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Roman holiday: UK boy flies without passport
LONDON — The 11-year-old boy didn’t have a passport, didn’t have a ticket, didn’t have a boarding pass, and got all the way from England to Italy on his own. For him, the 1,000-mile journey was ...

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North Korea confirms Kim is married
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by confirming that the mystery woman beside young leader Kim Jong Un at recent public events is indeed his wife, “comrade Ri So...

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Associated Press
A Syrian woman who recently fled her country sits with her daughter inside a government school Monday in Marj, Lebanon. After a weeklong siege in the Syrian capital, Damascus, residents who stayed behind are facing hours-long queues for petrol and bread, piles of rubbish in the streets and scenes of destruction while thousands of Syrians have escaped to Lebanon over the past week.

Syrian rebels routed in capital fight elsewhere
BEIRUT — Fighter jets unleashed sonic booms and helicopter gunships strafed rebels as they pressed their fight Tuesday into new neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Farther south, ground ...

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Attacks in more than a dozen cities bring deadliest day in 2 years
BAGHDAD — A startling spasm of violence shook more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday, killing over 100 people in coordinated bombings and shootings and wounding twice as many in the country’s deadli...

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Associated Press
Smoke clings to the trees Monday as fires burn in Boadella, Spain. The fires that broke out Sunday in several parts of the Catalonia region forced more than 1,400 people to stay the night in shelters.

2 dead in fall fleeing Spain fire
TERRADES, Spain — As a wildfire closed in on them, five members of a vacationing French family abandoned their car and stumbled through thick smoke down a steep hillside in a desperate bid to reach...

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Raul O. Garces, AP correspondent, dies
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Raul O. Garces, a veteran Associated Press correspondent who defied military censors and leftist guerrillas as he covered many of the tumultuous events of South America for mo...

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Cuban dissident Paya dies in crash
HAVANA — Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya, who spent decades speaking out against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of the most powerful voices of dissent against their ha...

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Israel looks for attacks abroad, eyeing Olympics
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister said Sunday that his country is on alert for plots to kill more of its citizens overseas, after speculation that last week’s suicide bombing of a tour bus in Bu...

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A citizen journalist's image taken through a broken car window shows smoke billowing from a building after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees Saturday in south Damascus, Syria. Syrian rebels launched fighting Sunday in Aleppo.

Syrian rebels push into Aleppo
BEIRUT — A new rebel group boasting some 1,000 fighters launched an operation Sunday to capture Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, while government troops using helicopter gunships and heavy artillery r...

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Israeli leader ready to secure Syrian arsenal
JERUSALEM — Israel would “have to act” if the Syrian regime collapses and there’s a risk Syria’s chemical weapons and missiles could fall into the hands of militant groups, Israel’s prime minister ...

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