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Spanish diocese says court probing alleged abuse of disabled at religious order home

Posted on 12 May 2010

MADRID (AP) — A diocese in southern Spain says a court is investigating allegations of sexual abuse by members of a Catholic religious order against disabled residents of a facility run by…

Afghan Army official: 4 Afghans beheaded, 10 militants killed in fierce gunbattle

Posted on 09 May 2010

KABUL (AP) — An Afghan army official says four members of an informal community defense force protecting villagers in western Afghanistan have been beheaded during a fierce battle with ins…

US diplomat ‘troubled’ by election developments in Myanmar as he embarks on 2nd visit

Posted on 09 May 2010

BANGKOK (AP) — A top U.S. official said Sunday that Washington is “troubled” by the political environment created by Myanmar’s hard-line military regime ahead of the country’s first elections in…

Germany’s most populous state votes, with Merkel hoping to avoid reverse

Posted on 09 May 2010

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s most populous state votes Sunday in the first electoral test for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new government, which hopes to avoid a setback that could make running E…

US transfers 2 Guantanamo prisoners to Spain and1 to Bulgaria, leaving 181 still held

Posted on 04 May 2010

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Spain and one to Bulgaria as part of the Obama administration’s effort to eventually close the prison at …

Sting voices opposition to huge Amazon dam in Brazil, saying it would destroy river, lives

Posted on 04 May 2010

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Sting is speaking out against Brazil’s renewed plan for a huge dam in the Amazon that he helped halt two decades ago, saying the project would destroy a river and…

Cuba approves residential projects linked to resorts, possibly opening door for villas, golf

Posted on 04 May 2010

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has approved construction of residential projects linked to resorts, the tourism minister said Tuesday, possibly opening the door for villas that could one day ring ocea…

Prison authority: Riot in Venezuelan lockup leaves 8 dead

Posted on 04 May 2010

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A riot at one of Venezuela’s most violent prisons has left eight inmates dead and three injured.

Britain’s third party leader Nick Clegg emphasizes differences with David Cameron

Posted on 01 May 2010

ABOARD THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS’ CAMPAIGN BUS (AP) — Opposition Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg appealed Saturday for an overhaul of British politics, saying he wanted changes to an electoral sy…

Romanian-born Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha dies at 81

Posted on 01 May 2010

PARIS (AP) — Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha, who learned the power of art as a boy during the Holocaust when he sketched scenes from a concentration camp onto salvaged scraps of paper, has …


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