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- Sunnis shun Iraq at summit
- PetroChina is top oil producer
- 6-legged Swiss calf uncowed by disability
- UK hacking scandal claims third senior police figure
- West African regional bloc seals borders with Mali after coup
- Syria's Assad demands opposition halt attacks
- 13 dead in Honduras prison riot
| Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:04 PM PDT BAGHDAD -- Sunni Muslim rulers largely shunned an Arab League summit hosted by Shiite-led Iraq on Thursday, illustrating how powerfully the sectarian split and the rivalry with Iran define Middle Eastern politics in the era of the Arab Spring.The cri ... |
| PetroChina is top oil producer Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:04 PM PDT NEW YORK -- A big shift is happening in Big Oil: An American giant now ranks behind a Chinese upstart. Exxon Mobil is no longer the world's biggest publicly traded producer of oil. For the first time, that distinction belongs to a 13-year-old Chin ... |
| 6-legged Swiss calf uncowed by disability Posted: 30 Mar 2012 01:05 AM PDT GENEVA -- A six-legged calf has defied the odds by thriving despite a vet's prediction at birth that it wouldn't survive.Seven-week-old Lilli is now a minor celebrity in her native Switzerland after local media were splashed with images of the calf f ... |
| UK hacking scandal claims third senior police figure Posted: 30 Mar 2012 01:05 AM PDT LONDON -- Scotland Yard's communications chief resigned Thursday, the third senior police figure to part with his job over the force's failure to come to grips with Britain's phone hacking scandal.Dick Fedorcio stepped down after the police force dec ... |
| West African regional bloc seals borders with Mali after coup Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:04 PM PDT BAMAKO, Mali -- West Africa's regional bloc announced late Thursday that it is closing all land borders with Mali and freezing the nation's bank account in an effort to force mutinous soldiers from power who seized control in a coup last week. The ... |
| Syria's Assad demands opposition halt attacks Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:04 PM PDT BEIRUT -- Syria's President Bashar Assad said Thursday he will spare no effort to make U.N. envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan a success, but demanded that armed opponents battling his regime commit to halting violence. In brazen attacks, gunmen kidnap ... |
| 13 dead in Honduras prison riot Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:04 PM PDT TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said. Varying reports of local and nati ... |
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