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Associated Press A girl plays on April 20 at her home on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan. In an interview, her aunt Masooma recounted the events of a pre-dawn attack last year when she says a U.S. soldier rampaged through two villages killing 16 people including her husband.
Afghans tell of US soldier’s killing
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she to...
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Buenos Aires launches tours for Pope Francis
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Fra...
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Associated Press Internally displaced Rohingya people walk towards a school to take refuge on Wednesday in Myanma ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen.
Myanmar minority resist evacuation
SITTWE, Myanmar — A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar’s western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the s...
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Associated Press Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. (left) talks to a reporter on Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, as he walks to the committee's briefing on Syria.
Kerry expects Syrian involvement
STOCKHOLM — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a stern warning Tuesday to Syria’s government, saying that new help will be given to opposition forces should President Bashar Assad’s regime d...
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Associated Press Former President Hosni Mubarak listens to interviewers inside the defendant's cage in a courtroom Saturday in Cairo. The retrial of Mubarak resumed Saturday, with prosecutors requesting to present new evidence from a fact-finding commission's report that claims the ex-leader had full knowledge of the extent of the violence used against protesters.
Egypt’s ex-president Mubarak talks for 1st time since detention
CAIRO — In his first comments to the media since he was detained more than two years ago, Egypt’s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak said he is dismayed at the country’s state of affairs and particularly ...
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Associated Press Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to media as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, while his daughter Fatemeh (second right), smiles at the election headquarters of the interior ministry Saturday in Tehran, Iran. On Saturday, Rafsanjani made a last minute surprise decision to enter Iran's presidential election process, which now includes more than 680 hopefuls.
Iran’s cunning Rafsanjani seeks one more shot
TEHRAN, Iran — Signs on currency exchange shops in Tehran explained why the doors where temporarily shut: Waiting to see if former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani would seek to reclaim the offic...
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Associated Press Supporters of Pakistan Muslim League-N party celebrate their party victory in the parliamentary election outside the party's headquarter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked set Sunday to return to power for a third term, with an overwhelming election tally that just weeks ago seemed out of reach for a man who had been ousted by a coup.
Pakistan’s Sharif achieves vibrant election victory
LAHORE, Pakistan — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised Sunday to return to office with a resounding election victory — a mandate that could make it easier to tackle the count...
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Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canoniz...
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Twin car bombers kill 46; suspects all with Syrian ties
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s prime minister vowed Sunday his country won’t be drawn into Syria’s civil war, despite twin car bombings the government believes were carried out by a group of Turks with ...
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Netanyahu criticized for bed on plane
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized bed on a recent flight to London, ...
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