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CAIRO — He spent time in jail during the Hosni Mubarak regime, but not as long as some fellow Islamists. He is well-educated, having studied at the University of Southern California, yet still betr...
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Paraguay’s ousted president goes on the offensive
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo fought back Sunday against the politicians who engineered his dismissal, setting up an alternative government and pledging to upstage ...
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Associated Press A Free Syrian Army fighter walks with a rocket launcher June 15 moments before clashing with Syrian troops near Idlib, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear.
Syrian civilians hit hard by spreading violence
KHAN SHEIKHOUN, Syria — Her daughter, 8, often hides in a closet, terrified of flying bullets. Her son, 6, still asks for his father months after he turned up in a morgue. And the family has little...
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Turkey threatens action after Syria says it downed jet
ANKARA, Turkey — Syria said Saturday it shot down a Turkish reconnaissance plane because the plane entered its airspace, insisting it was “not an attack” as both sides desperately tried to de-escal...
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Breivik ends massacre trial by defending attacks
OSLO, Norway — With a rambling monologue depicting Norway’s worst peacetime massacre as a necessary evil, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik got the last word as his 10-week trial ended F...
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Associated Press Italian Premier Mario Monti, top left, talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Spanish Premier Mariano Rajoy during a meeting in Rome Friday. The leaders gathered to seek agreement on ways to pull Europe out of its crippling debt crisis ahead of a crucial summit of European Union leaders in Brussels on June 28 and 29.
European leaders push for $163 billion in measures
ROME — The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Spain have agreed to push for a growth package worth up to €130 billion ($163 billion) at a European Union summit next week that's intended to kick-...
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Taliban gunmen lay siege to Afghan hotel, 18 dead
KABUL, Afghanistan — Heavily armed Taliban gunmen stormed a lakeside hotel near Kabul, sending terrified guests jumping from windows or into a lake to try to escape the onslaught. Eighteen people w...
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Rebels accused of mass killing
BEIRUT — An online video showed more than a dozen bloodied corpses, some of them piled atop each other and in military uniforms, dumped beside a road in northern Syria in what the government Friday...
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Tension soars as Egypt awaits vote results
CAIRO — Egypt’s military and the Muslim Brotherhood traded blame for rising tensions Friday as the country awaited the outcome of a presidential runoff vote that pits an Islamist against ousted lea...
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Britain’s Prince William hits 30
LONDON — The man who once was among the world’s most eligible bachelors has turned 30 — but things are not so bad for Prince William as he celebrates his birthday with family and friends. Palace...
Jun 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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