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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP):A senior provincial official has been sentenced to 19 years in prison, becoming the first person convicted under Cambodia's anti-corruption law.State prosecutor Pong Chan Soyutheara said Tob Chan Sereivuth, a former prosecutor...

ROME (AP):Rome wasn't built in a day, but many Romans feared it might be destroyed in one, on May 11.The Italian capital was gripped by a psychosis over a purported prediction by a now-dead seismologist that a devastating temblor would strike the city...

MEXICO CITY (AP):Security forces searching mass graves in the northern Mexican state of Durango have unearthed eight more bodies, authorities said yesterday, bringing the total to 188 and making it the largest discovery yet of corpses secretly buried in...

MISSISSIPPI (AP):The Mississippi crest rolled past Memphis yesterday, going easy on much of the city, yet downriver in the mostly poor, fertile Delta region, floodwaters washed away crops, damaged hundreds of...

TRIPOLI (AP):NATO warplanes struck a command centre in Tripoli early yesterday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks, while rebels, capitalising on other NATO...

SAN JUAN DE SABINAS (AP):Rescue crews yesterday recovered all bodies from a coal mine in northern Mexico hit by a gas explosion earlier this week, putting the total death toll at 14.Mexican Labour Secretary Javier Lozano says the rescue phase has ended...

KUALA LUMPUR (AP):Malaysia will accept 800 asylum seekers who entered Australia illegally by sea in a groundbreaking deal between the two countries to tackle people smuggling.In return, Australia will resettle 4,000 registered refugees living in...

ABIDJAN (AP):A new mass grave containing 29 bodies has been found in a restive suburb of Ivory Coast's commercial capital, said a resident, who stressed that the victims were killed in the aftermath of a political stand-off that plunged the country into...

US President Barack Obama has met the military team that killed Osama Bin Laden and praised their mission as one of the greatest military operations in US history.

US President Barack Obama will visit Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York, today.

HARARE (AP):The European Union said yesterday that six Zimbabwean state-media journalists are on a sanctions list because their reporting incites hatred that media groups say has led to political violence.EU Ambassador...