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US demanding cancellation of contentious east Jerusalem building plan a centre of dispute

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:21:53 +0000

JERUSALEM - The U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years, American and Is...

US military hands prison with 2,900 detainees to Iraqis amid preparations for troop pullout

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:21:52 +0000

TAJI, Iraq - The U.S. military handed over control of a prison holding some 2,900 detainees to Iraqi authorities on Monday as the Americans move ahead with preparations for a full withdrawal by the en...

After Thai PM refuses to call new elections, protesters threaten to pour blood on seat of govt

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:21:54 +0000

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's prime minister, backed by a formidable military force, rejected an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament on Monday as tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters vowed to spl...

Israel's Netanyahu says Jewish building in east Jerusalem 'in no way' hurts Palestinians

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:16:20 +0000

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Jewish building in east Jerusalem does not hurt the city's Palestinian residents. Speaking to Israel's parliament, Netanyahu said the cons...

Edwards mistress says they are still in love; 'I believe that will be till death do us part'

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:44:50 +0000

RALEIGH, N.C. - John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter said in an interview released Monday they are still in love, even if their relationship turned into something "different" around the time he acknow...

UN rights expert tells North Korea to open farm markets, saying controls are causing hunger

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:44:49 +0000

GENEVA - North Korea should let farms produce freely and allow food to be sold in local markets because the communist government cannot provide enough food for its people, a U.N. human rights investig...

Edwards mistress didn't want him to run for president, worried about campaign

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:35:29 +0000

RALEIGH, N.C. - John Edwards'mistress said in her first interview released Monday that she didn't want him to run for president and considered it "reckless" to stay in the race after his wife's cancer...

UN agencies say 170 million fewer people defecating in the open compared with 1990

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:57:09 +0000

GENEVA - Almost 170 million people have moved from the outdoors to at least the outhouse to defecate in what the United Nations is calling a major advance in global sanitation over the last two decade...

Georgian opposition says TV war hoax is government attempt at information terror

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:35:39 +0000

TBILISI, Ga. - Georgia's opposition politicians on Monday denounced the government over a hoax television broadcast that said Russia had invaded and the president had been killed. The broadcast Sat...

Suicide car bomber kills 4 in western Iraqi city of Fallujah

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:05:04 +0000

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded 29 others when his vehicle exploded in a busy street Monday during the morning rush hour in western Iraq. The blast took place shortly ...

Frenchwoman on trial accused of killing 6 of her newborns, hiding corpses

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:05:10 +0000

COUTANCES, France - A 38-year-old woman acknowledged Monday killing six of her newborns, whose corpses were found in plastic bags in her basement, at the opening of a chilling trial in northwest Franc...

Thai government rejects ultimatum by protesters to dissolve Parliament

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:51:24 +0000

US demanding cancellation of contentious east Jerusalem building plan, say Israeli officials

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:51:23 +0000

94 people living near China lead factory found to have lead poisoning; authorities close plant

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:51:27 +0000

BEIJING - At least 94 people living near a lead factory, most of them children, have tested positive for lead poisoning, state media said Monday, prompting authorities to order the closure of the plan...

Pakistani doctors studying conjoined twins to see if they can operate

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:39:17 +0000

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani neurosurgeon says doctors are studying a pair of twin girls who were recently born connected at the head to determine whether they can separate them. The infants w...