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Egypt’s president faces backlash from allies
CAIRO — An alliance of pro-democracy advocates on Saturday criticized Egypt’s new Islamist president for unilaterally choosing a prime minister with no track record, while leading without transpare...
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Officials: Ebola breaks out in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda — The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disea...
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Associated Press Fencer Mariel Zagunis leads Team USA into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games on Friday in London.
Royalty and rock: Britain opens its Olympics
LONDON — The queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other Friday in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who. And the cr...
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Associated Press British Prime Minister David Cameron (second from left) and Sebastian Coe, London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games chairman, walk past the Aquatics Center during a visit to the Olympic Park on Thursday in London. Cameron has had to apologize profusely for a mistake that resulted in South Korea's flag being displayed rather than North Korea's on a giant screen ahead of Pyongyang's inaugural women's soccer match Wednesday night.
On world stage, culture clashes inevitable
LONDON — In a way it was inevitable, given the size and scope of the event that is taking place in this most multicultural of capitals. But the Olympic-sized political gaffes and cultural goofs ...
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Associated Press Syrians hold an anti-government protest Friday in Aleppo, Syria. International concern over a potential massacre rose Friday as Syrian troops moved in against the rebels.
Fears grow over fate of Syrian city of Aleppo
BEIRUT — International concern was mounting Friday over a potential massacre as Syrian troops bombarded the besieged city of Aleppo with artillery, strafed it with aircraft and reportedly pulled in...
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Roman holiday: UK boy flies without passport
LONDON — The 11-year-old boy didn’t have a passport, didn’t have a ticket, didn’t have a boarding pass, and got all the way from England to Italy on his own. For him, the 1,000-mile journey was ...
Jul 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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North Korea confirms Kim is married
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by confirming that the mystery woman beside young leader Kim Jong Un at recent public events is indeed his wife, “comrade Ri So...
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Associated Press A Syrian woman who recently fled her country sits with her daughter inside a government school Monday in Marj, Lebanon. After a weeklong siege in the Syrian capital, Damascus, residents who stayed behind are facing hours-long queues for petrol and bread, piles of rubbish in the streets and scenes of destruction while thousands of Syrians have escaped to Lebanon over the past week.
Syrian rebels routed in capital fight elsewhere
BEIRUT — Fighter jets unleashed sonic booms and helicopter gunships strafed rebels as they pressed their fight Tuesday into new neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Farther south, ground ...
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Attacks in more than a dozen cities bring deadliest day in 2 years
BAGHDAD — A startling spasm of violence shook more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday, killing over 100 people in coordinated bombings and shootings and wounding twice as many in the country’s deadli...
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Associated Press Smoke clings to the trees Monday as fires burn in Boadella, Spain. The fires that broke out Sunday in several parts of the Catalonia region forced more than 1,400 people to stay the night in shelters.
2 dead in fall fleeing Spain fire
TERRADES, Spain — As a wildfire closed in on them, five members of a vacationing French family abandoned their car and stumbled through thick smoke down a steep hillside in a desperate bid to reach...
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