Philippine
boxing hero Manny Pacquiao said Tuesday authorities had frozen all his domestic
bank accounts over allegations of unpaid taxes from lucrative fights in the
United States, leaving him financially paralysed. "This is
harassment," the former eight-division world champion said in an…
AFP
The World
Health Organization is likely to announce more cases of polio in war-ravaged
Syria this week, a spokeswoman said on Monday, after the incurable virus was
confirmed this month in 13 children who became paralyzed. "(The outbreak)
is expected to spread within the country, which is why we…
Driver whose
bikini top was untied is cleared by New York court in fatal crash
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President Obama
was winding up a speech on immigration reform Monday, when a heckler
interrupted him. I need your help!” shouted a young man standing behind the
president at the event at a recreation center in San Francisco. “You have
a power to stop deportation for all undocumented immigrants in…
Christian Science Monitor
VATICAN CITY
(AP) — Pope Francis issued the mission statement for his papacy Tuesday,
outlining how the Catholic Church and the papacy itself must be reformed to
create a more missionary and merciful church that gets its hands dirty as it
seeks out the poor and oppressed.
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Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a security deal with the United States, the
White House said, opening up the prospect of a complete withdrawal of U.S.
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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A Chicago-born man, who went missing three decades ago as
a toddler after his father took him to Mexico, has been reunited with his U.S.
mother in California after a harrowing trek back to the United States. David
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A young Saudi
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LITTLE ROCK,
Ark. (AP) — A federal judge in Arkansas approved a settlement Monday that pays
$84.9 million to 5,500 trucking companies that were cheated out of promised
rebates by Pilot Flying J, the nation's largest diesel retailer.
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VATICAN CITY
(AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin showed off his religious side during a
visit Monday to the Vatican, stopping to cross himself and kiss an icon of the
Madonna that he gave to Pope Francis. But Moscow's improving relations with the
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The world's
longest nonstop commercial flight ended without fanfare Monday after Singapore
Airlines (SIA) flew its last nearly 19-hour service from New York. Flight SQ 21
landed early Monday in Changi Airport, bringing an end to a nine-year run. A
direct service to Los Angeles has also been…
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Syrian
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SANLIURFA, Turkey (Reuters) - Abu Huseyin says he has sent dozens of people
from this ancient city in southeastern Turkey to join jihadist groups in
northern Syria and vows to continue helping them fulfill what he says is their
duty to God. Several hundred Turks are estimated to…
PARIS (AP) —
France will send 1,000 troops to Central African Republic under an expected
U.N.-backed mission to keep growing chaos at bay, the defense minister said
Tuesday — boosting the French military presence in Africa for the second time
this year.
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By Aaron Maasho
MAI-AINI REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ten years ago, Eritrean migrant
Habtu hunkered down on the vomit-stained deck of a creaking trawler on the
Mediterranean Sea, making the final stage of his perilous bid to reach Europe.
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South Africa's
economic growth slowed to 0.7 percent in the third quarter, official data
showed Tuesday, with labour turmoil and a weak rand weighing down Africa's
biggest economy. Gross domestic product plunged from a revised level of 3.2
percent in the second quarter to its lowest rate in four…
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Government
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study said on Tuesday. In a wide-ranging probe published in The Lancet Global
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A kilogramme of
uranium seized in South Africa as it was allegedly being sold likely originated
from a nuclear enrichment plant outside the continent, the country's nuclear
energy agency said Monday. South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA),
which tested the material, confirmed that the…
AFP
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JOHANNESBURG
(AP) — In a newspaper cartoon, a Czech fugitive with alleged links to
Johannesburg's deadly underworld scolds the Grim Reaper for wanting a vacation.
Associated Press
HARARE,
Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has failed to end human rights abuses despite adopting
a new constitution that enshrines democratic rights, global rights watchdog
Amnesty International said Monday.
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Markey and Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia offers perhaps the last hope
for Arab Spring democracy; After months of crisis, Islamists and their secular
opponents are bargaining over forming a caretaker government, a new
constitution is a few penstrokes from completion and a second…
Reuters
The number of
adolescents infected by the HIV virus has jumped by one third over the past
decade, the UN's health agency said Monday, blaming gaps in care programmes.
"More than 2 million adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years are
living with HIV," marking a 33 percent rise since 2001,…
AFP
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