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Dark clouds hang over air shows after budget cuts

13 minutes ago

(AP) The automatic budget cuts that grounded the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds are taking a toll on performers, air show announcers, concessionaires, vendors and others who depend on air shows and the millions of spectators.All told, the International ...

Texas executes man for fatal shooting of officer

15 minutes ago

(AP) A 37-year-old Houston man convicted of killing a police officer 14 years ago has been put to death.Jeffrey Demond Williams' execution Wednesday evening came just over an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-day appeal from his attorneys. ...

Brother arrested in fatal Calif. stabbing of girl

18 minutes ago

(AP) Authorities say they have arrested the brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a quiet Northern California community last month.Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz told reporters at a news conference that the arrest was ...

Landing gear issue leads to plane's belly landing

1 hour, 58 minutes ago

(AP) An airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson tells The Associated Press ...

SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles

2 hours, 13 minutes ago

(AP) South Korea says North Korea has fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters. Pyongyang routinely test-launches such missiles.Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok says the North fired two missiles Saturday morning and another in the afternoon. He says the ...

Myanmar leader to meet Obama but stalls on reforms

2 hours, 19 minutes ago

(AP) Myanmar President Thein Sein's (tayn sayns) historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime.But in the six months since Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar, the Southeast ...

Internal wrangling marks Dems' Senate campaigns

2 hours, 23 minutes ago

(AP) Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota. Their decisions highlighted the party's challenge of finding ...

Ex-warlord Johnson in Liberia quits his own party

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Prince Johnson, a former warlord best known for videotaping himself as he ordered the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced that he is quitting the political party he founded.For years since the end of Liberia's civil war, Johnson has tried to ...

Zimbabwe PM: We are 'new broom' set to win polls

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is poised to win the presidency in upcoming elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation.Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday his party championed a new constitution accepted in a ...

Death toll rises in Mpumalanga initiation deaths

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) South African police say 23 youths have died over a period of nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests.Spokesman Lt. Col. Leonard Hlathi says police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in the northeastern ...

Son of 'disappeared' Arab in Mali also arrested

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Relatives say Mohamed Ould Ali, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has been arrested in Mali's capital. He had been attempting to sue the Malian military for his father's recent disappearance.Ali belongs to the country's minority ...

More than 20 killed in Congo mine collapse

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) The government of Congo says more than 20 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province. That's in the far eastern part of the country.The statement sent to reporters ...

S. Sudan: Doctors Without Borders hospital ruined

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed.The group said Friday the attack leaves 100,000 people without medical care in ...

Mystical branch of Islam has resurgence in Somalia

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than anyone else'sSufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a major comeback since ...

South African army prepares for Congo

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) The head of the South African army says soldiers who will join a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though his overall force is overstretched and underfunded.Lt. Gen. V.R. Masondo also told media at a ...

9 activists arrested in Equatorial Guinea

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) A human rights group says authorities in Equatorial Guinea have arrested nine activists before this month's legislative elections.Amnesty International said Wednesday the arrests were "further evidence of the authorities' determination to clamp down on free speech" before the May 26 ...

South Africa: Winnie items for sale

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Dozens of paintings, a silver tea set and other items belonging to Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie will be auctioned to pay off debts she owes to a South African school.A law firm representing the Abbotts School in Johannesburg says the ...

Rwanda building collapse kills 3, injures 21

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Police in Rwanda say a four-story building that was under construction collapsed, killing at least three workers and injuring 21 more people.Rwandan police said in a statement late Tuesday that the building in the eastern district of Nyagatare collapsed Tuesday ...

Mali leader: Presidential election set for July 28

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Mali's interim leader says the country's presidential vote will take place on July 28 after months of speculation about the date.On a visit to Belgium ahead of a donors' conference for Mali, President Dioncounda Traore also said Tuesday that neither ...

SAfrica: Thieves stage heist after Bieber concert

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) South African police say thieves stole several hundred thousand dollars from a safe at a Johannesburg stadium where Justin Bieber and Jon Bon Jovi performed over the weekend.South African media reported Tuesday that criminals climbed down a ladder and lowered ...

Congo to create city in honor of Patrice Lumumba

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) The Congolese government is naming a town after Patrice Lumumba, the country's first prime minister whose assassination more than 50 years ago made him a liberation symbol worldwide.The new city in central Congo, named Lumumbaville, will be made of several ...

Ethiopian gov't minister, businessmen arrested

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) An Ethiopian court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors have two weeks to finalize corruption charges against two dozen people who have been arrested, including a senior Cabinet minister.The 24 people charged include the head of Ethiopia's revenue and customs authority, Melaku ...

Kenyan protesters release pigs over parliament pay

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Kenyan demonstrators released nearly three dozen piglets outside parliament to protest the country's legislator's demands for a salary raise.Police and parliament officials chased the piggies after using tear gas, truncheons and water cannons to disperse the nearly 250 protesters who ...

South Africa: Man charges elephant

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) A safari lodge company based in South Africa says a field guide who was filmed while charging on foot toward an elephant has been dismissed.The announcement came after the online posting of a video that showed a man running at ...

10-year sentence sought for Canadian in Mauritania

2 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) Prosecutors in Mauritania are seeking to lengthen the sentence of a Canadian man who is imprisoned for alleged links to terror groups.Aaron Yoon, 24, was convicted last July on charges of having ties to a terrorist group and of posing ...

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