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19 May 2013 | 2:55 am
By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not[…]
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19 May 2013 | 2:54 am
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for[…]
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19 May 2013 | 2:52 am
By Satarupa Bhattacharjya and Ross Colvin NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Congress party is debating holding a general election in November, six months ahead of schedule, senior party leaders said, reflecting an internal discussion over whether to pull the plug[…]
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19 May 2013 | 2:51 am
By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An upmarket constituency of Pakistan's violence-plagued city of Karachi voted again under tight security on Sunday, a day after gunmen killed a senior politician from a reformist party in the[…]
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19 May 2013 | 2:49 am
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan is holding a repeat election in an upmarket area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging.
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19 May 2013 | 2:39 am
AFPNorth Korea fires projectile into eastern watersFox NewsSEOUL, South Korea – South Korea says North Korea has fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area. The South's Defense[…]
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19 May 2013 | 2:25 am
By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed[…]
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19 May 2013 | 2:18 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area.
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19 May 2013 | 1:52 am
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Syrian activists say government airstrikes and heavy shelling of a strategic town near the Lebanese border have killed at least 16 people, including rebel fighters.
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19 May 2013 | 1:51 am
NEW DELHI (AP) — Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and[…]
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19 May 2013 | 1:50 am
IBNLiveCloser ties between China, India to add extra glamour to BRICSXinhuaBEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Only weeks after Chinese President Xi Jinping had a much-publicized meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Durban on the sidelines of a BRICS[…]
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19 May 2013 | 1:36 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An upmarket constituency of Pakistan's violence-plagued city of Karachi voted again under tight security on Sunday, a day after gunmen killed a senior politician from a reformist party in the district and a week after general elections.
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19 May 2013 | 1:26 am
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers. Ban, who spoke to Russian[…]
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19 May 2013 | 1:24 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Several Iranian newspapers are citing a senior Revolutionary Guard commander as warning his forces will be on watch for possible unrest after the June 14 presidential election.
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19 May 2013 | 1:03 am
QIANTUN, China (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager - washing his clothes, bringing meals to his bed, and keeping him company - a routine he'll keep up until[…]
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19 May 2013 | 12:59 am
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported.
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19 May 2013 | 12:07 am
CANNES, France (AP) — The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.
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18 May 2013 | 11:59 pm
euronewsAnti-government anger in Turkey after Syria border bombingseuronewsAuthorities in southern Turkey say they have detained four more suspects in connection with twin car bomb attacks last weekend. It means the total number of arrests after the bombs has risen to[…]
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18 May 2013 | 11:28 pm
CBC.caFrench President Francois Hollande Signs Gay Marriage LawBloombergFrench President Francois Hollande today signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, his office said. The law “will provide new rights for some without taking away any from others,”[…]
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18 May 2013 | 11:09 pm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency.
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18 May 2013 | 9:42 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Congress party is debating holding a general election in November, six months ahead of schedule, senior party leaders said, reflecting an internal discussion over whether to pull the plug on the shaky ruling coalition or[…]
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18 May 2013 | 9:18 pm
By Li Hui and Maxim Duncan QIANTUN, China (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager - washing his clothes, bringing meals to his bed, and keeping him company -[…]
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18 May 2013 | 8:55 pm
Sen. Rand Paul said on Saturday that “it’s so tragic that it’s almost humorous” that the former head of the Internal Revenue Service department involved in the targeting of conservative groups is now running the agency’s unit charged with implementing[…]
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18 May 2013 | 7:37 pm
Columnist and actor Ben Stein, who worked for the Nixon administration during the Watergate scandal on Saturday said that President Obama’s administration is guilty of more than incompetence.
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18 May 2013 | 5:21 pm
MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
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18 May 2013 | 5:15 pm
The Pentagon spends more than $150 million a year running the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba — and the military could spend as much as $170 million more upgrading it.
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18 May 2013 | 4:57 pm
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.
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18 May 2013 | 4:37 pm
North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, reports The New York Times and Newsmax wire services.
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18 May 2013 | 4:34 pm
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition[…]
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18 May 2013 | 4:26 pm
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church's moral[…]
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18 May 2013 | 3:16 pm
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African military chiefs agreed on Saturday to more than double the size of a regional peacekeeping force deployed in Central African Republic, where authorities have struggled to contain violence after a rebel takeover.
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18 May 2013 | 3:15 pm
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African military chiefs agreed on Saturday to more than double the size of a regional peacekeeping force deployed in Central African Republic, where authorities have struggled to contain violence after a rebel takeover. Thousands of fighters from[…]
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18 May 2013 | 3:14 pm
Mitt Romney told Jay Leno that the Obama administration’s controversial talking points on the attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi last Sept. 11 did not cost him the White House.
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18 May 2013 | 3:13 pm
LIMA (Reuters) - Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb "terrorism" in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would succeed, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on Saturday.
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18 May 2013 | 2:16 pm
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks my heart" that the death of a[…]
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