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Bangladesh to raise wages for garment employees
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a fact...
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Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canoniz...
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Twin car bombers kill 46; suspects all with Syrian ties
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s prime minister vowed Sunday his country won’t be drawn into Syria’s civil war, despite twin car bombings the government believes were carried out by a group of Turks with ...
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Greece: Economic recovery in sight
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s recession-wracked economy should start recovering next year and its sky-high unemployment rate should edge lower from the end of 2014, the finance minister said in an inte...
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Associated Press Supporters of Tehreek-e-Pakistan, headed by Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, celebrate the victory on Saturday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Despite attacks that killed dozens of people, Pakistanis turned out in huge numbers to vote in an election that marked a historic democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by military coups.
Pakistanis brave violence in historic election
ISLAMABAD — Despite attacks that killed 29 people, Pakistanis turned out in huge numbers Saturday to vote in an election that marked a historic democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by ...
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Survivor healing after being rescued
SAVAR, Bangladesh — A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered in a Bangl...
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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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