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Egypt arresting kid protesters, rights group says

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By MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian authorities arrested more than 300 children during protests in Cairo over the past year, beating and torturing some and trying many as adults, a leading international rights group said Tuesday. Human Rights Watch said in a report that the

Congolese rebels seize Goma, take airport

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By MELANIE GOUBY and RUKMINI CALLIMACHIAssociated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) - A rebel group believed to be backed by Rwanda seized the strategic, provincial capital of Goma in eastern Congo on Tuesday, home to more than 1 million people as well as an international airport in a development that

Former Croat PM jailed for corruption

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By DARKO BANDICAssociated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was sentenced to 10 years in prison for bribery on Tuesday, after a trial that was closely monitored by the country's future partners in the European Union. Sanader, 59, who served as prime

Suspect's family has questions in monkey killing

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By JOHN MILLER and REBECCA BOONEAssociated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A 22-year-old man who police say killed a monkey after breaking into the Boise zoo has encountered run-ins with the law in the last three years that include a pair of drug arrests and a conviction for driving drunk. A day

Courting Asia, Obama finds that the world intrudes

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By JIM KUHNHENN and JULIE PACEAssociated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - For all the attention wrenched elsewhere in recent days - on new violence in the Middle East, the "fiscal cliff" back home - President Barack Obama's speedy trip to Southeast Asia achieved a major goal: It was

Indiana home explosion investigated as homicide

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By CHARLES WILSONAssociated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The house explosion that killed two people and destroyed several homes in an Indianapolis neighborhood is now being investigated as a homicide, authorities said, though no suspects have been named. Indianapolis Homeland Security Director

How Asia sees Obama's pivot to the Pacific

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By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - A lot has happened in Asia while the United States was off fighting its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most of it can be summed up in one word - China. Fueled by China's amazing growth and the promise of its huge and expanding consumer market

Obama sends Clinton to Mideast amid Gaza crisis

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By JULIE PACEAssociated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - President Barack Obama dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East on Tuesday as the U.S. urgently seeks to end a conflict between Israel and Hamas that has killed more than 100 in the last week. Clinton

General's wife speaks out on his misconduct probe

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By JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - As an Army general faces a string of sexual misconduct charges involving female officers, his wife is seeking to stir a broader look at often taboo subjects in military marriages: adultery, the strain of separation and the stress of war. Rebecca

Pushing for change, some in Jordan point to king

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By JAMAL HALABYAssociated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - It's usually a few younger protesters who break out in the chant - startling and almost unheard of in this country where the monarchy has always been almost sacrosanct - "Down, down with the king." The rest of the opposition, including