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Left with tornado damage, Alabama town blaming FEMA for unsafe block

By The Associated Press November 18, 2012

CORDOVA, Ala. (AP) — Main Street in this old mill town looks about the same as it did the day after tornadoes killed about 250 people across Alabama a year and a half ago. The entire one-block...

A Cambodian opposition Sam Rainsy's party member Mu Sochua, left, greets protesters as she walks near ASEAN's flag at the outside the National Assembly, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Nearly one thousand of protesters gathered on Friday to demand human rights and democracy in ASEAN bloc. Southeast Asian leaders plan to adopt a human rights declaration aimed at fighting torture and illegal arrests in a region notorious for violations, despite criticism that the pact falls short of international standards. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Southeast Asia to adopt human rights declaration despite loopholes

By The Associated Press November 18, 2012

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Diplomats say Southeast Asian leaders have decided to launch a human rights declaration despite last-minute calls for a postponement by critics, including Washington,...

A Myanmar prisoner, center, is welcomed by her relative outside Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar after the political prisoners were released Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Myanmar reformist government ordered more than 450 prisoners freed Thursday in an amnesty apparently intended as a goodwill gesture ahead of an historic visit by President Barack Obama next week. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Myanmar announces new prisoner amnesty, President Obama to visit

By The Associated Press November 18, 2012

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s leader has ordered a new prisoner amnesty ahead of a historic visit to the country by President Obama on Monday. State television said Sunday that President...

Young people hold placards during a protest organized by fundamentalist Christian group Civitas Institute against the gay marriage, in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. Placards at center read: "No to Homosexual Marriage", and at left: "Family is Sacred". (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Pro- and anti-gay protesters clash in Paris streets in reaction to draft law

By The Associated Press November 18, 2012

PARIS (AP) — The controversial Ukrainian group Femen, whose topless members stage pranks to support gay rights, have taunted a march in Paris by Catholics who oppose France’s draft law to legalize...

Panel approves $179 million funding for state construction projects

By The Associated Press November 15, 2012

(AP) — More than $179 million in state construction projects will go forward after the Bond Commission on Thursday approved the list of spending plans submitted by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration. ...

Appeal court: Teacher furlough day in Jefferson Parish violates state law

By The Associated Press November 15, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state appeal court says that the Jefferson Parish Public School System illegally cut teachers’ pay by imposing an unpaid day of leave for every teacher in the district. ...

BP agrees to pay $4.5B settlement; three employees still face charges

By The Associated Press November 15, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as it agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and pay a record $4.5 billion, including the...

Lawyers: Colorado theater shooting suspect can’t attend hearing

By The Associated Press November 15, 2012

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A court hearing for the man charged with the Colorado movie theater killings has been postponed after his attorneys said Wednesday that he had been taken to a hospital for...

Fighter jet crashes near Florida Air Force base, pilot safe after ejecting

By The Associated Press November 15, 2012

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) — An Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet crashed onto a Florida Panhandle highway Thursday, but the pilot was able to eject safely and there were no immediate reports...

Marijuana law introduced could turn Uruguay government into pot dealer

By The Associated Press November 15, 2012

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay came one step closer to turning the government into the country’s leading pot dealer on Thursday, as lawmakers formally introduced to Congress a framework...

Scores isolated to prevent spread of new Ebola outbreak in Uganda

By The Associated Press November 15, 2012

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Scores of Ugandans were isolated Thursday to prevent the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola which has already killed three people. Uganda has experienced increasingly regular...

A protesting farm worker puts grass on a fire as he and others protest in the town of Swellendam, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Farm workers angered over their minimum daily wages launched a second day of violent protests in the nation's Western Cape, setting fires and marching through the countryside. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

South African miners end strike, farm workers continue wage protests

By The Associated Press November 15, 2012

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Miners at Anglo American Platinum Ltd. operations in South Africa returned to work Thursday, ending a more than eight-week strike that crippled the world’s largest platinum...