| Israel convicts Palestinian protest leader |
| An Israeli military court has convicted a Palestinian protest leader of urging youths to throw rocks at Israeli soldiers, in a case that has drawn controversy because it is based on the confession of a 15-year-old interrogated without a lawyer. |
| NATO chief sees financial aid for Afghan forces |
NATO's secretary-general says he's optimistic that the international community will continue to finance the Afghan security forces.
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| NATO chief insists no rush to exits in Afghanistan |
The United States and NATO leaders are insisting the Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France's plans to yank combat troops out early, but leaders weary of plummeting public support for the war are using an alliance summit Sunday to show they want to move quickly away from the front lines.
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| 'Avengers' sinks 'Battleship" to remain No. 1 |
"The Avengers" continues to muscle out everything else Hollywood throws at it, easily sinking naval rival "Battleship" and other new releases.
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| Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dies in Libya |
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died on Sunday, almost three years after being freed from jail on compassionate grounds.
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| Tropical Storm Alberto weakens off Carolina coast |
Tropical Storm Alberto weakened slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, a day after becoming an early first storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
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| Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest |
Lawyers for Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges rejected their request for evidence for his defense.
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| Italy earthquake kills at least six |
A powerful earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing at least six people, felling homes and factories and reducing historic buildings to rubble.
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| Former Israeli PM: Jerusalem must be partitioned |
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.
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| Green Bay marathon in Wis. halted because of heat |
| A Wisconsin marathon has been halted because of heat. |
| Dominicans deciding ex-president's comeback |
| Polling stations are largely calm and orderly as voters in the Dominican Republic choose a new president. |
| Pakistan blocks Twitter over Prophet cartoons |
Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday, saying the website had refused to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
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| U.S. banking laws unable to stop JPMorgan loss: Republican Boehner |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banking reforms could not have prevented JPMorgan Chase & Co's trading losses, and those involved in the activities that went awry should be held accountable, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said in an interview aired on Sunday. "I don't believe there's anything in Dodd-Frank (financial reform law) that would've prevented this activity at JPMorgan," said Boehner, the top Republican U.S. officeholder. He made the comments Friday in an interview for ABC's "This Week. ... |
| Protesters gather for largest NATO demonstration |
Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit geared up Sunday for the largest demonstration of the weekend, as thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Barack Obama and other world leaders were meeting.
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| NATO chief declares no rush for Afghan exits |
The United States and NATO leaders are insisting the Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France's plans to yank combat troops out early.
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| Bosnian police say 5 people die as Cessna plane carrying skydivers crashes near Banja Luka |
| BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Police say five people were killed when a small sports plane crashed in Bosnia's northwest. |
| Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies at 60 |
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60.
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| U.N. seeks Iran nuclear deal before Baghdad talks |
| VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear supervisor flies to Tehran on Sunday looking for a deal to inspect suspected weapons sites - a potential breakthrough that Iran may hope could persuade the West to start lifting sanctions and deflect threats of war. But though IAEA chief Yukiya Amano scheduled Monday's talks with Iran at such short notice that diplomats said agreement on new inspections may be near, few see Tehran convincing Western governments to ease back swiftly on punitive measures when its negotiators meet big power officials in Baghdad on Wednesday. Amano, director general of the U.N. ... |
| Servia fastest in practice for Indianapolis 500 |
| Oriol Servia has posted the fastest time of the cars still trying to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. |
| Taliban: NATO nations should leave war like France |
| The Taliban on Sunday urged all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their forces from the war. |