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London’s Times demands that it simply stop raining
LONDON — Just. Stop. Raining. That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons’ growing frustration with months of miserable weather. ...
Jul 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sophisticated drug tunnels found
TIJUANA, Mexico — Four drug smuggling tunnels equipped with lighting and ventilation — including one with a railcar system — have been discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in less than a week, t...
Jul 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Massacre in Syria kills more than 100
BEIRUT — Syrian activists reported a new massacre late Thursday in the central Hama province, saying regime forces killed more than 100 people in shelling and other attacks. There were few detai...
Jul 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gendarmes use blankets to hide victims of an avalanche at Chamonix rescue base, French Alps, Thursday, July, 12, 2012. An avalanche in the French Alps swept six European climbers to their deaths on a slope leading to Mont Blanc, and left at least nine others injured and several climbers unaccounted for, authorities said. Two climbers were rescued and emergency crews are searching for the missing. A group of 28 climbers from Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Denmark and Serbia are believed to be in the expedition caught in the avalanche that was about 4,000 meters (13,1000 feet) high on the north face of Mont Maudit, part of the Mont Blanc range. (AP Photo)
9 dead in Mont Blanc avalanche
CHAMONIX, France — They set out before dawn, hoping to conquer a mountaineering classic: Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s highest peak. But below the prized summit, a climber is believed to have accide...
Jul 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Phongsavath Souliyalat, who lost his forearms and sight from blasts of an unexploded bomb, waits to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Cooperative Orthotic Prosthetic Enterprise Center (COPE), in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. COPE provides free prosthetics to those who need them including the victims of blasts of unexploded Vietnam War era ordnance, (AP Photo/Brendon Smialowski, Pool)
Clinton reaches out to citizens of Laos in visit
VIENTIANE, Laos — Decades after the U.S. gave Laos a horrific distinction as the world’s most heavily bombed nation per person, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged Wednesday to help g...
Jul 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press An Egyptian military honor guard stands in formation at a graduation ceremony attended by President Mohammed Morsi and other political and military dignitaries July 9 at a military base east of Cairo. Egypt's highest court insisted Monday that its ruling that led to the dissolution of the Islamist-dominated parliament was final and binding, setting up a showdown with the country's newly elected president.
New crisis looms in Egypt
CAIRO — A new showdown loomed in Egypt on Monday as the country’s highest court stood by its ruling that dissolved parliament last month, challenging the new Islamist president’s plans to reconvene...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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UK police charge 3 more men with terrorism offenses
LONDON — Three men were accused in a British court Tuesday of building a makeshift bomb and making other preparations for a terrorist attack against the far-right English Defense League. Hours late...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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AP Photo Egyptian Parliament Speaker Saad el-Katani presides Tuesday over a brief session of Parliament, the first since the country's high court ruled the chamber unconstitutional, in Cairo. Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament convened in defiance of a ruling by the country's highest court and swiftly voted to seek a legal opinion on the decision that invalidated the chamber over apparent election irregularities.
Egypt’s new president flexes power, but moves cautiously
CAIRO — The faceoff between Egypt’s new Islamist president and the old guard military sharpened Tuesday, with parliament defying orders to disband and the highest court slapping back at Mohammed Mo...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Agreement reached with Assad
DAMASCUS, Syria — International envoy Kofi Annan tried to breathe new life Monday into his moribund peace efforts in Syria, saying he has reached a new framework with President Bashar Assad and wou...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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In this image made off North Korea's KRT video footage, North Korea's new Moranbong band and performers dressed as America's cartoon characters perform in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, July 6, 2012. Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh took the stage for new leader Kim Jong Un, in an unusual performance featuring Disney characters in North Korea. (AP Photo/KRT)
Disney’s Mickey Mouse takes North Korean stage in show for Kim
Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea — Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh took the stage in North Korea during a concert for new leader Kim Jong Un, in an unusual performance featuring Disney c...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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