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What to expect this week from school protests rattling France's government
Snow grounds 800 flights across Europe
BERLIN - Heavy overnight snowfall disrupted air travel across western Europe Friday, forcing more than 800 flight cancellations and leading to major delays in …
North Korea: We're ready for war
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea warned Saturday that it is ready for an all-out war even as it dispatched its top diplomat to Russia amid a flurry of regional…
Eccentric cartel chief killed
MEXICO CITY - The eccentric leader of the brutal La Familia drug cartel was killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western Mexican state…
Roadside bomb kills 15 in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban has killed 15 civilians in a dangerous and remote region of southern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.
China furious over Nobel award
BEIJING (AP) - China repeated its claim Saturday that the world is meddling in its affairs after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in absentia to imprisoned de…
Crackdown on WikiLeaks sparks protests
LONDON (AP) - Skirmishes raged across cyberspace Thursday between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group, with websites on both sides of the battle line taken out of servic…
World Briefs December 6, 2010
Iran claims nuke advance before talks
Climate talks stepping up to higher level
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - The slow-moving U.N. talks on combating global warming took a step forward Saturday with revised proposals for a $100 billion-a-year climate aid fund and other issues for debate by the world's…
WikiLeaks fights to stay online amid attacks
LONDON - WikiLeaks became an Internet vagabond Friday, moving from one website to another as governments and hackers hounded the organization, trying to depriv…
1,000-man militia being trained in north Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - In the northern reaches of Somalia and the country's presidential palace, a well-equipped military force is being created, funded by a mysterious donor nation that is also paying for the servi…
Wasting good garbage
CANCUN, Mexico - Clambering over garbage heaps, rummaging through trash cans, Supriya Bhadakwad didn't set out to save the planet when she was 13 years old, ju…
The law pursuing WikiLeaks founder
LONDON (AP) - The law is closing in on Julian Assange. Swedish authorities won a court ruling Thursday in their bid to arrest the WikiLeaks founder for questioning in a rape case, British intelligence is said to kn…
Biggest-ever Israeli forest fire kills 36
MEGADIM, Israel (AP) - Dozens of Israeli guards trying to rescue prisoners threatened by the worst forest fire in the country's history died Thursday when thei…
Russia, Qatar score big
ZURICH (AP) - Picture football fans partying where tanks and missiles paraded on Red Square in the Cold War's darkest days. Imagine high-tech air-conditioned s…
Starry starry night
WASHINGTON - The universe may glitter with far more stars than even Carl Sagan imagined when he rhapsodized about billions upon billions.