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- Taliban attacks in Afghan capital last 17 hours
- Kim Jong Un gives first public speech
- Pope slowing but not stopping
- World remembers Titanic with ceremonies
- Truce eroding as first UN monitors head to Syria
- Obama: Iran will get no 'freebies'
| Taliban attacks in Afghan capital last 17 hours Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:26 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan capital awoke Monday to a second day of explosions and heavy gunfire as Afghan-led forces worked to defeat insurgents holed up in one building in the heart of the city and another near parliament. As darkness turne ... |
| Kim Jong Un gives first public speech Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:25 PM PDT PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea's new leader addressed his nation and the world for the first time Sunday, vowing to place top priority on his impoverished country's military, which promptly unveiled a new long-range missile. The speech was ... |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:26 PM PDT VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI prayed Sunday for the strength to carry on as he marks two major milestones this week: his 85th birthday and the seventh anniversary of his election to the papacy. The comments, while innocuous, were the clearest ... |
| World remembers Titanic with ceremonies Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:26 PM PDT ABOARD MS BALMORAL -- With prayers, a hymn and a moment of silence broken by a ship's deep whistle, passengers and crew on a memorial trip marked 100 years to the moment since the Titanic sent more than 1,500 people to a watery grave. As the 1912 ... |
| Truce eroding as first UN monitors head to Syria Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:41 AM PDT BEIRUT -- Syria's 4-day-old cease-fire appeared to be quickly eroding Sunday, with regime forces firing dozens of tank shells and mortar rounds at neighborhoods in the opposition stronghold of Homs, hours before the arrival of a first team of U.N. tr ... |
| Obama: Iran will get no 'freebies' Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:26 PM PDT CARTAGENA, Colombia -- Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute ove ... |
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