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Cyprus Seeks Interpol Help To Find Stolen Corpse

Cyprus has requested Interpol's help in trying to find the corpse of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, stolen from his grave last week, police said on Wednesday. Authorities say they needed foreign help because such a crime had never been committed in the Mediterranean island. The body of Papadopoulos, (more)

Brazil Needle Victim Recovers, Outrage At Cruelty

A Brazilian toddler is making a good recovery after surgery to remove the first of 31 sewing needles pushed into his body by his stepfather in a cruel act that has enraged locals, the hospital said on Saturday. The 2 1/2-year-old boy, underwent a nearly five-hour procedure on Friday to remove two rusted (more)

Pakistani Taliban Leader Denies Death On Tape

Pakistani Taliban militants issued an audio tape on Saturday which they said was of their leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, and proved he had not been killed in a U.S. strike two days ago. Pakistani security officials said on Thursday that a U.S. drone had targeted Mehsud in the South Waziristan region on (more)

Afghanistan Delays Parliament Poll

Afghan election authorities have agreed to push back a parliamentary election to September from May, pleasing diplomats who wanted time to prevent a repeat of the rampant fraud that plagued a presidential vote last year. The announcement on Sunday eases one of the main sources of friction between President (more)

China Pledges More Investment, Religious Controls In Tibet

Chinese leaders have pledged to increase investment in Tibet this year while keeping the restive region's Buddhist monks on a tight leash, state media have reported, in an effort to use economic growth to quell dissatisfaction. Demonstrations in Lhasa that turned deadly on March 14, 2008 made the Chinese (more)

Haitians Clamor For Food As Two More Rescued Alive

Rescuers pulled two barely alive survivors from the rubble of Port-au-Prince on Friday as hungry and homeless Haitians clamored for food, which was slow in arriving 10 days after the massive earthquake. An 84-year-old woman was pulled from under a wrecked building on Friday, the doctor who treated her (more)

Vatican Defrocks Exorcist Archbishop Who Married

African Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who practiced exorcism, faith healing and created a scandal in the Catholic Church when he married a Korean woman, has been defrocked, the Vatican said on Thursday. A Vatican statement said Milingo, excommunicated in 2006, was no longer a priest. It referred to him (more)

Iraq Suicide Bomb Kills 17 At Police Forensics Lab

A suicide blast killed at least 17 people at a police forensics office in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said, the latest attack to raise doubts about Iraq's ability to keep people safe weeks before a national election. The blast came a day after suicide bombers in vans and SUVs, helped in at least two (more)

Man Rescued From Rubble 14 Days After Haiti Quake

U.S. troops pulled a man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti's destroyed capital on Tuesday, two weeks after a massive earthquake rattled the country. The 35-year-old man, covered in dust and dressed only in underpants, was carried out from the ruins of a building in downtown Port-au-Prince (more)

Togo Quits Soccer Cup After Ambush Kills Three

Two members of Togo's soccer delegation died on Saturday and one was undergoing surgery, a day after the team bus was ambushed and sprayed with gunfire on its way to the African Nations Cup in Angola. A Togolese minister said the government had decided to pull the team out of the tournament because (more)

Guinea's Camara Arrives In Burkina Faso

Guinean junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara arrived in Burkina Faso on Tuesday from Morocco after more than a month recovering from a failed attempt to assassinate him, a Reuters witness said. With two people supporting him, Camara walked off the Moroccan airplane at the military airport in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, the witness said. The re-emergence in public of Camara comes just days after the senior junta official in his absence pledged to pave the way for a transition to civilian rule, raising hopes of an end to a crisis in the world's top exporter of the aluminum ore bauxite.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60B5UA20100113

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