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LIMA, Peru (AP) — The towering statue of Jesus on a cliff overlooking the Pacific looks, at first glance, eerily like Rio de Janeiro’s majestic Christ the Redeemer, a famed icon of Brazil on the Atlantic side of the continent. The resemblance is not accidental. To many Peruvians, the new statue that rises 118 feet [...]
PARIS (AP) — France’s foreign minister says Paris has had contact with emissaries from Moammar Gadhafi who say the embattled Libyan strongman is “prepared to leave.” Alain Juppe told France Info radio on Tuesday that while the contacts do not constitute negotiation, “everyone (involved in Libya’s civil war) has contacts with everyone else.” “The Libyan regime sends its messengers all over, to Turkey, to New [...]
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — President Hamid Karzai’s powerful half brother, a lightning rod for criticism of deep-rooted corruption within the Afghan government, was assassinated Tuesday by a bodyguard at his home in southern Afghanistan. Ahmed Wali Karzai, the head of the Kandahar provincial council, was shot twice — once in the head and once in [...]
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese toddler who fell 10 stories and survived after being caught by a passer-by woke up from a 10-day coma and called out to her parents, state media reported Tuesday. The 2-year-old girl was left unattended and fell from her family’s apartment window in eastern Zhejiang province on July 2. Xinhua News Agency said [...]
PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Francois Fillon says attacks by supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad on the French and United States embassies in Damascus show that “each passing day makes it more and more difficult” for the authoritarian leader to remain in power. Speaking Tuesday on Europe-1 radio, Fillon said that with the previous two days’ embassy attacks, “Assad has [...]
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ torture investigator says the United States is violating U.N. rules by refusing him unfettered access to the Army private accused of passing classified documents to WikiLeaks. Juan Mendez, the U.N.’s special rapporteur for torture, says the U.S. Defense Department won’t let him visit Army Pfc. Bradley Manning without monitoring [...]
LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday accused Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers of employing criminals to obtain confidential information about his family and others. Brown told the BBC on that “The people that they work with are criminals. Known criminals. Criminals with records.” He said that early in his time in office [...]
VIENNA (AP) — Iran says it is ready to work more closely with the U.N. nuclear agency — but only if it stops probing allegations that Tehran worked on aspects of a weapons program. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says he wants the International Atomic Energy Agency to declare that probe closed in exchange for a “new mechanism” of working together [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study finds that long-term regular use of the club drug ketamine, sometimes called Special K, can alter bladder function, leading to bothersome symptoms such as urgency and pelvic pain. Symptoms may persist for up to a year or more after a person stops using ketamine, according to Dr. [...]
ATLANTA (Reuters) – U.S. health officials have confirmed that the recent death of an Arizona resident was linked to an E. coli outbreak that has killed more than 40 people in Europe. The Arizona man, who was over age 65 and had recently traveled to Germany, is the first person in the United States to [...]
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