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Associated Press A worker stands in front of his shop next to posters with pictures of presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday in Cairo. The runoff pitted former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, against conservative Islamist Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Still no election winner in Egypt
CAIRO — Authorities delayed Thursday’s planned announcement of the winner of Egypt’s presidential election, likely for several days, hiking tension as allegations of fraud swirled and each candidat...
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Associated Press Special forces stand by next to a CIC bank where a man took hostages Wednesday in the southern French city of Toulouse. The gunman was captured in a police raid about six hours later, authorities said.
French police nab suspect in bank hostage standoff
TOULOUSE, France — A gunman who ranted disjointedly about religious motives took four employees at a bank hostage on Wednesday before French police stormed in to arrest him — a new episode of appar...
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Egypt’s Mubarak on life support amid vote crisis
CAIRO — Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was being kept alive by life support after the 84-year-old ousted leader suffered a stroke in prison Tuesday, officials said, deepening the country’s uncertainty just ...
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Turmoil in Pakistan follows dismissal of prime minister
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s top court dismissed the prime minister from office on Tuesday for failing to investigate the president for corruption, ushering in a new round of political turmoil in a natio...
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21 killed in attacks on churches in Nigeria
GODWIN ATTAH YINKA IBUKUN Associated Press KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Suicide bombers killed 21 people in attacks on three churches in Nigeria during Sunday services, exacerbating religious tensions ...
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Economy gets fleeting help with vote
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s election result has eased fears of imminent financial disaster for Europe, but the continent’s leaders are still searching for a way to contain a debt crisis that threaten...
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Socialists sweep to power in French Parliament
PARIS — French President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party won a solid majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, polling agencies projected, fortifying Hollande in his push for governments to s...
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Leader of the New Democracy conservative party Antonis Samaras leaves an elections kiosk after speaking to his supporters at Syntagma square in Athens, Sunday, June 17, 2012. The pro-bailout New Democracy party came in first Sunday in Greece's national election, and its leader has proposed forming a pro-euro coalition government. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Greek conservatives win, head into coalition talks
ATHENS, Greece — Fears of an imminent Greek exit from Europe’s joint currency receded Sunday after the conservative New Democracy party came first in a critical election and pro-bailout parties won...
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Associated Press Aerialist Nik Wallenda raises a fist in triumph while successfully completing his 1,800-feet-long tightrope walk Friday over the brink of the Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Wallenda battled brisk winds and thick mist Friday to make history, becoming the first person to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
Wallenda exuberant after Falls wire walk
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — There was “wind coming from every which way,” mist so powerful it clouded his vision and an unfamiliar wire beneath him, but daredevil Nik Wallenda didn’t let that stop him...
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Associated Press Interior minister Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz (right) and his son, deputy to the Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, attend a ceremony of the Saudi armed forces Nov. 1 outside of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi royal family said that Crown Prince Nayef has died.
Saudi Crown Prince Nayef dies; new heir needed
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz, the hard-line interior minister who spearheaded Saudi Arabia’s fierce crackdown crushing al-Qaida’s branch in the country after the 9/11 at...
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