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Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

US man captured by militia in Iraq released to UN

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Wearing a U.S. Army uniform and flanked by Iraqi lawmakers, an American citizen announced Saturday that he was being released from more than nine months of imprisonment by a Shiite militia that for years targeted U.S. troops....

John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BERLIN (AP) -- John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name - a legal battle that had not yet ended when he died Saturday at age 91 - made him one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions....

Mauritania arrests top Libyan sought by ICC

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Mauritania on Saturday arrested Moammar Ghadafi's former intelligence chief, accused of attacking civilians during the uprising in Libya last year and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner. The International Criminal Court, France and Libya all said they want to prosecute Abdullah al-Senoussi....

Mauritania arrests top Libyan sought by ICC

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Mauritania on Saturday arrested Moammar Ghadafi's former intelligence chief, accused of attacking civilians during the uprising in Libya last year and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner. The International Criminal Court, France and Libya all said they want to prosecute Abdullah al-Senoussi....

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Car bombs targeting Shiites kill 65 in Iraq

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A wave of car bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in several cities across Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 65 people and wounding more than 200 in one of the deadliest attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from the country....

Thai billionaire who created Red Bull dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BANGKOK (AP) -- Chaleo Yoovidhya, the self-made Thai billionaire who introduced the world to "energy drinks" and co-founded the globally popular Red Bull brand, has died. He was in his 80s....

Thai billionaire who created Red Bull dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BANGKOK (AP) -- Chaleo Yoovidhya, the self-made Thai billionaire who introduced the world to "energy drinks" and co-founded the globally popular Red Bull brand, has died. He was in his 80s....

Thai billionaire who created Red Bull dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BANGKOK (AP) -- Chaleo Yoovidhya, the self-made Thai billionaire who introduced the world to "energy drinks" and co-founded the globally popular Red Bull brand, has died. He was in his 80s....

John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
BERLIN (AP) -- John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name - a legal battle that had not yet ended when he died Saturday at age 91 - made him one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions....

Chavez makes energetic homecoming after surgery

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez led an energetic homecoming celebration on Saturday, rallying thousands of supporters from a balcony of the presidential palace after three weeks in Cuba for cancer surgery....

5 confirmed dead in Sweden plane crash

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Police called off the search for survivors of a plane crash Saturday after discovering body parts on the site where the Norwegian military cargo aircraft slammed into Sweden's highest mountain....

Mubarak's ex-PM claims to win Egypt president vote

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 17:43
CAIRO (AP) -- A campaign spokesman for Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister said Tuesday that Ahmed Shafiq has won Egypt's presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood's claims that its candidate was the winner and setting the stage for a divisive fight for the leadership....
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