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AP Interview: Uribe challenges Colombia’s peace breakthrough
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 6:28 amFormer Colombian President Alvaro Uribe harshly criticized the international community for having what he considers a double standard by applauding a recent breakthrough in peace… -
Spain grants citizenship to 4,300 with Sephardic Jew roots
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 6:20 amSpain on Friday granted citizenship to 4,302 people whose Jewish ancestors fled after being told in 1492 to convert to Catholicism or go into exile… -
Passenger airplane with 10 aboard missing in east Indonesia
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 6:04 amA passenger plane carrying 10 people is missing on a domestic flight in eastern Indonesia, officials said Friday. -
EU car tests unlike those in US _ but have similar failings
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 5:16 amHere's the main thing the United States and the European Union's auto emissions tests have in common: holes so big that manufacturers could, so to… -
Ethiopia plans to export natural gas in 3 to 5 years
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 5:04 amA government official in Ethiopia says his country will begin exporting natural gas in three to five years following the discovery of huge reserves in… -
Hungary asylum seeker numbers jump in August
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 5:00 amThe number of people seeking asylum in Hungary almost doubled in August as the government was building a razor-wire fence to stop people entering the… -
UK teen in Australia terror plot jailed for at least 5 years
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 5:00 amA 15-year-old British boy has been sentenced to at least five years in custody for organizing a terrorist plot to kill police officers in Australia. -
Israel sends troops after settler couple killed in West Bank
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 4:28 amIsrael's military deployed hundreds of troops in the West Bank on Friday, a day after a drive-by shooting by suspected Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish… -
Indonesia, Pakistan report more killed in Saudi hajj tragedy
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 4:08 amIndonesia and Pakistan have reported more dead from the Saudi hajj disaster. -
Murders test Bangladesh claims that radical Islam in check
Associated Press | October 2, 2015 4:05 amA string of slayings claimed by radical Islamic groups has Bangladesh scrambling to contain what appears to be a rising tide of extremism, and it…