The nonprofit activists behind the largest viral video campaign ever to hit the Internet answered their critics the best way they know how. They made another film. San Diego-based Invisible Children released on Monday an eight-and-a-half-minute video entitled, “Thank you, KONY 2012 Supporters” in which charity officials attempted to answer …
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BEIJING – A lawyer says a trial against three Chinese activists has been aborted after the defense demanded that no member of the ruling Communist Party should be on the bench to hear charges against the defendants of inciting to subvert state power. Lawyer Zhang Xuezhong said Friday that his …
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Miguel Facusse, a wealthy Honduran businessman involved in a two-decade fight with poor farmers who invaded his palm plantations on the Atlantic coast, died Tuesday in the capital, his family said. He was 91. The family did not report the cause of death for Facusse, who was …
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TALLINN, Estonia – Estonia’s foreign minister says she is resigning following a local court ruling that connected her to the bankruptcy of her father’s freight company and ordered her and other defendants to pay claims to creditors. Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus said Wednesday that she disagrees with the Tallinn appeal …
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QUITO, Ecuador – Thousands of people turned out for protest marches across Ecuador on Thursday to call for the ouster of President Rafael Correa just three days before a visit by Pope Francis. Demonstrations were reported in the South American country’s three biggest cities, Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca, as well …
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TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s government is urging its citizens to sacrifice some of their freedoms to better protect the country from attacks like the mass shooting at a beach resort last month that killed 38 people, mostly tourists. Government minister Kamel Jendoubi on Tuesday defended the president’s decision to impose …
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Police in Chad have warned that anyone caught wearing an Islamic veil that fully covers the face will be arrested on sight, in the wake of Saturday’s suicide bombing believed carried out by a Boko Haram operative disguised as a burka-wearing woman. Some 15 people were killed and 80 wounded …
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FRANKFURT, Germany – The International Monetary Fund says Greece’s debts are too big to pay and need to be partly forgiven. Germany says that’s out of the question. German officials, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, say that as part of a new rescue package for …
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BERLIN – A group of parents whose children were killed in the Germanwings plane crash in March have written a scathing letter to Lufthansa’s CEO, accusing him of ignoring their needs and feelings. The parents of 16 students from the town of Haltern killed in the crash have accused Carsten …
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BEIJING – Police in eastern China say two men have been arrested and explosives and other weapons seized in a series of raids on what they described as a terrorist ring. The police department in the city of Wenzhou says on its microblog that officers made a series of coordinated …
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