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  • Greeks earning ?42,000 to be taxed at top rate

    Greeks earning more than €42,000 ($55,000) per year will now be taxed at a new top rate of 42 percent, under a major new tax reform bill submitted to ... 

  • Cayman Islands premier says he will not step down

    The leader of the Cayman Islands government announced Thursday he will not heed calls to resign, insisting his arrest this week on suspicion of ... 

  • KHALED EL-MASRI

    European court condemns CIA in landmark ruling

    A European court issued a landmark ruling Thursday that condemned the CIA's "extraordinary renditions" programs and bolstered those who say they were ... 

  • Avigdor Lieberman

    Israeli FM charged with breach of trust

    Israel's powerful foreign minister was charged Thursday with breach of trust for actions that allegedly compromised a criminal investigation into his ... 

  • Study: People worldwide living longer, but sicker

    Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases ... 

  • UEFA gives bans, fines to Serbia over U21 brawl

    UEFA imposed heavy sanctions on Serbia on Thursday for an on-pitch brawl and its fans' racial abuse of England players at an ill-tempered under-21s ... 

  • London police drop racism case against fan

    London police are taking no further action against a man arrested after being pictured making an alleged racist gesture during a League Cup match ... 

  • Somali rebels: Up to $8K to kill Kenyan forces

    An intelligence message intercepted from an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group shows that the rebels are being offered up to $8,000 as a reward for ... 

  • Pakistan extends refugee status for Afghans

    Pakistan has extended refugee status for over a million Afghans in the country by an additional six months, the government announced — a move likely ... 

  • Vatican austerity means donated nativity scene

    The Vatican has happily accepted a donated Nativity scene for St. Peter's Square this Christmas after a previous setup costing €550,000 ($717,000) was ... 

  • Jacob Zuma, Kgalema Motlanthe

    South Africa deputy president in race to lead ANC

    South Africa's soft-spoken Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will compete next week against President Jacob Zuma to lead the country's ruling party, ... 

  • YASSINE

    Morocco's biggest opposition leader dies

    Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine, the charismatic religious leader of Morocco's largest opposition movement and longtime opponent of two Moroccan kings, died ... 

  • Swedish volunteer dies after Pakistan shooting

    Sweden's government says an elderly Swedish woman who was shot by a gunman while working as a volunteer in Pakistan has died from her wounds. 

  • Spanish botched fresco artist sells work on eBay

    The 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous because of her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church is auctioning one of her ... 

  • Rights group accuses Pakistani military of abuse

    Amnesty International accused the Pakistani military on Thursday of carrying out widespread human rights abuses in the country's northwest tribal ... 

  • UN Security Council condemns NKorea rocket launch

    The U.N. Security Council condemned North Korea's successful rocket launch on Wednesday and said it will urgently consider "an appropriate response. 

  • William J. Burns, William Hague

    US, Syria opposition disagree over terrorist label

    The U.S. and the head of the new Syrian opposition coalition being feted at a conference in Morocco Wednesday publicly disagreed over designating a ... 

  • Fast and Furious gun buyer sentenced to prison

    A man who purchased two rifles found at the scene of the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent north of the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced ... 

  • Egypt opposition urges 'No' vote on constitution

    Egypt's main opposition alliance called for a "No" vote in the referendum on a disputed constitution rather than a boycott, hours after Islamist ... 

  • Yacov Gassinovitch

    Germany approves bill to protect male circumcision

    German lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that explicitly permits male infant circumcision, ending months of legal uncertainty after a court ruling ... 

  • Pope hits 1M mark as he tweets: 'Dear Friends... '

    Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account, blessing his online fans and ... 

  • German clubs adopt contested security charter

    German football clubs have adopted new security measures that include stiffer controls outside stadiums and possible body searches in an attempt to ... 

  • Vladimir Putin

    Putin rejects foreign advice on democracy

    President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday angrily rejected what he described as attempts to enforce foreign patterns of democracy on Russia and vowed to ... 

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