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A prison spokeswoman says Israels jailed former president has been freed for a few hours to attend his sons wedding.
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Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday, saying the website had refused to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relative...
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Four United Nations deminers arrested by the Sudanese army along the countrys tense southern border were released on Sunday and turned over to chief African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki, the defence minister said.
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TANTA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypts Muslim Brotherhood planned a m*** climax to its presidential campaign on Sunday, hoping to sway undecided voters and clinch victory in this weeks election when Egyptians will choose their leader freely for the first ti...
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Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attacks 270...
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QALYUB, Egypt (Reuters) - The motorcade of Hamdeen Sabahy, a dark horse in Egypts presidential race, inched over the bumpy roads of this Egyptian town led by a car booming 1960s nationalist music in homage to his hero, Gamal Abdel N***er. The smiling...
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has released four foreigners detained near the border with South Sudan following weeks of heavy clashes between the two African neighbours, officials said on Sunday. Sudan said it had arrested the four - a Briton, a Norwegi...
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday. Abdel B***et al-Megrahi, released from a Scottish prison...
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DOUMA, Syria (Reuters) - A roadside bomb exploded on Sunday about 150 meters (yards) from a United Nations convoy carrying the head of a Syria ceasefire monitoring mission and a senior U.N. official in the town of Douma, a Reuters witness said. Major...
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Facebook resumes trading on Wall Street on Monday with shares being closely watched to see how well they stand on their own after stumbling out of the gate in a historic but lackluster debut.
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Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the countrys top telecommunications officials.
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An Egypt presidential candidate has joined dozens of activists on hunger strike to protest the continued detention of more than 300 people who face possible military prosecution.
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A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, blowing off the front of a parked vehicle but causing no casualties.
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Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Barack Obama and dozens of other w...
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Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Courts 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.
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SANAA (Reuters) - A U.S. military instructor was shot and seriously wounded in an attack by unidentified ***ailants in the Red Sea city of Hudaida on Sunday, a Yemeni security source said. The source said two other U.S. instructors travelling in the ...
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BENGHAZI, Libya - A son says the former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has died in Tripoli.
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died on Sunday, almost three years after being freed from jail on comp***ionate grounds.
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World leaders weary of war will tackle Afghanistans post-conflict future — from funding for security forces to upcoming elections — when the NATO summit opens Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chiefs of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monda...
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown publicly support each other and even share key advisers. But on many topics, from foreign policy to social issues, the M***achusetts Republicans take very different positions.
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M***achusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers.
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One of the worst quakes to hit northeast Italy in hundreds of years rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, killing at least four people, collapsing factories and sending residents running out into the streets, emergency services said.
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Tropical Storm Alberto emerged off South Carolinas coastline Sunday, the first storm of its kind to form in a hurricane season that doesnt officially begin until June 1.
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SANT AGOSTINO, Italy (Reuters) - A strong earthquake killed four people, injured dozens and damaged churches, towers and a mediaeval castle early on Sunday, waking terrified citizens across northern Italy and sending thousands running into the street...
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear supervisor flies to Tehran on Sunday looking for a deal to inspect suspected weapons sites - a potential breakthrough that Iran may hope could persuade the West to start lifting sanctions and deflect threats of war...
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A bomb blast outside a high school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student has revived dark memories of the 70s and 80s, when terrorists, anarchists and organized crime carried out dozens of bloody attacks across the country.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday. Abdel B***et al-Megrahi, released from a Scottish prison...
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese soldiers shot dead a Sunni cleric and a second member of a Lebanese political alliance against Syrian President Bashar al-***ad in northern Lebanon on Sunday, security sources said. Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahid and K...
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is urging Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace.
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Lawyers for Iraqs fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads that targeted Shiite officials and pilgrims quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges would not let them present evidence at the trial.
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Citizens of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates who defaulted on hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans could soon see their debts wiped away.
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Italian police have arrested two suspects over the bombing of a school that killed a 16-year-old girl and seriously injured five more teenagers, media reports said here Sunday.
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Fresh clashes between al-Qaida fighters and government forces in Yemen left 17 dead on Sunday, military officials said, as the army pushed on with an offensive to regain a key town in the countys south that fell to the militants more than a year ago.
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A restive district of the Syrian capital that has been a hotbed of dissent against President Bashar ***ad was rocked by fighting overnight between government forces and army defectors, opposition groups said Sunday.
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The Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow Frances lead and pull their international forces from the war this year.
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Sri Lankas president has ordered the release of his jailed electoral foe, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, bowing to US-led pressure three years after the end of the islands long ethnic war.
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Its 43 years since Jean-Louis Trintignant was named the Cannes Film Festivals best actor for Z, and 14 years since the French performer all but gave up filmmaking to focus on the stage.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Sunday blocked access to Twitter in response to blasphemous material posted by users on the microblogging and social networking website, a senior government official said. This has been done under the directions of t...
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