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Syria-linked group blamed for blasts
REYHANLI, Turkey — In one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years, two car bombs exploded near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing 43 and wounding 140 others. Turkish officials bl...
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Korean nuke arsenal seen as matter of when
SEOUL, South Korea — For 20 years, fears about North Korea’s headlong pursuit of nuclear bombs have been deflected by admonishments not to overestimate an impoverished dictatorship prone to braggin...
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Pakistan prepares for historic election
ISLAMABAD — Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan holds historic elections today pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and ...
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Associated Press Rescuers carry survivor Reshma Begum on Friday from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh. Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began collapsing around her on April 24.
Woman rescued weeks after collapse
SAVAR, Bangladesh — For 17 days, the seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-90s F. She rationed food and...
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Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands after their meeting Friday in Sochi, Russia. Cameron was expected to press for a political solution to end the continuing violence in Syria.
Russia defends Syrian missile sales
BEIRUT — Russia defended its sales of anti-aircraft systems to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, just days after joining forces with the U.S. for a new push to end Syria’s civil war thro...
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Associated Press Afghan border policemen arrive at the border with Pakistan east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday warned Pakistan against trying to force Afghanistan to accept as an international border the Durand line, which separates the two countries.
Karzai says US can have 9 Afghan bases after 2014
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has irked Washington with his frequent criticism of American military operations in his country, said Thursday that his government is now rea...
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Associated Press Bakura Ibrahim, a suspected member of Islamic extremist group arrested by soldiers, is tied to a tree in Bama, Nigeria, on Tuesday. Authorities said Tuesday that coordinated attacks by Islamic extremists armed with heavy machine guns killed at least 42 people in northeast Nigeria. The latest in a string of increasingly bloody attacks threatening peace in Africa's most populous nation.
Weapons of war spill blood in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria — At first, the Islamic extremists in Nigeria’s dusty northeast rode on the backs of motorcycles, firing on government officials and other perceived enemies with worn Kalashnikov ass...
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Associated Press An Israeli soldier carries his mate during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, on Tuesday.
President Assad states Syria able to face Israel
BEIRUT — In his first response to Israel’s weekend airstrikes, President Bashar Assad said Tuesday that Syria is capable of facing Israel, but stopped short of threatening retaliation for the strik...
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42 die in extremist attacks
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Coordinated attacks by Islamic extremists armed with heavy machine guns killed at least 42 people in northeast Nigeria, authorities said Tuesday, the latest in a string of incr...
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Associated Press Security forces personnel inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Husseiniyah suburb of northeastern Baghdad on Monday. Two car bombs blew up in a Baghdad suburb, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said, in the deadlier of two attacks Monday that left at least 10 dead in the Iraqi capital.
Car bomb attacks in Baghdad leave 10 dead
BAGHDAD — Two car bombs blew up in a Baghdad suburb, the deadlier of two attacks Monday that left at least 10 dead in the Iraqi capital. The two parked cars exploded simultaneously in a street i...
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