Mumbai still vulnerable 1 year after attack
By ERIKA KINETZ
Associated Press Writer
MUMBAI, India (AP) -- The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes. Dozens of holes, blasted by grenades, pockmark the linoleum floors.
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Ukraine's 'hot air' bedevils global climate deal
By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (AP) -- Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
For others bey ...
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Mexico is pulling out of recession
By MARTHA MENDOZA and CATHERINE E. SHOICHET
Associated Press Writers
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Rising oil prices and increased exports are slowly dragging Mexico's economy out of a severe recession, but the nation's financial system still confronts fundamental cha ...
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6 world powers press Iran on nuclear issue
By SLOBODAN LEKIC
Associated Press Writer
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned ...
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Italian prosecutor: Knox hated murder victim
By MARTA FALCONI
Associated Press Writer
PERUGIA, Italy (AP) -- An American student accused of fatally stabbing her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecu ...
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Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence
By TODD PITMAN
Associated Press Writer
KABUL (AP) -- Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives.
Once on the front lines of the international effor ...
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Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them
By DAVID STRINGER
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) -- A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soo ...
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Egyptian soccer fans riot against Algeria
By OMAR SINAN
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup riv ...
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Afghan police are weak link in security force
By ELENA BECATOROS
Associated Press Writer
KABUL (AP) -- Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so Ame ...
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Floods devastate UK Lake District; much of Ireland
By SCOTT HEPPELL
Associated Press Writer
COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) -- Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trappin ...
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AP Exclusive: Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban
By FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) -- Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religiou ...
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UN says more children in school and fewer dying
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chr ...
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