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Greek party leaders prepare for crucial debt talks

AP - World News - 1 hour 1 min ago
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek coalition leaders are studying a draft deal on further austerity measures demanded to secure a new bailout that will determine whether the country avoids a looming bankruptcy next month....

Pakistan holds border talks after deadly US attack

AP - World News - 1 hour 21 min ago
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The Pakistani army was meeting with NATO and Afghan forces on Wednesday in an effort to improve coordination along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a sign of thawing relations after American airstrikes accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year....

Russia: Assad wants his VP to speak to opposition

AP - World News - 1 hour 33 min ago
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's foreign minister says that Syrian President Bashar Assad wants his vice president to hold talks with the opposition forces....

Voting begins in key Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

AP - World News - 1 hour 43 min ago
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Residents in India's largest state began voting Wednesday in a monthlong local election with repercussions for the whole nation....

India upgrades its military with China in mind

AP - World News - 1 hour 54 min ago
NEW DELHI (AP) -- In recent weeks, India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier - modernizing its military to face a rising China....

After doubts grow, a regime backer flees Syria

AP - World News - 2 hours 2 sec ago
CAIRO (AP) -- Younes al-Yousef rarely goes outside in Cairo, fearful that even here someone will recognize him and word will get back to Damascus. He stays in a simple, rented apartment with his wife and children, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and watching TV for the latest from the homeland he fled, Syria....

Crusading China police chief drops out of sight

AP - World News - 2 hours 35 min ago
BEIJING (AP) -- A prominent Chinese official who might have been the country's most famous policeman has dropped from sight amid unconfirmed reports of a political scandal and a bid for U.S. asylum....

Maldives leader calls for national unity gov't

AP - World News - 2 hours 46 min ago
MALE, Maldives (AP) -- The new president of the Maldives called Wednesday for the formation of a national unity government in his Indian Ocean nation even as police and soldiers kept watch over his predecessor at an undisclosed location....

New Maldives president calls for calm after clash

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 23:24
MALE, Maldives (AP) -- The Maldives' new president promised to protect his predecessor from retribution after he stepped down amid protests and clashes between the army and police over his decision to arrest a top judge....

New Maldives president calls for calm after clash

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 22:23
MALE, Maldives (AP) -- Maldives' new president promised to protect his predecessor from retribution after he stepped down amid protests and disunity among the army and police over his decision to arrest a top judge....

Qantas grounds A380 after finding cracks in wings

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 22:08
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's Qantas Airways said Wednesday it was temporarily grounding one of its A380 superjumbos after discovering dozens of hairline cracks in its wings during a maintenance inspection....

Qantas grounds A380 after finding cracks in wings

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 22:08
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's Qantas Airways said Wednesday it was temporarily grounding one of its A380 superjumbos after discovering dozens of hairline cracks in its wings during a maintenance inspection....

Qantas grounds A380 after finding cracks in wings

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 22:08
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's Qantas Airways said Wednesday it was temporarily grounding one of its A380 superjumbos after discovering dozens of hairline cracks in its wings during a maintenance inspection....

Jamaica government destroys 2,000 guns in furnace

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 21:01
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking and corruption in Jamaica while reducing violent crime....

Jamaica government destroys 2,000 guns in furnace

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 21:01
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking and corruption in Jamaica while reducing violent crime....

Jamaica government destroys 2,000 guns in furnace

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 21:01
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking and corruption in Jamaica while reducing violent crime....

Age, military ties mark Kim Jong Un's inner circle

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 20:48
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Wherever North Korea's young new leader goes, they're there: a group of graying military and political officials who shadow Kim Jong Un as he visits army bases, attends concerts and tours schools....

Age, military ties mark Kim Jong Un's inner circle

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 20:48
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Wherever North Korea's young new leader goes, they're there: a group of graying military and political officials who shadow Kim Jong Un as he visits army bases, attends concerts and tours schools....

Argentine president to UK PM: Give peace a chance

AP - World News - Tue, 2012-02-07 19:47
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- President Cristina Fernandez said Tuesday that Argentina will formally complain to the U.N. Security Council that Britain has created a serious security risk by sending one of its most modern warships to the disputed Falkland Islands....
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