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Heavy rain and melting snow cause severe flooding in Kazakhstan, claiming lives

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:01 +0000

ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Heavy rain and melting snow have caused severe floods across a region of Kazakhstan neighbouring China, flooding villages and claiming lives, emergency officials said Friday. S...

Mississippi school sued after it calls off senior prom rather than let lesbian couple attend

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:03 +0000

JACKSON, Miss. - An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district reinstate the dance it cancelled...

Japan arrests New Zealand anti-whaling activist for illegally boarding Japanese vessel

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:02 +0000

TOKYO - Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese wha...

Pope meets with top German bishop to discuss sex scandal rocking church in his homeland

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:50 +0000

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI met Friday with Germany's top bishop amid the spiraling abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church in his homeland. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch has apologized to Ger...

11 rare Siberian tigers die at cash-strapped Chinese zoo

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:46 +0000

BEIJING - Eleven rare Siberian tigers, starving and kept in small cages, have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country, where a...

Israel declares two-day closure of West Bank to head off unrest

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:50 +0000

JERUSALEM - Israel has sealed off the West Bank for 48 hours, preventing Palestinians from entering Israel because of fears of unrest. There have been clashes after Friday prayers at mosques in Jer...

Somali official tells residents to flee battle zones as fighting flares for a third day

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:12:33 +0000

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Fighting erupted in Somalia's capital for the third straight day Friday in some of the worst violence in nearly a year, as government-backed troops shelled the front lines of rebe...

Suicide bombings kill 39, wound 95 in Pakistan's Lahore, signal potential new wave of violence

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:12:35 +0000

LAHORE, Pakistan - A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100, ...

Police kill 2 suspected militants in Indonesia, stepping up crackdown

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:12:37 +0000

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Indonesian police killed two suspected Islamist militants in a firefight in remote Aceh province Friday during the latest in a series of raids made since an extremist training ...

UK report says asylum seekers abuse allegations were not properly investigated

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:12:34 +0000

LONDON - A new report condemns the way U.K. authorities investigated claims of abuse made by asylum seekers. The Northern Ireland police ombudsman studied the claims after complaints that security ...

Malaysia detains 93 Rohingya boat people who have been at sea for 30 days

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:12:36 +0000

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities have picked up 93 Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar who said they spent 30 days at sea in a crowded wooden boat, an official said Friday. The Roh...

Hans van Mierlo, Dutch foreign minister at time of fall of Srebrenica, dies at age 78

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:12:38 +0000

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van Mierlo has died of liver disease, the social democratic party he helped establish announced. He was 78 Van Mierlo, who died late Thur...

UN humanitarian chief says Israel's blockade of Gaza isn't helping its security

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:46:11 +0000

The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday of an impending humanitarian disaster if Egypt succeeds in blocking the tunnels that pass under it's border into the Gaza Strip. John Holmes said that as...

Nearly 100 Australian authors condemn China for denying visa to HIV-positive writer

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:46:30 +0000

ADELAIDE, Australia - A group of nearly 100 prominent Australian authors have signed a petition condemning China for denying a visa to an HIV-positive writer. The Australian Society of Authors also...

Wife and daughter of Sen. Harry Reid injured in crash on highway outside Washington

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:46:20 +0000

WASHINGTON - Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife was hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which she a...