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Associated Press A Libyan woman votes at a polling station Saturday in the old city of Tripoli, Libya. Jubilant Libyan voters marked a major step toward democracy after decades of erratic one-man rule.
Libyans hold 1st nationwide vote in decades
TRIPOLI, Libya — Jubilant Libyans chose a new parliament Saturday in their first nationwide vote in decades, but violence and protests in the restive east underscored the challenges ahead as the oi...
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Libya on edge before first post-Gadhafi election
TRIPOLI, Libya — Fears of militia violence and calls for a boycott threatened Friday to mar Libya’s first nationwide parliamentary election, a milestone on the oil-rich North African nation’s rocky...
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US stance on Paraguay’s Lugo impeachment draws criticism
BY BELEN BOGADO and PEDRO SERVIN Associated Press ASUNCION, Paraguay — When Fernando Lugo was nearing the end of his lonely run as Paraguay’s elected president, the former priest appealed to ...
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Peace talks spawn Taliban splinter groups
BY KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD — As the United States and its allies try to negotiate a peace settlement with the Taliban before all combat troops leave Afghanistan in 2014, a new...
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Associated Press People gather Wednesday at a bomb scene a day after an explosives-laden vegetable truck ripped through a crowded market in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. For the second day, a row of bombings across Iraq killed and wounded scores of people, police said.
Police say eight dead in Iraqi market blast
BAGHDAD — A car exploded outside a southern Iraqi marketplace on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 28 in the latest deadly attack in the nation’s spiraling cycle of violence. ...
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Associated Press Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his wife, Suha, hold hands prior to Arafat's departure from his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah in 2004. Arafat's body may be exhumed to allow for more testing of the causes of his death, the Palestinian president said Wednesday.
Tests revive Arafat death debate
JERUSALEM — The discovery of traces of a radioactive agent on clothing reportedly worn by Yasser Arafat in his final days reignited a cauldron of conspiracy theories Wednesday about the mysterious ...
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Associated Press A typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by red towers) is measured in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. The yellow lines are the measured tracks of other particles produced in the collision. The pale blue volume shows the CMS crystal calorimeter barrel. To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson -- popularly known as the "God particle" -- that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.
Physicists celebrate evidence of ‘God particle’
GENEVA — Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of “the missing cornerstone of physics” Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic...
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Associated Press People visit the Shiite cemetery in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. Market bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed and wounded scores of people on Tuesday, and one senior intelligence figure said he could not rule out that guards may have taken bribes to allow terrorists to penetrate security during a Shiite pilgrimage.
Bombs kill 40; officials eye bribes
BAGHDAD — Bombs pounded six Iraqi cities and towns Tuesday, killing at least 40 people and raising suspicion that security forces might be assisting terrorists in launching attacks on Shiite Muslim...
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Barclays CEO Diamond quits in rate-fixing scandal
LONDON — Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond resigned Tuesday, the biggest scalp in a financial markets scandal that has ripped through the bank’s senior management and sown the seeds for a new in...
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Dalai Lama pushes monks to tackle science
SARAH, India — The shouts of more than a dozen Tibetan monks echo through the small classroom. Fingers are pointed. Voices collide. When an important point is made, the men smack their hands togeth...
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