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APNewsBreak: Poles urged to probe CIA prison acts (AP)

September 21st, 2010

FILE - This Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 file photo shows the control tower of the airport in Szymany, in northeastern Poland. Prosecutors are investigating possible abuse of power by Polish public officials in connection with the closed CIA black site near the secluded Szymany airport in northeast Poland. Flight logs trace several landings of planes linked to the CIA there. A human rights organization and lawyers for a Saudi man accused in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole demanded Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 that Polish prosecutors investigate the terror suspect's detention and treatment at a CIA prison once housed in Poland. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is the first detainee subjected to the CIA's detention and interrogation program who has taken legal action in Poland, said Amrit Singh, the Open Society Justice Initiative's senior legal officer.   (AP Photo, File) ** POLAND OUT **AP - A human rights organization and lawyers for a Saudi man accused in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole demanded Tuesday that Polish prosecutors investigate the terror suspect’s…

APNewsBreak: Arabs lobby US on anti-Israel vote (AP)

August 15th, 2010

FILE - In this file photo made from a video which aired Friday, Jan. 7, 2005 by Israeli television station Channel 10, shows Israel's top secret nuclear facility in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, according to the broadcaster. Diplomats say Arab nations are urging Washington and other powers to end their support of Israel's nuclear secrecy and to push the Jewish state to allow binternational/b inspections of its program. (AP Photo/Channel 10, File)  ** ISRAEL OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES  **AP - Ignoring a U.S. warning, Arab nations are urging Washington and other powers to end support of Israel’s nuclear secrecy and to push the Jewish state to allow international…

APNewsBreak: Jean seeks dual citizenship for Haiti (AP)

August 15th, 2010

Haiti's presidential candidate and Hip hop singer Wyclef Jean, third left, stands on a stairway of the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. Jean said that if he is elected he will work to change Haiti's constitution to allow dual citizenship and give Haitians living abroad the right to vote. Haiti will hold presidential elections next Nov. 28.  (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Hip hop artist and presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean said Saturday that as leader he would work to change Haiti’s constitution to allow dual citizenship and give many Haitians…

APNewsBreak: Nazi suspect indicted in Germany (AP)

July 28th, 2010

This photo made available by Yad Vashem Photo Archive in Jerusalem shows Nazi guards at Belzec death camp in occupied Poland in 1942. A former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Samuel Kunz, 90, was informed last week of his indictment on charges including participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland, where he served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943, prosecutor Christoph Goeke in Dortmund said.(AP Photo/Yad Vashem Photo Archive)AP - A suspected former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said…

APNewsBreak: AU troops harming Somali civilians (AP)

July 21st, 2010

A nurse at Medina hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, attend to a wounded child after she was wounded by mortar shell Monday, July 19, 2010. At least 12 people, including two government soldiers, were killed in two days of battle between Islamist militants and government forces backed by African Union peacekeepers, officials said Monday.(AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)AP - African Union peacekeepers are indiscriminately shelling residential areas of Somalia’s capital, according to internal AU reports reviewed by The Associated Press. The AU blamed the deaths on insurgents…

APNewsBreak: US officials seek drug war change (AP)

May 26th, 2010

AP - The Obama administration wants to shift U.S. aid in Mexico away from high-priced helicopters and airplanes and toward reforming Mexico’s corrupt law enforcement, courts and politicians.

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APNewsBreak: US and Cuba hold talks on oil spill (AP)

May 19th, 2010

AP - U.S and Cuban officials are holding “working level” talks on how to respond to the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill that is believed to be dumping some 5,000…

APNewsBreak: US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace (AP)

May 11th, 2010

Police and civil defence gather at the site of a bus explosion in Iskandiriyah, 50kms south of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces faced charges of negligence after insurgents killed 110 people in a devastating wave of attacks in five cities the previous day, Iraq's bloodiest this year.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)AP - American commanders, worried about increased violence in the wake of Iraq’s inconclusive elections, are now reconsidering the pace of a major troop pullout this summer, U.S. officials said…

APNewsBreak: Nuclear agency set to focus on Israel (AP)

May 7th, 2010

AP - Israel’s secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for…

APNewsBreak: Israel halts east Jerusalem building (AP)

April 26th, 2010

An Ultra-orthodox Jewish boy climbs on timber beams at a construction site in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, Monday, April 26, 2010. Under heavy U.S. pressure, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has imposed a de facto freeze on new Jewish construction in disputed east Jerusalem despite his declarations to the contrary, city officials said Monday, a move likely to enrage hardline supporters but advance U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israel’s prime minister has effectively frozen new Jewish construction in east Jerusalem, municipal officials said Monday, reflecting the need to mend a serious rift with the U.S. and…