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  • Serbia Gives State Funeral to Former King Family

    OPLENAC Serbian government officials and hundreds of mourners attended the reburial of King Petar II Karadjordjevic and other members of the deposed Yugoslavian royal family on Sunday decades after their deaths in exile - an event seen as an important act of national reconciliation. The bodies of Petar, his wife Queen Aleksandra, mother Queen Maria and brother Prince Andrej, had been ...

  • Obama Surveys Oklahoma Tornado Damage

    U.S. President Barack Obama traveled to the midwestern state of Oklahoma Sunday to view the damage from last week's devastating tornado. Obama will meet with and console residents of the town of Moore, where 24 people were killed and more than 200 others were injured. Monday's tornado registered at an EF-5 - the strongest U.S. tornado measurement. It obliterated schools, ...

  • Kerry Hopeful on Palestinian Economic Plan

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says an economic plan to revive the ailing Palestinian economy could expand output by up to 50 percent in the next three years. The top U.S. diplomat, speaking Sunday at the World Economic Forum in Jordan, said the plan could also cut unemployment by almost two-thirds and average wages could jump 40 percent. But he said improvements depend on parallel ...

  • Nigeria Police Rescue Four Kidnapped Oil Workers

    ABUJA Nigerian police say they have rescued four expatriate oil workers who were held hostage for a month. The men have been released in good health, but the kidnappers remain at large. The men, two Russians and two Ukrainians were kidnapped on April 22 off the coast of Bayelsa in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Police say they are still searching for the kidnappers. Security ...

  • Swaziland Vote Will Be Credible Says Elections Chief

    The chairman of Swaziland's Elections and Boundaries Commission says he is confident that this year's national elections would be transparent and credible. "I am confident it would be very credible like the one we had before, and judging by the interest of the people, I am 100 percent confident that it is going to be a credible election,rdquo; said Prince Gija. He said the ...


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Movie Review

La Femme Nikita

Luc Besson's "La Femme Nikita" is a clever, visually stunning French thriller about a secret government agency that transforms a nowhere-bound, murderous junkie into an efficient hitman, er, hitwoman. The Nikita of the title is a true femme fatal played with ferocious intensity and whetted sexuality by Anne Parillaud. When we first meet her, she is a strung-out druggie traveling with a band of str ... ...

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  • Great Lakes Security Accord Reviewed at AU Summit

    ADDIS ABABA African leaders from the Great Lakes region met Sunday at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa to discuss progress bringing peace to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Security is high on the summit agenda, as is a proposal that could be a game-changer for the International Criminal Court case against Kenya's president. Fresh from celebrations for the 50th anniversary of ...

  • Boston Marathon Winner to Return Medal to Honor Blast Victims

    The winner of this year's Boston Marathon, Ethiopian runner Lelisa Desisa, says he wants to return his medal to the city to honor the victims of the April bombing. Desisa met Sunday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa. He said "sport should never be used as a battleground." And he said returning to Boston would show that the commitment to freedom is ...

  • Huge Anti Gay Marriage March in Paris

    Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Paris on Sunday against France's recently passed same-sex marriage law. Police put the number of protesters at 150,000 while organizers say 1 million people showed up. The march was generally peaceful, but about 100 far-right demonstrators who fought with riot police were arrested. Sunday's march targeted President Francois Hollande and his ...

  • North Korea condemns US ballistic missile test

    North Korea has condemned the recent US ballistic missile test, slamming it as 'military provocation', the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported Sunday. On May 22, the US fired a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base as part of the country's test flight aimed at determining weapon accuracy. The original test scheduled for mid-April was delayed amid tensions ...

  • China retain Sudirman Cup

    The Chinese badminton team successfully defended its Sudirman Cup title with a convincing 3-0 victory over South Korea in the final here Sunday, winning the competition for the fifth successive time. World No.1 Xu Chen/Ma Jin led China to a 1-0 lead defeating their South Korean opponents Ko Sung Hyun/Kim Ha Na 21-13, 21-15 in the mixed doubles, reports Xinhua. In the following men's singles, ...

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