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Gadhafi says his regime still alive in Libya

World NewsSept 20, 2011

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Moammer Gadhafi says his regime is still alive in Libya and is calling his opponents' takeover of all but a few pockets of the country a charade.Gadhafi got the message out on a Syrian-based satellite station that has become his main mouthpiece. Al-Rai TV released written
Woman sentenced 10 years in prison for locking elderly man in basement

World NewsSept 20, 2011

A mother of two in the state of Georgia was sentenced to 10 years in prison and an additional 10 years of probation for locking up and abusing a senior citizen in her basement, local reports said.Chandra Renee Faust, 44, pleaded guilty to a number of charges including wrongful imprisonment and abuse
China journalist killed after 'gutter' oil news

World NewsSept 20, 2011

BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese journalist who had been following a scandal involving the sale of cooking oil made from leftovers taken from gutters has been stabbed to death, police and state media said Tuesday.Li Xiang, 30, a reporter with Luoyang Television Station in the central province of Henan, was
AP-CNBC Poll: $1 million a long shot in US

World NewsSept 20, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — Who believes they'll be a millionaire?About two in 10 Americans do — a small showing of optimism compared to Australians, but downright cheery next to Britons when asked about becoming wealthy in the next ten years, according to a new Associated Press-CNBC poll.In all t
Tax the rich, Obama says; class warfare, says foes

World NewsSept 20, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A combative President Barack Obama on Monday demanded that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3 trillion as he drew clear battle lines for next year's elections. He promised to veto any effort by congressional Republican to cut g
Pro-regime forces kill at least 23 people in Yemen

WorldSept 19, 2011

SANAA (AP) -- Pro-regime forces, including snipers picking off protesters from rooftops, killed at least 23 people Monday in a second day of clashes haking Yemen's capital, medical and security officials said.The two days of fighting, which have killed nearly 50 people altogether, marked t
Over 500 villagers protest pollution from China factory

World BusinessSept 19, 2011

SHANGHAI (AP) ― Police detained at least 20 people after hundreds of villagers in eastern China demonstrated against pollution they blame on a solar panel factory, with some protesters storming the compound and overturning vehicles, local authorities said Monday.The government in Haining city, west
China battles curse of the skyscrapers

World NewsSept 19, 2011

Barely a year after the China World Trade Center Tower 3 was unveiled as Beijing’s tallest building at 330 meters, its title as the capital’s champion is slipping away.Work on a monstrous new skyscraper named China Goblet, or Zhong Guo Zun, starts last Monday, and the wine vessel-shaped building wil
Yakuza still a force to be reckoned with

World NewsSept 19, 2011

Japan fighting gangsters’ influence in politics, entertainment, sports circlesNobody laughed when a gossip weekly linked one of Japan’s most popular comedians and variety show hosts to Japan’s top crime syndicate recently.Friday magazine ran pictures of Shinsuke Shimada consorting with the yakuza af
Himalayan quake kills 50

World NewsSept 19, 2011

GAUHATI, India (AP) ― A strong earthquake shook northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet, killing at least 50 people, damaging buildings and sending lawmakers in Nepal’s capital running into the streets.The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, struck at 6:10 p.m. Sunday local time and was felt acr
Yemeni forces open fire on protesters, 26 killed

World NewsSept 19, 2011

Troops fire anti-aircraft guns as tens of thousands demand Saleh step downSANAA (AP) ― Yemeni government forces opened fire with anti-aircraft guns and automatic weapons on tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital demanding ouster of their longtime ruler, killing at least 26 an
‘Moral failing’ but no violence in sex assault cases: Strauss-Kahn

World NewsSept 19, 2011

PARIS (AP) ― Dominique Strauss-Kahn broke his silence four months after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault, calling his encounter with the woman a “moral failing” he deeply regrets, but insisting in an interview on French television Sunday that no violence was involved.Strauss-Kahn,
Official: navigator in Russian plane crash drunk

World NewsSept 19, 2011

MOSCOW (AP) _ A spokesman for Russia's top investigative body says the navigator of a passenger airline that crashed in June killing 47 people was drunk.The Tu-134 slammed into a highway just minutes before it was to land at the Petrozavodsk airport in Russia's northwest on June 20. Five people surv
Strauss-Kahn denies violence in sex assault cases

World NewsSept 19, 2011

PARIS (AP) _ Dominique Strauss-Kahn has broken his silence four months after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault, calling his encounter with the woman a ``moral failing‘’ he deeply regrets, but insisting in an interview on French television that no violence was involved.Strauss-Kahn,
UK surgeons separate twin girls joined at head

World NewsSept 19, 2011

LONDON (AP) _ Sudanese twins born with the tops of their heads joined together have been separated in a rare and risky series of operations at a London children‘s hospital, officials said Sunday.Facing the World, a charity which helps disfigured children, said it had helped fund the four-stage