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Bulgaria scraps plan for second nuclear plant

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport, a top official said Wednesday....

Portugal's woes drive personal bankruptcies

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Nuno Pinto is 40, out of work and contemplating a step he thinks is the only way out of his family's financial plight: personal bankruptcy....

Court: What's left of health law without mandate?

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heart of the Obama administration's health care overhaul hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court is turning to whether the rest of the law can survive if the crucial individual insurance requirement is struck down....
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CCTV appeal after taxi incident

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
Police appeal for CCTV footage as they question a taxi driver on suspicion of attempted murder after eight men are hurt in Cardiff.
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Red-hot Chile peepers: VLT secrets

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
How does biggest ground-based optical telescope actually work?
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JetBlue passengers recount fears during captain's breakdown

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Passengers aboard an early morning flight bound from New York to Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane's top pilot came out of the cockpit, didn't close the door and tried to force his way into an occupied restroom.

The JetBlue captain's co-workers tried ...

Sarkozy embraces small good news for the economy

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
PARIS (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy is playing up tiny signs of a pickup in the stagnant French economy as he tries to convince skeptical voters to hand him a second term....

Food needs 'climate-smart' change

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
Major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption around the world if future generations are to be adequately fed, a major report warns.
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Rugby ace cautioned over assault

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
England rugby player Delon Armitage is cautioned by police following his arrest over an assault outside a Devon nightclub.
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10 reasons some people will dread the Olympics

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
Ten reasons why some people dread the Olympics
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VIDEO: Three hundred tonne sandcastle

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
The Sand Museum in Tottori Japan has commissioned an exhibition of London themed sand sculptures in honour of the Olympics
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Vote Livingstone second: Greens

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
The Green Party London mayoral hopeful asks supporters to vote for her Labour rival Ken Livingstone as their second choice.
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Prominent Pakistani acid victim commits suicide

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistani acid attack victim Fakhra Younus had endured more than three dozen surgeries over more than a decade to repair her severely damaged face and body when she finally decided life was no longer worth living....

Is Obama killing his senators?

Outside the beltway, polling indicates a massacre of Senate Democrats is in the offing in the 2012 elections.

Judges seek E Guinea head's son

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
Two French judges request an international arrest warrant for the Equatorial Guinea president's son on money-laundering charges, reports say.
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Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....
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Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

Friends in Gulf fishing tragedy; only 1 survives

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-05-07 05:10
HOUSTON (AP) -- For hours after their boat sank, Ken Henderson and Ed Coen treaded water in the Gulf of Mexico, talking about life and death while struggling to survive. For more than 30 hours, it worked....
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