BAGHDAD – Wearing a U.S. Army uniform and flanked by Iraqi lawmakers, an American citizen announced Saturday that he was being released from more than nine months of imprisonment by a Shiite militia that for years targeted U.S. troops. The man did not identify himself. But at a bizarre news conference outside the Green Zone […]
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Deficit fight takes shape in Congress
House GOP conservatives hope to show how they would pull back the scope and cost of government.
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Death camp guard dies in Germany
His family never gave up their attempts to have his U.S. citizenship restored.
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Assange plans to run for Senate in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate in elections next year despite being under virtual house arrest in England and facing sex crime allegations in Sweden, the group said Saturday. The 40-year-old Australian citizen is fighting extradition to Sweden. He has taken his legal battle […]
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Writer defends ‘fabrications’ in Apple report: I’m an artist
A public radio show takes another look at the facts behind a piece of theater about Chinese workers.
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Vatican begins criminal probe into leaks of secret papers
The leaks embarrassed the Vatican as it was trying to give its financial system greater credibility.
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President Obama observes St. Patrick’s Day at Irish pub
WASHINGTON – His jacket was only moss green but his pint was true Guinness. President Obama tilted back a glass of the dark Irish brew Saturday, observing St. Patrick’s Day at a boisterous Irish pub with his ancestral cousin from Moneygall, Ireland, at his side. At the White House, the main South Lawn Fountain burbled […]
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Coptic Orthodox church patriarch dies at age 88
CAIRO, Egypt – Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt’s Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88 years old. The state news agency MENA said Shenouda died Saturday after battling liver and lung problems for several years, and […]
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Two suicide bombings kill at least 27 in Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria – Two suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in near-simultaneous attacks on heavily guarded intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus Saturday, killing at least 27 people. There have been a string of large-scale bombings against the regime in its stronghold of Damascus that suggest a dangerous, wild-card element in […]
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911 tapes show suspect pursued teen he shot, family says
A neighborhood watch volunteer has claimed self-defense, but the family wants him charged.