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- Mexico drug war not comparable to Colombia: Obama
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 05:27 PM -0700
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday denied that rising drug violence made Mexico look increasingly like Colombia at the height of its drugs war, rebuffing comments made by...[more]
- Philippines says police may have shot some hostages
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 05:10 PM -0700
Philippine authorities acknowledged for the first time Thursday that some of the tourists taken hostage in a bus standoff last month may have been shot by police in the bungled rescue operation.
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- Parents try to recover runaway teen in Brazil
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 05:07 PM -0700
An American family is desperately trying to get their daughter back after the 15-year-old ran away with her boyfriend to Brazil, where authorities handed her over to the boyfriend's family.
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- Obama: Mexico drug war not like Colombia
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 04:42 PM -0700
President Barack Obama denies that rising drug violence made Mexico look increasingly like Colombia at the height of its drug war, rebuffing comments by his secretary of state.[more]
- Florida pastor cancels Koran-burning plan
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 04:08 PM -0700
GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - A Christian pastor on Thursday canceled a plan to burn copies of the Koran at his obscure Florida church, which had drawn international condemnation and a warning...[more]
- Somalis tell of hellish scene in Mogadishu
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 04:07 PM -0700
Terrified Somalis fleeing an offensive by Islamist insurgents in their capital described a hellish scene of putrefying corpses, graves hastily dug in gardens and neighborhoods flattened by mortars.[more]
- Iran to release one of 3 imprisoned American hikers, official says
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 03:47 PM -0700
Sarah Shourd is expected to be freed Saturday. She, Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer were arrested in July 2009 after possibly straying into Iranian territory.An American woman, one of three U.S....[more]
- Austria kidnap victim: ‘I wanted to start a new life’
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 03:35 PM -0700
Amid tight security and applause, Natascha Kampusch presented a book Thursday about her eight-and-a-half-year ordeal at the mercy of a paranoid man who admired Hitler and wanted her to call him...[more]
- China's tycoons shun Gates-Buffett
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 03:34 PM -0700
In the world of business, who in their right mind would turn down the opportunity to dine with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett? Chinese tycoons, apparently.
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- German central banker in race row resigns
Category: World News
Publish Date: 09-09-2010 03:21 PM -0700
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German central bank board member who caused outrage with remarks about Muslim immigrants and Jews resigned on Thursday after coming under pressure from political leaders...[more]
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