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PR independence leader Juan Mari Bras dies at 82
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Juan Mari Bras, an elder statesman of Puerto Rico's independence movement who gave up U.S. citizenship in an act that inspired hundreds of other activists, died Friday. He was 82....
Russians mourn bombing victims; 10 others killed
VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) -- Clashes between police and alleged militants left 10 more people dead Friday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, even as stunned residents laid flowers in a square where a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 only a day ago....
Cyrus the Great artifact to be displayed in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world's first human rights charter is to go on display in Iran after the government threatened to cut ties with the British Museum if it did not loan the object....
Iran's president intervened in American's release
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's president intervened to secure the release of Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans jailed for more than 13 months, in part because of her gender, a news agency reported Friday....
Spanish miners in Day 9 of underground protest
INSIDE LAS CUEVAS MINE, Spain (AP) -- Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth's bowels - but by their own choice....
100 Swiss police can't catch retiree with gun
BIEL, Switzerland (AP) -- Swiss police say they may have to change tactics in their hunt for a fugitive gunman who shot and seriously wounded one officer in the western city of Biel....
US, Iraq sign deal to settle Saddam-era claims
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The American Embassy spokesman in Iraq says the United States and Iraq have signed an agreement to settle claims of Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime....
Man arrested after small blast in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Police detained a foreign man and sealed off central parts of the Danish capital Friday after a minor explosion in a downtown Copenhagen hotel, a police spokesman said....
Japan missing more than 230K listed centenarians
TOKYO (AP) -- More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released Friday....
Priest sex abuse linked to 13 suicides in Belgium
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday....
Greece pledges to overhaul loss-making state rail
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) -- The Greek government pledged Friday to radically overhaul loss-making state rail company OSE, as official data showed efforts to cut the country's bloated budget deficit remained on track, if slightly asthmatic....
Artists protest looming cuts to UK culture budget
LONDON (AP) -- Some of Britain's best-known artists launched a campaign Friday to oppose planned government cuts that could slash arts funding by 25 percent....
UK promises to tackle health and safety madness
LONDON (AP) -- Carlisle Castle is under siege. Not from rampaging Vikings, insurgent Scots or Parliamentary rebels, but from tall scraggly blades of grass....
Shrek in Spain? Paramount backs theme park plan
MADRID (AP) -- U.S. film company Paramount says it is teaming up with officials to develop a branded theme park in the Murcia region on Spain's Mediterranean coast....
Cholera stalks West Africa as rains spread disease
GANJUWA, Nigeria (AP) -- Patients jammed rudimentary clinics and health workers in surgical masks sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 Nigerians in two months....
Mudslide hits village on Italy's Amalfi Coast
ROME (AP) -- A river of mud unleashed by heavy rains has flooded a tiny village on Italy's Amalfi Coast, and at least one person was reported missing....
3 Afghan insurgents killed in NATO airstrike
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan insurgent commander who was allegedly planning bombings in Kabul on the eve of the Sept. 18 parliamentary elections and two of his associates have been killed in an airstrike, NATO said Friday....
Myanmar media denounce those who push vote boycott
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's state media denounced on Friday people who advocate not voting in the upcoming elections as irresponsible and antidemocratic, even though critics say the military government is using the vote to cement its grip on power....
