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Thailand calls for even tighter security amid 3 new bomb scares in Bangkok area
BANGKOK - Thailand's government called for tighter security Thursday after three unexploded bombs were found in the Bangkok area, including one outside a school and another at the Health Ministry. ...
Human Rights Watch says Afghan elections threatened by violence, lack of security
KABUL - The legitimacy of Afghanistan's parliamentary elections is severely threatened by insurgent attacks on candidates and the lack of security provided by the government, an international rights g...
US forecast: Moderate spending increase as 32 million gain coverage under health overhaul
WASHINGTON - The U.S. health care tab will go up — not down — as a result of President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul. That's the conclusion of a government forecast released Thursday, which als...
Police: Bomb-makers in Russian hotel kill 2 after explosion
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - Police in Russia's violent republic of Dagestan say a hotel employee and another civilian have been shot to death by men trying to build a bomb in their hotel room. Republican...
Cuba's communist system gets panned by unlikely source - revolutionary leader Fidel Castro
HAVANA - Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy expert ...
2 arrested in Australia after wrestling python outside McDonald's; snake stolen from pet shop
MELBOURNE, Australia - Two men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald's spotted them wrestling a 5-foot (1.5 metre) python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police said Thursday....
Bahrain calls plans for Qur’an burning in US 'shameful' act of intolerance
MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain says plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Qur’an are a shameful attack on efforts for dialogue between faiths. The statement by Bahrain's Foreign Ministry on ...
APNewsBreak: Attorney for Britney Spears'ex calls bodyguard's child abuse claims 'baseless'
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - An attorney for Britney Spears' ex-husband called child abuse claims levelled at the singer by a former bodyguard baseless and motivated by money. Fernando Flores, who worked ...
North Korea celebrates nation's founding day amid speculation on father-to-son succession
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea celebrated its 62nd anniversary Thursday with odes to supreme leader Kim Jong Il and pilgrimages to his late father's statue amid hints that a political meeting believ...
Report: Gunman in standoff with Swiss police over forced sale of house
GENEVA - Swiss media report that police have surrounded a house in the western city of Biel where a gunman has holed himself up. The SDA news agency reports that police evacuated the neighbourhood ...
