behavior cut short a gig in London.
Categories: BBC, News

Blind lawyer strikes a popular chord in China

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
BEIJING (AP) -- The blind activist at the center of a diplomatic tussle between the U.S. and China did not set out to be a dissident. Chen Guangcheng taught himself law to defend the constitutional rights he saw trampled so often....

Blind lawyer strikes a popular chord in China

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
BEIJING (AP) -- The blind activist at the center of a diplomatic tussle between the U.S. and China did not set out to be a dissident. Chen Guangcheng taught himself law to defend the constitutional rights he saw trampled so often....

Agriculture Department clear after report of suspicious envelope

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says a letter sent to the Department of Agriculture had no threats and was not a hazard.

Agents on Tuesday investigated a report of a suspicious letter at the building at 14th Street and Independence Avenue Southwest.

FBI spokesman Andrew Ames said the letter was ...

Eriksson backs Hodgson to succeed

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:08
Sven-Goran Eriksson urges fans to back his friend Roy Hodgson and insists he will be a big success as England manager.
Categories: BBC, News
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