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Mauritania arrests top Libyan sought by ICC

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Mauritania on Saturday arrested Moammar Ghadafi's former intelligence chief, accused of attacking civilians during the uprising in Libya last year and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner. The International Criminal Court, France and Libya all said they want to prosecute Abdullah al-Senoussi....

Soldier accused in Afghan killings was family man

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
LAKE TAPPS, Wash. (AP) -- Bypassed for a promotion and struggling to pay for his house, Robert Bales was eyeing a way out of his job at a Washington state military base months before he allegedly gunned down 16 civilians in an Afghan war zone, records and interviews showed as a deeper picture emerged Saturday of the Army sergeant's financial troubles and brushes with the law....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Officials: U.S. captive freed in Baghdad

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
An American said to have been held captive for months was handed over to the United Nations office in Baghdad by the movement led by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a U.N. official told CNN Saturday.
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Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Apple firestorm leads artist to change his show

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mike Daisey, the performer who admitted to lying in parts of his monologue about Apple products being made in Chinese sweatshops, has edited the work and added a prologue explaining the controversy....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Car bombs targeting Shiites kill 65 in Iraq

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A wave of car bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in several cities across Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 65 people and wounding more than 200 in one of the deadliest attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from the country....

Thai billionaire who created Red Bull dies

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
BANGKOK (AP) -- Chaleo Yoovidhya, the self-made Thai billionaire who introduced the world to "energy drinks" and co-founded the globally popular Red Bull brand, has died. He was in his 80s....

Thai billionaire who created Red Bull dies

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
BANGKOK (AP) -- Chaleo Yoovidhya, the self-made Thai billionaire who introduced the world to "energy drinks" and co-founded the globally popular Red Bull brand, has died. He was in his 80s....

Thai billionaire who created Red Bull dies

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
BANGKOK (AP) -- Chaleo Yoovidhya, the self-made Thai billionaire who introduced the world to "energy drinks" and co-founded the globally popular Red Bull brand, has died. He was in his 80s....

GOP preps for budget battle with Democrats, Obama

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a few months of relative peace on the budget front, Democrats and Republicans are readying for a party-defining, election-year fight over trillion dollar-plus deficits and what to do about them....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
BERLIN (AP) -- John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name - a legal battle that had not yet ended when he died Saturday at age 91 - made him one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions....

Chavez makes energetic homecoming after surgery

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez led an energetic homecoming celebration on Saturday, rallying thousands of supporters from a balcony of the presidential palace after three weeks in Cuba for cancer surgery....

5 confirmed dead in Sweden plane crash

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Police called off the search for survivors of a plane crash Saturday after discovering body parts on the site where the Norwegian military cargo aircraft slammed into Sweden's highest mountain....

Tribe: Bald eagle permit a victory for tradition

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Tribe: Bald eagle permit a victory for tradition

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Tribe: Bald eagle permit a victory for tradition

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Tribe: Bald eagle permit a victory for tradition

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Mubarak's ex-PM claims to win Egypt president vote

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
CAIRO (AP) -- A campaign spokesman for Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister said Tuesday that Ahmed Shafiq has won Egypt's presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood's claims that its candidate was the winner and setting the stage for a divisive fight for the leadership....

Obama marks St. Patrick's Day with pint in a pub

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 18:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- His jacket was only moss green but his pint was true Guinness....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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