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WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Press kept out in S. Korea

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- This is South Korea, right? The democracy with a free press and a close alliance with the United States?...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

U.S. gives $860,000 to Afghan families

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
The money goes to the families of 16 people killed and six people injured, provincial council members say. The shooting rampage is blamed on a U.S. soldier.
Categories: CNN, News

Previously undisclosed Lockerbie files published

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
LONDON (AP) -- A Scottish newspaper has published what it says are previously undisclosed files on the 1988 Pan Am bombing that the only suspect convicted in the case has claimed cast doubt on his involvement....

Syria is top item as US, Turkish leaders confer

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama said he and Turkey's prime minister are looking for ways to bring about needed change in Syria as that nation's leadership continues a bloody crackdown on civilians....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Italian hostage released in India

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
Claudio Colangelo, one of two Italians taken hostage by Maoist rebels in India almost two weeks ago, is released.
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: Grant's new role as cartoon captain

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
Hugh Grant is taking a break from his usual romantic comedy roles to play a pirate captain in a new animated movie from the makers of Wallace and Grommit.
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: Sport Relief runs across the UK

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
Thousands of people across the UK have been participating in running events raising money for Sport Relief.
Categories: BBC, News

West Sussex plans drought summit

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
A drought summit is to be held in West Sussex to prepare for a hosepipe ban.
Categories: BBC, News

Ex-Irish premier quits party over secret payments

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
DUBLIN (AP) -- Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Sunday he has resigned from the Fianna Fail party rather than be expelled over an investigation into secret payments he received while in office, but vowed to clear his name....

French open probe into gunman's brother

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
PARIS (AP) -- Signs mounted Sunday that the brother of a radical Islamist gunman who killed schoolchildren and paratroopers in southern France may have helped prepare the attacks....

Syria intervention talk as diplomacy withers

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
ISTANBUL (AP) -- A year of sanctions, diplomacy and harsh rhetoric failed to stop Syria's bloody crackdown and oust President Bashar Assad. With frustration running high, Turkey and other countries that have staked moral credibility on ending the violence are increasingly looking at intervention on Syrian soil, a strategy they have so far avoided for lack of international consensus and fears it could widen the conflict....

Senegal president, ex-protege face off in 2nd vote

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Police fired tear gas at boisterous crowds outside a polling station in Senegal's capital Sunday as voters decided whether to give their 85-year-old president another term in office or instead back his one-time protege....

AUDIO: Cullum plays on Desert Island Discs

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
Pianist Jamie Cullum has taken a novel approach to revealing his Desert Island Discs - performing three of the tracks himself on the Radio 4 show.
Categories: BBC, News

Battle to keep UK, warns Gillan

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan tells Conservatives the battle to keep the United Kingdom together will be "the biggest challenge of all".
Categories: BBC, News

ObamaCare's contract problem

On Monday the Supreme Court begins three days of oral arguments concerning possible constitutional infirmities in ObamaCare.

Obama: N. Korean rocket test would isolate regime

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Warning North Korea from its doorstep, President Barack Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation in the international community if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch....

Obama: N. Korean rocket test would isolate regime

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Warning North Korea from its doorstep, President Barack Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation in the international community if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch....

Scottish 'border checks' warning

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
An independent Scotland could face the prospect of checks at its border with England, Home Secretary Theresa May warns.
Categories: BBC, News

SKorea: NKorea moves long-range rocket to site

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has moved a rocket to a northwestern site in preparation for a launch next month, South Korean officials said Sunday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with a plan that Washington calls a cover for testing long-range missiles....

SKorea: NKorea moves long-range rocket to site

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 05:39
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has moved a rocket to a northwestern site in preparation for a launch next month, South Korean officials said Sunday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with a plan that Washington calls a cover for testing long-range missiles....
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