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Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 7
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 26....

Pope under fire for transfer, letter on sex abuse
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children....

Anti-government protesters head for Bangkok
BANGKOK (AP) -- Thousands of red-shirted, anti-government demonstrators converged on the Thai capital from the north and northeast Saturday, vowing to oust the government in a mass, do-or-die display of muscle....

2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake - and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised....

Report: NKorea to rejoin nuclear talks in April
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday....

China gov't advisers urge steady economy
BEIJING (AP) -- China's top parliamentary adviser said Saturday that keeping the economy stable and steady must remain the government's biggest priority this year....

Iraq PM uses early lead to pursue new govt allies
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Seizing on an early lead in Iraq's election, the prime minister's political coalition began reaching out to rivals Friday as partial results signaled a tight race that was unlikely to produce a clear-cut winner....

Somali official to residents: Flee battle zones
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Frightened Somalis stacked household goods on carts pulled by donkeys and fled the heaviest fighting the capital has seen in almost a year Friday, after hundreds of heavily armed insurgents moved into an area this week previously controlled by government soldiers....

Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers
BEIJING (AP) -- Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a wildlife park in a startling case that activists say hints at unsavory practices among some zoos and animal farms in China: They are overbreeding endangered animals in the hopes of making illicit profit on their carcasses....

Austrian govt finds mass graves of Nazi victims
VIENNA (AP) -- At least two mass graves containing dozens of people killed by the Nazis have been found on property used by the Austrian army, government officials said Friday. An army statement suggested some of the remains may be that of U.S. pilots shot down and imprisoned during World War II....

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