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Canadian authorities suspect terror plot
TORONTO — Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, police said Monday. The case bolstered a...
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Ex-bishop’s widow wants optional priestly celibacy
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — She uses a wheelchair and carries the weight of her 87 years, but Clelia Luro feels powerful enough to make the Roman Catholic Church pay attention to her campaign to end ...
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Rights group: Myanmar unrest being called ‘ethnic cleansing’
BANGKOK — A leading international rights group on Monday accused authorities in Myanmar, including Buddhist monks, of fomenting an organized campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country’s Rohin...
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Nicaragua nabs US child porn suspect
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Police in Nicaragua have detained a former U.S. school teacher who was on the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child pornography investigation, authorities conf...
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Suspect’s parents describe his trip
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev insisted on Sunday that he came to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with the militants operating in th...
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China quake leaves scores dead
LUSHAN, China — Sitting near chunks of concrete, bricks and a ripped orange sofa, Luo Shiqiang told how his grandfather was just returning from feeding chickens when their house collapsed and crush...
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Associated Press Members of the free Syrian Army hides behind scrap metal during an attack against Syrian government forces in the neighborhood of al-Amerieh in Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday. The Syrian opposition called on Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from the country immediately, as activists said regime troops supported by pro-government gunmen linked to the Lebanese Shiite militant group battled rebels Sunday for control of a string of villages near the Lebanon-Syria border.
Syrian opposition calls on Hezbollah to leave
BEIRUT — The Syrian opposition called on Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from the country, as activists said regime troops supported by gunmen linked to the Lebanese Shiite militant group battle...
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Kerry pushes Turkey-Israel rapprochement
ISTANBUL — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged Turkey to speed up and cement an American-brokered rapprochement with Israel, and he explored with Palestinian officials new ways to re...
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Associated Press US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel places a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance as he tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, on Sunday
Pentagon chief stresses Israel’s right to hit Iran
JERUSALEM — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held out hope Sunday for a nonmilitary way to ending the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, but he also emphasized Washington’s willingness to let Israel...
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Taliban threat could skew Pakistan election
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Moderate politicians from some of Pakistan’s most violent areas are risking the threat of Taliban attack to run in upcoming nationwide elections, but they are increasingly bein...
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