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Associated Press Egyptians celebrate the victory of Mohammed Morsi in the country's presidential election at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Sunday. Morsi was declared Egypt's first Islamist president on Sunday after the freest elections in the country's history, narrowly defeating Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, in a race that raised political tensions in Egypt to a fever pitch.
Islamist declared winner in Egypt
CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt’s first free presidential election Sunday, and he proclaimed himself a leader “for all Egyptians,” although he faces...
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Morsi characterized as dutiful, pragmatic
CAIRO — He spent time in jail during the Hosni Mubarak regime, but not as long as some fellow Islamists. He is well-educated, having studied at the University of Southern California, yet still betr...
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Paraguay’s ousted president goes on the offensive
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo fought back Sunday against the politicians who engineered his dismissal, setting up an alternative government and pledging to upstage ...
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Associated Press A Free Syrian Army fighter walks with a rocket launcher June 15 moments before clashing with Syrian troops near Idlib, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear.
Syrian civilians hit hard by spreading violence
KHAN SHEIKHOUN, Syria — Her daughter, 8, often hides in a closet, terrified of flying bullets. Her son, 6, still asks for his father months after he turned up in a morgue. And the family has little...
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Turkey threatens action after Syria says it downed jet
ANKARA, Turkey — Syria said Saturday it shot down a Turkish reconnaissance plane because the plane entered its airspace, insisting it was “not an attack” as both sides desperately tried to de-escal...
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Breivik ends massacre trial by defending attacks
OSLO, Norway — With a rambling monologue depicting Norway’s worst peacetime massacre as a necessary evil, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik got the last word as his 10-week trial ended F...
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Associated Press Italian Premier Mario Monti, top left, talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Spanish Premier Mariano Rajoy during a meeting in Rome Friday. The leaders gathered to seek agreement on ways to pull Europe out of its crippling debt crisis ahead of a crucial summit of European Union leaders in Brussels on June 28 and 29.
European leaders push for $163 billion in measures
ROME — The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Spain have agreed to push for a growth package worth up to €130 billion ($163 billion) at a European Union summit next week that's intended to kick-...
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Taliban gunmen lay siege to Afghan hotel, 18 dead
KABUL, Afghanistan — Heavily armed Taliban gunmen stormed a lakeside hotel near Kabul, sending terrified guests jumping from windows or into a lake to try to escape the onslaught. Eighteen people w...
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Rebels accused of mass killing
BEIRUT — An online video showed more than a dozen bloodied corpses, some of them piled atop each other and in military uniforms, dumped beside a road in northern Syria in what the government Friday...
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Tension soars as Egypt awaits vote results
CAIRO — Egypt’s military and the Muslim Brotherhood traded blame for rising tensions Friday as the country awaited the outcome of a presidential runoff vote that pits an Islamist against ousted lea...
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