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Attack claims civilians, troops
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber killed 21 people including three U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint in a packed market in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday — the third assault targeting Americans i...
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Uruguay plan: Sell marijuana to registered buyers
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s government apparently plans to take a step beyond legalizing marijuana: It wants to sell it. Local news media cited unnamed ruling-party lawmakers saying that the...
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Associated Press A church dome is visible through a broken window of the Sednaya Convent, which was damaged by artillery fire in Sednaya, north of Damascus, Syria. Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the population in Syria, say they are particularly vulnerable to the violence sweeping the country.
Syrian Christians feel vulnerable
BEIRUT — Inside the besieged Syrian city of Homs, where hundreds of civilians are caught up in a fierce battle between rebels and government troops, a small group of Christians is making its own de...
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Ex-Romania PM shoots self after sentencing for corruption
BUCHAREST, Romania — A Romanian ex-prime minister shot and wounded himself Wednesday in an apparent suicide attempt, hours after the country’s highest court ruled that he must serve a two-year pris...
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Assange faces arrest if he leaves embassy
LONDON — Julian Assange has spent years on the move, trying to keep ahead of authorities who want to stop his secret-spilling mission. Now the WikiLeaks founder finds himself confined in the sur...
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Associated Press A worker stands in front of his shop next to posters with pictures of presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday in Cairo. The runoff pitted former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, against conservative Islamist Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Still no election winner in Egypt
CAIRO — Authorities delayed Thursday’s planned announcement of the winner of Egypt’s presidential election, likely for several days, hiking tension as allegations of fraud swirled and each candidat...
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Associated Press Special forces stand by next to a CIC bank where a man took hostages Wednesday in the southern French city of Toulouse. The gunman was captured in a police raid about six hours later, authorities said.
French police nab suspect in bank hostage standoff
TOULOUSE, France — A gunman who ranted disjointedly about religious motives took four employees at a bank hostage on Wednesday before French police stormed in to arrest him — a new episode of appar...
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Egypt’s Mubarak on life support amid vote crisis
CAIRO — Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was being kept alive by life support after the 84-year-old ousted leader suffered a stroke in prison Tuesday, officials said, deepening the country’s uncertainty just ...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Turmoil in Pakistan follows dismissal of prime minister
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s top court dismissed the prime minister from office on Tuesday for failing to investigate the president for corruption, ushering in a new round of political turmoil in a natio...
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21 killed in attacks on churches in Nigeria
GODWIN ATTAH YINKA IBUKUN Associated Press KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Suicide bombers killed 21 people in attacks on three churches in Nigeria during Sunday services, exacerbating religious tensions ...
Jun 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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