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MSF: More refugees to worsen state of Kenya camp
The health of thousands of Somali refugees will be threatened if they are moved from the country's urban areas into a camp near the Kenyan-Somali ...
Nigeria rights leader blasts journalists detention
Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission has criticized the nation's secret police for detaining two journalists for days without charges.
Myanmar Muslims recall Buddhist assault
Stranded beside their decrepit flotilla of wooden boats, on a muddy beach far from home, the Muslim refugees tell story after terrifying story of ...
Maine same-sex couples marry in first hours of law
Arriving in a limo, Donna Galluzzo and Lisa Gorney had all the trappings of a traditional wedding: Rings, flowers, wedding vows, an entourage and a ...
Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore hospital
Shocked Indians on Saturday were mourning the death of a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago in an ordeal ...
NHL makes new offer; lockout enters critical stage
The NHL's latest offer to the players' association was enough for the sides to make plans to meet this weekend. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said ...
Maine greets gay marriage with midnight weddings
After waiting years and seeing marriage rights nearly awarded and then retracted, gay couples in Maine's largest city didn't have to wait a moment ...
Gay marriage law goes into effect in Maine
Chris Kast and Byron Bartlett already consider themselves married after a 2010 ceremony overlooking Portland Harbor, but now they're doing it all over ...
Minn. coach cleared of child porn reassigned
A football coach at Minnesota State University, Mankato, who was cleared of child pornography charges that stemmed from videos found on his cellphone ...
Fearful of ban, frenzied buyers swarm gun stores
The phones at Red's Trading Post wouldn't stop ringing. Would-be customers from as far away as New York wanted to know if the Twin Falls, Idaho gun ...
Nevada coach Chris Ault retires
Chris Ault raised Nevada football. After 28 years as coach, he felt he had taken the Wolf Pack as far as he could. Ault announced Friday he was ...
Report: Hazing rules ignored before death at FAMU
A blistering state report released Friday contends that Florida A&M University officials failed to follow state laws and regulations on hazing in the ...
Animal rights group settles lawsuit with Ringling
An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus $9.3 million to settle a lawsuit the circus filed after courts found that ...
Jean Harris, 'Scarsdale Diet' doctor killer, dies
Jean Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor ...
Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan
Pakistan's leading arts college has pushed boundaries before in this conservative nation. But when a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in ...
Greek ex-finance minister caught up in scandal
Greece's former finance minister is at the center of an escalating political scandal after three of his relatives were allegedly found missing from ...
Vigil marks 2 weeks since Conn. school massacre
Religious leaders from different faiths gathered Friday on a wind-swept, snowy soccer field to mark two weeks since the Connecticut elementary school ...
Experts: Trained police needed for school security
The student's attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the ...
Putin signs anti-US adoptions bill
President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, abruptly terminating the prospects for more than 50 ...
China requiring people to visit their aged parents
Visit your parents. That's an order. So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children ...
Correction: Vatican-Christmas Shopping story
In a story Dec. 23 about the Vatican's tax-free department store, The Associated Press erroneously reported that online cigar retailer www.
Italy's confused election gets another twist
Italy's confused election campaign took another twist Friday with the country's respected national anti-Mafia prosecutor joining ranks with the ...
Arizona sheriff aims to put armed posse at schools
An Arizona sheriff has announced plans to deploy an armed volunteer posse to protect Phoenix-area students in the wake of the mass shooting at a ...
China requires Internet users to register names
China's government tightened Internet controls Friday with approval of a law that requires users to register their names after a flood of online ...
Official acquitted in Russian jail death case
The only official charged with the death of a Russian whistleblowing lawyer walked free on Friday after a Moscow court acquitted him of negligence, ...