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Japan hunts last fugitive in '95 subway gas attack

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has mobilized thousands of police to hunt for the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway 17 years ago....

Ukraine's prostitutes hope to cash in on Euro 2012

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Yulia, a 20-year-old call girl, is awaiting Euro 2012 with a mix of excitement and dread. She's upped her rates in the hope of earning enough to go to college next year, but "every girl is afraid," she admits. "Anything can happen."...

Spain: Bailout decision could come within weeks

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
MADRID (AP) -- Spain could decide this month to ask for a bailout for its troubled banking sector, a step that would make it the fourth country in the 17-member eurozone to seek help since the EU debt crisis broke out....

RI, feds probing all finances of Schilling company

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The federal and state probes into former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video gaming company, which filed for bankruptcy protection this week, extend to all the firm's financial transactions, the head of the Rhode Island state police said Friday....
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Wife says Clemens wasn't there for her HGH shot

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Debbie Clemens testified Friday that her husband was not present when she received a shot of human growth hormone from Roger Clemens' strength coach - testimony that contradicts the star pitcher's chief accuser in the perjury trial....
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Greece: 2 caught with ancient gold wreath, armband

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) -- A retired policeman and a house painter have been arrested in northern Greece on suspicion of antiquities smuggling after an ancient gold wreath and armband were found in their car, police said Friday....

Indian believers swallow live fish as asthma cure

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- Tens of thousands of asthma-sufferers mobbed a southern Indian stadium Friday to swallow live sardines smeared with a yellow herbal paste they believe will cure their breathing problems....

Powerful storms damage homes in Colo., Wyo.

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
DENVER (AP) -- A rare quarter-mile-wide tornado cut a swath across mainly open country in southeastern Wyoming, damaging homes, derailing empty train cars and leaving one person with minor injuries, officials said....
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Cars avoid crashes by talking to each other

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a safety demonstration, it was a heart-stopper: A Ford Taurus was seconds away from cruising through an intersection when suddenly a row of red lights pulsed on the lower windshield and a warning blared that another car was approaching fast on the cross street....
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Grenada trying to find remains of slain Marxist PM

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) -- A haunting Cold War mystery is getting a fresh look on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where officials are trying to locate the missing remains of a Marxist prime minister executed nearly 30 years ago during a coup that sparked a U.S. invasion....

NATO apologizes for deaths in Afghan airstrike

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
PATROL BASE PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- The commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan apologized Friday for civilian deaths in a coalition airstrike earlier this week - the first confirmation by NATO forces that civilians were killed in the operation....

Japan PM says 2 nuke reactors must be restarted

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's leader appealed to the nation Friday to accept that two nuclear reactors that remained shuttered after the Fukushima disaster must be restarted to protect the economy and people's livelihoods....

Spain: bailout decision could come this month

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
MADRID (AP) -- Spain says it could decide this month on whether to request a bailout for its troubled banking sector....

Artists community grows in Mark Twain's hometown

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) -- Nancy Lee Kaufman was prominent in the arts scene in chic Santa Fe, N.M., and later made her woven art along the ocean near San Diego. So how did she end up living in a previously condemned house near the railroad tracks in small-town Missouri? The short answer: By choice....
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Artists community grows in Mark Twain's hometown

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) -- Nancy Lee Kaufman was prominent in the arts scene in chic Santa Fe, N.M., and later made her woven art along the ocean near San Diego. So how did she end up living in a previously condemned house near the railroad tracks in small-town Missouri? The short answer: By choice....
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MacLaine earns AFI honor for her many lives

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) -- It's not just a single life that gets toted up when Shirley MacLaine receives a career award. It's all her lives - past, present and future....
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MacLaine earns AFI honor for her many lives

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) -- It's not just a single life that gets toted up when Shirley MacLaine receives a career award. It's all her lives - past, present and future....
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US braces for tsunami debris, but impact unclear

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands of people and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government and West Coast states don't have a cohesive plan for cleaning up the rubble that floats to American shores....
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US braces for tsunami debris, but impact unclear

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands of people and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government and West Coast states don't have a cohesive plan for cleaning up the rubble that floats to American shores....
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US braces for tsunami debris, but impact unclear

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-08 10:34
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands of people and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government and West Coast states don't have a cohesive plan for cleaning up the rubble that floats to American shores....
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