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Dutch FM flies home to discuss future of austerity

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- The Dutch finance minister has flown home early from an International Monetary Fund meeting to discuss the future of austerity measures torpedoed by euro-skeptic lawmakers and to reassure rating agencies he wants to put his country's budget back on track....

Cruel and unusual -- a test case

Denying juveniles even a chance for parole defeats the penal objective of rehabilitation.

NLD in Burma parliament 'boycott'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
Burma's parliament reconvenes amid a boycott by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, as the European Union agrees to ease sanctions.
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Muslim mob burns Catholic church in Sudan capital

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- A Muslim mob has set ablaze a Catholic church frequented by Southern Sudanese in the capital Khartoum, witnesses and media reports said on Sunday....

Romney on spending: Guns triumph over butter

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney's way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education....

Kipsang, Keitany of Kenya win London Marathon

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
LONDON (AP) -- Kenyan marathon runners showed their superiority ahead of the Olympics on Sunday, with Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany coasting to victory in London to virtually assure themselves of selection for the games....

Twelve ill in rogue drugs scare

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
Twelve people become ill overnight in a Highland town in an incident being connected to illegal drug taking.
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Investigation under way into Amsterdam train crash

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Investigators on Sunday were probing the cause of a head-on collision between two packed passenger trains near a park in Amsterdam that left scores of people injured, many of them seriously....

Ho hum: Obama on brink of Democratic nomination

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's official: President Barack Obama will clinch the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday, ending a low-key primary race that many Americans probably didn't realize was happening....

VIDEO: Harry 'nominates' William for marathon

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
Prince Harry has told the BBC's Sue Barker that Prince William and his wife Kate will run the London Marathon in 2013.
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Iran says U.S. drone codes 'cracked'

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
Iran declared Sunday it has "cracked the codes" of the intelligence gathering system of a U.S. spy drone it captured last year for violating its airspace, the nation's semiofficial media reported.
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Court reform 'to cut frustration'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
Ken Clarke says changes to the European Court of Human Rights will reduce "frustration" over cases such as the proposed deportation of Abu Qatada.
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France's Le Pen won't endorse anyone for president

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
PARIS (AP) -- The leader of France's resurgent, anti-immigrant far right, Marine Le Pen, is refusing to endorse either candidate in the country's presidential runoff and said Tuesday she will cast a blank protest ballot....

Leonardo body drawings go on show

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
Leonardo da Vinci's groundbreaking drawings of the human anatomy are to go on public display for the first time.
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Peru puzzled by 877 dolphin deaths

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
Environmental authorities are investigating the deaths of more than 800 dolphins that have washed up on the northern coast of Peru this year.
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MP Davies' Lords referendum call

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
A Conservative MP calls for a referendum over plans to replace the House of Lords with elected members, which will be unveiled on Monday.
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Iceland court to give verdict on ex-prime minister

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- The man who led Iceland's government when the nation's banks collapsed will learn Monday whether he has been convicted of criminal responsibility for the crisis....

VIDEO: Train crash passenger speaks of panic

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
Investigators are trying to establish why two commuter trains crashed into each other near Amsterdam.
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Iran says is building copy of captured US drone

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran claimed Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy....

Women visit Spanish town to ease a bride shortage

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:53
CANDELEDA, Spain (AP) -- Organizers of a dating association that introduces bachelors in rural central Spanish villages to women bussed in from Madrid say they are trying to slow a population drain from the countryside....
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