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(AP) Police say eight people, most of them bank employees, have been fatally shot in a bank robbery in a town south of Manila.Police Gen. Ricardo Padilla said the victims were found fatally shot when the bank opened at 9 a.m. Friday. He said two security guards were missing, leading authorities ...
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(AP) Myanmar's junta warned Thursday it will punish anyone found hoarding or trading foreign aid meant for cyclone survivors, but relief groups said they had seen no evidence of people selling or stockpiling donated goods.The government's warning came as the official death toll from Cyclone Nargis was raised to 43,318, an ...
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(AP) President Hugo Chavez on Thursday vehemently denounced Interpol's conclusion that documents detailing links between Venezuela and Colombia's leftist rebels came directly from rebel computers and weren't tampered with by the Colombians."Do you think we should waste time here on something so ridiculous?" Chavez asked foreign journalists during a news conference.Chavez ...
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(AP) The U.N. says the world economy is "teetering on the brink" of a severe downturn and will grow by only 1.8 percent in 2008.That's down from a global growth rate of 3.8 percent in 2007.The U.N.'s mid-year economic projections released Thursday blamed the downturn on further deterioration in the U.S. ...
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(AP) The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday calling for a U.N. political presence in conflict-wracked Somalia for the first time in years and setting conditions for the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.The resolution urged the United Nations to move its Somalia political office from Kenya to the Horn of ...
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(AP) Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a public apology for a decades-long government policy requiring Canadian Indians to attend state-funded church schools _ often scenes of physical and sexual abuse."The apology is a crucial step in the journey towards healing and reconciliation," Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said Thursday.He said ...
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(AP) As of Thursday, May 15, 2008, at least 4,078 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,326 died as a result of hostile action, according to the ...
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(AP) Teachers, postal workers and other public servants staged a one-day strike and tens of thousands marched through French cities Thursday, a widespread protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's planned job cuts.Schools were shut around the country as nearly half the teachers stayed away from work, while about 15 percent of all ...
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(AP) A Moroccan court broadened investigations Thursday into two alleged terrorism cells, one accused of supporting insurgents in Iraq and the other of plotting suicide bombings in Casablanca last year.In the first case, the criminal court in Sale, near the capital, Rabat, said it would investigate the relatives of some of ...
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(AP) The Hezbollah-led opposition and U.S.-backed government reached a deal Thursday to end Lebanon's worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war, now that the Cabinet has reversed measures aimed at reining in the Iranian-backed militants.The feuding factions agreed to hold political talks in Qatar on Friday that will lead to the ...
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(AP) Canada's national pharmacy regulation body is recommending that "morning-after" contraceptive pills be sold over the counter.The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities decided Wednesday to support sales of the drug known as Plan B from drugstore shelves instead of from behind the counter. The body advises Canada's provincial regulatory authorities, ...
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(AP) An international banker whose nomination for Haiti's No. 2 political post was rejected by the lower house of Parliament said Thursday he was hamstrung by corrupt legislators.Ericq Pierre, who was President Rene Preval's first pick for prime minister, accused lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies of demanding cash, Cabinet positions ...
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(AP) Terror leader Osama bin Laden will release a new Internet message dealing with Israel and the Palestinians, a terrorism monitoring group said Thursday.The announcement of the impending comments by the head of al-Qaida was posted on Web sites often used by terror groups, the SITE Intelligence Group said.Bin Laden's statement ...
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(AP) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is denouncing as "ridiculous" an Interpol report on documents that Colombia says were retrieved from the computers of slain rebels.Chavez says a "show of clowns" has surrounded the announcement by the international police agency that it found no evidence of tampering with the computers.Colombia maintains the ...
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(AP) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is denouncing as "ridiculous" an Interpol report on documents that Colombia says were retrieved from the computers of slain rebels.Chavez says a "show of clowns" has surrounded the announcement by the international police agency that it found no evidence of tampering with the computers.Colombia maintains the ...
