June 19, 2013
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Pope Francis leads pep rally at Vatican, meets with Merkel
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis toured St. Peter’s Square to greet tens of thousands of people attending a rally of prayer, music and speeches Saturday, and he embraced the brother of a Pakistani polit...
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Assocaited Press Abdel-Nour, the father of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, speaks on the phone to a live television show Thursday about his daughter from his home in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor, Egypt.
Blasphemy cases reflect struggle
CAIRO — The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beard...
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Associated Press An oil well undergoes testing in 2010 in the Lake Albertine region of western Uganda. Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the government millions in legal fees.
Politics, bribery charges swirl around Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda — Even before the first drops flow, Uganda’s oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the government millions in legal fees, ...
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Woman describes Berlusconi’s parties
MILAN — Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent...
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Associated Press A National Guard soldier frisks a man Tuesday outside his car at a checkpoint that is part of the "Secure Homeland" initiative in Petare, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Caracas, Venezuela. Since Monday, this scene is playing out day and night at dozens of military checkpoints set up here in the socialist government's latest attempt to control the oil-rich country's pandemic of violence.
Venezuela’s military enters high-crime slums
PETARE, Venezuela — Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas. Flashlights in his face, the dri...
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Associated Press Freed Syrian detainees gather in front of posters showing Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) and his father Assad (left) after they were released from Adra Prison on Jan. 15 in the northeast outskirts of Damascus, Syria. Syrian intelligence agents grab civilians seen as a threat to President Assad's regime, including human rights activists and lawyers, and deliver them to torture dungeons where they simply vanish.
Protestors: Syria holds thousands incommunicado
BEIRUT — About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old univers...
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Bombs targeting Sunni area hightens concerns
BAGHDAD — Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian b...
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Bombs kill tenants inside elite Afghan housing complex
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday evening, killing at least ni...
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Associated Press Algerian youth celebrate the imminent soccer championship match on April 30 in Algiers. With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Algeria for the last half-century is reaching its end and the overwhelmingly young population is increasingly vocal in its demands for jobs and housing.
Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
ALGIERS, Algeria — The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria. With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging politicians and generals that has...
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Suicide bomb kill soldiers
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it rattled the other side of th...
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