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Jamaica's famed coffee industry facing hard times

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
BRANDON HILL, Jamaica (AP) -- A few years ago in this mist-shrouded mountain town, steep slopes were quilted with some of the world's most valuable coffee trees. Farmers scrambled to increase acreage and pickers painstakingly filled wooden boxes with ripened berries at harvest time....

AP Exclusive: NKoreans skeptical of US nuke deal

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease soon, but rare interviews Friday by The Associated Press with Pyongyang residents suggest deep cynicism of U.S. intentions....

Spanish deficit tests Europe's fiscal treaty

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The leaders of 25 European countries on Friday signed a new treaty designed to limit government overspending, but their good intentions were immediately put to the test when Spain said it would miss deficit targets this year to spare itself from austerity overload....

Iran leader urges strong `message' from elections

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader told voters it was their patriotic duty to cast ballots in parliamentary elections Friday to send a message of national unity during a "sensitive period" in the showdown with the West over Tehran's nuclear program....

2 French journalists who escaped Syria return home

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
VILLACOUBLAY, France (AP) -- Two French journalists smuggled out of a war-torn Syrian city where they were trapped for nine days returned home Friday, one injured and carried from the plane on a stretcher, the other smiling broadly and punching his fist in the air....

Report shines rare light on Somali gov't finances

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- While tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue, according to a report by a former Somali government official....

UK PM Cameron says he did ride the gift horse

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister David Cameron stood before the world's media Friday and finally admitted: Yes, he had ridden the horse....

Pictures capture Japan's heartbreak after tsunami

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan's coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century....

Pictures capture Japan's heartbreak after tsunami

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan's coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century....

After Syria escape, French reporters leave Beirut

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
BEIRUT (AP) -- Two French journalists who had been smuggled out of Syria flew to France Friday, a week after one of them suffered injuries in the restive central Syrian city of Homs, officials said....

Family of doctor in bin Laden hunt slams trial

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- The family of the Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping the United States track down Osama bin Laden said Monday the man is innocent and dismissed his trial as a sham....

Everest climber warns of flood risks in Himalayas

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
TATOPANI, Nepal (AP) -- Before Apa became a legendary Sherpa mountaineer, he was a humble Himalayan potato farmer who worked his fields in the Everest foothills until, without warning, raging floodwaters swallowed his farm....

Afghan clerics call on US to turn over prisons

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A council of Afghanistan's top religious leaders on Friday called on the U.S. to end night searches and hand over its prisons, saying that if Afghans had been in charge, Muslim holy books from a detention center library would never have been burned at an American base....

Russia train journey shows discontent with Putin

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
ABOARD RUSSIAN RAILWAYS TRAIN 109 (AP) -- From the comfy cabins of first class to the crowded and smelly third-class bunks, passengers traveling to Moscow from a remote Arctic boomtown show why Vladimir Putin's almost certain return to the presidency Sunday feels less than triumphant....

Russia train journey shows discontent with Putin

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
ABOARD RUSSIAN RAILWAYS TRAIN 109 (AP) -- From the comfy cabins of first class to the crowded and smelly third-class bunks, passengers traveling to Moscow from a remote Arctic boomtown show why Vladimir Putin's almost certain return to the presidency Sunday feels less than triumphant....

Russia train journey shows discontent with Putin

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
ABOARD RUSSIAN RAILWAYS TRAIN 109 (AP) -- From the comfy cabins of first class to the crowded and smelly third-class bunks, passengers traveling to Moscow from a remote Arctic boomtown show why Vladimir Putin's almost certain return to the presidency Sunday feels less than triumphant....

Russia train journey shows discontent with Putin

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
ABOARD RUSSIAN RAILWAYS TRAIN 109 (AP) -- From the comfy cabins of first class to the crowded and smelly third-class bunks, passengers traveling to Moscow from a remote Arctic boomtown show why Vladimir Putin's almost certain return to the presidency Sunday feels less than triumphant....

Russia train journey shows discontent with Putin

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
ABOARD RUSSIAN RAILWAYS TRAIN 109 (AP) -- From the comfy cabins of first class to the crowded and smelly third-class bunks, passengers traveling to Moscow from a remote Arctic boomtown show why Vladimir Putin's almost certain return to the presidency Sunday feels less than triumphant....

Russia train journey shows discontent with Putin

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
ABOARD RUSSIAN RAILWAYS TRAIN 109 (AP) -- From the comfy cabins of first class to the crowded and smelly third-class bunks, passengers traveling to Moscow from a remote Arctic boomtown show why Vladimir Putin's almost certain return to the presidency Sunday feels less than triumphant....

Russia train journey shows discontent with Putin

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:21
ABOARD RUSSIAN RAILWAYS TRAIN 109 (AP) -- From the comfy cabins of first class to the crowded and smelly third-class bunks, passengers traveling to Moscow from a remote Arctic boomtown show why Vladimir Putin's almost certain return to the presidency Sunday feels less than triumphant....
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