| Bride-to-be, best man missing in boat crash Posted: 27 Jul 2013 10:27 AM PDT  Four others, including the groom-to-be, were hurt in the Hudson River accident.
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| Gunman among 7 dead after Fla. apartment shootout Posted: 27 Jul 2013 10:16 AM PDT  A gunman holding hostages inside a South Florida apartment complex killed six people before being shot to death by a SWAT team that stormed the building early Saturday following an hours-long standoff, police said.
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| Officials: Train driver suspected of negligent homicide Posted: 27 Jul 2013 06:27 AM PDT  Spain's interior minister announced Saturday that the driver whose speeding train crashed, killing 78 people, is now being held on suspicion of negligent homicide.
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| Body found in NY river where bride-to-be vanished Posted: 27 Jul 2013 10:43 AM PDT PIERMONT, N.Y. (AP) — A female body was pulled from the Hudson River on Saturday near where a bride-to-be and her fiance's best man went missing after their boat crashed into a construction barge near the Tappan Zee Bridge. |
| Catholics hear pope's call to shake up church Posted: 27 Jul 2013 05:27 AM PDT  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In the thick of his historic visit to Brazil this week, Pope Francis urged young Catholics to make a "mess" in their dioceses and break out of their spiritual cages.
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| North Korea military parades through Pyongyang Posted: 27 Jul 2013 08:42 AM PDT  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang's main square on Saturday in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant intended to strike fear into North Korea's adversaries and rally its people behind young ruler Kim Jong Un on the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.
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| Judge deliberates in GI's WikiLeaks trial Posted: 27 Jul 2013 12:34 AM PDT  FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A military judge is deliberating the fate of an Army private accused of aiding the enemy by engineering a high-volume leak of U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks.
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| Former Rep. Lindy Boggs of Louisiana dies at 97 Posted: 27 Jul 2013 10:32 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Rep. Lindy Boggs, a plantation-born Louisianan who used her soft-spoken grace to fight for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House, died Saturday. She was 97.
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| Vote in Mali's north may decide country's future Posted: 27 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT  KIDAL, Mali (AP) — This desert town and the surrounding region house just 0.5 percent of the people who registered to vote in Mali's presidential election, a number likely to have little impact on the race's outcome. Yet experts say the future of Mali is likely going to be decided by how this region that has been at the epicenter of multiple rebellions handles Sunday's poll.
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| Zimbabwe faces poll with little violence this time Posted: 27 Jul 2013 06:22 AM PDT  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At the age of 89 President Robert Mugabe is on the campaign trail, seeking to extend his grip on Zimbabwe in an election next week that observers fear will be marred by fraud. But the opposition is gambling that there is enough discontent to unseat the wily political survivor, who has been in power for 33 years.
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| Egypt death toll climbs to 65 in Cairo Posted: 27 Jul 2013 10:18 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — A Health Ministry official says at least 65 people have been killed in clashes in the Egyptian capital between police and supporters of the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
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| Syrian refugees in Lebanon face suspicion Posted: 27 Jul 2013 01:57 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — They're lightweight, easy to assemble and have covers that are supposed to keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The U.N. refugee agency wants to test these individual housing units with an eye toward using them as shelter for Syrians fleeing their country's civil war.
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| Man admits to captivity, abuse of 3 Ohio women Posted: 26 Jul 2013 11:38 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping three women, keeping them captive in his Cleveland home for a decade and raping them repeatedly is waiting to be sentenced after pleading guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty.
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| At least 38 Morsi supporters killed in Egypt Posted: 27 Jul 2013 05:09 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Clashes erupted early Saturday in Cairo between security forces and supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, killing at least 38 protesters and overwhelming field hospitals with the wounded, the Health Ministry said, in an outburst of violence that put the possibility of political reconciliation in the deeply divided nation ever further out of reach.
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| AP PHOTOS: Pope observes Via Crucis on Copacabana Posted: 26 Jul 2013 09:01 PM PDT  Pope Francis started off Friday by hearing confessions from a half-dozen young pilgrims in a Rio de Janeiro park and met privately with a group of juvenile detainees, a priority of his ever since his days as archbishop of Buenos Aires.
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