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Egypt pulls TV spots warning about talking to foreigners
CAIRO — Egypt’s government has pulled TV public service announcements that warned against talking to foreigners because they might be spies after critics charged the spots fueled xenophobia and aim...
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Chief Syrian opposition body elects Kurd as new leader
BEIRUT — Syria’s main opposition group on Sunday picked a secular Kurd as its new leader after criticism that the former head was too autocratic and the group was becoming dominated by Islamists. ...
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Catholic faith on line as church rallies
by SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press DUBLIN — An international conference celebrating Roman Catholicism opened Sunday in Ireland against a backdrop of anger over child abuse cover-ups and evi...
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Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks during a news conference at the Moncloa Palace on Sunday.
Lift for markets from Spain rescue could be brief
by DANIEL WAGNER Associated Press A bailout of the crippled banks of Spain should relieve world financial markets and provide a lift for stocks in the United States, which have had a rocky si...
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Associated Press This is a BlackBerry device from 2002 in San Francisco. There is talk that the fate of Research In Motion, the company that fathered the BlackBerry in 1999, is no longer certain as its flagship property rapidly loses market share to flashier phones like Apple's iPhone and Google's Android-driven models.
RIM sinks, but patents, network have value
WATERLOO, Ontario — Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is in steep decline. The company, once the crown jewel of the Canadian technology industry, is now worth 1 percent of Apple...
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Nigeria plane crash hit all social classes
LAGOS, Nigeria — Engines out, the pilot of the doomed Nigerian commercial airliner looked for somewhere to put down the aircraft, desperate for open space but finding only a sea of tin roofs and na...
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Tobias was renowned as an anthropologist
JOHANNESBURG — Anthropologist Phillip Tobias, internationally renowned as an authority on human evolution and remembered for his love of humanity, died Thursday, South Africa's University of the Wi...
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Associated Press A Hoary-throated Spinetail perches on a branch in March near the Takutu River on the border between Brazil and Guyana. Ninety types of Amazon birds have been added to a list of species at risk of extinction.
Group: Amazon birds risk extinction
RIO DE JANEIRO — The list of Amazon bird species facing danger of extinction has risen sharply because their rainforest habitat is being slashed to make room for cattle ranching and agriculture, a ...
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Associated Press Free Syrian Army members fire at targets Thursday as they train on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
UN monitors shot at near site of Syrian killings
BEIRUT — U.N. observers came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the site of the latest reported mass killing in Syria — about 80 people, including women and children who were shot or stabbe...
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Associated Press Felix Guirola climbs onto his self-made 11-foot tall bicycle while people help steady it as he prepares to take it for a ride in May in Havana, Cuba.
Man’s super-tall bike a new sight in Havana
HAVANA — Many people would be leery of cycling through chaotic downtown Havana, sharing its narrow, potholed streets with the darting scooters, incorrigible jaywalkers and hulking 1950s Detroit cla...
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