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Ivory Coast opposition protests voter list probe
Protesters torched a police station in western Ivory Coast while claiming their names had been removed from voter rolls in advance of this year's presidential election.
updated: 1 minutes ago

UN slams Haitian hospitals for charging patients
The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients.
updated: 5 minutes ago

2nd German traveler camps out in Brazil airport
A German man who went to Brazil for a woman he met on the Internet has been camping out in an airport for more than a month after thieves took all his money and possessions, authorities said Tuesday.
updated: 17 minutes ago

Nigeria: Vice president empowered by lawmakers
Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.
updated: 19 minutes ago

Vatican intrigue hits new level with leak denial
The Vatican denied Tuesday that it leaked documents that led to the resignation of a prominent Catholic editor, intervening in a tale of ecclesiastical intrigue that has dominated Italian headlines for weeks.
updated: 20 minutes ago

Nigeria footage: uniformed men shoot unarmed men
An international news channel is showing chilling footage of men in uniforms shooting unarmed men after they purportedly were arrested during clashes last year with Muslim militants in northern Nigeria.
updated: 28 minutes ago

China gives 5 years to activist who probed quake
A Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of children crushed in their schools during the Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Tuesday to five years, underscoring the government's determination to suppress questions about why the buildings fell.
updated: 42 minutes ago

Russian military calls US missile defense a threat
U.S. missile defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia's top military officer said Tuesday.
updated: 47 minutes ago

US Army closes in on targeted southern Afghan town
U.S. Army soldiers launched a preliminary operation Tuesday in support of a planned U.S.-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.
updated: 48 minutes ago

Dubai tower shut after visitors stuck in elevator
Visitors on the observation deck of the world's tallest tower heard what sounded like a small explosion, then saw dust that looked like smoke seeping through a crack in an elevator door 124 floors above the ground. The 15 people inside were trapped for 45 frightening minutes until rescuers managed to pry open the doors.
updated: 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

Protesters burn library in southeastern S.Africa
Protesters have torched a library in an impoverished area of South Africa in what began as a march to call for more jobs.
updated: 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

Witness: Demjanjuk's statements inconsistent
A top German investigator testified Tuesday that John Demjanjuk has given conflicting stories about where he spent the rest of World War II after being captured by the Germans in 1942.
updated: 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

Iranians protest at Rome's Tehran embassy
About 100 Iranians protested Tuesday in front of the Italian embassy in Tehran, shouting "Death to Italy, Death to Berlusconi, " Italy's foreign minister said. Protests were also held outside the French and Dutch embassies.
updated: 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

Sri Lankan parliament dissolved ahead of new vote
Sri Lanka's president dissolved the parliament Tuesday, setting the stage for new elections a day after authorities arrested the leader of the opposition _ a move analysts said was meant to prevent him from contesting the vote.
updated: 1 hour, 21 minutes ago

64 feared dead, 400 hurt in Afghan avalanches
Massive avalanches roaring down a mountain pass north of Kabul may have killed more than 60 people Tuesday, Afghan officials said, as rescuers evacuated about 400 injured victims.
updated: 2 hours, 1 minutes ago

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