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Associated Press Mohammed Morsi (bottom row left) poses for a portrait with Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim (right), and Egyptian police generals in Cairo, on Tuesday. The military has pledged to turn power over to a civilian government once a new president is named. On Sunday Islamist Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was declared Egypt's first freely elected president in modern history.
New Egypt president moves toward unity government
CAIRO — President-elect Mohammed Morsi tried to ease the turmoil that has rocked Egypt since the uprising 16 months ago, reaching out Tuesday to Christians, women and secular revolutionaries to joi...
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‘Suspicious’ blast destroys house, kills child
LONDON — A suspected gas explosion reduced a house to smoking rubble, killed a 2-year-old boy and left a man seriously burned in northwest England on Tuesday, police and rescue workers said. Pol...
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Europe tries to convince Germany to do more to strengthen the Euro
BRUSSELS — Top European officials have called on countries that use the euro to surrender more control over their national budgets, a move apparently aimed at easing Germany’s fears of sharing debt...
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Turkey warns Syria about border
BEIRUT — Turkey warned Syria on Tuesday to keep its forces away from the countries’ troubled border or risk an armed response — a furious reply to the downing of a Turkish military plane last week ...
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3 officers shot to death at Mexico City airport
MEXICO CITY — Two federal police officers suspected of working for drug traffickers opened fire on fellow officers in a crowded food court at Mexico City’s international airport on Monday, killing ...
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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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