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Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban

AP World News - 20 min 47 sec ago
The Boy Scouts of America has started its meeting in which members of its national council are to decide whether to change the group's long-standing ban on openly gay boys.
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Colo. governor delays convicted killer's execution

AP World News - 20 min 47 sec ago
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper indefinitely delayed the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap on Wednesday and said he was unlikely to allow it as long as he is governor.
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4-nation Pacific Alliance trade bloc forges ahead

AP World - Latin America - 20 min 47 sec ago
The presidents of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico meet in the western city of Cali on Thursday in hopes of completing a nascent trade bloc that looks to the European Union as a model and aims to further open their trade with Asia.
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Argentine Indians ask president for their lands

AP World - Latin America - 20 min 47 sec ago
Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral land.
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Costa Rican volcano spews ash, smoke

AP World - Latin America - 20 min 47 sec ago
Scientists say one of Costa Rica's largest volcanos is spewing clouds of ash and gas, setting off a small-scale evacuation.
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Costa Rican volcano spews ash, smoke

AP World News - 20 min 47 sec ago
Scientists say one of Costa Rica's largest volcanos is spewing clouds of ash and gas, setting off a small-scale evacuation.
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Toronto mayor's brother delivers defense

AP World - Canada - 21 min 47 sec ago
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's brother said Wednesday that Ford has told him that reports of a purported video that appears to show the mayor smoking crack cocaine are untrue and that the media is trying to destroy his brother.
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Kerry: US, allies ready to step up aid to rebels

AP World - Middle East - 21 min 47 sec ago
The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime's military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid.
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Toronto mayor's brother delivers defense

AP World News - 21 min 47 sec ago
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's brother said Wednesday that Ford has told him that reports of a purported video that appears to show the mayor smoking crack cocaine are untrue and that the media is trying to destroy his brother.
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IAEA report: Iran expands nuclear technology

AP World News - 21 min 47 sec ago
The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building a plutonium-producing reactor.
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Vatican releases 1st report of financial watchdog

AP World News - 21 min 47 sec ago
The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing.
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Faith healers charged with murder after 2nd death

AP World News - 21 min 47 sec ago
A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and who were on probation in their son's pneumonia death were charged with murder Wednesday after a second young child died under what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances.
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Appeals court allows capital retrial of Wolfe

AP World News - 21 min 47 sec ago
A federal appeals court will allow a capital murder case to proceed against an accused drug kingpin from northern Virginia.
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Fort Hood suspect seeks to fire Army attorneys

AP World News - 21 min 47 sec ago
The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage says he wants to represent himself at his upcoming trial.
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2 children bitten by fox at Ga. elementary school

AP World News - 21 min 47 sec ago
Animal control officials say two Georgia elementary students were bitten by a fox while they were on a school playground.
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Video of man jumping on manatee investigated

AP World News - 21 min 47 sec ago
Wildlife officials are investigating an online video that shows a man doing a cannonball onto two manatees in Florida.
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Congo fighting persists as UN chief arrives

AP World News - 22 min 47 sec ago
M23 rebels fired two rockets into the eastern Congo city of Goma, killing one person and wounding four, officials said, in an apparent spillover from three days of fighting raging north of the city.
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Am. Samoa to keep flier miles of govt travelers

AP World News - 22 min 47 sec ago
American Samoa plans to take away frequent flier miles from government workers who travel on behalf of the U.S. territory and use the loyalty points to help medical patients and students travel off the islands when necessary.
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Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release

AP World - Middle East - 22 min 47 sec ago
The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country.
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Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release

AP World News - 22 min 47 sec ago
The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country.
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Sheriff thanks media for help in triple homicide case

Soon after the media reported that bodies had been found in an undeveloped, wooded area of Walton Farms subdivision, police said they received calls to check a home that appeared to be another ...
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