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GAZIPUR, Bangladesh — A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world's largest apparel maker, U.
Full Story SAO PAULO — Brazilian companies are posting their longest stretch of earnings disappointments, adding to signs the recovery in Latin America's largest economy is faltering.
Full Story PARIS — A global warming "pause" over the past decade may invalidate the harshest climate change predictions for the next 50 to 100 years, a study said Sunday — though levels remain in the danger zone.
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SEOUL — North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast on Sunday, a day after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said, ignoring calls for restraint from Western powers.
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WASHINGTON — Myanmar President Thein Sein began Saturday the first visit to Washington by a leader of his country in nearly 50 years as the United States throws its support behind his reforms.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks my heart" that the death of a homeless person is not news.
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BUENOS AIRES — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria's civil war but had no plans to resign, in an interview with an Argentine newspaper.
Full Story An apparent US drone attack has killed four suspected Al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen and destroyed an explosives-packed truck, tribal sources said on Saturday.
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PARIS — There was a time, not so long ago, when anyone with a proper education spoke French. Diplomacy and business were conducted in French.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Hem Navy lies on a stretcher in the emergency room of a local hospital, hours after she was pulled out from under the collapsed ceiling of an Asics shoe factory in the southwestern province of Kompong Speu.
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SEOUL — North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown.
Full Story MOSCOW - Russia's security services openly named the US intelligence agency's Moscow station chief Friday in a rare breach of protocol after arresting an alleged CIA agent working undercover at the US embassy.
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BAQUBA, Iraq — Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Friday denied allegations that he smoked crack cocaine.
"Absolutely not true.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina's former dictator who led the country's military junta from 1976 to 1981, has died.
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| | | Saturday May 18, 2013 ATHENS, Greece -- Greece’s deep, six-year recession is likely to end in 2014, but growth will be weak and unemployment will remain above 20 percent for another three years, the country’s international debt inspectors said.
Full Story Saturday May 18, 2013 AMSTERDAM -- World stock markets shrugged off suggestions the U.
Full Story Saturday May 18, 2013
TOKYO (AP) -- An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ended a visit to North Korea on Friday but would not give details of his talks with leaders in Pyongyang.
Full Story Saturday May 18, 2013
Hagel orders military to recertify all who have roles in sexual abuse prevention programs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon’s control.
Full Story Saturday May 18, 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday evening, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 70 near the southern city of Kandahar, an official said.
Full Story Saturday May 18, 2013 UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, U.
Full Story Friday May 17, 2013
Afghan woman recounts how U.
Full Story Thursday May 16, 2013
GOP, Democrats aggressively question Holder over subpoenas of AP phone records
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement.
Full Story Wednesday May 15, 2013
Benghazi, IRS, leaks investigation pose big hurdles for Obama’s second-term hopes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama seemed to lose control of his second-term agenda even before he was sworn in, when a school massacre led him to lift gun control to the fore.
Full Story Wednesday May 15, 2013 NEW YORK -- While several more global clothing chains on Tuesday were announcing that they agreed to a historic pact to improve factory conditions in Bangladesh, U.
Full Story Tuesday May 14, 2013
Obama condemns IRS targeting, calls GOP criticism of Benghazi ‘political sideshow’
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies Monday, denouncing as "outrageous" the targeting of conservative political groups by the federal IRS but angrily denying any administration cover-up after last year’s deadly
Full Story Monday May 13, 2013 NEW YORK -- Bangladesh offers the global garment industry something unique: Millions of workers who quickly churn out huge amounts of well-made underwear, jeans and T-shirts for the lowest wages in the world.
Full Story Monday May 13, 2013
17 wounded at New Orleans Mother’s Day second-line parade shooting
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans police say 17 people have been wounded in a shooting during a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday.
Full Story Saturday May 11, 2013 WASHINGTON -- Marines and other U.
Full Story Saturday May 11, 2013 GENEVA -- A summit on chemicals and hazardous wastes ended Friday with an agreement to globally phase out a widely used flame retardant and to accept stricter requirements for disclosing information about exports of four other chemicals.
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