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Hatted impersonators mark Chaplin birthday
ADIPUR, India — Canes in hand and bowler hats atop their heads, Charlie Chaplin impersonators tramped through the streets of a small port town in western India to celebrate the birthday of the Holl...
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West’s mores, China imports challenge the burqa
KABUL, Afghanistan — The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days — cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange ...
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Strong quake shakes Papua New Guinea
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — A powerful earthquake shook Papua New Guinea’s northern coast this morning, sending residents fleeing for higher ground and items tumbling from shelves. There were ...
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Musharraf disqualified from election
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — High court judges disqualified former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday from running in the parliamentary election, likely ending any hope of a political com...
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Anti-Putin activist ready for trial
MOSCOW — Far from the streets of Moscow where he galvanized tens of thousands in anti-government protests, Alexei Navalny faces trial this week on charges that could send him to prison for 10 years...
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Maduro certified as election winner amid local protests
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s government-friendly electoral council quickly certified the razor-thin presidential victory of Hugo Chavez’ hand-picked successor Monday, apparently ignoring opposi...
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Associated Press An Iraqi soldier stands guard as supporters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attend a campaign rally in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad on Monday. Al-Maliki resumed his election campaign after the early voting for security forces in the country's provincial elections.
Iraq attacks kill 55 before vote
BAGHDAD — Insurgents in Iraq deployed a series of car bombs as part of highly coordinated attacks that cut across a wide swath of the country Monday, killing at least 55 on the deadliest day in nea...
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Pope Francis supports crackdown on US nuns
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis supports the Holy See’s crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mi...
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Brotherhood members face torture charge in Egypt
CAIRO — Two Muslim Brotherhood officials have been sent to trial on charges of kidnapping and torturing three men during protests in November following Islamist President Mohammed Morsi’s decrees, ...
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Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Shiites fight in Syria
AL QASR, Lebanon — Masked men in camouflage toting Kalashnikov rifles fan out through a dusty olive grove, part of a group of Hezbollah-backed fighters from Lebanon who are patrolling both sides of...
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