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Associated Press Syrians hold an anti-government protest Friday in Aleppo, Syria. International concern over a potential massacre rose Friday as Syrian troops moved in against the rebels.
Fears grow over fate of Syrian city of Aleppo
BEIRUT — International concern was mounting Friday over a potential massacre as Syrian troops bombarded the besieged city of Aleppo with artillery, strafed it with aircraft and reportedly pulled in...
Jul 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Roman holiday: UK boy flies without passport
LONDON — The 11-year-old boy didn’t have a passport, didn’t have a ticket, didn’t have a boarding pass, and got all the way from England to Italy on his own. For him, the 1,000-mile journey was ...
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North Korea confirms Kim is married
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by confirming that the mystery woman beside young leader Kim Jong Un at recent public events is indeed his wife, “comrade Ri So...
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Associated Press A Syrian woman who recently fled her country sits with her daughter inside a government school Monday in Marj, Lebanon. After a weeklong siege in the Syrian capital, Damascus, residents who stayed behind are facing hours-long queues for petrol and bread, piles of rubbish in the streets and scenes of destruction while thousands of Syrians have escaped to Lebanon over the past week.
Syrian rebels routed in capital fight elsewhere
BEIRUT — Fighter jets unleashed sonic booms and helicopter gunships strafed rebels as they pressed their fight Tuesday into new neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Farther south, ground ...
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Attacks in more than a dozen cities bring deadliest day in 2 years
BAGHDAD — A startling spasm of violence shook more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday, killing over 100 people in coordinated bombings and shootings and wounding twice as many in the country’s deadli...
Jul 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Smoke clings to the trees Monday as fires burn in Boadella, Spain. The fires that broke out Sunday in several parts of the Catalonia region forced more than 1,400 people to stay the night in shelters.
2 dead in fall fleeing Spain fire
TERRADES, Spain — As a wildfire closed in on them, five members of a vacationing French family abandoned their car and stumbled through thick smoke down a steep hillside in a desperate bid to reach...
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Japan probes alleged cover-up at nuclear plant
TOKYO — Japanese authorities are investigating subcontractors on suspicion that they forced workers at the tsunami-hit nuclear plant to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to so t...
Jul 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Garces
Raul O. Garces, AP correspondent, dies
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Raul O. Garces, a veteran Associated Press correspondent who defied military censors and leftist guerrillas as he covered many of the tumultuous events of South America for mo...
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Paya
Cuban dissident Paya dies in crash
HAVANA — Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya, who spent decades speaking out against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of the most powerful voices of dissent against their ha...
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Israel looks for attacks abroad, eyeing Olympics
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister said Sunday that his country is on alert for plots to kill more of its citizens overseas, after speculation that last week’s suicide bombing of a tour bus in Bu...
Jul 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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