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Associated Press Posters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hang over a street Friday in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela.
Country’s divided barrios to decide Chavez’s fate
CARACAS, Venezuela — The last time he ran for re-election, President Hugo Chavez won comfortably in Petare, one of Latin America’s biggest slums with nearly half a million people. This time around,...
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Associated Press A parliament member reads the Quran on Jan. 23 before the start of the first Egyptian parliament session after the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.
Islamist party heals rift, for now
CAIRO — Leaders of Egypt’s largest ultraconservative Islamist party have put aside their differences, settling — at least temporarily — a leadership dispute that threatened to break up the country’...
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AP Photo Workers unload a Russian plane carrying medical aid Saturday at the international airport in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Syria vows to ‘crush’ rebels, launches attacks
BEIRUT — Syria’s military will “crush” armed rebels, President Bashar Assad’s defense minister warned Saturday, as the regime shelled rebel positions in two cities and near the Lebanese border in a...
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Associated Press This image made from video shows the downing of a drone that entered Israeli airspace Saturday in southern Israel. Israeli jets scrambled to intercept the drone that crossed into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea, bringing it down without incident in the south of the country, a military spokeswoman said.
Jets down drone that entered Israeli airspace
JERUSALEM — Israel scrambled fighter jets to intercept a drone Saturday that crossed deep into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea, shooting the aircraft down over the country’s southern de...
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Pakistan's ex-cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan, top left, addresses supporters during a peace march in Mianwali, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. Thousands of Pakistanis joined by a group of U.S. anti-war activists headed toward Pakistan's militant-riddled tribal belt Saturday to protest U.S. drone strikes - even as a Pakistani Taliban faction warned that suicide bombers would stop the demonstration. (AP Photo/Jabbar Ahmed)
Pakistanis, Americans protest drones in long drive
ISLAMABAD — Thousands of Pakistanis joined by a group of U.S. anti-war activists headed toward Pakistan’s militant-riddled tribal belt Saturday to protest U.S. drone strikes — even as a Pakistani T...
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Ousted president dies
ALGIERS, Algeria — Former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid, who gave the country a multiparty political system before he was overthrown in a 1992 military coup, died Saturday at a military hospi...
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French police officers stand guard at the entrance of a building in Strasbourg, France, Saturday Oct. 6, 2012, where a suspect was shot dead after firing at police. French anti-terrorism forces carried out raids in cities nationwide on Saturday, at least five people were arrested in the investigation into the firebombing of a kosher grocery outside Paris last month. (AP Photo/Jean Francois Badias)
Anti-terror sweep leads to 1 dead, 11 arrested in French raid
PARIS — Police carried out raids across France on Saturday after DNA on a grenade that exploded last month at a kosher grocery store led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recentl...
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Mammoth carcass found in Siberia
MOSCOW — A Russian scientist says a well-preserved mammoth that was possibly killed by Ice Age man has been found in the permafrost of northern Siberia. Alexei Tikhonov of the St. Petersburg Zoo...
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Mexico: Mayan ball court was celestial ‘marker’
MEXICO CITY — Mexican archaeologists say they have determined that the ancient Mayas built watchtower-style structures atop the ceremonial ball court at the temples of Chichen Itza to observe the e...
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US suspects Haqqani tie to insider attacks
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. officials say the Haqqani insurgent network, which has ties to al-Qaida, is suspected of being behind some “insider” attacks by Afghan forces. Those attacks have killed or...
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