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(AP) Israel has decided to export 40 percent of the natural gas it expects to produce from offshore wells, keeping a larger amount for local use than expected.The figure, announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, is lower than the ...
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(AP) A Milan court has convicted the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of tax evasion.The pair were found guilty Wednesday of failing to declare euros 1 billion ($1.3 billion) in income tax to authorities. The court sentenced them both to ...
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(AP) The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia for burial.Ibragim Todashev, 27, was fatally shot in late May in Florida while being ...
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(AP) China and Vietnam agreed on Wednesday to set up a hotline to resolve fishing incidents in disputed South China Sea waters that have been a frequent source of tensions between the two ideological allies.The two countries' agriculture ministers signed the ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is challenging Americans and Europeans not to become complacent even though the Cold War is over.Obama is speaking at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy's famous speech in the once-divided city.Obama says ...
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(AP) Iceland says a WikiLeaks spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has reached out to government officials about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country.Johannes Skulason, an Icelandic government official, told The Associated Press ...
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(AP) A flash flood unleashed by a major thunderstorm has inundated the Austrian village of Hallstatt, which has been awarded special status by the U.N. because of its unique beauty.Wednesday's storm turned the placid village creek into a torrent that flooded ...
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(AP) The zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, is home to a unique animal _ the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger.The first liliger was ...
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(AP) China's new leader Xi Jinping is commanding wayward Communist Party cadres to purify themselves of corruption, and he's summed it up in a pithy slogan as Mao Zedong might have done: Look in the mirror, take a bath.China's leadership wants ...
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(AP) A state security prosecutor in the United Arab Emirates says 30 Egyptian and UAE suspects have been charged with plotting a coup linked to a network of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, in a case likely to further strain relations with Cairo.The ...
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(AP) Police say armed robbers have shot and killed 48 people in a revenge attack on villagers in northwest Nigeria who have formed vigilante groups to try to end a spree of violent thefts.Police Commissioner Akila Usman of Zamfara state said ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is refusing to describe the type of military support the U.S. will give to Syrian rebels even as he praises a decision by world leaders at a just-completed summit to seek a negotiated peace.Obama says even though ...
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(AP) Dutch police say three farmworkers have died and a fourth has been critically injured after they fell into a silo filled with manure for use as fertilizer in the northern town of Makkinga.Provincial police in Friesland, where the town is ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says lives have been saved by sweeping surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.Obama says at least 50 threats have been averted because of phone records and Internet information the agency was able to access. He ...
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(AP) Britain's highest court says the families of several soldiers killed or injured in Iraq can sue the government for failing to protect them.The cases are brought by relatives of soldiers including Cpl. Stephen Allbutt, who died in a "friendly fire" ...
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