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NKorea orders rocket prep
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Friday that his rocket forces were ready “to settle accounts with the U.S.,” unleashing a new round of bellicose rhetoric after U.S. nucl...
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Associated Press Former South African President Nelson Mandela celebrates his birthday with family July 18 in Qunu, South Africa. The South African president's office said Mandela was re-admitted to a hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection Thursday.
Mandela hospitalized with infection
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, the presidential spokesman...
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Three countries block UN arms trade treaty
UNITED NATIONS — Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption of a U.N. treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade for the first time, saying it fails to ban sales ...
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Restrictions cap cash withdrawals in Cyprus banks
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Banks in Cyprus are to open for the first time in more than a week on Thursday, operating for six hours from noon, but restrictions will be in place on financial transactions to p...
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Associated Press Syrian rebels listen to their trainer on how to use a rocket propelled grenade Dec. 17 in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria. America's Arab allies have dramatically stepped up weapon supplies to Syrian rebels in preparation for a push on the capital Damascus.
Officials: Shipments of weapons to Syrian rebels rising sharply
AMMAN, Jordan — Mideast powers opposed to President Bashar Assad have dramatically stepped up weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in coordination with the U.S. in preparation for a push on the capita...
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Associated Press A South Korean army K1 tank fires live rounds Wednesday during an exercise at Seungjin Fire Training Field in mountainous Pocheon, South Korea. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North.
North Korea cuts military hotline
SEOUL, South Korea — Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea cut its last military hotline with Seoul on Wednesday, saying there was no need to continue military communications bet...
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Russian teen complains of adoptive US parents
MOSCOW — A teenager adopted by an American couple has returned to Russia, claiming that his adoptive family treated him badly and that he lived on the streets of Philadelphia and stole just to surv...
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Drug war death tolls remain uncertain
REYNOSA, Mexico — Hours of intense gun battles in Reynosa on March 10 gave way to an official body count the next day of a head-scratching two. The men who handle the city’s dead insist the real...
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Assocciated Press Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito stand outside the rented house where 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found dead in 2007 in Perugia, Italy. Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Knox and former Italian boyfriend Sollecito in the slaying of her roommate and ordered a new trial.
Knox faces retrial in slaying case
ROME — It’s not over yet for Amanda Knox. Italy’s top criminal court dealt a stunning setback Tuesday to the 25-year-old college student, overturning her acquittal in the grisly murder of her Br...
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Key dates in the Amanda Knox case
n Nov. 2, 2007: The body of Kercher, 21, is found in her apartment in Perugia, Italy. Investigators say she was killed the night before. n Nov. 6, 2007: Knox is arrested with then-boyfriend Raff...
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