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Justice: Mexico should release jailed French woman

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican Supreme Court justice will argue that a French woman serving a 60-year sentence for kidnapping should be released because authorities violated her rights, according to a written opinion released by the court on Wednesday....

Justice: Mexico should release jailed French woman

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican Supreme Court justice will argue that a French woman serving a 60-year sentence for kidnapping should be released because authorities violated her rights, according to a written opinion released by the court on Wednesday....

Terror indictment: Breivik shot 56 victims in head

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Exactly 100 people were shot, some of them up to eight times, before the gunman surrendered to police. Of the 69 people killed, 56 were shot in the head. One drowned and another fell off a cliff in desperate attempts to flee the mayhem....

Terror indictment: Breivik shot 56 victims in head

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Exactly 100 people were shot, some of them up to eight times, before the gunman surrendered to police. Of the 69 people killed, 56 were shot in the head. One drowned and another fell off a cliff in desperate attempts to flee the mayhem....

Norway gunman wants freedom or death for massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II....

'Holland's Next Top Model' wins agency lawsuit

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A former winner of the television show "Holland's Next Top Model" has won a lawsuit against Elite Model Management after she was dropped for having hips the agency considered too large....

'Holland's Next Top Model' wins agency lawsuit

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A former winner of the television show "Holland's Next Top Model" has won a lawsuit against Elite Model Management after she was dropped for having hips the agency considered too large....

Israelis criticize PM's Iran-Holocaust parallels

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli prime minister's linking of Iran to Nazi Germany evoked ringing applause this week at a gathering of a pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington. Back home, though, it drew some heavy criticism....

Afghan official: Explosives seized, attack stopped

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan security forces have arrested five militants with 10,000 kilograms (22,000 pounds) of explosives that they smuggled in from Pakistan to carry out a massive attack in Kabul, as well as another three suspects allegedly planning to assassinate the vice president, an official said Saturday....

Iraq: UN chief to attend Arab summit in Baghdad

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's top diplomat says United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon will attend the annual Arab League summit meeting scheduled for later this month in Baghdad....

Sarkozy: Assad is a killer, must face world court

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
PARIS (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is urging humanitarian corridors for Syria and says its leader should be sent to the International Criminal Court....

Soldier deaths affect Prince Harry's Jamaica plans

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- The lighthearted tone of Prince Harry's Caribbean tour changed Wednesday as the British royal modified his schedule at a military camp in Jamaica out of respect for six British soldiers reported killed in Afghanistan....

3 days after Rep. of Congo blast, no rescue effort

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) -- Families desperately crowded outside morgues on Wednesday while others tried to get past the police tape blocking access to the wasteland that now stretches over one-square-mile of this African capital....

3 days after Rep. of Congo blast, no rescue effort

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) -- Families desperately crowded outside morgues on Wednesday while others tried to get past the police tape blocking access to the wasteland that now stretches over one-square-mile of this African capital....

'Holland's Next Top Model' wins agency lawsuit

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A former winner of the television show "Holland's Next Top Model" has won a lawsuit against Elite Model Management after she was dropped for having hips the agency considered too large....

Avalanche buries village in Afghanistan; 50 dead

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
JARF, Afghanistan (AP) -- Rescuers shoveled through deep snow Wednesday, searching for victims of an avalanche that destroyed a village of about 200 people in northeastern Afghanistan, authorities said. Fifty people have been confirmed dead, and most of the other residents of the devastated village are also believed to have perished....

Avalanche buries village in Afghanistan; 50 dead

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
JARF, Afghanistan (AP) -- Rescuers shoveled through deep snow Wednesday, searching for victims of an avalanche that destroyed a village of about 200 people in northeastern Afghanistan, authorities said. Fifty people have been confirmed dead, and most of the other residents of the devastated village are also believed to have perished....

Breivik charged with terror for Norway massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Anders Behring Breivik was indicted Wednesday on terror and murder charges for slaying 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage, but prosecutors said the confessed killer likely won't go to prison for Norway's worst peacetime massacre....

Lawyer: Jackson theft accused will prove innocence

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
LONDON (AP) -- A lawyer for two Michael Jackson fans accused of stealing unreleased music by the late King of Pop from Sony's computers says the men are confident they can prove their innocence in court....

Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 07:29
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Yoshiko Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects, she warns her daughters: Never have children....
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