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Report: Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying

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(AP) Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency.Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with classified information in return of money, and Kourosh ...

20 flights without bags after Egypt airport strike

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(AP) Egyptian officials say baggage handlers in Cairo's airport have gone on strike to protest a colleague's death, leaving passengers on 20 international flights from Europe and Arab countries waiting several hours for luggage.Airport officials say senior officials from the country's ...

AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten

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(AP) In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling in an ...

Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

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(AP) The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, "All except the Prophet Muhammad."The case against Dimyana ...

Tunisia bans conservative Islamist conference

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(AP) Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the weekend.The ministry statement, which appeared on their Facebook site, said Ansar al-Shariah's annual ...

A look at `enforced disappearances' worldwide

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(AP) The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is pressing governments to provide information about open cases. Over the past two decades, it received nearly 54,000 cases, of which nearly 43,000 in 84 states remain unsolved. The number of ...

Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado

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(AP) About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off.That was a year ago. ...

Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria

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(AP) The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria.With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Africa's largest country for a half-century is reaching its end. ...

Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap

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(AP) An Egyptian security official says policemen at the country's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip have closed the border on their own initiative to protest the abduction of their colleagues.The official said Friday that the guards will keep the ...

Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan

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(AP) A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country's civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight.A joint U.S.-Russian push to bring together Syria's ...

UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania

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(AP) The first group of exiles from an Iranian opposition group has moved to Albania from a former U.S. military base near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations mission to Iraq said Thursday.In a statement, U.N. envoy ...

Saudi officials expand labs to track deadly virus

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(AP) Saudi Arabia says it has dedicated nine additional laboratories to help investigators track a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS that appears to be centered in the kingdom.Thursday's Health Ministry announcement follows its report that two health care workers ...

Jordan jet crashes near Syrian border, 2 killed

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(AP) Jordan's military says a trainer jet has crashed near the Syrian border, killing its two Jordanian pilots.A spokesman says the British-made aerobatic T-67 Firefly trainer was on a routine flight early Thursday west of King Hussein Air College, a Royal ...

US Navy tests anti-mine drones in Gulf drills

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(AP) The U.S. Navy is putting underwater drones through wartime-style drills as part of international mine-clearing exercises in the Persian Gulf following similar maneuvers by Iran.The U.S.-led exercises, which began last week, include operations by the unmanned SeaFox devices, which are ...

Confrontation looms as Tunisia moves on salafis

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(AP) Tunisia is taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups, a crackdown that has sparked demonstrations by rock-throwing protesters and ominous warnings of terrorist attacks to come.As it struggles to hunt down al-Qaida linked terrorists in its frontiers, ...

Critics assail Israeli silence on Arab peace plan

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(AP) On the surface, the Arab League's improved peace initiative offers Israel everything it ever dreamed of _ normal relations with an entire region that has long objected to the very existence of the Jewish state, and even the chance to ...

Attacks against Lebanese Alawites deepen fears

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(AP) Lebanese members of the Syrian leader's Alawite sect fear their tiny community will be a casualty of the civil war raging in the neighboring country.Already, Sunni Muslim extremists have stoned a school bus, vandalized stores and beaten or stabbed a ...

Palestinian rivals promise unity government

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(AP) A leading Palestinian official says rival groups Fatah and Hamas have agreed to form a national unity government in three months.Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmed said both sides agreed on a timetable that begins with creating laws to govern elections.Al-Ahmed spoke ...

Jerusalem family tattoos pilgrims for centuries

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(AP) Orthodox Christians visiting the Holy Land often return home with more than just spiritual memories. Many drop by a centuries-old tattoo parlor in Jerusalem's Old City, inking themselves with a permanent reminder not only of their pilgrimage but also of ...

Iran expresses regret over killing Afghans

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(AP) Iran has expressed regret for the shooting deaths of Afghan migrants entering the country illegally over the weekend.On Saturday, Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rasoul issued a complaint after 10 migrants were shot and killed by Iranian border guards. Iran initially ...

Egypt's Mubarak talks for 1st time since detention

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(AP) Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, has spoken to the public for the first time since his detention two years ago, saying he is dismayed at the country's state of affairs and particularly the plight of the poor.The 85-year old Mubarak ...

Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina

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(AP) It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.I had trekked out to isolated Neuquen province looking for Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, the ...

3 killed, 3 injured in Puerto Rico shooting

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(AP) Three people have been killed and three others injured during a shooting at a gas station in Puerto Rico.Police say several men opened fire on the group early Saturday in the eastern town of Las Piedras. It is unclear what ...

Brazil beefs up security for Confederations Cup

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(AP) Brazil is using more than 20,000 troops along its borders with 10 South American nations to reinforce security ahead of the Confederations Cup soccer tournament in June.The Defense Ministry says in a statement that 25,000 army, navy and air force ...

Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

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(AP) Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black ...

Cayman Islands ex-premier denies new allegations

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(AP) The former premier of the Cayman Islands who faces charges in a corruption probe is denying allegations that he donated $1 million to a Caribbean university to obtain an honorary PhD.McKeeva Bush said in a statement late Friday that he ...

New board to oversee Trinidad's Caribbean Airlines

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(AP) Trinidad's finance minister has appointed a new interim board to oversee Caribbean Airlines after announcing that the state-owned company posted losses of more than $70 million.Larry Howai says the board has three months to review the airline's finances and make ...

Mexico to create police unit to search for missing

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(AP) Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine days.Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam made the announcement ...

AP PHOTOS: Cuba's LGBT community celebrates

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(AP) A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminates Friday with celebrations of the International Day Against Homophobia.Hundreds of activists have taken part in the activities organized by a sex education center headed by ...

Burmese Python caught in Puerto Rico river

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(AP) Authorities in Puerto Rico have caught a 12-foot (3.6-meter) Burmese Python that they had been trying to find for several weeks following complaints from residents in the area.Sgt. Angel Atienza with the Department of Natural Resources said Friday that officials ...

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