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At least 500 dead in Nigeria election riots

Apr 25, 2011

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) ― At least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria’s presidential election, a civil rights group said Sunday, as volatile state gubernatorial elections loom this week. Meanwhile, police in the northern state of Bauchi said at least 11 recent college graduates who helped run polling stations as part of the country’s national youth service corps have been ki...
Taliban break more than 450 out of Afghan prison

Apr 25, 2011

Afghan and NATO forces secure the entrance of the police headquarters after a Taliban suicide attack killed the police chief of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Khan Mohammad Mujahid and his two bodyguards, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday April 15, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News) KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) _ Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into t...
Body parts found in upscale Mexico City district

Apr 25, 2011

Police stand around a warning message painted on a banner left near the site where five dismembered bodies were found on the sidewalk next to a car in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico. There are a half dozen words for drug cartel informants, and double that for drug war dead. "Narco" has become a general prefix. The trend has people worrying that Mexico is developing a kind of offhand ...
Syria targets activists in pinpoint raids

Apr 25, 2011

A Syrian protester holds up a Syrian national flag during a demonstration attended by Syrians living in Jordan against Bashar's government and the ruling Baath Party in front of Syrian embassy in Amman, capital of Jordan, on April 24, 2011. (Xinhua-Yonhap News) BEIRUT (AP) _ Syrian security forces detained dozens of opposition activists and fired from rooftops in a seaside town Sunday as authori...
More than 120 dead in Syria unrest

Apr 24, 2011

BEIRUT (AP) ― Syrian security forces fired on funeral processions that drew tens of thousands Saturday, one day after the bloodiest crackdown so far in the uprising against President Bashar Assad. The shootings pushed the two-day death toll to more than 120 and two lawmakers and a religious leader resigned in disgust over the killings. The resignations were a possible sign of cracks developing i...
Yemeni president agrees to resign in 30 days

Apr 24, 2011

Parliament will grant Saleh legal protection; power to be handed to vice president SANAA (AP) ― Yemen’s embattled president agreed Saturday to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a major about-face for the autocratic leader who has ruled for 32 years. A coalition of seven opposition parties said th...
Yemeni president agrees to step down in 30 days

Apr 24, 2011

SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Yemen's embattled president agreed Saturday to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a major about-face for the autocratic leader who has ruled for 32 years. A coalition of seven opposition parties said they also accepted the deal but with reservations. Even if the differences are ...
British couples share royal wedding spotlight

Apr 24, 2011

LONDON (AP) _ What is it like getting married on the same day as Prince William and Kate Middleton? As the royal wedding looms, hundreds of harried couples across Britain are trying to figure out how to share the spotlight with the world's most-watched couple. Sharon Hannon, 37, said she was initially upset when she saw her own wedding date being flashed across the television screen underneath a...
U.S. sends drones to Libya

Apr 22, 2011
Blast kills 16 as Pakistan vows to defeat terror

Apr 22, 2011

KARACHI (AFP) ― At least 16 people were killed and more than 30 wounded in a blast at a gambling den in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi late Thursday, senior police and government officials said. The explosion ripped through the city’s biggest gambling complex, known as the Rummy Club, senior government official Sharfuddin Memon said. “It was a homemade bomb placed in a packet inside t...
Japan seals off no-go zone around nuclear plant

Apr 22, 2011

FUTABA, Japan (AP) ― Japan sealed off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant Friday to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs. Fearing they might not see their homes again for months, evacuees raced into the deserted towns Thursday before the ban too...
Prayers test Assad’s response to protests

Apr 22, 2011
U.N. chief: More nuclear accidents likely

Apr 21, 2011

KIEV (AP) ― The world must prepare for more nuclear accidents on the scale of Chernobyl and Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, the U.N. chief warned, saying that grim reality will demand sharp improvements in international cooperation. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others portrayed the growth of nuclear power plants as inevitable in an energy-hungry world as they spoke at a Kiev conferenc...
Pop star declared Haiti president

Apr 21, 2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) ― Michel Martelly, a Haitian popular singer known by the stage name “Sweet Micky,” was officially declared the earthquake-devastated country’s next president, election officials said Wednesday. A spokesman for Haiti’s electoral commission, Pierre Thibault, said Martelly won the presidency with 67.57 percent of the vote, defeating rival candidate Mirlande Manigat. The announc...
France vows to step up airstrikes in Libya

Apr 21, 2011

European officials portray assistance as effort to fill rebels’ military gap PARIS (AP) ― Europe has moved closer to doing what it said it wouldn’t do in Libya ― directly jump into the bid to overthrow leader Moammar Gadhafi. France said Wednesday it has already sent military officers to work with Libyan rebels on the ground, in addition to stepping up airstrikes. Italy and Britain have said th...