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Refuse pickers give new life to Rio Carnival trash
March 4, 2014 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Elaine da Silva Moraes clambers up mounds of abandoned fabric, foam and feathers that minutes earlier were the essence of Rio de Janeiro's glitzy, multi-million dollar... more »»
Egypt: El-Sissi gives new sign of presidential run
March 4, 2014 CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military chief, Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, gave his strongest indication yet that he intends to enter presidential elections, saying in a speech Tuesday that he... more »»
Former US congressman in hiding in South Africa
March 4, 2014 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds says he is in hiding in South Africa following his deportation from Zimbabwe because he believes his life is in danger. more »»
Witness cries at Pistorius murder trial on 2nd day
March 4, 2014 PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The first witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial broke down in tears Tuesday, saying she still remembers the terrified screams of a woman on the night the... more »»
Putin: Russia has right to use force in Ukraine
March 4, 2014 MOSCOW (AP) — Accusing the West of encouraging an "unconstitutional coup" in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow reserves the right to use all means to protect Russians there. more »»
AP Interview: Syria chemicals deadline achievable
March 4, 2014 THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch diplomat leading an international mission to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons program said Tuesday the pace of removing chemicals from the civil war-torn... more »»
Syrian army advancing on rebel town near Lebanon
March 4, 2014 AL-SAHEL, Syria (AP) — Syrian government forces are tightening their grip on the last rebel stronghold near the border with Lebanon a day after taking control of a key village in the area, a fiel... more »»
Nepal says litterbugs no longer welcome on Everest
March 4, 2014 KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Litterbugs, beware: Nepal is making new rules to persuade trekkers to clean up after themselves on Mount Everest, in the hopes of clearing the tons of rubbish now clogging... more »»
Militants storm local council HQ in Iraq, kill 6
March 4, 2014 BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say militants have stormed a government building in a city north of Baghdad, killing at least six people. more »»
Russia to hike price on gas supplies to Ukraine
March 4, 2014 MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom says it will cancel a price discount for natural gas supplies to Ukraine. more »»
Brazil keeps up Carnival pace of parties, parades
March 4, 2014 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Extraterrestrial toucan birds, neon green spacemen waving Brazilian flags and legions of scantily clad women and men dancing a furious samba opened the final round of Rio de... more »»
Experts skeptical of Kunming link to global terror
March 4, 2014 KUNMING, China (AP) — China says the vicious slashing spree that killed 29 people in a southern city was the work of separatists linked to international terrorism, but the assailants' homespun... more »»
Gunmen kill 2 in attack on NATO trucks in Pakistan
March 4, 2014 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says gunmen have opened fire on a NATO supply convoy in the country's northwest, killing two truck drivers and wounding another. more »»
No fighting in Crimea as supposed ultimatum passes
March 4, 2014 SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — There has been no fighting in Crimea as a supposed Russian ultimatum for two Ukrainian warships to surrender passed without action from either side. more »»
Iran says all 4 crew members died in plane crash
March 4, 2014 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says all four crew members aboard a small plane that crashed in the Persian Gulf were killed in the inciden. more »»
Russia says Yanukovych requested troops in Crimea
March 4, 2014 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine's fugitive president requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region "to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order," Russia's U.N. more »»
Russia sets Ukraine agenda with diplomacy, threats
March 4, 2014 KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops said to be 16,000 strong tightened their stranglehold on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula Monday, openly defying the U.S. more »»
Crisis in Crimea sharply divides small town
March 3, 2014 NOVO-OZERNE, Ukraine (AP) — For years, the little Crimean town was closed off from the rest of the world, a secretive community, at the edge of a key Soviet naval base, sealed by roadblocks and... more »»
Rihanna at McCartney Paris show; Suzy Menkes quits
March 3, 2014 PARIS (AP) — High fashion equals high drama, the latest installment of Paris Fashion Week proved Monday. more »» |
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