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Mubarak trial witness: no order to shoot protesters

Sept 6, 2011

CAIRO (AP) ― The prosecution’s first witness in the trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak startled the court in a stormy session Monday, testifying that police were not ordered to fire on protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a contradiction of the prosecutors’ central claim.The police g
Al-Qaida dealt another blow as senior leader captured

Sept 6, 2011

ISLAMABAD (AP) ― A battered al-Qaida suffered another significant blow when Pakistani agents working with the CIA arrested a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the globe, Pakistan announced Monday.Younis al-Mauritani’s arre
Experts suspect Iran in Dutch hacking

Sept 6, 2011

AMSTERDAM (AP) ― Hackers who broke into a web security firm issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for spy agency websites including the CIA as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the Dutch government said Monday.Information Technology experts say they suspect the
Turkey to expel Israeli diplomats, feud deepens

Sept 6, 2011

ANKARA (AP) ― Turkey deepened its rift with Israel on Monday by vowing to work for the recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations and by saying it has notified high-level Israeli diplomats they have two days to leave the country.Late last week, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador af
Wildfire spreads in Texas, destroys nearly 500 homes

Sept 6, 2011

BASTROP, Texas (AP) ― A roaring wildfire raced unchecked Monday through rain-starved farm and ranchland in Central Texas, destroying nearly 500 homes during a rapid advance fanned in part by howling winds from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee.At least 5,000 people were forced from their homes in B
Obama urges approval of jobs program

Sept 6, 2011

U.S. president says Republicans should place country’s interest above all elseDETROIT (AP) ― President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally on Monday to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and p
Newborn fatally mauled by family dog near Houston

Sept 6, 2011

HOUSTON (AP) — A two-week-old Houston-area boy has died after being mauled by the family dog.The incident happened Saturday night as the baby sat in an infant carrier on the floor of a room in the family house. Harris County sheriff's spokesman Thomas Gilliland says the dog, a Labrador mix, be
World is safer 10 years after 9/11: EU, NATO

Sept 6, 2011

The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials said Monday.A decade after Al-Qaeda traumatized the United States, the terror network has lost its leader, Osama bin Laden
Chinese students join Taiwan universities despite strict rules

Sept 5, 2011

About 1,000 Chinese students are joining their Taiwanese counterparts at college campuses here today, as the new academic year starts.They are the first mainlanders to study here as full-time degree students under a new initiative that the Taiwanese authorities hope will boost cross-strait understan
Talks fail, Libyan rebels ready to strike loyalists

Sept 5, 2011

NATO bombs military targets near Sirte overnightTARHOUNA, Libya (AP) ― Negotiations over the surrender of one of Moammar Gadhafi’s remaining strongholds have collapsed, and Libyan rebels were waiting for the green light to launch their final attack on the besieged town of Bani Walid, a spokesman sai
Kurdish MPs push for autonomy in Turkey

Sept 5, 2011

ANKARA (AP) ― Kurdish legislators vowed Sunday to press on with a boycott of Turkey’s parliament and backed a recent declaration of autonomy in the country’s Kurd-dominated southeast. The defiant stances came as Kurdish rebels killed six people while military airstrikes targeted their hideouts.The d
Israel P.M. won’t apologize to Turkey for flotilla deaths

Sept 5, 2011

JERUSALEM (AP) ― Israel’s leader defiantly refused on Sunday to apologize to Turkey for a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish-led flotilla bent on breaching Israel’s Gaza Strip blockade ― an incident that has battered a relationship once seen as a cornerstone of regional stability.In his first public r
Deaths, arrests as ICRC visits Syria

Sept 5, 2011

BEIRUT (AP) ― Syria saw a wave of violence and arrests Sunday as the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited Damascus to address issues including caring for the wounded and access to detainees during the government’s crackdown on a 5-month-old uprising.Activists reported militar
26 killed as typhoon devastates Japan

Sept 5, 2011

TOKYO (AP) ― Record rain and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas left at least 26 people dead in Japan on Sunday as the storm moved slowly northward past the country’s western coast. At least 52 others were missing, local media said.Evacuation orders and advisories were issued to 460,000 people in
German regional election deals new setback to Merkel

Sept 5, 2011

BERLIN (AP) ― Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition suffered a new setback and Germany’s main opposition parties celebrated gains in a state election Sunday that came as Merkel’s unpopular government grapples with the eurozone debt crisis and other challenges.The vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania