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Associated Press Libyans protest against Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias Friday in front of Tebesty Hotel in Benghazi, Libya. The attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has sparked a backlash among frustrated Libyans against the heavily armed gunmen, including Islamic extremists, who run rampant in their cities.
Libyans storm militia in backlash of attack on US
BENGHAZI, Libya — Hundreds of protesters angry over last week’s killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya stormed the compound of the Islamic extremist militia suspected in the attack, evicting milit...
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Associated Press The 20th century Ecce Homo-style fresco of Christ (left) and the 'restored' version (right) are shown in comparison. Only a month has gone by since an 80-year-old artist won global infamy for botching a restoration of a fresco of Christ in a little-known Spanish town, but it took even less time for internet entrepreneurs to start copying her image compared to a monkey's head to sell everything from T-shirts to cellphone covers and wine.
Disfigured Spanish fresco rides global fame
MADRID — The image appears on T-shirts and cellphone covers, coffee mugs and wine labels. And the 80-year-old pensioner who just weeks ago was mortified by the global stir she created with her botc...
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Litvinenko
Judge says inquest into spy’s death to open in 2013
LONDON — A long-awaited inquest into the poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko should consider whether Russian authorities were involved, the senior British judge who will ov...
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Israel to Iran: Jewish state can defend itself
VIENNA — A senior Israeli official warned Iran on Wednesday to stop its “direct and blunt threats” against his country, telling a 155-nation nuclear conference the Jewish state is ready to defend i...
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South American storm causes death, damage
ASUNCION, Paraguay — A powerful storm killed five people and injured 81 in Paraguay as it blew across the southern cone of South America on Wednesday, ripping roofs off ramshackle homes and leaving...
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South Africa: Miners ready to resume work
MARIKANA, South Africa — Lonmin miners celebrated a wage deal Wednesday that ended a deadly and prolonged strike but labor unrest continued with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas at striker...
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Islam extremists showing up on front lines in Syria
TEL RIFAAT, Syria — The bearded gunmen who surrounded the car full of foreign journalists in a northern Syrian village were clearly not Syrians. A heavyset man in a brown gown stepped forward, anno...
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Doubts arise over claim of ‘Jesus’ Wife’ papyrus
ROME — Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic? Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyru...
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Associated Press A French policeman stands guard outside the headquarters of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo Wednesday in Paris. Police took up positions outside the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, which published crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday that ridicule the film and the furor surrounding it.
French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions
PARIS — France stepped up security Wednesday at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly revived a formula that it has already used to capture attention: Publishing cru...
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Associated Press North Korean men stand next to a field damaged by July flooding Aug. 13 in Songchon County, North Korea. Harsh weather has damaged crops, meaning a shortfall of food in the country.
Storms dampen hopes for large North Korean harvest
WONSAN, North Korea — First came an extended dry spell in the spring, followed by a summer of flash floods and typhoons. Now, with North Korean farmers preparing to head out into autumn fields t...
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