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Medvedev says Russia isn't authoritarian, but indicates no easing for opposition

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:05:06 +0000

MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday hotly rejected criticism of his country as authoritarian, calling it a young democracy, but indicated authorities won't ease up on opposition movem...

Serbia opposition urging early elections after UN General Assembly vote on Kosovo

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:40:58 +0000

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's biggest opposition party on Friday urged early elections after the government gave up on its bid to challenge Kosovo independence and instead submitted a softened resolutio...

South Africa's Zuma, responding to international concern, says media freedom not threatened

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:22 +0000

JOHANNESBURG - International news agencies alarmed by South African proposals that could see reporters jailed should not fear freedoms are under attack, the president said Friday, adding that South Af...

AP Interview: Yoko Ono's new art work invites viewers to seek healing amid violence

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:03 +0000

BERLIN - Yoko Ono's new installation centres on a perfectly round bullet hole shot through a large pane of glass, which John Lennon's widow says challenges viewers to confront "incredible violence and...

Blast and massive fire rip through area near San Francisco, killing 4 and destroying 53 homes

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:40:30 +0000

SAN BRUNO, Calif. - Fire crews flooded the ruins of burning homes with water early Friday and after a massive explosion apparently triggered by a broken gas line sent flames roaring through a neighbou...

Japan says more than 230,000 centenarians listed as alive are in fact missing or dead

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:09 +0000

TOKYO - More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released Friday. In Au...

Russians mourning 17 bombing victims in North Caucasus; 6 others reported killed in clashes

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:40:35 +0000

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia - Clashes between police and alleged militants left six more people dead Friday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, even as stunned residents laid flowers in a square where a suic...

Unmanned Russian cargo ship launched to deliver supplies to international space station

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:15 +0000

MOSCOW - Russia's Mission Control says an unmanned cargo ship has blasted off successfully on a mission to deliver supplies for the international space station crew. It said that the Progress M-07M...

French prosecutor seeks to drop case against police in death of teens that prompted 2005 riots

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:40:55 +0000

PARIS - French prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a judicial official said...

constitutional court cancels cuts in judges' salaries; President slams court ruling

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:19 +0000

PRAGUE - The constitutional Court in the Czech Republic has cancelled legislation that slashed judges' salaries by 4 per cent for this year as part of austerity measures aimed at keeping the balloonin...

Mistaken alert from US school tells all parents their kids are absent; school apologizes

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:02 +0000

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - A middle school in Ohio says human error caused parents to be mistakenly alerted that their children were absent. School officials in Reynoldsburg say parents were "understanda...

Solar plane team delays plan to cross Switzerland after strong wind forecast

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:28 +0000

GENEVA - Forecasts of strong wind have put plans to fly a solar-powered plane across the length of Switzerland on hold. The Solar Impulse team said Friday that northeasterly winds are expected to r...

Iran's president intervened in planned release of American held for more than a year

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:07 +0000

TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian news agency says Saturday's planned released of one of three Americans jailed for more than a year is a result of intervention by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Sarah Shou...

Report says US has failed to create systems to deal with homegrown terror

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:40:33 +0000

WASHINGTON - The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new re...

Egyptian police kill Sudanese trying to enter Israel

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:41:14 +0000

EL-ARISH, Egypt - An Egyptian security official says police have killed a Sudanese migrant trying to cross into Israel. The official says the police fired warning shots but the migrant refused to s...