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Vandals spray anti-Semitic graffiti on Holocaust monument in Poland

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 Mar, 2010 0 0

WARSAW, Poland - Polish media say vandals have sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on a Holocaust memorial at a former Nazi concentration camp. Words including "Jude Raus" - German for "Jew Out" - and "Hitler Good," in English, were found in red paint Saturday at the former Plaszow camp near Krakow. T

Vatican: pope showed courage on sex cases, attempts to involve him in scandals ?failed?

Frances D?emilio, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 Mar, 2010 0 0

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police. The Vatic

China's legislative advisory body: Keep economy stable and steady

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 Mar, 2010 0 0

BEIJING - China's top parliamentary adviser said Saturday that keeping the economy stable and steady must remain the government's biggest priority this year. Jia Qinglin, the Communist Party's No. 4 ranking leader, told delegates at the close of the annual session of the legislative advisory bod

Serbia police detain 9 ex-paramilitaries accused of war crimes in Kosovo

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 Mar, 2010 0 0

The Serbian war crimes prosecutor's office says police have detained nine ex-paramilitary fighters over the killing of some 200 civilians during Kosovo's war. Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric says altogether 26 former troops are under investigation for the atrocities in the western Kosovo village of Cus

Report: North Korea to rejoin six-nation nuclear talks early next month

Kwang-Tae Kim, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 Mar, 2010 0 0

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday. The North, believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least a half-dozen bombs, quit international disarmament

US avoids anti-abortion schism at meeting on women's equality - unlike 2005

Edith M. Lederer, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 Mar, 2010 0 0

A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme. Much of the 2005 meetin

California molester's release from prison thwarted by federal case filed in Florida

John Antczak, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 Mar, 2010 0 0

LOS ANGELES - The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child porn and a woman's allegations that he bought her as a child in Asia and subjected her to years of sexual abuse while molesting her young friends.

Protesters surge into Bangkok from rural areas, hoping to force new elections

Denis D. Gray, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 0 0

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thousands of red-shirted protesters surging into the Thai capital from impoverished rural areas Saturday gave the government an ultimatum to "return power to the people" or face mass marches in key locations. Traffic was light, businesses were shuttered and social events canc

Former allied drug gangs split, new violence erupts on eastern end of Mexico-US border

Christopher Sherman,Olga R. Rodriguez, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 0 0

REYNOSA, Mexico - This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico's bloody drug war for years, but now the bodies are piling up, several journalists are reportedly missing or dead and once-busy streets are empty after dark. The crumbling of an alli

Bluefin tuna, overfished oceans top agenda of UN wildlife protection conference in Doha

Michael Casey, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 0 0

DOHA, Qatar - A contentious battle between Asia and the West over the fate of the Atlantic bluefin tuna prized by sushi lovers overshadowed a United Nations conference that opened Saturday in the Gulf state of Qatar. The 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITE
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