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- Bahrain king announces constitutional reforms
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 08:09 AM -0800
Bahrain's king announced constitutional amendments on Sunday giving parliament more powers of scrutiny over government, but the opposition said they fell far short of demands for democracy that...[more]
- Iraqi police: 15 killed in attacks on stations
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 08:06 AM -0800
At least 15 people were killed and 26 others wounded in attacks targeting police stations in Iraq Sunday, authorities said.
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- Literary mystery: Was poet Pablo Neruda murdered?
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 08:02 AM -0800
It’s been forty years since the Nobel-Prize winning poet’s death but suspicions remain about whether it was the result of natural causes or a fatal injection.[more]
- Explosion kills many Shiites in Pakistan, police say
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 07:30 AM -0800
At least 14 people were killed and 20 injured in a bomb blast in the Pakistani town of Khan Pur, a police official said Sunday.
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- Pakistan Taliban leader reported dead in US strike
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 07:04 AM -0800
Intercepted militant radio communications indicate the leader of the Pakistani Taliban may have been killed in a recent U.S. drone strike, Pakistani intelligence officials said Sunday. A Taliban...[more]
- The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 05:41 AM -0800
There are kingpins with names like the Engineer, head-chopping hit men, dirty cops and double-dealing politicians. And, of course, there are users -- millions of them.
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- Officials: Fighters seize town near Yemeni capital
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 04:02 AM -0800
Dozens of suspected al Qaeda militants attacked government posts southeast of the Yemeni capital, seizing strategic areas, local authorities and witnesses said.
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- Iran threatens Israel, U.S. over scientist killing
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 03:34 AM -0800
Israel and the United States are "supporters of state terrorism" and will suffer a "punitive response" at an "opportune time," Iran's Press TV cited a top Iranian general as saying Sunday,...[more]
- 'Consequences': Iran warns Gulf countries not to replace its oil
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 02:22 AM -0800
An Iranian pro-reform newspaper says the country's OPEC governor has warned the country's Arab neighbors that Tehran will view any increase in crude production to counterbalance a potential embargo...[more]
- Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou reelected, vows closer China ties
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Ma Ying-jeou wins 51% of the vote after a tense campaign packed with criticism of his overtures to China. He had urged voters to see his efforts at rapprochement with Beijing as an economic...[more]
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