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Norway gunman won't appeal case if found sane
2 hours 31 mins ago
The Norwegian right-wing extremist who has admitted to killing 77 people in a massacre last year said Thursday that he doesn't plan to appeal the verdict if an Oslo court deems him sane.
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Argentina drops train operator after deadly crash
39 mins ago
Argentina's government is revoking the concession of the company whose commuter train ran crashed in Buenos Aires in February, killing 51 people and injuring 703.
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Yemen: 35 al-Qaida militants killed in clashes
43 mins ago
Yemen says its troops have killed 35 al-Qaida militants in an attack on a hideout in the country's south, part of a wider offensive.
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Jamaican fraud probe reveals links to politicians
86 mins ago
David Smith was a large-living and influential figure in Jamaica before courts in two countries knocked him down as a fraud artist. He splurged on luxury cars and mansions, flew in a Learjet and sponsored concerts and athletic events. Now court documents say he also was spreading his Ponzi-scheme wealth to the country's politicians.
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Group: S.Sudan troops kill, torture minority tribe
1 hour 31 mins ago
South Sudan military forces tasked with carrying out a disarmament campaign among feuding ethnic groups are raping, torturing and killing members of a minority community, community leaders and aid workers say.
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Egypt's open presidential race polarizes nation
1 hour 40 mins ago
Egypt's wide-open presidential election, which was in its second day of voting Thursday, is showing how deeply polarized the nation has become, with backers of rival Islamists and former regime figures each vowing they cannot let the other rule.
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AP Interview: ElBaradei says Egypt has ways to go
1 hour 46 mins ago
Reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei hailed the end of "the culture of fear" as Egyptians voted for their first democratically elected president but said who wins is less important than establishing national unity.
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Israeli court: Reconsider Gaza student travel ban
2 hours 4 mins ago
Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the military to reconsider its ban on Gaza residents studying in the West Bank.
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6-year-olds wander from Pa. school to museum
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are investigating an impromptu field trip of sorts that occurred when two 6-year-old students wandered away from their school and walked to the city's Children's Museum a few ...
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Group: S.Sudan troops kill, torture minority tribe
South Sudan military forces tasked with carrying out a disarmament campaign among feuding ethnic groups are raping, torturing and killing members of a minority community, community leaders and aid workers say.
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Politics
Gloves stay on in quiet NM Senate primary
Four years ago, Heather Wilson gave up her House seat from New Mexico to make a run for a rare opening in the Senate. She lost in a bare-knuckled Republican primary. This ...
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Finance
US bank earnings rose this winter to 5-year high
U.S. bank earnings rose in the first three months of the year to the highest level in nearly five years and the number of troubled banks fell for the fourth straight quarter.
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Health
Person visited neonatal units before TB diagnosis
A person with an active case of tuberculosis who visited two Northern California neonatal intensive care units had a valid reason to be there and had not been diagnosed at the time, ...
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