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  1. David Cato, a Ugandan gay-rights activist, poses for photographs at a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family, friends and even landlords also could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Cato became an activist after he was beaten up four times, arrested twice, fired from his teaching job and outed in the press because he is gay. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
    Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal AP - Tue Dec 8, 3:36 PM ETSent 489 times

    KAMPALA, Uganda - Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals.

  2. This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows pro-reform Iranian students and hard-line students scuffling during their demonstrations, at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. The potential for violence inside the campuses was high. Some 2,000 Basiji students were brought into Tehran University early Monday — obstensively to hold a celebration for the Shiite holiday, but such hard-line students are often used to crush pro-reform rallies on campus. Pro-reform campus groups called for students across the country to turn out Monday for massive rallies at universities against Iran's clerical leadership — the first major protest in more than a month. (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT
    Students, militia clash in 2nd day of Iran protest AP - Tue Dec 8, 6:26 PM ETSent 307 times

    TEHRAN, Iran - Hard-line militiamen firing tear gas and throwing stones stormed a crowd of thousands of university students protesting for a second day Tuesday, as Iran threatened a tougher crackdown on the opposition after the biggest anti-government demonstrations in months.

  3. Iraqi security forces and rescuers search for survivors at the site of a bomb attack near the new Finance Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. An official at Iraq's Interior Ministry says dozens have been killed in a series of coordinated blasts around Baghdad. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
    Wave of coordinated attacks in Iraq kills 127 AP - 55 minutes agoSent 246 times

    BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb flattened a court building and an explosives-rigged ambulance blew down walls like dominos near the Finance Ministry during a wave of coordinated attacks Tuesday that targeted high-profile symbols of Iraqi authority. At least 127 people were killed.

  4. South African actors want to stop Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson (pictured in October) from playing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a new film on the ex-wife of the nation's first black president, reports said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Bryan Bedder)
    S.African actors 'want Hudson out of Mandela film' AFP - Mon Dec 7, 4:51 AM ETSent 155 times

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South African actors want to stop Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson from playing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a new film on the ex-wife of the nation's first black president, reports said Monday.

  5. A plain clothes policeman walks the stairway of the stampede site at Yucai Middle School in Xiangxiang, in south China's Hunan province, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Eight youths were killed and 26 injured when students descending the crowded staircase after evening classes at the school in central China lost their footing amid a crush of bodies, state media and the local government reported Tuesday. (AP Photo)
    China school stampede kills 8 in crowded stairway AP - Tue Dec 8, 12:26 PM ETSent 120 times

    BEIJING - It was raining hard, and the hundreds of children leaving their evening classes raced down the narrow stairway closest to their dormitory. Somehow, someone stumbled — and the ensuing crush of bodies left eight children dead.

  6. Population Report: Taiwan Birthrate Now World's Lowest Time.com - Tue Dec 8, 5:05 AM ETSent 97 times

    As of this year, Taiwan now has the lowest birthrate in the world, with one baby born per woman

  7. File photo shows an Indian soldier aiming his weapon towards The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in November 2008, after the hotel was taken over by Islamist militants. Ever since his arrest in Chicago in October, India has been gripped by the case of David Headley, a Pakistani-American man who is alleged to have helped plan last year's deadly attacks on Mumbai.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)
    US man could be 'missing link' in Mumbai attacks AFP - Tue Dec 8, 5:25 AM ETSent 93 times

    MUMBAI (AFP) - Ever since his arrest in Chicago in October, India has been gripped by the case of David Headley, a Pakistani-American man who is alleged to have helped plan last year's deadly attacks on Mumbai.

  8. FILE - Undated portrait shows Manfred von Richthofen, the most successful German fighter pilot during WW I with 80 downed planes. Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, was killed in aerial combat on April 21, 1918. A Polish historian says he made a surprising find when poring through World War I archives the death certificate of Manfred von Richthofen.  Maciej Kowalczyk said Monday Dec. 7, 2009, that he found the file last month while going through old German archives in the western Polish city of Ostrow Wielkopolski. (AP Photo, File)
    Historian finds Red Baron's death certificate AP - Mon Dec 7, 12:41 PM ETSent 92 times

    WARSAW, Poland - A Polish historian says he made a surprising find when poring through World War I archives — the death certificate of Manfred von Richthofen, the German fighter ace known as the "Red Baron."

  9. FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file picture, former member of Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS  Heinrich Boere sits in the dock of the court in Aachen, Germany, at the start of his trial. Lawyers for Boere accused of murdering Dutch civilians while part of a Waffen SS hit squad charged Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009 that his trial constituted double jeopardy under a new EU charter and should be halted.  (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
    Suspect in Nazi trial admits killings AP - Tue Dec 8, 9:34 AM ETSent 92 times

    AACHEN, Germany - A former member of the Nazi SS being tried for murder admitted in court Tuesday that he killed three Dutch civilians during World War II, but insisted he was following orders.

  10. EU: Jerusalem should be joint capital AP - Tue Dec 8, 11:12 AM ETSent 76 times

    BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to make Jerusalem their shared capital, prompting a swift, angry reaction from Israel.

  11. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday. Dec. 1, 2009. Turkey said late Wednesday that Turkish soldiers in Afghanistan will not be part of any combat operation. Turkey says it is reviewing whether to increase its commitment to NATO's mission in Afghanistan. Erdogan will travel to Washington for a Monday meeting with President Barack Obama, who is seeking additional troops from NATO allies in Afghanistan.  (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
    Turkish P.M. in Washington As Turkey Looks East Time.com - Mon Dec 7, 4:50 AM ETSent 73 times

    Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Washington to discuss Iran's nuclear program, the war in Afghanistan and other issues. But the President also needs to convince him that Turkey must stay close to the U.S. and Europe even as it looks east

  12. Map showing Multan in Pakistan. At least 12 people were killed and 18 others injured Tuesday when a bomb blast hit near military installations in the eastern Pakistani city of Multan, a senior rescue official said.(AFP)
    Police: Attack on Pakistan intel office kills 12 AP - Tue Dec 8, 7:30 AM ETSent 70 times

    MULTAN, Pakistan - A team of militants launched a gun, rocket and suicide attack on an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in a strike that showed the insurgents can hit deep in the heart of the country.

  13. David Booth arrives at the Glebb Coroners  Court  in  Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, to hear the results of a coroners inquest into the death of his wife Rebekah Lawrence.  Lawrence suffered a psychotic episode in 2005 and leaped to her death from an office window. The coroner found that her participation in an intense self-help seminar called The Turning Point led to her psychotic breakdown and death. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
    Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide AP - Tue Dec 8, 8:45 AM ETSent 49 times

    SYDNEY - An Australian coroner said Tuesday that participation in an intense self-help course led a woman to suffer a psychotic breakdown before she stripped naked and leaped to her death from an office window in front of horrified co-workers.

  14. FILE - This undated file image provided by David Booth shows David's wife Rebekah Lawrence. Lawrence suffered a psychotic episode in 2005 and leaped to her death from an office window. The coroner found that her participation in an intense self-help seminar called The Turning Point led to her psychotic breakdown and death.  (AP Photo/David Booth, FIle)
    Coroner: self-help course led to woman's suicide AP - Mon Dec 7, 10:57 PM ETSent 40 times

    SYDNEY - A coroner said Tuesday that participation in an intense self-help course led a woman to suffer a psychotic breakdown before she stripped naked and leaped to her death from an office window in front of horrified co-workers.

  15. Brazil arrests 6 suspects in $6M tunnel heist AP - Tue Dec 8, 2:02 PM ETSent 38 times

    SAO PAULO - Authorities arrested five men and one woman accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever, but detectives recovered only a tiny fraction of the stolen cash, police said Tuesday.

  16. Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, leave after a joint press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Gates said that the Afghan security force needs to be strengthened and more soldiers and police need to be recruited to battle militants, but he added that the U.S. is committed to help Afghanistan for the long haul. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
    Afghan leader: Help needed to pay for larger army AP - Tue Dec 8, 12:31 PM ETSent 38 times

    KABUL - After meeting Tuesday with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said it may be five years before his army is ready to take on insurgents — a blunt warning that the planned exit strategy for U.S. troops from Afghanistan 18 months from now could grind slowly through 2014.

  17. Report: Brazil police killed more than 11,000 AP - 2 hours, 18 minutes agoSent 37 times

    RIO DE JANEIRO - Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.

  18. FBI takes US terror probe to India and Pakistan AP - Tue Dec 8, 7:42 PM ETSent 36 times

    ISLAMABAD - The FBI is sending a team to Pakistan and India as part of an inquiry into a Chicago man accused of plotting against a Danish newspaper and sizing up targets ahead of last year's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India's financial capital.

  19. In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, is welcomed by an unidentified North Korean official, right, upon arrival at Pyongyang airport, North Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Bosworth began a rare trip to North Korea Tuesday for the highest-level talks with the communist nation in more than a year as a senior U.S. official warned of strong sanctions against Pyongyang unless it rejoins international nuclear talks. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
    Obama envoy seeks NKorea's return to nuke talks AP - Tue Dec 8, 1:56 PM ETSent 34 times

    SEOUL, South Korea - An envoy dispatched by President Barack Obama launched a mission Tuesday to coax North Korea to rejoin international talks on ending its nuclear programs amid warnings of strong sanctions if Pyongyang refuses.

  20. Former Iranian premier Mir Hossein Mousavi shows his identification card as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election at the interior ministry in Tehran in May 2009. Protesters clashed with supporters of the Iranian regime for a second straight day Tuesday even as the chief prosecutor threatened to try the main opposition leader and vigilantes briefly besieged his office.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)
    Iran says will show no mercy to opposition protesters Reuters - Tue Dec 8, 4:04 PM ETSent 32 times

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will "show no mercy" toward opposition protesters seen as threatening national security, a judiciary official said on Tuesday, a day after thousands of students staged anti-government rallies.

  21. Incumbent President Traian Basescu waves a flag in front of supporters at the end of the presidential elections runoff in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009.Incumbent President Traian Basescu was slightly ahead in a tight presidential runoff in Romania, election authorities said Monday, in an election Romanians hope will pull the country out of its worst political and economic crisis in 20 years. With 95.7 percent of the vote counted, election authorities said centrist Basescu polled 50.43 percent of the vote, while former foreign minister Mircea Geoana received 49.57 percent. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
    Romanian opposition claims fraud in president vote AP - Mon Dec 7, 12:10 PM ETSent 29 times

    BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's main opposition party claimed Monday that President Traian Basescu narrowly won re-election through a fraudulent vote.

  22. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez salutes upon his arrival to the launching ceremony of the new Bolivarian National Police force in Caracas, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
    Chavez: Venezuela acquires thousands of missiles AP - Mon Dec 7, 8:13 PM ETSent 26 times

    CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Monday that Venezuela has received thousands of Russian-made missiles and rocket launchers as part of his government's military preparations for a possible armed conflict with neighboring Colombia.

  23. In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, An Afghan boy eats an apple as United States Marine Cpl. Joseph Kelly from the  2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion patrols past in the nearly empty market in Khan Neshin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
    Jobs, not Taliban, are the worry in Afghan town AP - Mon Dec 7, 4:12 PM ETSent 25 times

    KHAN NESHIN, Afghanistan - The dusty bazaar in this remote town in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province was once teeming with Taliban fighters and drug smugglers who used it as a central transit point in their journeys to and from nearby Pakistan.

  24. Arline Kercher, the mother of murdered student Meredith Kercher and daughter Stephenie, right, arrive at Stansted Airport, London after their flight from Perugia in Italy Sunday Dec. 6, 2009. The family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher returned home pledging to try and get on with their lives. A jury in Italy convicted Amanda Knox of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher and sentenced her to 26 years in prison shortly after midnight Saturday. Her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was also convicted and sentenced to 25 years. (AP Photo/John Stillwell/PA Wire)
    Italy: No issues with US over Knox verdict AP - Mon Dec 7, 4:03 PM ETSent 25 times

    ROME - The murder conviction of U.S. student Amanda Knox has not damaged U.S.-Italian relations, despite suggestions the verdict was tainted by anti-American sentiment, a top Italian diplomat said Monday.

  25. An Anarchist walks in front of burning trash during clashes in Athens on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. Protesters hurled rocks and burning garbage at police as violence erupted during a march to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager, whose death sparked massive riots. Police fired tear gas at scores of hooded youths in central Athens, as several thousand demonstrators marched to commemorate the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
    Greek youths riot in Athens for 2nd day AP - Mon Dec 7, 8:59 AM ETSent 24 times

    ATHENS, Greece - Masked youths smashed store windows and hurled rocks and firebombs at riot police who responded with tear gas Monday in a second day of violence during commemorations of last year's fatal police shooting of a teenager.

  26. Dan Brown eyes La Scala balconies for inspiration AP - Mon Dec 7, 7:11 PM ETSent 21 times

    MILAN - He's already done the Vatican. So don't be surprised if Milan's famed La Scala opera house doesn't turn up in Dan Brown's next thriller.

  27. FILE-  In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, Guinea military leader Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, left salutes next to his aide Abubakar 'Toumba' Diakite  during independence day celebrations in Conakry, Guinea. The government had earlier said that Camara was shot Thursday by Abubakar 'Toumba' Diakite, who commands the presidential guard.  A renegade faction of Guinea's presidential guard opened fire Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, on the African country's leader, while Moussa Dadis Camara was in Conakry,  a government spokesman said, amid rumors of deep divisions within the army,  just 11 months after Camara sized Presidential power in a military-led coup.  It was not immediately clear if Camara was wounded. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)
    Guinea accuses France of complicity in shooting AP - Tue Dec 8, 3:51 PM ETSent 21 times

    CONAKRY, Guinea - The French ambassador was stopped and his diplomatic car was searched as troops loyal to Guinea's ruling junta continued a manhunt for the renegade soldier that shot and wounded the head of Guinea's military junta, an official said on Tuesday.

  28. Protesters picket the Lower House at Manila's Quezon city on Tuesday Dec. 8, 2009 to protest the imposition of martial law in Maguindanao province in southern Philippines following the massacre of 57 people, including 30 journalists and their staff. Both Houses of Congress will begin deliberation on the legality of Martial Law declaration on Wednesday as civil society groups and human rights advocates are calling to revoke it. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
    Amnesty urges quick end to Philippine martial law AP - Tue Dec 8, 4:57 AM ETSent 21 times

    MANILA, Philippines - Amnesty International called on the Philippine government Tuesday to end martial law soon in a southern province, where troops cracked down on a powerful clan and its armed supporters blamed for the massacre of 57 people.

  29. Russian court rules against Jehovah's Witnesses AP - Tue Dec 8, 12:52 PM ETSent 20 times

    MOSCOW - Russia's highest court on Tuesday upheld a ruling halting the activities of a regional branch of Jehovah's Witnesses and banning dozens of its publications in what the group deplored as an unfair move.

  30. Kenyan Criminal Investigation Officers examine weapons at CID Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. A senior Kenyan security official says police have arrested a suspected gun smuggler with more than 100,000 bullets and an assortment of weapons and equipment. The official says police are also investigating whether Kenyan government security officials were involved in supplying the bullets and weapons. Lawyer Cliff Ombeta says the suspect is Munir Ahmed, a Kenyan. Ombeta says Ahmed is his client and is innocent  He says Ahmed owns only four hunting rifles and that police should explain where they got 100,000 bullets, bulletproof vests and pistols. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
    Kenyan police arrest man with 100,000 bullets AP - Tue Dec 8, 10:48 AM ETSent 15 times

    NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan police on Tuesday said they arrested a suspected weapons smuggler with up to 100,000 bullets and an assortment of guns, a huge cache in a country with stringent gun laws.