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Cambodian court convicts 2 journos of defamation

By SOPHENG CHEANG
Associated Press Writer
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) – A Cambodian court found two journalists, including an Irish national, guilty of defamation Tuesday for publishing an article in which an opposition leader allegedly criticized dozens of high-ranking military officers.
The ruling was the latest in a series of legal judgments this year that human rights groups [...]

SKorea: Any US-NKorea talks must deal with nukes

By JAE-SOON CHANG
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea said Wednesday any dialogue with North Korea should be firmly based on the goal of ridding the communist regime of nuclear weapons, as the United States considers Pyongyang’s long-held desire for direct talks.
Unification Minister Hyun In-taek, in charge of ties with Pyongyang, also told [...]

Insurgents vow to avenge US raid in Somalia

By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
Associated Press Writer

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – A U.S. raid killed one of Africa’s most wanted al-Qaida suspects sought in connection with a deadly hotel bombing, and Somalia’s powerful insurgent group vowed Tuesday to avenge the American attack.
Two senior members of al-Shabab, who asked that their names not be used because they [...]

Merkel campaigns aboard historic train

By STEFAN LANGE
Associated Press Writer
BONN, Germany (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel boarded a historic train Tuesday for a whistle-stop campaign tour honoring West Germany’s first democratically elected post-World War II leader – conservative icon Konrad Adenauer.
The chancellor’s trip, ahead of Germany’s Sept. 27 parliamentary elections, appeared aimed at shoring up her Christian Democratic Union’s core [...]

Jet makes emergency landing at German airport

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) – A passenger jet made an emergency landing at Germany’s Stuttgart airport on Monday following problems with its landing gear, but there were no significant injuries, authorities and a passenger said.
The Contact Air plane, which was on a flight from Berlin’s Tegel airport, had 73 passengers and five crew members on board, [...]

Lawyers challenge DNA at murder trial in Italy

By MARTA FALCONI
Associated Press Writer
PERUGIA, Italy (AP) – Lawyers for an American student and her former boyfriend challenged key DNA findings at an Italian murder trial Monday and demanded that indictments accusing the two of killing her former British roommate be tossed out.
Amanda Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito are being tried in the central Italian [...]

5 Hong Kong workers die in elevator shaft fall

HONG KONG (AP) – A construction platform inside an elevator shaft collapsed Sunday, sending five workers falling 20 stories to their deaths inside a Hong Kong skyscraper, officials and state media said. Another worker was injured.
The accident occurred at the International Commerce Center, which will be 118 stories high when completed next year, making it [...]

Questions and answers about the war in Afghanistan

By ANNE GEARAN
AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Eight years past the terror attacks that led to the war in Afghanistan, the connection between that country and al-Qaida has dimmed in memory, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden remains at large and the fighting grinds on.
President Barack Obama must soon decide whether to commit even more [...]

Deadly riots erupt in Ugandan capital for 2nd day

By GODFREY OLUKYA
Associated Press Writer

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Three people including a child were shot dead Friday in rioting in Uganda’s capital, a witness and a policeman said, bringing the overall death toll over two days of unrest to at least 10.
AP photographer Marc Hofer saw a 13-year-old boy shot in the head and [...]

SKorea demands NKorea explanation for deadly flood

By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea pressed North Korea on Monday to explain a deadly surge in a river that flows across their border from the North that killed three South Koreans and left three others missing.
The level of the Imjin River suddenly doubled Sunday, sweeping away six people camping [...]