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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
Russia: Human error caused plane crash
By MATT MOORE and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Vatican to bishops: Report sex abuse
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican on Monday made clear for the first time that bishops and other church officials should report clerical sex abuse to police if required by law. But the policy failed to satisfy victim…
Shroud of Turin displayed
TURIN, Italy (AP) - The Shroud of Turin went on public display Saturday for the first time in 10 years, drawing long lines of people to see the linen some believe is Christ's burial cloth and others dismiss as a me…
Polish leader among dead in jet crash
SMOLENSK, Russia - An aging Russian airliner carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and members of his country's military, political and church elites crashe…
Bolivia protests US climate aid suspension
BONN, Germany (AP) - Bolivia has protested the suspension of U.S. climate aid as "a very bad practice," but said it won't change its policies on global warming. Bolivian delegate Pablo Solon confirmed that the U.S.…
Iran: Iraq's government must include Sunnis
BAGHDAD - The Iranian ambassador to Baghdad said Saturday that Iraq's new government should include all political blocs - including Sunnis - in a shift for a country that has long advocated an Iraqi government domi…
Russia threatens to end U.S. adoptions
MOSCOW - Russia threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families Friday after a 7-year-old boy adopted by a woman from Tennessee was sent alone on a …
Mudslide levels slum
NITEROI, Brazil (AP) - They are all gone. The Evangelical church where worshippers were praying. A day care center where kids were playing. The pizza parlor where a family was eating.
Vatican officials blast abuse accusations as anti-Catholic campaign
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican heatedly defended Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, claiming accusations that he helped cover up the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic "hate" campaign targeting the po…
Afghan leader says he may join Taliban
KABUL (AP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, several members of parliament said…
World/Nation Briefs April 5, 2010
9 rescued after 179 hours in flooded Chinese mine
Ahmadinejad: Sanctions aid, rather than hurt, Iran
TEHRAN, Iran - Faced with the prospect of new sanctions because of Iran's nuclear defiance, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that new penalties would only strengthen the country's technological progress …
Vatican waited years to defrock priest
The future Pope Benedict XVI took over the abuse case of an Arizona priest, then let it languish at the Vatican for years despite repeated pleas from the bisho…
Meet a 17-year-old suicide bomber
MOSCOW - The image is striking: a sultry teenager, partly veiled, in the embrace of a bearded man - both grasping handguns. The photo appeared Friday in a lead…
Mexican drug cartels target army in brazen attacks
REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) - In a ratcheting up of tactics in a long, bloody war, drug cartel gunmen made seven especially brazen assaults on Mexican soldiers in one…