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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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Garces
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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Paya
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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AP Photo 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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Associated Press U.S. Gen. John Allen, top commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press Sunday in Kabul, Afghanistan. Allen says this year's pullout of 23,000 American troops is at the halfway point.
Troop withdrawal from Afghanistan halfway complete
KABUL, Afghanistan — This year’s pullout of 23,000 American troops from Afghanistan is at the halfway mark, U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces, said Sunday in an interv...
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Japan probes alleged cover-up at nuclear plant
TOKYO — Japanese authorities are investigating subcontractors on suspicion that they forced workers at the tsunami-hit nuclear plant to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to so t...
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Associated Press Cristian Tudose stands outside his tent in a Norwegian forest at Lake Sognsvann, near Oslo, Norway. Tudose came here to look for work during his country's financial crisis, and now sells magazines on the streets of Oslo.
Norway’s tolerance tested on massacre anniversary
OSLO, Norway — Norway’s commitment to face xenophobia with tolerance on the first anniversary of bomb and gun attacks by a confessed right-wing killer is being put to the test by hostile reactions ...
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