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(AP) Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded, police said. A 63-year-old suspect was quickly arrested.Police said the shooting began about 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Sandbar Sports Grill, a popular bar that can hold more than ...

Middle East

Homeland chief warns against anti-Muslim backlash

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(AP) The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas.Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims following Thursday's rampage by ...

Europe and Russia

Germany to celebrate memory of Berlin Wall falling

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(AP) Twenty years ago Monday, they danced atop the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope.On that cold night, years of separation and anxiety melted into the unbelievable reality of freedom and a future without border guards, secret police, ...

Timeline of events leading to communism's collapse

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(AP) Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989:_ June 4: Poland holds first partially free elections in four decades; Solidarity-led opposition wins all but one freely contested seat in parliament._ August: Tens of thousands of East Germans swamp West German diplomatic missions in East Berlin, Czechoslovakia ...

National Elections

2010 elections: Democratic fears, Republican hopes

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(AP) Oh, how the tables have turned.Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governors' races in a cross-country Democratic wave.Now, with most states under ...

Nevada

Ivey, Begleiter bust from World Series of Poker

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(AP) One of poker's most famous faces was bounced from the World Series of Poker early Sunday as two quick eliminations inched those left up the money ladder at gambling's most prestigous event.Phil Ivey, a 32-year-old poker professional from Las Vegas, got unlucky against a 46-year-old logger from Maryland for his ...

General

Police: 1 killed, 2 injured in shooting near Vail

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(AP) A man opened fire inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, killing one person and wounding three others, police said. A suspect was quickly arrested.Police said the shooting erupted about 7:30 p.m. at the Sandbar Sports Grill, a popular bar that can hold more than 200 ...

Suspect identified in Seattle police killing

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(AP) A man accused of shooting and killing a police officer on Halloween night is also suspected of firebombing police cruisers and other property nine days earlier, police said Saturday.At a news conference, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel identified 41-year-old Christopher Monfort as the man shot by police on Friday ...

Middle East

Chinese premier pledges funds, aid to Africa

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(AP) China's premier says Beijing will provide $10 billion in new loans to African nations over the next three years and has outlined a plan to cancel government debts for some of the poorest of those countries.At a two-day China-Africa summit that began on Sunday, Wen Jiabao also said China would ...

Europe and Russia

Germany celebrates memory of Berlin Wall falling

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Germany celebrate memory of Berlin Wall falling

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Asia

Fuel convoy hit in eastern Afghanistan

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(AP) An Afghan police official says at least two private security guards have been wounded and two fuel tankers set on fire in eastern Afghanistan when militants attacked a supply convoy for NATO forces.Provincial police spokesman Ghafor Khan says the two were injured in a battle Sunday near Jalalabad between the ...

Supreme Court

High court to look at life in prison for juveniles

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(AP) Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.Terrance Graham, implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17, was given a life sentence by a judge who told the teenager he ...

Nevada

Begleiter busts in 6th from World Series of Poker

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(AP) Steven Begleiter has busted from the World Series of Poker main event in sixth place after Darvin Moon hit an ace on the final community card to best Begleiter's queens.Begleiter looked certain to double his stack early Sunday shortly after Phil Ivey was eliminated in seventh place, but the ace ...

General

Some saw trouble ahead with Fort Hood shooter

1 hour, 11 minutes ago

(AP) In retrospect, the signs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's growing anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable. But even people who worried his increasingly strident views were clouding his ability to serve the U.S. military could not predict the murderous rampage of which he now stands ...

Middle East

1 hour, 16 minutes ago

(AP) Chinese premier says Beijing will provide $10 billion in loans to African countries.

Asia

British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan

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(AP) Britain's Defense Ministry says a British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan.The ministry said Sunday that the soldier from the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, was killed in an explosion Saturday near Sangin in central Helmand province.Britain is the largest contributor to NATO forces in Afghanistan after the United States ...

Nevada

A glance at the final table of the WSOP

1 hour, 40 minutes ago

(AP) The final nine players in the World Series of Poker main event, along with their finish or final table starting chip counts in parentheses. The finalists emerged from a field of 6,494 players and will compete Nov. 7-10 for the tournament's top prize of $8.55 million. Ninth place will win ...

Ivey eliminated in 7th from World Series of Poker

1 hour, 40 minutes ago

(AP) Phil Ivey has been eliminated from the World Series of Poker main event in seventh place after Darvin Moon caught a queen to make a pair for the last of the professional's chips.The 32-year-old professional poker player lost the last of his chips early Sunday when his ace-king didn't improve ...

General

Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting

1 hour, 40 minutes ago

(AP) The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included several people who shared the same profession as the alleged shooter, a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had ...

Some saw trouble ahead with Hasan

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Ida becomes hurricane a 2nd time off Mexico coast

1 hour, 41 minutes ago

(AP) Ida grew into a hurricane for a second time as it roared over the Caribbean on a path that could take it between Mexico's resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba before heading for the southern United States.Tour operators and fishermen along Mexico's Caribbean coast, including Cancun, pulled their boats out of ...

Middle East

Saudis take mountain from Yemen rebels

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(AP) Saudi Arabian forces have taken control of a mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels, in five days of fighting that saw three soldiers killed and 15 wounded, the assistant defense minister said on Sunday.Prince Khaled bin Sultan said another four soldiers were missing and ...

Asia

Police: Suicide bomb in Pakistan market kills 12

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(AP) A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck a crowded market Sunday in northwest Pakistan, killing the mayor and 11 other people and injuring dozens, police said.The morning attack took place in the town of Adazai, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar. ...

China sends panda expert to Taiwan to aid breeding

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(AP) Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda.So says a panda expert sent by China to Taiwan to advise on how to encourage mating by the pair given by Beijing last December to mark the two sides' growing friendship.After inspecting the ...