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Gang leader receives life in prison for killing

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:29:56 GMT

A Paris court has convicted a gang leader of the brutal 2006 killing of a young man prosecutors say was targeted because he was Jewish.

Newsweek: How Obama looked past the Kremlin

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:06:08 GMT

Boris Nemtsov, a leader of Russia’s solidarity opposition movement and former deputy prime minister, discusses how the U.S. president sent a strong message to reformers during his visit to Moscow.

Obama lands in Ghana after meeting pope

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:19:18 GMT

President Barack Obama arrived in Ghana on Friday on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa.

G-8 pledges $20 billion to poor farmers

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:55:29 GMT

World leaders committed themselves to a $20 billion food security proposal that represents a fundamental shift in the way the West tackles world hunger.

Trying to bury the past, again and again

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:30:31 GMT

How many times can you bury your child without going mad? It's a question that has haunted Bosnian mothers whose children's bones were scattered after they were massacred in Srebrenica.

First Pamplona goring death since '95

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:40:05 GMT

A charging bull gored a man to death Friday at Pamplona's "running of the bulls" festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years.

U.K. police probe Gitmo detainee’s claims

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:54:47 GMT

British police say they are investigating allegations surrounding the detention of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed.

U.K. losses mount in Afghanistan

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:15:25 GMT

News of 15 battlefield deaths in 10 days has many Britons rethinking the country's commitment to a conflict that seems no closer to a successful end than when troops arrived in 2002.

Freed journalist describes Iran jail

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:13:15 GMT

A British-Greek journalist released from jail in Iran said Friday that he had been blindfolded, held in solitary confinement and subjected to frequent interrogations.