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Distinctive salutes run the political gamut

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
Black power. White power. Nazis. Communists....

Distinctive salutes run the political gamut

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
Black power. White power. Nazis. Communists....

US choice is new World Bank chief

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
Jim Yong Kim, a US health expert, is chosen to take over as the new president of the World Bank, after a challenge from Nigeria's finance minister.
Categories: BBC, News

Five arrested at 'sham wedding'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
UK Border Agency staff make five arrests ahead of a wedding ceremony in Larne, County Antrim.
Categories: BBC, News

Fear and defiance amid Syria ceasefire

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
BBC finds fear and defiance in war-torn Syrian province
Categories: BBC, News

Top Euro MP condemns Acta treaty

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
A key Euro MP strongly advises the European Parliament to reject the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
Categories: BBC, News

Emergency landing shuts Gatwick

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
All flights into and out of London's Gatwick Airport were temporarily suspended Monday after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing amid reports of smoke in the cabin.
Categories: CNN, News

Warnings credited in Midwest tornado outbreak

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
THURMAN, Iowa (AP) -- Concerned that Midwesterners might be complacent after repeated tornado warnings came to nothing, forecasters issued a sternly worded alert, well in advance, that weekend storms could prove fatal....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Player whose heart stopped goes home

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers midfielder who suffered a near-fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch last month, has left hospital.
Categories: CNN, News

VIDEO: Lord Ahmed denies Obama bounty claim

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
Suspended Labour peer Lord Ahmed has told the BBC he is "shocked and horrified" at claims that he called for a £10m bounty for the capture of US Presidents Obama and Bush.
Categories: BBC, News

Torch relay support team unveiled

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
One of the 2012 Olympic torch relay sponsors unveils its fleet of support vehicles.
Categories: BBC, News

Witnesses describe island massacre in Norway trial

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Witnesses in Norway recounted Thursday how mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik - armed and in police uniform - managed to trick his way onto a ferry to Utoya island, where he massacred 69 people in a shooting spree just hours after killing eight people in a bomb attack....

Norway's mass killer's tears not 'out of pity'

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Anders Behring Breivik shed tears as he went on trial Monday for killing 77 people - but not for his victims. The emotional display came when prosecutors showed his anti-Muslim video....

Rape jury told woman 'in control'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
One of two footballers accused of raping a woman "too drunk to consent" told police she was "in control of her actions," a jury hears.
Categories: BBC, News

Israel's Barak: Weigh 'unilateral action'

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
JERUSALEM (AP) -- There are signs the Israeli government is considering taking unilateral action if peace talks with the Palestinians remain stalled, a move which could involve a withdrawal from parts of the West Bank along the lines of a 2005 pullout from the Gaza Strip....

Iran tightens grip on web in 'soft war' with West

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran calls it the "soft war" with the West: Battles to control, defend and monitor the Internet and other high-level telecommunications. The latest move came quietly when the powerful Revolutionary Guard recently launched what it claims is a hack-proof communications network for its high-level commanders....

Iran tightens grip on web in 'soft war' with West

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran calls it the "soft war" with the West: Battles to control, defend and monitor the Internet and other high-level telecommunications. The latest move came quietly when the powerful Revolutionary Guard recently launched what it claims is a hack-proof communications network for its high-level commanders....

Secret Service clearances yanked

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
The Secret Service has pulled the security clearances of 11 members accused of bringing prostitutes to a hotel in Colombia, government officials with knowledge of the probe said.
Categories: CNN, News

VIDEO: Inside Syria with rebel forces

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
As UN observers within Syria report that some shelling is still occurring in the country, BBC correspondent Ian Pannell managed to get inside Idlib province and joined rebels fighting Assad's troops.
Categories: BBC, News

Argentina to seize Repsol oil arm

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:17
Argentina says it is to take a controlling interest in oil company YPF, a subsidiary of Spanish firm Repsol, despite objections from the EU.
Categories: BBC, News
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