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Priest sex abuse linked to 13 suicides in Belgium
By RAF CASERT 2010-09-10T16:13:36Z
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday....


Congo suspends mining in volatile area
By 2010-09-10T16:05:05Z
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Congo's president has ordered a mining suspension in volatile eastern Congo....


German shares drop on bank refunding talk
By PAN PYLAS 2010-09-10T15:50:12Z
LONDON (AP) -- Germany's main stock market was the only major index in Europe and the U.S. to fall Friday as investors were dismayed by reports that Deutsche Bank AG is planning to raise as much as euro9 billion ($11.4 billion) to lift its stake in Deutsche Postbank AG and shore up its capital base....


Shrek in Spain? Paramount backs theme park plan
By 2010-09-10T15:48:36Z
MADRID (AP) -- U.S. film company Paramount says it is teaming up with officials to develop a branded theme park in the Murcia region on Spain's Mediterranean coast....


3 Afghan insurgents killed in NATO airstrike
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC 2010-09-10T15:12:16Z
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan insurgent commander who was allegedly planning bombings in Kabul on the eve of the Sept. 18 parliamentary elections and two of his associates have been killed in an airstrike, NATO said Friday....


Russians mourn bombing victims; 6 others killed
By SERGEY PONOMAREV 2010-09-10T15:23:42Z
VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) -- Clashes between police and alleged militants left six more people dead Friday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, even as stunned residents laid flowers in a square where a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 only a day ago....


Cholera stalks West Africa as rains spread disease
By JON GAMBRELL 2010-09-10T15:35:30Z
GANJUWA, Nigeria (AP) -- Patients jammed rudimentary clinics and health workers in surgical masks sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 Nigerians in two months....


Mudslide hits village on Italy's Amalfi Coast
By 2010-09-10T15:24:29Z
ROME (AP) -- A river of mud unleashed by heavy rains has flooded a tiny village on Italy's Amalfi Coast, and at least one person was reported missing....


Medvedev rejects claims of Russia authoritarianism
By JIM HEINTZ 2010-09-10T14:44:59Z
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday hotly rejected criticism of his country as authoritarian, calling it a young democracy, but indicated authorities won't ease up on opposition movements whose attempts to rally are often broken up harshly by police....


French prosecutor seeks to drop 2005 riots case
By PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD 2010-09-10T14:20:46Z
PARIS (AP) -- French prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a judicial official said Friday....



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