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Associated Press Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdigan addresses his party members in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday. Erdogan said Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is engaged in "state terrorism" and criticized the world for just watching the "slaughter of Muslims" there.
Turkey accuses Syria of ‘state terrorism’
BEIRUT — Turkey accused Syria of “state terrorism” Wednesday after a sharp spike in the death toll from the Syrian civil war, and Iran came under new scrutiny with the U.S. alleging that Tehran is ...
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Strong Costa Rica quake causes panic, damage
CANGREJAL, Costa Rica — A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and neighboring countries Wednesday, sending panicked people into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami alert, bu...
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4 people shot at South African gold mine in latest unrest
JOHANNESBURG — South African police and security guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas Monday at sacked gold miners who were attacking colleagues to block them from working, the mine owner said....
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Red Bull heir arrested in deadly hit-and-run
BANGKOK — A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving a Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body down a Bangkok street in an early-mor...
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Associated Press Pakistani officials and rescue workers gather Monday at the site of bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan. A suicide bomber rammed a car filled with explosives into a U.S. government vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing two Pakistanis and wounding 19 others, including two Americans, officials said.
Suicide bomber wounds 2 Americans in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber rammed into a U.S. government vehicle in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, killing two Pakistanis and wounding more than a dozen — including two...
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Yemen: U.S. military drone kills alleged French tanker attacker
SANAA, Yemen — A U.S. drone strike Sunday killed a top al-Qaida militant wanted for allegedly masterminding a 2002 attack on a French oil tanker, Yemeni military officials said. In a separate in...
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Associated Press A woman throws her waste in a street Aug. 16 in Cairo. Garbage disposal is a major problem for the Egyptian government.
A test looms for Egypt’s new leader: Garbage
CAIRO — The pile of trash overwhelmed the median divider on Ahmed Zaki Street and spilled into oncoming traffic — egg shells, rotten eggplants, soiled diapers, bottles, broken furniture, junked TV ...
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Associated Press Striking Hellenic Postbank workers chat outside the state-owned bank's headquarters building Thursday in central Athens. The government has said that the bank is not viable, triggering union protests that it intends to privatize Hellenic Postbank at a firesale price.
PM says new austerity round will be the last
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s prime minister promised his austerity-weary countrymen on Thursday that new spending cuts planned for 2013-14 would be the last major austerity package, but insisted it wa...
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Justice minister questions court action
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s justice minister Friday challenged the top prosecutor’s decision to charge 270 miners with the murders and attempted murders of 112 striking co-workers shot by the pol...
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Drug firm makes first apology for thalidomide
BERLIN — The German manufacturer of a notorious drug that caused thousands of babies to be born with shortened arms and legs, or no limbs at all, issued its first ever apology Friday — 50 years aft...
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