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Pope: Cuba needs 'new model'

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to arrive in the geographic center of Mexico at 6:30 p.m. ET on Friday to begin a visit there and then will head to Cuba.
Categories: CNN, News

Call to regulate comparison sites

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
Price comparison websites should be regulated because the information they provide is not always fair, a consumer group says.
Categories: BBC, News

Insurer confusion over drink driving

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
How much drink is too much for insurers?
Categories: BBC, News

US man tells of 'humiliating' arrest in Dominica

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Southern Californian said Friday that he and his partner were taunted, humiliated and subjected to inhumane treatment when they were arrested and jailed after being escorted off a gay cruise in the Caribbean this week....

US man tells of 'humiliating' arrest in Dominica

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Southern Californian said Friday that he and his partner were taunted, humiliated and subjected to inhumane treatment when they were arrested and jailed after being escorted off a gay cruise in the Caribbean this week....

US man tells of 'humiliating' arrest in Dominica

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Southern Californian said Friday that he and his partner were taunted, humiliated and subjected to inhumane treatment when they were arrested and jailed after being escorted off a gay cruise in the Caribbean this week....

African Union force to step up hunt for Kony

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) -- The African Union says it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army....

African Union force to step up hunt for Kony

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) -- The African Union says it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army....

The Grace of a Shadowy Street

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
Lee Sandlin reviews "David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s" and "The Complete Slayers" featuring the short fiction of Paul Cain.


The Roots of Hardship

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
Marshaling evidence from the Roman Empire to modern Europe, "Why Nations Fail" argues that a lack of sustained democracy and capitalism hinders the development of countries.


A Long Walk Unspoiled

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
"Wild" is Cheryl Strayed's account of how hiking the Pacific Crest Trail put her unraveling life into perspective.


Five Best Books: Psychological Mysteries

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
Novelist Jane Harris on tales that invite the reader to puzzle over complex characters, from Vladimir Nabokov's splendidly elusive "Pale Fire" to Barbara Vine's suspenseful "A Fatal Inversion."


Terry Anderson: At Last, Some Bright Spots in Indian Country

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
Tribes are proving they can do better with less supervision from Washington.


Will a Santorum win change GOP race?

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
Rick Santorum has a very good chance of scoring a major victory in Saturday's Republican presidential primary in Louisiana, but the big question is whether it will still matter.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Mali state TV goes off air; fear of countercoup

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Television screens throughout this landlocked country momentarily went black Friday, as residents near the building housing the state broadcaster saw troops erecting barricades, fearing a possible countercoup a day after a military takeover....

Mali state TV goes off air; fear of countercoup

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Television screens throughout this landlocked country momentarily went black Friday, as residents near the building housing the state broadcaster saw troops erecting barricades, fearing a possible countercoup a day after a military takeover....

Mali state TV goes off air; fear of countercoup

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Television screens throughout this landlocked country momentarily went black Friday, as residents near the building housing the state broadcaster saw troops erecting barricades, fearing a possible countercoup a day after a military takeover....

White House turns over documents in Solyndra inquiry

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
The Obama administration turned over 432 pages of e-mail communications and other documents Friday to congressional Republicans investigating the collapse of the solar energy firm Solyndra, the White House said.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Assad family's media romance sours

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:11
The Assad family's relationship with the media reads like a romance gone sour.
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