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Guatemala leader asks US to pay for drug seizures

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemala's president proposed Saturday that the United States and other "consumer" countries pick up the tab for the cost of drug seizures....

Guatemala leader asks US to pay for drug seizures

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemala's president proposed Saturday that the United States and other "consumer" countries pick up the tab for the cost of drug seizures....

Santorum beats Romney in Louisiana

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum won the Louisiana Republican presidential primary Saturday, beating front-runner Mitt Romney in yet another conservative Southern state....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He's only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But after the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I needed to explain to my child that soon people might be afraid of him....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

NYPD fires officer over 2006 killing

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
A New York police detective has been fired and three other officers forced to resign over the 2006 shooting death of a 23-year-old man outside a Queens nightclub, authorities said.
Categories: CNN, News

Sir Bobby's foundation raises £4m

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation toasts its fourth anniversary by revealing it has raised more than £4m.
Categories: BBC, News

Pope to Mexico: Have hope, use faith against evil

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
SILAO, Mexico (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI urged Mexicans to wield their faith against drug violence, poverty and other ills, celebrating Sunday Mass before a sea of hushed worshippers in a visit that has warmed many Mexicans to a pontiff they often saw as austere....

Aide says Cheney had heart transplant

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a 71-year-old with a long history of cardiovascular problems, had a heart transplant Saturday and is recovering at a Virginia hospital. Not even Cheney knows the donor's identity....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

GPS jamming expected in war games

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
The military says GPS jamming which caused a row last year is likely during the latest staging of Europe's largest military exercise.
Categories: BBC, News

Lochhead voices tug cover concern

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
The environment secretary writes to the UK government voicing concerns over the removal of an emergency towing vessel from Stornoway.
Categories: BBC, News

Plans for Scots rural parliament

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
The Scottish government is moving ahead with plans for a rural parliament, in order to give rural communities "a greater voice".
Categories: BBC, News

SNP to table fuel duty amendment

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
The SNP says it will propose a Budget amendment at Westminster which will freeze future rises in fuel duty.
Categories: BBC, News

Top Tory quits over donor claims

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas resigns after a secretly-filmed video shows him apparently selling access to the PM for £250,000.
Categories: BBC, News

Obama confronts nuke threat on N. Korea front line

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama is opening his pitch for faster work to lock down nuclear material that could be used by terrorists with an up-close look at the nuclear front lines along the heavily militarized border with volatile North Korea....

Dick Cheney has heart transplant

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney is recovering well following heart transplant surgery in Virginia, his office says.
Categories: BBC, News

Chavez in Cuba for cancer therapy

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in Cuba for radiotherapy following a recurrence of his cancer first treated last year.
Categories: BBC, News

8 killed, including 6 kids, in W.Va. house fire

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Alisha Carter-Camp had a new job, a wedding to plan and a 26th birthday to celebrate with a family cookout and toasts to the birthday girl in a yard full of children. By the end of the night, she was among eight dead, including six children, in one of the city's deadliest house fires in decades....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Cheney gets heart transplant

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, 71, was recovering Saturday evening after undergoing heart transplant surgery, his office said. He had been on the transplant list for more than 20 months, his office said.
Categories: CNN, News

Aide says Cheney had heart transplant

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney had a heart transplant Saturday and is recovering at a Virginia hospital, his office said.

An aide to Cheney disclosed that the 71-year-old, who has had a long history of cardiovascular trouble including numerous heart attacks, had been waiting for a transplant ...

Obama visits tense Koreas border

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 14:10
US President Barack Obama visits the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the Koreas, amid rising tensions over a planned rocket launch by the North.
Categories: BBC, News
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