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Fake interpreter's charge
South Africa's government was confronted Friday with a new allegation about the bogus sign language interpreter at Nelson…
Egyptian hip-hop in tune with frustrated youth
A psychedelic light show pulses along with the music's hectic beat. Dancers in the crowd point pocket lasers at the stage…
Colorado school shooting - suspect dead
A teenager who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire with a shotgun at a Colorado high school Friday, wounding…
Tourists a curse for New York Grinches
For sharp-elbowed New Yorkers accustomed to walking where they need to go at a big-city pace, the holiday season is hardly…
World
Militants urge Egypt students to continue protests
CAIRO (AP) An al-Qaida-inspired group based in Sinai is urging Egyptian students who support the ousted Islamist president…
Syria activists: Talks ongoing to free seized nuns
BEIRUT (AP) Two Syrian activists say that the government is negotiating with rebels to secure the release of a group of…
Traditional tribal rituals at Mandela's funeral
JOHANNESBURG (AP) An ox will be slaughtered, the deceased will be wrapped in a leopard skin and a family elder will keep…
Bombings, shooting kill 6 people in Iraqi capital
BAGHDAD (AP) Iraqi authorities say bombings and a shooting have killed six people around the capital. Police officials…
Tutu didn't receive credential for Mandela funeral
JOHANNESBURG (AP) Nobel Peace Prize winner retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a longtime friend of Nelson Mandela and occasional…
UN says several peacekeepers killed in Mali
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) A bomb explosion killed several members of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali in the…
Party of jailed Rwandan dissident vows to fight on
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) The party of jailed Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire says it will continue fighting for…
Iran arrests man on charges of spying for Britain
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran's media says authorities have arrested a man on charges of spying for Britain. The semiofficial…
Iran: Second monkey sent into space
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran said Saturday it has successfully sent a monkey into space for a second time, part of an ambitious…
Now top US diplomat, Kerry returns to Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) Forty-four years after first setting foot in Vietnam as a young naval officer, John Kerry…
Now top US diplomat, Kerry returns to Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) Forty-four years after first setting foot in the country as a young naval officer, John…
CIA Benghazi team clash led to 'stand down' report
WASHINGTON (AP) CIA officers who testified privately to Congress about the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in…
China attempts rover's soft landing on the moon
BEIJING (AP) China will attempt the world's first soft landing of a rover on the moon in nearly four decades Saturday…
Mandela makes final journey home in SAfrica
QUNU, South Africa (AP) Taking a final journey to his home village, the remains of Nelson Mandela were honored amid pomp…
'Sister Wives' family wins ruling in bigamy suit
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A federal judge ruled Friday that key parts of Utah's polygamy laws are unconstitutional, handing a…
Vietnam sentences 5 to death for drug trafficking
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) A court in central Vietnam has sentenced five people, including four women, to death and another to…
21 workers killed in gas blast at Chinese mine
BEIJING (AP) A gas explosion at a coal mine in western China has killed 21 workers, an official said Saturday. The miners…
Mexico Senate approves political reform bill
MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico's Senate on Friday passed the most dramatic political reform in decades that would allow re-election…
Coroner ties alcoholism to hospital stairway death
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A woman found dead in a locked stairwell 17 days after going missing from her room at San Francisco…
Arms dealer associate convicted in US case
NEW YORK (AP) A Syrian associate of notorious international arms dealer Viktor Bout was convicted on Friday of charges…
International Politics
Selfies at a memorial?
Are you a fomo sapiens? Judging by his behaviour at Nelson Mandela's memorial service, Barack Obama is a member of this…
Syria
Refugees risk it all to reach Jordan
As evening gathers across a desert plain in eastern Jordan, 80-year-old Muteea Talaa stands with 200 other starved, cold…
Middle East
Sinister night for women in protest
The three women - Rasha Azab, Mona Seif and Nazly Hussein - and 11 other women were beaten and dragged off by police during…
Europe
Cameron chided over Nigella
The jury in the trial of two former personal assistants accused of defrauding Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi has been…
Pacific Islands
Chris de Freitas: Human interference real threat to Pacific atolls
The facts around rising sea levels are widely misunderstood or misinterpreted.
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Asia
Bangladesh executes opposition leader
Bangladesh has executed an opposition leader convicted of war crimes hours after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute…
United States
'Fake' interpreter a serial offender
The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial who has been accused of being a fake has signed at past ANC events…