CARACAS, (APP/AFP): Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said that armed supporters of the leftist national government “besieged” him and other travelers at an airport Wednesday evening on the island of Margarita. News of the incident came as thousands of Venezuelans staged rival protests Wednesday, with the opposition pressing for a referendum on recalling President Nicolas […]
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Venezuela’s Capriles says govt supporters ‘besieged’ him
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Palestinians dismiss report Abbas was KGB agent as ‘smear’
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, (APP/AFP) – A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday dismissed a claim by researchers that he worked as a Soviet agent in Damascus in the 1980s, calling it a smear intended to derail a Russian peace initiative. The claim emerged in a report by Israeli public television on Wednesday night […]
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Storm death toll climbs to five in Mexico
HERMOSILLO, Mexico, (APP/AFP) – The death toll from tropical storm Newton has climbed to five in Mexico, authorities said, with the downgraded hurricane weakening as it traveled over the US state of Arizona. The five victims — all fishermen — were killed when their shrimp boat sank Tuesday as the storm crashed into the Baja […]
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Weak Japanese growth puts pressure on Abe
TOKYO, (APP/AFP) – Japan’s economy barely grew in the second quarter, revised data showed Thursday, further calling into question Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s big-spending easy-money policy drive. While the figures were a slight improvement on the zero expansion in earlier estimates — owing to an upward revision in capital spending and public investment — they […]
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Palestinian killed by Israel forces was not an attacker: police
JERUSALEM, (APP/AFP) – A Palestinian killed by Israeli police this week was not attempting a car-ramming attack on officers as had been initially claimed, police said on Wednesday. Police originally said they opened fire on Monday during a car-ramming attack targeting officers in the Shuafat refugee camp in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. One of the men […]
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25 dead in Egypt bus, train accidents before holiday
CAIRO, (APP/AFP): At least 22 people were killed in a bus collision and three died when a train derailed in separate accidents south of Cairo Wednesday during a busy holiday travel time. The bus collided with a truck in the southwestern province of Wedi El-Gedid, the Egyptian health ministry said. The number of passengers on […]