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260,000 died in famine
NAIROBI, Kenya — The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death t...
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Syrian rebels, troops clash at three air bases
BEIRUT — Syrian rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad fought intense battles with his troops on Sunday to try to seize control of three military air bases in the country’s north and curta...
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Associated Press Aides give Italian President Giorgio Napolitano the news about a shooting outside Chigi Palace during the swearing in ceremony of new Premier Enrico Letta and his cabinet at the Quirinale Presidential palace Sunday in Rome. Two Italian paramilitary policemen were shot and wounded.
Man shoots 2 at government swearing-in
ROME — In the very moments Italy’s new coalition government was being sworn in, ending months of political paralysis in a country hoping to revive a bleak economy, a middle-aged unemployed bricklay...
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Mini-stroke could limit Algeria president ambition
ALGIERS, Algeria — The mini-stroke suffered by Algeria’s president has cast fresh doubt on his perceived ambition to run for a fourth term next year as leader of one of Africa’s largest and richest...
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Chemicals alleged in fray
BEIRUT — The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein’s 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq that...
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Iraq pulls plug on Al-Jazeera license
BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities suspended the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine Iraqi TV channels on Sunday after accusing them of escalating sectarian tension. The move si...
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Egypt searches for budget aid
CAIRO — During a meeting in a Black Sea resort city, Egypt’s president and members of his government turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked for a sizable loan, according to a Putin ai...
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Austerity-weary Iceland takes part in national election
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Five years after Iceland’s economy imploded, austerity-weary voters looked set Saturday to return the parties widely blamed for the disaster to power. Polls showed the Progr...
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Associated Press A North Korean flag hangs inside the interior of Pyongyang's Supreme Court on March 20. North Korea says it will soon deliver a verdict in the case of detained American Kenneth Bae, whom it accuses of trying to overthrow the government, further complicating already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington.
North Korea says verdict soon for American citizen
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea says it will soon deliver a verdict in the case of a detained American it accuses of trying to overthrow the government, further complicating already fraught re...
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Associated Press A Muslim man prays Saturday on the roof of the garment factory building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Police took six people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building this week, as rescue workers pulled 19 survivors out of the rubble on Saturday and vowed to continue as long as necessary to find others despite fading hopes.
Police take six into custody in connection with building collapse
SAVAR, Bangladesh — Police in Bangladesh took six people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers admitted ...
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