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Greek PM gives new hint he may call election (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou gave a fresh hint Saturday that he may call a new general election if his party fares poorly at municipal polls next week,…

New book gives intimate portrait of convicted Knox (AP)

October 17th, 2010

AP - Amanda Knox, the American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, is quoted as saying in a new book that she’d rather not be famous for…

Wife gives 2nd statement on border lake shooting (AP)

October 16th, 2010

AP - The wife of an American tourist reported shot to death by pirates on a border lake has given helpful new details about the incident to Mexican authorities, Mexico’s…

Argentina gives asylum to alleged Chilean assassin (AP)

September 30th, 2010

AP - Argentina granted asylum Thursday to a former leftist guerrilla charged in his native Chile with assassinating a senator and kidnapping a businessman, a decision sure to sour relations…

Romanian president gives up police protection (AP)

September 26th, 2010

AP - Romania’s president has withdrawn police protection in response to an “illegal” protest by 6,000 officers facing wage cuts.

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US-born panda gives birth to her 8th cub in China (AP)

September 19th, 2010

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, panda Hua Mei hugs her newly-born panda baby at the Bifengxia base of the Wolong China Panda Protection and Research Center in Ya'an, in southwest China's Sichuan province. The American-born panda gave birth to her eighth cub Friday, a rare accomplishment for the endangered species known for being poor breeders. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - An American-born panda gave birth to her eighth cub in southwest China, a rare accomplishment for the endangered species known for being poor breeders.


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Cabinet shuffle gives Japan new foreign minister (AP)

September 17th, 2010

Prime Minister Naoto Kan is all smiles after he was re-elected as president of the ruing Democratic Party of Japan during the party convention in Tokyo Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010. Kan survived a challenge from a veteran powerbroker and sparing Japan another leadership change as it deals with a sluggish economy. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)AP - Prime Minister Naoto Kan named a new foreign minister as part of his Cabinet reshuffle Friday, putting a new stamp on the administration after surviving a party leadership…

New video gives tour of trapped miners’ refuge (AP)

August 27th, 2010

An image made from a video released by Television Nacional de Chile via the Chilean government Thursday Aug. 26, 2010, shows one of the trapped miners in the underground chamber waving at the camera. (AP Photo/Television Nacional de Chile)AP - The first video released of the 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean cooper mine shows the men stripped to the waist and appearing slim but healthy, arm-in-arm,…

Cuban dissident gives up 4-month hunger strike (AP)

July 8th, 2010

AP - Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas has called off his four-month hunger strike after the island’s government promised to free 52 political prisoners.

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Sex abuse crisis gives new momentum to dissidents (AP)

June 8th, 2010

Representatives of the Women's Ordination Conference stage a protest in front of St.Peter's Basilica, in Rome,  with holding poster at front, from left, Therese Koturbash from Dauphin, Matitoba, Canada, Mary Ann Schoettly from Newton, N.J, US, and Erin Saiz Hanna, Washington, D.C. US, as they protest on Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Groups that have long demanded that women be ordained Roman Catholic priests took advantage of the Vatican's crisis over clerical sex abuse to press their cause demanding the Vatican open discussions on letting women join the priesthood.  (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - The clerical sex abuse crisis is energizing Roman Catholic dissidents who want to open up the priesthood to women and ditch celibacy requirements.


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