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Is Britain ready to lose the House of Lords?
LONDON — Britain’s government says it’s time to force through long proposed attempts to reform the 700-year-old House of Lords, the country’s unelected upper chamber. Members of the Lords can re...
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Palestinians in last push for UN nod for Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Palestinians on Wednesday made a final push to have UNESCO recognize the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Israeli-controlled West Bank as an endangered World He...
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Egypt’s generals eye Turkish model
CAIRO — Now that Egypt has its first freely elected president, Egypt’s powerful generals appear headed toward copying the Turkish model from decades past — retaining overwhelming powers while allow...
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Associated Press Mohammed Morsi (bottom row left) poses for a portrait with Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim (right), and Egyptian police generals in Cairo, on Tuesday. The military has pledged to turn power over to a civilian government once a new president is named. On Sunday Islamist Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was declared Egypt's first freely elected president in modern history.
New Egypt president moves toward unity government
CAIRO — President-elect Mohammed Morsi tried to ease the turmoil that has rocked Egypt since the uprising 16 months ago, reaching out Tuesday to Christians, women and secular revolutionaries to joi...
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‘Suspicious’ blast destroys house, kills child
LONDON — A suspected gas explosion reduced a house to smoking rubble, killed a 2-year-old boy and left a man seriously burned in northwest England on Tuesday, police and rescue workers said. Pol...
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Europe tries to convince Germany to do more to strengthen the Euro
BRUSSELS — Top European officials have called on countries that use the euro to surrender more control over their national budgets, a move apparently aimed at easing Germany’s fears of sharing debt...
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Turkey warns Syria about border
BEIRUT — Turkey warned Syria on Tuesday to keep its forces away from the countries’ troubled border or risk an armed response — a furious reply to the downing of a Turkish military plane last week ...
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3 officers shot to death at Mexico City airport
MEXICO CITY — Two federal police officers suspected of working for drug traffickers opened fire on fellow officers in a crowded food court at Mexico City’s international airport on Monday, killing ...
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Subway work unearths ancient road in Greece
THESSALONIKI, Greece — Archaeologists in Greece’s second-largest city have uncovered a 230-foot section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was city’s main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ...
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Ecuador studying asylum bid for Assange
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s foreign minister says lawyers convened by the government are studying the political and legal implications of granting exile to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Minis...
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