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Greek conservative Samaras: We must stay in euro

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Proposals by Greece's radical left party to withdraw from the international bailout commitments will lead to a "certain and immediate" catastrophe, Greece's conservative leader said Wednesday....

Myanmar reforms leave political prisoners behind

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- In a remote prison in northwest Myanmar, Aye Aung wakes up each day as he has for nearly 14 years - alone in a dark cell on a wooden plank, a prisoner of conscience all but forgotten by the world....

Putin to parade: Russia will stand up for itself

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
MOSCOW (AP) -- Speaking to thousands of soldiers at the annual Red Square military parade, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Wednesday that the country is a force for world security and that Russia will stand up for its positions....

Asia's superrich build their own art museums

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
HONG KONG (AP) -- Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they've amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China's flashy nouveau riche....

Against Obama, even a jailbird gets some votes

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary....

Against Obama, even a jailbird gets some votes

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary....

Against Obama, even a jailbird gets some votes

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary....

Double agent hands al-Qaida its 3rd failed bombing

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the past three years, al-Qaida bomb makers in Yemen have developed three fiendishly clever devices in hopes of attacking airplanes in the skies above the United States....
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Double agent hands al-Qaida its 3rd failed bombing

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the past three years, al-Qaida bomb makers in Yemen have developed three fiendishly clever devices in hopes of attacking airplanes in the skies above the United States....
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Double agent hands al-Qaida its 3rd failed bombing

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the past three years, al-Qaida bomb makers in Yemen have developed three fiendishly clever devices in hopes of attacking airplanes in the skies above the United States....
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India's top court refuses entry to Exxon Valdez

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated....

Farmers markets getting money to take food stamps

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The federal government is spending $4 million to help hook up farmers and low-income customers....
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Farmers markets getting money to take food stamps

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The federal government is spending $4 million to help hook up farmers and low-income customers....
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Asia's superrich build their own art museums

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
HONG KONG (AP) -- Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they've amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China's flashy nouveau riche....

Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
MIAMI (AP) -- The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest....
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Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
MIAMI (AP) -- The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest....
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9 men to be sentenced in UK sex ring case

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
LONDON (AP) -- A judge in northwest England is set to sentence nine men of Pakistani and Afghan descent for luring girls as young as 13 years old into sexual encounters using alcohol and drugs....

FDA: Kids' medical tests need child-size radiation

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is taking steps to help ensure that children who need CT scans and other X-ray-based tests don't get an adult-sized dose of radiation....
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FDA: Kids' medical tests need child-size radiation

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is taking steps to help ensure that children who need CT scans and other X-ray-based tests don't get an adult-sized dose of radiation....
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Politician's disappearance fuels Bangladesh crisis

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 10:25
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The night watchman was dozing in a wooden chair just after midnight on a deserted Bangladeshi street when he was startled by a scream. A group of men were pulling two people from a car and forcing them into a black microbus; "The two guys were shouting, 'Save us,'" before the car pulled away, Lutfar Rahman said....
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