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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama campaign is running its first Spanish-language television ads aimed at rallying support among Hispanics, an increasingly important voting bloc....

SPRING, Texas (AP) — A nurse has admitted to fatally shooting a young mother in a town near Houston and abducting the dying woman's newborn son whom she apparently intended to adopt, authorities said Wednesday.

Verna McClain is charged with capital murder in the killing of 28-year-old Kala Marie Golden. ...

South Africans woke up on Wednesday morning to the claim that a group of Soweto youths had filmed themselves raping a 17-year-old girl believed to be mentally ill.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children are expected to be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, after their scheduled departure the previous day was delayed for bureaucratic reasons, their lawyer said....

Police came to defendant’s house on a child welfare call and asked to come in, and they were permitted. The court discusses the "hierarchy among tenants" for apparent consent. United States v. MacArthur, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52269 (S.D. W.Va. April 13, 2012):

Co-tenant consent may also be limited where a hierarchy among tenants in authority over the premises makes the consent of one insufficient to validate a search of the entire premises. For example, although a short-term guest has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his temporary quarters, Minnesota v. Olson, 495 U.S. 91, 99, 110 S. Ct. 1684, 109 L. Ed. 2d 85 (1990), his control over all portions of the home where he stays may not be as extensive that of the owner, or a more permanent co-tenant. See Olson, 495 U.S. at 99 ("From the overnight guest's perspective, he seeks shelter in another's home precisely because it provides him with privacy, a place where he and his possessions will not be disturbed by anyone but his host and those his host allows inside.") (emphasis added); see also State v. Grant, 614 N.W. 2d 848, 853 (Iowa App. 2000) ("an overnight guest's legitimate expectation of privacy does not vitiate the homeowner's ability to consent to a search of his home.") (collecting cases).

A prominent human rights campaigner has been sentenced to four years in prison by a state security tribunal in Saudi Arabia, campaigners says.

RUBKONA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudanese warplanes bombed a market and an oil field in South Sudan on Monday, killing at least two people after Sudanese ground forces had reportedly crossed into South Sudan with tanks and artillery, elevating the risk of all-out war between the two old enemies....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Fighting spread further along the Sudan-South Sudan border when soldiers from both countries got into a firefight, killing 22 troops,a southern spokesman said Wednesday....

Readers' responses to Saudi princess’s call for change

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's central bank says the country has raised (EURO)4.2 billion ($5.5 billion) in a bond auction that saw investors accepting a record low return....

LONDON (AP) -- Markets reined in their expectations of a further economic stimulus from the Bank of England after minutes to its last rate-setting meeting showed a near-unanimous decision not to change the current program....

A museum in Italy has started burning its artworks in protest at budget cuts which it says have left cultural institutions out of pocket.

UK unemployment has fallen by 35,000 to 2.65 million, the first fall since last spring, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Chemical testing of samples from near the North Sea platform leaking gas indicate "no direct marine contamination", the Scottish government says.

VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend to sign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume a long- stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developing nuclear arms, the agency and diplomats said Friday....

Four files relating to alleged offences committed by journalists have been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider if charges can be brought.

Adam Hollioake says the theft of his late brother Ben's England cricket kit left his parents distraught.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending....

Sudan and South Sudan accuse each other of opening up a new front along the disputed border, raising fears of all-out war.

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