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Syrian rebels lack guns, money after key defeats

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
BEIRUT (AP) -- Two significant defeats at the hands of Syrian government troops have exposed the limitations of the country's rebel forces: They are low on cash, running out of weapons and facing a fiercely loyal military that will fight to the death....

Syrian rebels lack guns, money after key defeats

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
BEIRUT (AP) -- Two significant defeats at the hands of Syrian government troops have exposed the limitations of the country's rebel forces: They are low on cash, running out of weapons and facing a fiercely loyal military that will fight to the death....

Blog chronicles joy of Belgian kids before crash

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
HEVERLEE, Belgium (AP) -- A torch-light march. Ravioli and meatball dinners. Rides in a funicular railway. A sing-a-long and a dress-up casino evening....

Swiss bus crash kills 28, including 22 children

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 schoolchildren and six adults returning to Belgium from a joyous ski vacation, police said Wednesday....

Outrage over rape victim suicide in Morocco

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- Morocco's internet activists mobilized on Wednesday in outrage over the suicide of a 16-year-old rape victim who killed herself after she was forced to marry her rapist....

Bogota's vaunted transit system in distress

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Bogota's eco-friendly mass transit system has been widely emulated around the globe, so urban planners were dismayed when a protest by frustrated commuters turned into a free-for-all that nearly paralyzed Colombia's capital....

UK abortion clinic targeted by US religious group

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
LONDON (AP) -- One of Britain's main abortion providers said Wednesday that a campaign run by a U.S.-based religious group is intimidating women who use its services....

Russia says it won't intervene militarily in Syria

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia is providing Syria with weapons to fend off external threats but has no intention to use military force to protect Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Russian foreign minister said Wednesday....

Iran leader: Any attacks bring `same level' reply

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Tehran will retaliate against any attack by Israeli or American forces "on the same level," Iran's top leader said Tuesday in a defiant address just moments after U.S. President Barack Obama appealed directly to the Iranian people with a message of solidarity....

Blog chronicles joy of kids

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
HEVERLEE, Belgium (AP) -- A torch-light march. Ravioli and meatball dinners. Rides in a funicular railway. A sing-a-long and a dress-up casino evening....

Israeli court clears 2 of antiquities fraud

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Jerusalem court on Wednesday acquitted an Israeli collector of forging a trove of Bible-era artifacts but failed to determine whether a purported burial box of Jesus' brother James at the center of the seven-year trial was authentic or a fake....

US vets, Japanese mark anniversary of Iwo Jima

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
TOKYO (AP) -- A brass band played under a blazing sun as American veterans and Japanese dignitaries gathered Wednesday on the remote island of Iwo Jima to mark the 67th anniversary of one of World War II's bloodiest and most symbolic battles....

Strong quakes shake Japan, but no apparent damage

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
TOKYO (AP) -- A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami....

Congo warlord convicted of using child soliders

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord on Wednesday of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world's most serious crimes....

Panetta: Patience with Pakistan 'reaching limits'

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The United States stepped up pressure on Pakistan Thursday as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said "we are reaching the limits of our patience" with a nominal ally that continues to provide a safe haven to al-Qaida-linked militants....

Iran's parliament grills embattled president

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
aad TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament grilled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy and defied the authority of the country's supreme leader....

Workers to raise Bangladesh ferry after 110 die

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Recovery workers were trying to raise the wreckage of a ferry that capsized on a river in Bangladesh while carrying about 200 people, hoping Wednesday's efforts would reveal the fate of dozens of passengers still missing. The death toll rose to 110....

US-Afghan pact achieved despite Karzai's rhetoric

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's president has branded his U.S. allies as corrupt, wasteful and contemptuous of Afghan lives. Once he even threatened to join the Taliban. Nonetheless, Hamid Karzai signed a deal that could keep thousands of U.S. troops in his country for years....

Prince Harry: Royal life no fairytale

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
LONDON (AP) -- Prince Harry has told a TV interviewer that sometimes he and Prince William wish they were just normal instead of royals....

Bhopal victims use Dow Olympic tie to bare woes

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:12
BHOPAL, India (AP) -- On a cold winter night, more than 27 years ago, waves of a lethal gas escaped a chemical plant and swept over the ramshackle homes of this city's sleeping poor, killing thousands and sickening half a million people and making Bhopal synonymous with industrial disaster....
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