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France: Lawmakers pass bill to pay for abortions
PARIS — France’s lower house voted Friday to fully reimburse all abortions and to make contraception free for minors. National medical insurance currently pays in full for abortions for minors a...
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ExxonMobil executive gunned down in Belgium
BRUSSELS — A British oil executive was gunned down in front of his wife in the Belgian capital of Brussels. Helmeted assailants escaped on a motorcycle. Police has made no arrests in the case. ...
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Associated Press Adel Aly, 47, a member of the Egyptian National Circus, walks on the rope in front of the audience inside a circus tent Friday in Gaza City. The Egyptian National Circus put on its first show of a month-long visit to the impoverished coastal territory on Friday.
The circus visits impoverished Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The circus came to Gaza on Friday, accompanied by blaring music, juggling clowns and fire blowers — but getting it there required its own high-wire act. No women performe...
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Chile’s ALMA probes for origins of universe
LLANO DE CHAJNANTOR, Chile — Earth’s largest radio telescope is growing more powerful by the day on this remote plateau high above Chile’s Atacama desert, where visitors often feel like they’re pla...
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Associated Press Bodies of suicide attack victims are covered in white cloth in the courtyard of a hospital in Maymana, Faryab province, northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing 41 people and wounding several.
Suicide attack kills 41 at Afghan mosque
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a mosque packed with senior regional officials in northern Afghanistan on a major Muslim holiday Friday, killing 41 people. The of...
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Gutierrez-Menoyo fought for, against Castro
HAVANA — Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo, who went from rebel commander fighting alongside Fidel Castro to a foe launching commando raids against the island before settling inside Cuba as a moderate, pro-dia...
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Shot Pakistani girl's father happy for 'miracle'
LONDON — The father of a 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban described his daughter’s survival and ongoing recovery as miraculous Friday. He said her shooting was a turning p...
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Associated Press Bushr Al Tawashi watches through a car window outside a private Sigma TV station Friday in Nicosia, Cyprus. The 2-year-old Syrian boy, who was believed dead after his family inadvertently left him behind as they fled shelling in Damascus last summer, has been reunited with his parents.
Toddler believed dead reunited with parents
NICOSIA, Cyprus — No one knows how long little Bushr Al Tawashi wandered alone in the rubble of his home in the Syrian capital before rebel fighters found the toddler and handed him over to another...
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Jimmy Savile: How could his crimes go unnoticed?
LONDON — Jimmy Savile was one of the best-known faces on British television. So how was he able to become one of the country’s worst child sex predators without ever being caught? Since the reve...
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Syria commits to 4-day truce, but prospects dim
BEIRUT — The embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad promised Thursday to observe a U.N.-proposed truce during a four-day Muslim holiday, while rebels claimed major gains in the key battl...
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