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China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term
BEIJING (AP) -- The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight.... 05/18/2012 12:41:56am

Filipino Christian group protests Lady Gaga shows
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- About 70 Christian youths in the Philippines have chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally calling for the singer's shows in Manila next week to be canceled.... 05/17/2012 11:43:56pm

Bus plunges into Vietnam river bank; 34 killed
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A crowded bus plunged into a river bank in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents.... 05/18/2012 12:36:07am

New Zealand police charge driver in Boston U crash
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand police filed charges Friday against a 20-year-old Boston University student who drove a minivan in a crash that killed three of his college classmates last week.... 05/17/2012 10:48:51pm

Algerian singer Warda dies in Cairo at 72
CAIRO (AP) -- The Algerian singer Warda, whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, has died. She was 72.... 05/17/2012 09:45:24pm

Egypt: Owner of belly dancing TV station arrested
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's vice police on Thursday arrested the owner of a belly dancing TV station on suspicion of operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and facilitating prostitution, a security official said.... 05/17/2012 03:28:06pm

Judge delays Mladic trial due to evidence errors
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- An apparent clerical error prompted judges to postpone the long-awaited war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on Thursday, possibly for months.... 05/17/2012 03:13:49pm

Syrian opposition head offers to resign
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's main opposition council is crumbling under the weight of infighting and divisions over issues that cut to the heart of the revolution, including accusations that the movement is becoming as autocratic as the regime it wants to drive out.... 05/17/2012 02:07:36pm

Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right
Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany.... 05/17/2012 07:04:39pm

Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere.... 05/18/2012 12:04:29am

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