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Subway work unearths ancient road in Greece
THESSALONIKI, Greece — Archaeologists in Greece’s second-largest city have uncovered a 230-foot section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was city’s main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ...
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Ecuador studying asylum bid for Assange
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s foreign minister says lawyers convened by the government are studying the political and legal implications of granting exile to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Minis...
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Greece finance minister resigns after emergency hospital visit
ATHENS, Greece — The banker who was chosen to be Greece’s next finance minister resigned for health reasons Monday three days after he was rushed to the hospital, while the country’s prime minister...
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Associated Press Smoke rises from buildings following purported shelling in Talbeesa, Homs, Syria.
Syrian general, soldiers defect
BEIRUT — A Syrian general was among the latest defectors from the Syrian military, officials said Monday, after dozens of Syrian soldiers fled overnight to Turkey, crossing the border with their fa...
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Egyptian president moves into office
CAIRO — The new Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi moved first thing Monday morning into the office once occupied by his ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak and started work on forming a government eve...
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Associated Press Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels. A spokeswoman on Sunday said NATO's governing body will meet on Tuesday to discuss the Syrian downing of a Turkish plane.
NATO to discuss downing of plane
ANKARA, Turkey — NATO ambassadors will discuss this week whether to respond to Syria’s downing of a Turkish jet in what Turkey insists was international airspace, although the likelihood of any mil...
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Famed Galapagos tortoise dies
QUITO, Ecuador — The giant tortoise Lonesome George, whose failed efforts to produce offspring made him a symbol of disappearing species, was found dead on Sunday, officials at the Galapagos Nation...
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Associated Press A man leans on a column next to the collapsed roof of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario. Police on Sunday still had a list of nine people missing since the collapse that injured at least 22 people.
Officials: 1 feared dead in Canada roof collapse
ELLIOT LAKE, Ontario — At least one person is feared dead and another trapped inside the rubble of a roof collapse at mall in northern Ontario, authorities said Sunday. More than 24 hours after ...
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Associated Press Egyptians celebrate the victory of Mohammed Morsi in the country's presidential election at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Sunday. Morsi was declared Egypt's first Islamist president on Sunday after the freest elections in the country's history, narrowly defeating Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, in a race that raised political tensions in Egypt to a fever pitch.
Islamist declared winner in Egypt
CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt’s first free presidential election Sunday, and he proclaimed himself a leader “for all Egyptians,” although he faces...
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Morsi
Morsi characterized as dutiful, pragmatic
CAIRO — He spent time in jail during the Hosni Mubarak regime, but not as long as some fellow Islamists. He is well-educated, having studied at the University of Southern California, yet still betr...
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