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Double-amputee in Cuba sets sights on London games

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
HAVANA (AP) -- Damian Lopez was 13 when he tried to untangle his kite from electrical wires dangling over a street corner and accidentally touched a high-voltage cable....

Double-amputee in Cuba sets sights on London games

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
HAVANA (AP) -- Damian Lopez was 13 when he tried to untangle his kite from electrical wires dangling over a street corner and accidentally touched a high-voltage cable....

Double-amputee in Cuba sets sights on London games

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
HAVANA (AP) -- Damian Lopez was 13 when he tried to untangle his kite from electrical wires dangling over a street corner and accidentally touched a high-voltage cable....

Mass burial for Congolese explosion victims Sunday

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) -- The more than 200 victims of last weekend's deadly arms depot blasts in the Republic of Congo's capital will be buried Sunday in a mass funeral, state radio reported....

2 hostages in Nigeria lived final days in squalor

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) -- The two hostages from Italy and Britain found dead during a botched rescue operation spent their final days living in bare squalor under the watchful eye of their alleged al-Qaida-linked captors, drinking water drawn from an underground tank and possibly enduring bouts of malaria and other illnesses....

A modern Falkland Islands, transformed by war

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they're not complaining about its aftermath....

Greece secures biggest debt deal in history

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

Anti-Kony video campaign draws criticism in Uganda

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- The wildly successful viral video campaign to raise global awareness of a brutal Central Africa rebel leader is attracting criticism from Ugandans, some who said Friday that the 30-minute video misrepresents the complicated history of Africa's longest-running conflict....

Analysis: Victorious Putin has tricky path with US

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
MOSCOW (AP) -- Now that his return to the Kremlin is secure, Vladimir Putin may tone down the anti-Americanism that was a big part of his presidential campaign, but he seems certain to stand his ground in disputes with the United States....

Greece sees finish line in race to slice debt

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's race to slice euro107 billion ($140 billion) off its national debt entered the home stretch Thursday, with markets confident that enough investors will accept to write down more than half of the value of their Greek bond holdings....

Great powers stress diplomacy in Iran standoff

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
VIENNA (AP) -- Six world powers on Thursday urged Iran to answer questions about suspicions it is working on nuclear weapons, but stressed that diplomacy was the way forward, in a carefully worded statement that reflected Western sensitivity to Russian and Chinese concerns about being too harsh on Tehran....

Web star born: Kony video gets millions of views

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he's an Internet star now....

A modern Falkland Islands, transformed by war

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they're not complaining about its aftermath....

Berlusconi skips TV show to congratulate Putin

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:05
MOSCOW (AP) -- Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has skipped his first planned television appearance since stepping down, instead traveling to Russia to personally congratulate Vladimir Putin on his presidential election win....
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