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A employee (right) serves a customer at the service counter in a “Free Center” mobile store, operated by the Free mobile phone service and owned by Iliad in Paris. (Bloomberg) PARIS (AFP) ― A rep...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:35
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YANGON (AFP) ― A boat carrying up to 150 Rohingya Muslims fleeing a cyclone has capsized off Myanmar’s coast, the U.N. said Tuesday, as the storm threatened to strike flood-prone Rakhine State over c...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:18
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and ...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:18
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama says the United States is working with Britain to strengthen the moderate opposition in Syria and to push for the end of the hardline regime of President Bash...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:17
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The Associated Press said Monday the U.S. Justice Department had secretly obtained two months of phone records from its news operations, calling it a "massive and unprecedented intrusion." The U.S. ...
Updated : 2013.05.14 09:10
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HONG KONG (AFP) ― A transsexual woman won a groundbreaking court appeal in Hong Kong Monday allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to re-write the city’s marriage laws. The w...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:52
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BEIJING (AP) ― The poisoning of a college student 18 years ago recently reemerged as a hot topic in China, but censors soon squelched the politically sensitive online discussions over whether the cu...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:52
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LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) ―Pakistani election winner Nawaz Sharif was in talks Sunday to form a new government, as U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington was ready to work with Islamabad “as equa...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:51
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VATICAN CITY (AP) ― Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first cano...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:51
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SOFIA (AFP) ― The party of Bulgaria’s ousted premier Boiko Borisov came first in tense elections Sunday but fell short of a majority, exit polls showed, setting the scene for political stalemate and ...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:50
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Jahar Tsarnaev (left) and his brother(right).(Yonhap News) Thousands of U.S. teenage girls are participating in an online campaign to free Boston Marathon bo...
Updated : 2013.05.13 14:35
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Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a Mother's Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 18, including two children, police said. Police said many of the vic...
Updated : 2013.05.13 09:23
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised Sunday to return to office with a resounding election victory _ a mandate that could make it easier to tackle the country's daunting problem...
Updated : 2013.05.13 09:20
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The party of Bulgaria's ousted premier Boyko Borisov came first in tense elections Sunday but fell short of a majority, exit polls showed, setting the scene for political stalemate and fresh protests...
Updated : 2013.05.13 09:18
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REYHANLI, Turkey (AP) ― In one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years, two car bombs exploded near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing 43 and wounding 140 others. Turkish officia...
Updated : 2013.05.12 20:10
