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Bangladesh to raise wages for garment employees
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a fact...
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Greece: Economic recovery in sight
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s recession-wracked economy should start recovering next year and its sky-high unemployment rate should edge lower from the end of 2014, the finance minister said in an inte...
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Associated Press Supporters of Tehreek-e-Pakistan, headed by Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, celebrate the victory on Saturday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Despite attacks that killed dozens of people, Pakistanis turned out in huge numbers to vote in an election that marked a historic democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by military coups.
Pakistanis brave violence in historic election
ISLAMABAD — Despite attacks that killed 29 people, Pakistanis turned out in huge numbers Saturday to vote in an election that marked a historic democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by ...
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Survivor healing after being rescued
SAVAR, Bangladesh — A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered in a Bangl...
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Syria-linked group blamed for blasts
REYHANLI, Turkey — In one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years, two car bombs exploded near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing 43 and wounding 140 others. Turkish officials bl...
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Korean nuke arsenal seen as matter of when
SEOUL, South Korea — For 20 years, fears about North Korea’s headlong pursuit of nuclear bombs have been deflected by admonishments not to overestimate an impoverished dictatorship prone to braggin...
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Pakistan prepares for historic election
ISLAMABAD — Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan holds historic elections today pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and ...
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Associated Press Rescuers carry survivor Reshma Begum on Friday from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh. Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began collapsing around her on April 24.
Woman rescued weeks after collapse
SAVAR, Bangladesh — For 17 days, the seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-90s F. She rationed food and...
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Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands after their meeting Friday in Sochi, Russia. Cameron was expected to press for a political solution to end the continuing violence in Syria.
Russia defends Syrian missile sales
BEIRUT — Russia defended its sales of anti-aircraft systems to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, just days after joining forces with the U.S. for a new push to end Syria’s civil war thro...
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Associated Press Afghan border policemen arrive at the border with Pakistan east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday warned Pakistan against trying to force Afghanistan to accept as an international border the Durand line, which separates the two countries.
Karzai says US can have 9 Afghan bases after 2014
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has irked Washington with his frequent criticism of American military operations in his country, said Thursday that his government is now rea...
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