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FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2009 file photo, a bank clerk counts U.S. dollar notes near bundles of Chinese renminbi notes at a bank in Hefei in central China's Anhui province. The dollar edged up Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, breaking a decline that's caused developing countries to worry that the sinking U.S. currency is making their exports expensive and threatening their fledgling economic recoveries. (AP File Photo) CHINA OUT
By TALI ARBEL

NEW YORK (AP) — The dollar edged up Thursday, breaking a decline that's caused developing countries to worry that the sinking U.S. currency is making their exports expensive and threatening their fledgling economic...

Envoy says US to attend war crimes court meeting

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States will attend an annual meeting of the International Criminal Court, a body it has so far refused to participate in, the U.S. envoy for war crimes...

Dollar edges up but developing nations still worry

NEW YORK (AP) — The dollar edged up Thursday, breaking a decline that's caused developing countries to worry that the sinking U.S. currency is making their exports expensive and...

UN children's agency warns of south Sudan famine

CAIRO (AP) — The deputy head of the U.N. children's agency said Thursday that a famine is looming in southern Sudan because of scarce rainfall and inadequate foreign funds for the...

AP News in Brief

Mourners grieve at funerals for some of 13 soldiers killed in Fort Hood shooting massacre

KIEL, Wis. (AP) — The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city...

As Obama ponders Afghanistan, so does Europe

LONDON (AP) — President Barack Obama's delay in deciding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan has found an echo chamber in Europe, where...

Clinton supports Philippine antiterrorism fight

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday vowed support for the Philippine fight against al-Qaida-linked militants and...

Bombing at police station in Pakistan kills 3

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pickup truck laden with explosives attacked a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at...

AP IMPACT: Kenyans recruited to fight in Somalia

DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks,...

Mud slide scare hits LA suburb near burn area

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — Work crews shoveled mud Friday from the back yards of several homes after a brief cloudburst unleashed flows of debris down...

Australia OKs extradition of accused Nazi criminal

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Thursday approved the extradition of an alleged Nazi collaborator accused by Hungary of a World War II killing.

Home Affairs...

Not a climate treaty, but political deal possible

COPENHAGEN (AP) — There's not enough time to strike a detailed and binding deal at next month's Copenhagen conference on climate change but nations say it...

AP News in Brief

Senate health bill to cost $849 billion over a decade, cover 94 percent of eligible Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) — The political stakes enormous, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...

Yet another anti-corruption unit for Afghanistan

KABUL (AP) — Afghanistan's newly unveiled anti-corruption unit drew guarded praise Monday from a wary international community, which has heard President Hamid Karzai promise before...

Obama's hesitancy on war buildup sends messages

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's drawn-out decision-making on Afghanistan is sending messages. To the Afghan government: Clean up your act. To the...

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Nailing the funny shirt pic

SINGAPORE (AP) — He couldn't bring home the Olympics, but he's nailed the funny shirt photo.

That's one way to view President Barack Obama's...

Diary that helped expose Stalin's famine displayed

LONDON (AP) — The diaries of a British reporter who risked his reputation to expose the horrors of Stalin's murderous famine in Ukraine were put on public display for the...

Text of Obama's news conference with Hatoyama

Text of President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's remarks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo, as transcribed by the White House.

HATOYAMA: (As...

Mideast radicals fill space left by peace impasse

CAIRO (AP) — Iran's closest allies in the Middle East are seizing on a deadlock in U.S.-backed peace efforts to try to sway a frustrated Arab world to their...

Hutu extremist group leaders arrested in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo.

Experts in the region...

A look at prosecutions of Nazi suspects in Germany

A look at recent prosecutions of suspected Nazi war criminals in Germany.

— November 2009: Prosecutors file charges against former SS Sgt. Adolf Storms on 58 counts of murder in...

Iraq sentences militia leader to death

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi court on Thursday sentenced the Sunni leader of a government-allied paramilitary group to death for murder and kidnapping in a case that highlighted...

NYC trial of 9/11 suspects poses legal risks

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled...

War criminal praises ministate she helped create

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic said Thursday the success of Bosnia's Serb Republic helped her survive her years in...

Alaska fights to reverse polar bear listing

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears...


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