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Moammar Gadhafi killed in Libya

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT


SIRTE, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's dictator for 42 years until he was ousted in an uprising-turned-civil war, was killed Thursday as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte and captured the last major bastion of resistance tw ...

Gadhafi's death turns focus to nation building

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Libya's victorious revolutionaries now face a new threat: Themselves.
The secular and the religious, the politicians and the militants all basked Thursday in the demise of a dictator after fighters killed Moammar Gadhafi and eradicat ...

Moammar Gadhafi's demise a cautionary tale for region

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT


CAIRO -- Images of Moammar Gadhafi's bloodied body flashed on TV screens across the world may send shivers down the spines of Syria's Bashar Assad and Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh, two leaders clinging to power in the face of long-running Arab Spring ...

Mexico takes on youth obesity

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT


MEXICO CITY — Anghella Torres is just 4 years old, but already she weighs 66 pounds (30 kilos) — twice what she should. Because of her excess girth, her little feet constantly hurt from bearing the extra weight.
Anghella knows she is o ...

Divisions stall EU debt crisis efforts

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT


BRUSSELS -- Europe's efforts to solve its escalating debt crisis plunged into disarray Thursday after Germany and France could not bridge their differences in time for a summit Sunday, forcing them to call a second meeting.
Sunday's summit was sup ...

Libya officials: Gadhafi captured, possibly killed

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 02:27 AM PDT


SIRTE, Libya -- Libya's information minister said Moammar Gadhafi was killed Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two months after the regime fell. Amid the fighting, a NATO airstr ...

With warped vision, Gadhafi maddened Libya, West

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:05 AM PDT


TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- During nearly 42 years in power in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi was one of the world's most eccentric dictators, so mercurial that he was both condemned and courted by the West, while he brutally warped his country with his idiosyn ...

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