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- Statistics show world is more peaceful than ever
- New Libya regime ready to lead
- Gadhafi's death reveals end of an era
- Iraqis at odds on U.S. troops leaving
- Auschwitz survivor dies at 90 in Poland
- Caribbean islands battling gangs
- Big banks under pressure in Europe
| Statistics show world is more peaceful than ever Posted: 22 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- It seems as if violence is everywhere, but it's really on the run. Yes, thousands of people have died in bloody unrest from Africa to Pakistan, while terrorists plot bombings and kidnappings. Wars drag on in Iraq and Afghanistan. In ... |
| New Libya regime ready to lead Posted: 22 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libya's new leaders will declare liberation on Sunday, officials said, a move that will start the clock for elections after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. But the victory ha ... |
| Gadhafi's death reveals end of an era Posted: 22 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT CAIRO -- He often looked like a comical buffoon, standing before audiences, bedecked in colorful robes, spouting words that most of the world considered nonsense. Yet the death of Moammar Gadhafi was a milestone in modern Arab history, in some way ... |
| Iraqis at odds on U.S. troops leaving Posted: 22 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT BAGHDAD -- For the first time in decades, Iraqis face a future on their own, with neither Saddam Hussein's iron fist nor the United States' military might to hold them together. This has been both their dream and nightmare: They wanted American tro ... |
| Auschwitz survivor dies at 90 in Poland Posted: 22 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT WARSAW, Poland -- The young Catholic man spirited his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, saving her life. Yet it took 39 years for them to see each other again. Jerzy Bielecki, a German-speaking Polish inmate at the same Nazi death camp, ... |
| Caribbean islands battling gangs Posted: 22 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT BASSETERRE, St. Kitts -- When Dudley Williams was a police commander in the mid-1980s, law enforcement in St. Kitts and Nevis was a leisurely occupation. Violent crime was rare on the sleepy specks of land in the eastern Caribbean. "If fellows got ... |
| Big banks under pressure in Europe Posted: 22 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT BRUSSELS -- Big banks found themselves under pressure in Europe's debt crisis Saturday, with finance chiefs pushing them to raise billions in euros in capital and accept huge losses on Greek bonds they hold. The continent's biggest financial insti ... |
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