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Rowan Williams to step down as Anglican leader

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
LONDON (AP) -- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is stepping down at the end of the year, calling an end to a tumultuous decade as leader of a global Anglican Communion that has been sharply divided over sexuality and gender....

Rowan Williams to step down as Anglican leader

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
LONDON (AP) -- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is stepping down at the end of the year, calling an end to a tumultuous decade as leader of a global Anglican Communion that has been sharply divided over sexuality and gender....

Nazi-seized art ordered returned to American man

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
BERLIN (AP) -- A Berlin museum must return thousands of rare posters to an American, part of his Jewish father's unique collection that had been seized by the Nazis, Germany's top federal appeals court ruled Friday....

Rowan Williams to step down as Anglican leader

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
LONDON (AP) -- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is stepping down at the end of the year, calling an end to a tumultuous decade as leader of a global Anglican Communion that has been sharply divided over sexuality and gender....

Turkish helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; 14 dead

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and two girls on the ground, Turkish and Afghan officials said....

Putin's famous encounter with tigress questioned

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
MOSCOW (AP) -- Questions are emerging over Vladimir Putin's famous encounter with a tigress three years ago....

Apple fans snap up new iPad on 1st day

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The new iPad has arrived in the U.S....

North Korea plans to launch long-range rocket

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea announced plans Friday to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket, a surprise move that could jeopardize a weeks-old agreement with the U.S. exchanging food aid for nuclear concessions....

North Korea plans to launch long-range rocket

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea announced plans Friday to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket, a surprise move that could jeopardize a weeks-old agreement with the U.S. exchanging food aid for nuclear concessions....

Irish launch St Patrick's Day diplomatic offensive

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
DUBLIN (AP) -- Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is leading a global St. Patrick's Day charm offensive that seeks to woo investment from the United States, China and other countries to debt-crippled Ireland....

Anti-terror police join probe into French shooting

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- French police have broadened a probe into the shooting deaths of two paratroopers to include counterterrorism investigators and specialists in serial killers, officials said Friday....

Offshore oil a 'game-changer' for Falkland Islands

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Falkland Islanders are so accustomed to making do with what they've got that many still heat their homes with peat stoves, grow their own vegetables, repair their Land Rovers themselves and raise chickens for their soft-boiled eggs....

Turkish helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; 14 dead

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and two young girls on the ground, Turkish and Afghan officials said....

Asian Apple fans snap up new iPad on 1st day

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
HONG KONG (AP) -- Apple-mania gripped Asia on Friday as the company's latest iPad went on sale, drawing hordes of die-hard fans to shops selling the highly anticipated tablet....

North Korea plans to launch long-range rocket

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea announced plans Friday to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket, a provocative move that could jeopardize a weeks-old agreement with the U.S. exchanging food aid for nuclear concessions....

Irish launch St Patrick's Day diplomatic offensive

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
DUBLIN (AP) -- The Irish prime minister has flown to the United States to lead a global St. Patrick's Day charm offensive that seeks to woo investment from America, China and other countries to debt-crippled Ireland....

Chinese state TV targets McDonald's, Carrefour

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese state television has accused McDonald's and French retrailer Carrefour of selling expired chicken products in separate incidents amid public anxiety in China over food safety....

Oil near $106 as US denies plan to release crude

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Oil prices rose slightly to near $106 a barrel Friday in Asia after the U.S. denied reports it and Britain plan to release some their strategic crude reserves....

Details emerge about US suspect in Afghan massacre

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 11:34
He is the suspect without a name, his identity as shadowed now as the night the Army says he slipped into a pair of slumbering Afghan villages and slaughtered 16 civilians whose safety was his assigned mission....
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