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Associated Press A Bahraini man talks on his phone as he walks past pictures of prisoners held in connection with the pro-democracy uprising in the Gulf nation on Sunday in the western village of Karzakan, Bahrain. The Arabic writing on the wall reads, "down Hamad," referring to the Bahraini king.
US slammed by both sides in Bahrain
MANAMA, Bahrain — During one of the nightly clashes with Bahrain’s security forces, a new chant broke out among opposition protesters: “The U.S. is the great Satan.” A few days later, pro-governmen...
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Associated Press Jihad Makdissi, spokesman for Syria foreign ministry, in a news conference in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday denies any government involvement in a series of attacks that left more than 90 people dead.
Syria denies killings; UN condemns attack
BEIRUT — Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people — including women and children — in one of the deadliest days of the country’s uprising, but the U.N. Se...
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Iran: No reason to halt 20 percent enrichment
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s nuclear chief said Sunday there are no reasons at the moment for his country to halt production of uranium enriched to 20 percent, a key demand of world powers, and Iran is pl...
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Associated Press A teacher works with students outside ramshackle classrooms in Iraq's Diyala province. Millions of dollars in international aid to build and repair Iraq's dilapidated schools have for years gone unspent.
Millions in global aid for Iraq sits unspent
BAQOUBA, Iraq — Outside the crumbling elementary school, goats feed on trash strewn across the front yard. Inside, the ceiling is rotting, toilets don’t work and students scrunch hip-to-hip behind ...
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Associated Press A Palestinian Airlines flight takes off from Marka Airbase to El-Arish, Egypt, in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday. Palestinian Airlines is back in the skies after being grounded for seven years by the vagaries of the Mideast conflict.
Palestinian Airlines resumes flights
MARKA AIRBASE, Jordan — Palestinian Airlines is back in the skies after being grounded for seven years by the deepening enmities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Once hailed as a symbol of P...
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Alibaba.com $2.5B privatization bid approved
HONG KONG — Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group’s $2.5 billion bid to take its Hong Kong-listed unit private was cleared Friday by minority shareholders, easing the way for CEO Jack Ma to gain mo...
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Faber was convicted of Nazi war crimes
BERLIN — Klaas Carel Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands of Nazi war crimes and subsequently lived in freedom despite several attempts to try or extra...
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Associated Press Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), speaks during the first Citizens Summit on Tuesday in Mexico City. Mexico will hold presidential elections on July 1.
Mexico front-runner promises to cut violence
MEXICO CITY — Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexi...
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Gunman kills 2, wounds 7 in Finland, then arrested
HELSINKI — An 18-year-old gunman killed two people and wounded seven early Saturday in a random shooting in a southern Finnish town, police said. Officers arrested the suspect near Hyvinkaa, som...
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US slammed from both sides of Bahrain’s divide
MANAMA, Bahrain — During one of the nightly clashes with Bahrain’s security forces, a new chant broke out among opposition protesters: “The U.S. is the great Satan.” A few days later, pro-governmen...
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