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Anti-Putin activist ready for trial
MOSCOW — Far from the streets of Moscow where he galvanized tens of thousands in anti-government protests, Alexei Navalny faces trial this week on charges that could send him to prison for 10 years...
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Maduro certified as election winner amid local protests
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s government-friendly electoral council quickly certified the razor-thin presidential victory of Hugo Chavez’ hand-picked successor Monday, apparently ignoring opposi...
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Associated Press An Iraqi soldier stands guard as supporters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attend a campaign rally in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad on Monday. Al-Maliki resumed his election campaign after the early voting for security forces in the country's provincial elections.
Iraq attacks kill 55 before vote
BAGHDAD — Insurgents in Iraq deployed a series of car bombs as part of highly coordinated attacks that cut across a wide swath of the country Monday, killing at least 55 on the deadliest day in nea...
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Pope Francis supports crackdown on US nuns
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis supports the Holy See’s crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mi...
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Brotherhood members face torture charge in Egypt
CAIRO — Two Muslim Brotherhood officials have been sent to trial on charges of kidnapping and torturing three men during protests in November following Islamist President Mohammed Morsi’s decrees, ...
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Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Shiites fight in Syria
AL QASR, Lebanon — Masked men in camouflage toting Kalashnikov rifles fan out through a dusty olive grove, part of a group of Hezbollah-backed fighters from Lebanon who are patrolling both sides of...
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Tensions up in Venezuela after polls close
CARACAS, Venezuela — Voters chose Sunday between the hand-picked successor who campaigned to carry on Hugo Chavez’s self-styled socialist revolution and an emboldened second-time challenger who war...
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Associated Press Somali soldiers look at the wreckage of the car that detonated the bomb near the entrance of Mogadishu's court complex in Somalia on Sunday. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said.
16 killed in attack on Somali Court
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu on Sunday when nine al-Shabab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia’s main court complex, officials said, in a two-h...
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Lion Air jet crashes into sea in Indonesia
BALI, Indonesia — All 108 passengers and crew survived after a new Lion Air jet crashed into the ocean and snapped into two while attempting to land Saturday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali...
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Russia bans 18 Americans after similar US decision
MOSCOW — Russia on Saturday banned 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for alleged human rights violations. The list released by th...
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