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Associated Press Former President Hosni Mubarak listens to interviewers inside the defendant's cage in a courtroom Saturday in Cairo. The retrial of Mubarak resumed Saturday, with prosecutors requesting to present new evidence from a fact-finding commission's report that claims the ex-leader had full knowledge of the extent of the violence used against protesters.
Egypt’s ex-president Mubarak talks for 1st time since detention
CAIRO — In his first comments to the media since he was detained more than two years ago, Egypt’s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak said he is dismayed at the country’s state of affairs and particularly ...
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Associated Press Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to media as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, while his daughter Fatemeh (second right), smiles at the election headquarters of the interior ministry Saturday in Tehran, Iran. On Saturday, Rafsanjani made a last minute surprise decision to enter Iran's presidential election process, which now includes more than 680 hopefuls.
Iran’s cunning Rafsanjani seeks one more shot
TEHRAN, Iran — Signs on currency exchange shops in Tehran explained why the doors where temporarily shut: Waiting to see if former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani would seek to reclaim the offic...
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Netanyahu criticized for bed on plane
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized bed on a recent flight to London, ...
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Associated Press Supporters of Pakistan Muslim League-N party celebrate their party victory in the parliamentary election outside the party's headquarter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked set Sunday to return to power for a third term, with an overwhelming election tally that just weeks ago seemed out of reach for a man who had been ousted by a coup.
Pakistan’s Sharif achieves vibrant election victory
LAHORE, Pakistan — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised Sunday to return to office with a resounding election victory — a mandate that could make it easier to tackle the count...
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Bangladesh to raise wages for garment employees
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a fact...
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Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canoniz...
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Twin car bombers kill 46; suspects all with Syrian ties
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s prime minister vowed Sunday his country won’t be drawn into Syria’s civil war, despite twin car bombings the government believes were carried out by a group of Turks with ...
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Greece: Economic recovery in sight
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s recession-wracked economy should start recovering next year and its sky-high unemployment rate should edge lower from the end of 2014, the finance minister said in an inte...
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Associated Press Supporters of Tehreek-e-Pakistan, headed by Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, celebrate the victory on Saturday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Despite attacks that killed dozens of people, Pakistanis turned out in huge numbers to vote in an election that marked a historic democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by military coups.
Pakistanis brave violence in historic election
ISLAMABAD — Despite attacks that killed 29 people, Pakistanis turned out in huge numbers Saturday to vote in an election that marked a historic democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by ...
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Survivor healing after being rescued
SAVAR, Bangladesh — A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered in a Bangl...
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