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Farc 'agree to release reporter'

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
Colombia's Farc rebels say they will release captured French journalist Romeo Langlois to the Red Cross and an envoy of President-elect Hollande.
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A Prize for Creative Dissent

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
Three winners in the mold of Václav Havel.


Memphis soul bassist 'Duck' Dunn dies

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bass player who laid the musical floor beneath soul legends like Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave and Otis Redding, has died at age 70, his family announced Sunday.
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Crovitz: From Nuremberg to Guantanamo

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
The 9/11 trial will have meaning if it leads to a clear public accounting of the terrorists' crimes.


Green leader Lucas to stand down

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas says she will not be seeking re-election when her second term ends in September.
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Activists back in Madrid square

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
Hundreds of protesters marking a year of the "indignados" movement in Spain return to a central Madrid square, hours after police disperse them.
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24 al Qaeda militants killed in Yemen

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
Government troops in southern Yemen on Sunday attacked al Qaeda hideouts, killing two dozen suspected militants in the latest push to clear the area of the terror organization, local security officials said.
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Alabama farmers cut crops

ONEONTA, Ala. — Some Alabama farmers say they are planting less produce rather than risk having tomatoes and other crops rot in the fields a second straight year because of labor shortages linked to the state's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Keith Dickie said he and other growers in the heart ...

1 in 3 young adults with autism lack jobs, education

CHICAGO — One in three young adults with autism have no paid-job experience, college or technical school nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds.

That's a poorer showing than those with other disabilities including those who are mentally disabled, the researchers said. With roughly a half-million autistic ...

Anders Fogh Rasmussen: NATO's First Step on Missile Defense

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
The initial elements of the United States' network of satellites, sensors and sea-based interceptors are already deployed to Europe.


O'Grady: Chevron's Ecuador Morass

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
The U.S. oil company charges that the $18 billion judgment against it was secured by fraud.


Yuval Porat: Iranians Have Democratic Values

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
New research reveals that Iranian society has a pro-liberal value structure deeply at odds with the fundamentalist regime.


Herman Cain: We Need a Dollar as Good as Gold

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.


John Snow: 'Taxmaggedon' Is a Real Threat

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
Next year's scheduled increases on dividends and capital gains will retard investment and derail the recovery.


Greek coalition in serious doubt

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Critical talks to form a governing coalition in crisis-struck Greece foundered once more, leading the country one step closer to new elections - and bringing its continued presence in the euro into serious doubt....

Crash kills speedway's Richardson

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
Great Britain international speedway rider Lee Richardson dies following a crash at a race in Poland.
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Deal looks near to end Palestianian hunger strike

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 15:50
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Egyptian and Palestinian officials said Sunday they were close to reaching a deal with Israel that would end a mass hunger strike by Palestinians in Israeli jails....
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