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Five headless bodies found in north Mexico

World NewsMay 10, 2011

Five decapitated bodies were found Monday outside a school near the northern Mexican city of Durango, where soldiers have now unearthed 168 bodies in a month-long search of hidden graves.Authorities found the five bodies lying naked, with their heads nearby, in the small town of Pueblo Nuevo, adjacent to Durango, said the state prosecutor's office in a statement, without giving further details.Ten
Obama: Bin Laden had support network

World NewsMay 9, 2011

U.S. urges Pakistan to investigate helperWASHINGTON (AP) ― Osama bin Laden benefited from “some sort of support network” inside Pakistan, President Barack Obama said in a Sunday broadcast interview, but he added it is not clear whether government officials knew the terrorist leader was living inside their country when U.S. commandos killed him in a raid last weekend.“We don’t know whether there mi
Church burning deepens tumult of Egypt’s post-revolution transition

World NewsMay 9, 2011

Inter-faith violence kills 12 and injures more than 100CAIRO (AP) ― Relations between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians degenerated to a new low Sunday after riots overnight left 12 people dead and a church burned, adding to the disorder of the country’s post-revolution transition to democracy.The attack on the church was the latest sign of assertiveness by an extreme, ultraconservative movement of M
Canadian survives seven weeks lost in U.S. wilderness

May 9, 2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Canadian tourist reported missing since mid-March has been found alive in a remote wilderness area of the western United States and is recovering, police told AFP on Saturday.Couple Albert Chretien and wife Rita are shown in this undated Royal Canadian Mounted Police handout photo. The coupe went missing en route to Las Vegas more than a month ago. Rita Chretien was found aliv
Obama: bin Laden had support network

World NewsMay 9, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Osama bin Laden benefitted from ``some sort of support network'' inside Pakistan, President Barack Obama said in a Sunday broadcast interview, but he added it is not clear whether government officials knew the terrorist leader was living inside their country when U.S. commandos killed him in a raid last weekend.``We don't know whether there might have been some people inside of
Good jobs, bad jobs, but not enough of either

World BusinessMay 8, 2011
U.S. has new leverage, but how will Pakistan respond?

World NewsMay 8, 2011
Singapore opposition makes breakthrough

World NewsMay 8, 2011

SINGAPORE (AP) ― Singapore’s long-time ruling party won an overwhelming parliamentary majority in elections in the Southeast Asian city-state, but the opposition made historic gains after mounting its biggest challenge since independence in 1965, according to returns released early Sunday.The ruling People’s Action Party won 81 of the 87 parliament seats as it captured 60 percent of the 2 million
Syrian forces launch raid on hotbed city

World NewsMay 8, 2011

Residents form human chains in desperate bid to halt military operationDAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syrian forces rained gunfire on Banias Saturday as they pushed ahead with an assault on the restive port, killing six people, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents called for elections to end the crisis.Activists said dozens of tanks and armored vehicles entered Banias, on the Mediterranean c
Trial request for Berlusconi friends in sex case

World NewsMay 8, 2011

ROME (AFP) - Prosecutors on Friday requested a trial for three of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's friends on pimping charges linked to the Italian leader's own trial for having sex with an underage prostitute.The request "was sent today to the judge" on the prostitution charges, the main prosecutor's office in Milan said in a statement.The charges relate to alleged crimes committed between 2009
Bin Laden directed Qaeda from Pakistan compound

World NewsMay 8, 2011
Obama to bin Laden assault team: 'Job well done'

World NewsMay 7, 2011

FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky (AP) – Brimming with pride, President Barack Obama on Friday met and honored the U.S. commandos he sent after terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, saluting them on behalf of America and the world and capping an extraordinary week for the country. "Job well done," the president declared.Obama addressed roughly 2,000 troops after meeting privately with the full assault team — A
Japan's Iwate wins World Heritage endorsement

World NewsMay 7, 2011

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's Iwate prefecture, whose coastline was hard hit by the March 11 tsunami, on Saturday won endorsement for its historic Hiraizumi area to be listed as a World Heritage site, the government said.Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs announced that an International Council on Monuments and Sites panel recommended that the Buddhist architecture, gardens and archaeological sites in Hi
Obama in NYC: We never forget

World NewsMay 6, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) ― President Barack Obama solemnly honored victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and declared that the killing of Osama bin Laden was an American message to the world: “When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.”Standing at the gritty construction site of ground zero Thursday, where the World Trade Center towers fell and a memorial now rises, the president laid a w
Profiles of new ministers

World NewsMay 6, 2011

Bahk Jae-wanStrategy and finance Bahk began his career as a government official at the Prime Minister’s Office after he passed the civil service examination in 1980.He then moved on to the Board of Audit and Inspection, the nation’s top inspection body, before he became a public management professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul.The holder of a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University