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Britain's Cameron: UK must stand by spending cuts

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
LONDON (AP) -- Britain must stick to its tough austerity measures despite doubts elsewhere in Europe over the best remedy to fix the continent's stalled economies, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday....

Special election in Ariz. to replace Giffords

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are hoping that late campaign appearances by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will help push her hand-picked successor to victory in a special congressional election in Arizona....

Reports: IAEA inspector killed in Iran car crash

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A U.N. nuclear inspector from South Korea was killed Tuesday and a colleague was injured in a car crash near a reactor site in central Iran, news reports said....

Anti-bailout party rejects Greek austerity pledge

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's commitment to austerity is no longer valid because voters have rejected those deals, a left-wing party leader declared Tuesday as he tried to form a new coalition government....

Israeli premier Netanyahu unveils unity government

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a revamped coalition government on Tuesday, forming a broad alliance with the chief opposition party that could free his hand to take action on peace with the Palestinians and decide whether to attack Iran....

`Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early Tuesday. He was 83....
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Relative: Suspect thought kidnapped girls were his

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) -- The Mississippi man on the run from a double-slaying thought he might be the father of the two girls he's now accused of kidnapping, his mother-in-law said....
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Wife of kidnap-slaying suspect charged with murder

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) -- Court officials in Tennessee say first-degree murder charges have been filed against the wife of a man suspected of killing of a woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls....
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Ukraine postpones summit boycotted over Tymoshenko

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine on Tuesday was reduced to calling off a Central Europe regional summit after most heads of state boycotted it over the treatment of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko....

Ukraine postpones summit boycotted over Tymoshenko

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine on Tuesday was reduced to calling off a Central Europe regional summit after most heads of state boycotted it over the treatment of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko....

Report: Schools key to fighting America's obesity

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Schools should be a cornerstone of the nation's obesity battle, but to trim Americans' waistlines, changes are needed everywhere people live, work, play and learn, a major new report says....
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Report: Schools key to fighting America's obesity

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Schools should be a cornerstone of the nation's obesity battle, but to trim Americans' waistlines, changes are needed everywhere people live, work, play and learn, a major new report says....
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Report: Schools key to fighting America's obesity

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Schools should be a cornerstone of the nation's obesity battle, but to trim Americans' waistlines, changes are needed everywhere people live, work, play and learn, a major new report says....
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Israeli PM Netanyahu unveils new unity government

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a revamped coalition government on Tuesday, forming a broad alliance with the chief opposition party that could free his hand to take bold action on peace with the Palestinians and decide whether to attack Iran....

Anti-bailout party leads Greek coalition talks

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The head of a left-wing party opposed to the terms of Greece's bailout got the mandate Tuesday to try to form a new government after an election produced a stalemate in parliament....

Special election in Ariz. to replace Giffords

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are hoping that late campaign appearances by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will help push her hand-picked successor to victory in a special congressional election in Arizona....

Surveillance ends at blind China activist village

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
BEIJING (AP) -- Suddenly the guard posts came down and the hired toughs who manned them melted away, restoring an air of freedom this week to a village that authorities turned into a prison to keep blind activist Chen Guangcheng under house arrest for nearly two years....

Lawyers try to see China activist's jailed nephew

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
BEIJING (AP) -- A Shanghai lawyer said Wednesday he is trying to visit the jailed nephew of activist Chen Guangcheng, who sparked a diplomatic crisis last month when he fled into the U.S. Embassy in Beijing....

CIA derails plot with al-Qaida underwear bomb

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane....
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Red Cross: 1.5 million in Syria lack basics

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 00:55
GENEVA (AP) -- Fighting in parts of Syria has morphed into local guerrilla wars, the Red Cross said Tuesday, where the number of prisoners remains unknown and 1.5 million people need help getting food, water, shelter, power and sanitation....
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