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Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi....

Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi....

Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi....

Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi....

Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion fraud

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas and made him fabulously wealthy, was convicted Tuesday of bilking his investors out of more than $7 billion through a Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years....
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India's ruling Congress party loses key state poll

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- India's governing Congress party was badly beaten in a key state election Tuesday, a sharp rebuke that could cripple the already embattled national government over the final two years of its term....

India's ruling Congress party loses key state poll

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- India's governing Congress party was badly beaten in a key state election Tuesday, a sharp rebuke that could cripple the already embattled national government over the final two years of its term....

140mph death crash driver jailed

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
A man who had taken drugs before driving at up to 140mph the wrong way along a dual carriageway in Cornwall, killing a woman, is jailed for eight years.
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Analysis: Putin faces steep challenge in protests

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
MOSCOW (AP) -- The urban professionals who have risen up against Vladimir Putin are the very people he needs to move Russia forward....

Ari Fleischer

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
Marco Rubio. Chris Christie. Mitch Daniels. Paul Ryan. Say those names and Republican hearts beat faster.
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Analysis: From Israel, urgings of caution on Iran

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces significant pressure at home to coordinate with the United States in any attack against Iran's nuclear program, despite his public insistence on Israel's right to act alone....

Chile mine to pay $5m for rescue

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
The owners of the mine in Chile where 33 men were trapped for 69 days agree to pay $5m (£3.2m) towards their rescue.
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Miley earns second Olympic berth

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
Scotland's Hannah Miley secures her second Team GB Olympic berth with victory in the women's 200m individual medley final.
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Opinion: Abraham's lessons for Mideast

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday as more than 10,000 pro-Israel activists gathered in Washington for the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference. But rather than focusing on the stalled Middle East peace process, their talks and subsequent media coverage have centered on the question of using military force to stop Iran's nuclear program.
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Judge temporarily stops Wisconsin's new voter ID law

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction to stop the state's new voter identification law.

The ruling by Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan will stop the law from taking effect for the state's April 3 presidential primary election.

The Milwaukee branch of the ...

Oregon health care picks up where Obama left off

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Pregnant with her seventh child and desperate to kick a meth addiction, Madeline Hutchinson turned to a program from the local Medicaid provider that connected her with a mentor and other support that she says helped her get off drugs....
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GOP hopefuls clash with Obama on Iranian response

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and the Republican presidential hopefuls clashed Tuesday over how to address Iran's nuclear program. The GOP contenders accused Obama of weakness, while Obama blasted back that presidents don't launch wars lightly....

VIDEO: Assad regime 'blood on its hands'

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
Britain's Ambassador to Syria, Simon Collis, has told the BBC that the Assad regime has so much 'blood on its hands' that the Syrian people know it is doomed.
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Syria troops 'shell rebel towns'‎

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 14:42
Security forces have been shelling rebel-held towns in Syria, activists say, as President Bashar al-Assad vows to continue fighting "terrorism".
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