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Netanyahu urges US to keep Iran sanctions in place
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged President Barack Obama to keep tough economic sanctions on Iran in place, even as the U.S. weighs a potential warming of relations and a restart of nuclear negotiations with Tehran’s new government.
Buddhist mobs kill 1, torch 70 homes in Myanmar
President Thein Sein toured Myanmar’s conflict-torn west on Tuesday as sectarian violence again gripped the state of Rakhine, with Buddhist mobs killing a 94-year-old Muslim woman and torching more than 70 homes, officials and residents said.
Chemical weapons inspectors cross into Syria
BC-ML--Syria, 4th Ld-Writethru,776Chemical weapons inspectors cross into SyriaAP Photo XBH103, XBH102, XBH101Eds: Updates with comments from Russian foreign minister on potential peace talks; Restores previous. With AP Photos.By RYAN LUCASAssociated PressBEIRUT (AP) — An advance group of international inspectors arrived in Syria on Tuesday to …
Pope urges reform, wants church with modern spirit
Pope Francis opened a landmark meeting Tuesday on reforming the Catholic Church, saying he wants a missionary church with a modern spirit that gives hope to the poor, the young and the elderly like his namesake St. Francis did.
Court in Amanda Knox trial allows new DNA test
The Florence appellate court hearing U.S. student Amanda Knox’s third trial in her roommate’s murder agreed Monday to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon, but rejected more than a dozen other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.
Syrian FM: No talks with main opposition group
Syria’s foreign minister says the main Western-backed opposition group should not take part in a future peace conference because it had overwhelmingly supported a U.S. strike against Damascus over an attack last month in which chemical weapons were used.
Al-Qaida gunmen take over military base in Yemen
Security officials say suspected al-Qaida gunmen have overrun a key military base in Yemen’s largest province.
Popes John Paul II, John XXIII canonized April 27
Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27, 2014. Pope Francis announced the date Monday during a meeting with cardinals inside the Apostolic Palace.
Husband: Pussy Riot band member hospitalized
The husband of an imprisoned member of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot says she has been moved to a prison hospital on the seventh day of a hunger strike.
Olympic flame for Sochi Games ready for relay
Using the sun’s rays, the Olympic flame lighting for the Winter Games in Sochi went off without a hitch in southern Greece Sunday, ahead of its journey across Russia’s nine time zones and even a trip to space before the Feb. 7-23 games.
Bombings and shootings kill 10 in Iraq
The deadliest attacks were bombings targeting worshippers as they were leaving weekly Muslim services in mainly Sunni areas in the Iraqi capital.
Rev. Jackson agrees to mediate for U.S. captive in Colombia
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday he intends to press on with a bid to mediate the retrieval of a former U.S. soldier captured by Colombian rebels three months ago, despite the cool response to his plan from that country’s president. Jackson said he still plans to travel to Colombia in the coming days in hopes of negotiating a cease-fire for a patch of jungle where U.S. citizen Kevin Scott Sutay can be picked up safely.
Explosion rocks north Malian town of Kidal
An explosion went off Sunday afternoon in the northern Malian town of Kidal near a former storage facility for the United Nations World Food Program. No casualties were reported, and authorities said it may have been an accident. mali
Climate panel forecast: Higher seas, temperatures
Top scientists have a better idea of how global warming will shape the 21st century: In a new report, they predict sea levels will be much higher than previously thought and pinpoint how dangerously hot it’s likely to get.
Search grows bleak in India building collapse
Frantic relatives kept up a vigil Saturday at the site of a collapsed apartment building that killed at least 42 people in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, as the search for around a dozen people missing in the rubble grew bleak. Rescuers found just one person alive during the day.
Born in US, Miss Philippines wins Miss World title
Miss Philippines, Megan Young, was crowned Miss World on Saturday amid tight security on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, where the contest’s final round was moved following protests by Muslim hardliner groups.
