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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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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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Associated Press A girl plays on April 20 at her home on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan. In an interview, her aunt Masooma recounted the events of a pre-dawn attack last year when she says a U.S. soldier rampaged through two villages killing 16 people including her husband.
Afghans tell of US soldier’s killing
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she to...
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Buenos Aires launches tours for Pope Francis
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Fra...
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Associated Press Internally displaced Rohingya people walk towards a school to take refuge on Wednesday in Myanma ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen.
Myanmar minority resist evacuation
SITTWE, Myanmar — A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar’s western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the s...
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Associated Press Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. (left) talks to a reporter on Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, as he walks to the committee's briefing on Syria.
Kerry expects Syrian involvement
STOCKHOLM — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a stern warning Tuesday to Syria’s government, saying that new help will be given to opposition forces should President Bashar Assad’s regime d...
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