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VIDEO: Suu Kyi leaves Burma after 24 years

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
Aung San Suu Kyi has travelled outside Burma for the first time in twenty-four years.
Categories: BBC, News

War veteran carries Olympic torch

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
The Olympic torch visits Much Wenlock, Shropshire, whose Games were an Olympic forerunner.
Categories: BBC, News

For-profit schools jump to enroll military spouses

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
MIAMI (AP) -- "Unleash the dog trainer inside you," urges an ad for the online Animal Behavior College, which makes no bones about whom it's trying to recruit. In television and online ads, it speaks directly to military spouses. The message: You may be able to attend for free....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Dennis Rodman sentenced in family court

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) -- Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman was sentenced in family court Tuesday to 104 hours of community service on four counts of contempt for failing to pay child support....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation....

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation....

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation....

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation....

Romney to clinch GOP nomination with Texas win

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is set to clinch the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals....

Israel to pay non-Orthodox rabbis

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
The State of Israel agrees to tacitly recognise for the first time rabbis from non-Orthodox backgrounds and pay the wages of those serving communities.
Categories: BBC, News

Syria, Sarajevo and Srebrenica: When outrage isn't enough

CNN - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
On February 5, 1994, shoppers were crowded into the main market square in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. At the time, the city was under siege by Bosnian Serb forces. Just before noon, a single 120mm artillery shell landed in the square.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Malawi to fly old rising sun flag

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
Malawi is to restore the national rising sun flag scrapped two years ago by the late president as “history cannot be rewritten”, the justice minister tells the BBC.
Categories: BBC, News

Repsol to stop drilling in Cuba

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
Spain's Repsol announces it is pulling out of Cuba after failing in its latest attempt to find oil off the island.
Categories: BBC, News

Romney welcomes mass expulsion of Syrian diplomats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling for more "assertive measures" against Syrian President Bashar Assad, including arming the Syrian opposition. The Obama administration so far has declined to help arm the opposition....

Romney welcomes mass expulsion of Syrian diplomats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling for more "assertive measures" against Syrian President Bashar Assad, including arming the Syrian opposition. The Obama administration so far has declined to help arm the opposition....

Romney welcomes mass expulsion of Syrian diplomats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling for more "assertive measures" against Syrian President Bashar Assad, including arming the Syrian opposition. The Obama administration so far has declined to help arm the opposition....

Romney welcomes mass expulsion of Syrian diplomats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling for more "assertive measures" against Syrian President Bashar Assad, including arming the Syrian opposition. The Obama administration so far has declined to help arm the opposition....

Romney welcomes mass expulsion of Syrian diplomats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 05:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling for more "assertive measures" against Syrian President Bashar Assad, including arming the Syrian opposition. The Obama administration so far has declined to help arm the opposition....
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