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Israeli jets gun down drone

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 06:26:00 EST

JERUSALEM 8212 Israel scrambled fighter jets to intercept a drone Saturday that crossed deep into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea, shooting the aircraft down over the country's southern desert, the military said.

Rural outsourcer brings hope to remote Indian village

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:29:00 EST

SIMAYAL, India They come together each morning from the sloping forests. Some walk for more than an hour along muddy footpaths past terraced farms stacked like soft green steps. Some race their new motorbikes down narrow, cracked roads cut into the hillsides.

Chavez�s fate lies in Venezuela�s divided barrios

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:25:00 EST

CARACAS, Venezuela The last time he ran for re-election, President Hugo Chavez won comfortably in Petare, one of Latin Americas biggest slums with nearly half a million people.

1 dead, 11 arrested in anti-terror sweep in France

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:25:00 EST

PARIS Police carried out raids across France on Saturday after DNA on a grenade that exploded last month at a kosher grocery store led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recently converted to Islam.

Former butler convicted of stealing, leaking Pope�s letter

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:18:00 EST

VATICAN CITY A painful and damaging chapter in Pope Benedict XVIs papacy closed Saturday with the conviction of his former butler on charges he stole the pontiffs private letters and leaked them to a journalist. But questions remain as to whether anyone else was involved in the plot, and when the pope will pardon his once-trusted aide.

Iran shifts uranium to fuel stock

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:06:00 EST

TEHRAN, Iran In a bid to ease international concerns over its nuclear program, Iran has converted more than a third of Tehrans most highly enriched uranium into a powder for a medical research reactor that is difficult to reprocess for weapons production, experts and U.N. monitors say.

Syria vows to �crush� rebels

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:06:00 EST

BEIRUT Syrias military will crush armed rebels, President Bashar Assads defense minister warned Saturday, as the regime shelled rebel positions in two cities and near the Lebanese border in a widening offensive.

Rage erupts in Guatemala after 6 protesters shot

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:23:00 EST

TOTONICAPAN, Guatemala Thousands of grieving indigenous Guatemalans shouted in anger Friday, some of them hurling themselves at the coffins of six local people slain when gunfire erupted during a protest over electrical power prices and educational reform in a poor rural area west of the capital.

Vatican scandal: How the butler did it

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:20:00 EST

VATICAN CITY He had the trust of Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals, monsignors and priests who run the Roman Catholic Church. And because of his privileged position as papal butler, he had access to their deepest secrets confidential letters, memos, financial reports.

France considers ending four-day school week

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:16:00 EST

PARIS French children go to school four days a week. They have about two hours each day for lunch. And they have more vacation than their counterparts almost anywhere in the West.

The art and science of guessing who will win a Nobel Prize

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:16:00 EST

STOCKHOLM Guessing who will win a Nobel Prize is a bit like forecasting the stock market Experts dont seem to do it any better than laymen.

Woman bids to lead Egypt Islamist party

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:02:00 EST

CAIRO For the first time, a woman is running for the leadership of the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypts most powerful Islamist group. Sabah el-Saqari says she wants to increase female participation in politics and even defends a womans right to run for president, a stance her organization rejects.

Syrian regime opens new urban front, shells Homs

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:02:00 EST

BEIRUT The Syrian military opened a second urban front Friday, attacking the rebel stronghold of Homs with the most intense artillery barrage in months and putting opposition fighters there and in Syrias largest city, Aleppo, increasingly on the defensive.

Haqqani ties suspected in �insider� attacks

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:02:00 EST

KABUL, Afghanistan The Haqqani insurgent network, based in Pakistan and with ties to al-Qaida, is suspected of being a driving force behind a significant number of the insider attacks by Afghan forces that have killed or wounded more than 130 U.S. and allied troops this year, American officials said Friday.

Egypt�s hardline Islamist party unravels

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:02:00 EST

CAIRO Internal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypts ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any compromise in their stark, puritanical version of Islam.