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World Bank approves $300 million financing to help poor people in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank approved a $300 million additional financing to Lebanon's poor, providing cash payments to help families struggling through the country's historic economic meltdown, the institution said in a statement Friday. The new financing ...

Strong earthquake shakes eastern Japan; no tsunami warning

TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake shook Tokyo and other areas of eastern Japan on Friday, but no tsunami warning was issued. The magnitude 6.1 quake was centered off the east coast of Chiba Peninsula at a depth of 44.5 kilometers (28 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. Strong shaking ...

German parliament authorizes troops to stay in Mali for one final year

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Friday gave the go-ahead for the country's troops to stay in Mali for up to another year, part of a plan to bring Germany's involvement in a U.N. military mission in the West African nation to an orderly end. Parliament approved the new and final mandate for ...

Spanish Socialists under pressure in key regional elections

By JENNIFER O'MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain goes to the polls on Sunday for local and regional elections seen as a bellwether for a national vote in December, with the conservative Popular Party steadily gaining ground on the ruling Socialists in key regions. Spain's 17 ...