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Bombers target Israeli diplomats in India, Georgia

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:48 EST

Israel blamed Iran on Monday for bomb attacks on its diplomats' cars in India and Georgia, heightening concerns that the Jewish state was moving closer to striking its archenemy.

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UN Security Council visits Haiti to review mandate

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:58 EST

The United Nations Security Council has begun a four-day mission in Haiti to review the terms of its mandate.

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Youthful challenger takes on Chavez in Venezuela

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:38 EST

Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles on Monday called for "balanced elections" and criticized the use of government money and slanted coverage in state media as President Hugo Chavez seeks re-election.

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Activists: Syrian rebels repel attack on key town

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:08 EST

Syrian rebels repelled a push Monday by government tanks into a central town held by forces fighting President Bashar Assad's regime in an 11-month conflict that looks increasingly like a…

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Soldier's death sparks debate over arming medevacs

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:03 EST

It took a medevac unit 59 minutes to get U.S. Army Spec. Chazray Clark to a hospital in southern Afghanistan after receiving a call that a roadside bombing severed three…

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After killings of Iran nuclear scientists, Israeli diplomats targeted

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:00 EST

Israeli officials on Monday blamed Iran for nearly simultaneous attempts to bomb Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in what some analysts suggested may be Iranian retaliation for a series…

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Brazil editor killed in rough border town

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:43 EST

The editor-in-chief of a newspaper that crusaded against corruption in Brazil's rough border region with Paraguay was shot dead, police said Monday, just days after another slain journalist's body was…

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Clinton: Poverty helping fuel violence in Nigeria

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:23 EST

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton warned Monday that the rampant poverty that plagues oil-rich Nigeria - felt most acutely in its Muslim north - is fueling the religious violence now…

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Radical cleric Abu Qatada being freed from UK jail

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:03 EST

Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric whom British officials say is an al-Qaida figurehead and a threat to national security, was freed from an English prison into virtual house arrest…

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After killings of Iran nuclear scientists, Israeli diplomats targeted

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:32 EST

Israeli officials blamed Iran on Monday for nearly simultaneous attempts to bomb Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in what some analysts suggested may be Iranian retaliation for a series…

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Pakistan's ISI yields to Supreme Court, surrenders prisoners

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:16 EST

The Pakistani Supreme Court on Monday forced authorities to produce seven men who had vanished from prison two years ago into the apparent custody of the military's main spy agency…

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Awaiting pope: New Castro, same mess of an economy in Cuba

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:52 EST

Two years before Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, then-Defense Minister Raúl Castro cracked down on a half-dozen young academics who had dared propose market reforms for the…

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Guatemala says it's weighing drug legalization

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:33 EST

U.S. inability to cut illegal drug consumption leaves Guatemala with no option but to consider legalizing the use and transport of drugs, President Otto Perez said Monday, a remarkable turnaround…

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Revolutionary militias in western Libya unify

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:33 EST

Representatives of about 100 militias from western Libya said Monday they had formed a new federation to prevent infighting and allow them to press the country's new government for further…

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Media rights group tells Egypt to free journalist

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58 EST

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Egyptian authorities to release a detained Australian journalist, his translator and an American student who was traveling with them.

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Syrian violence finds its echo in Lebanon

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:28 EST

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — In this northern Lebanese city, two adjoining neighborhoods reflect the growing concern that the violence raging in Syria could soon spill into Lebanon, whose own sectarian civil…

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Navy takes bids online for old Puerto Rico base

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:58 EST

An online auction began Monday for more than 2,000 acres of land overlooking the Caribbean that was once part of the bustling Naval Station Roosevelt Roads.

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Egypt accuses U.S. of using NGOs to thwart revolution

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:19 EST

Only days after a visit by the Pentagon's top general to smooth testy relations with Egypt's military rulers, the state news service on Monday released a months-old report that accuses…

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Egypt accuses U.S. of using NGOs to thwart revolution

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:00 EST

Only days after a visit by the Pentagon's top general to smooth testy relations with Egypt's military rulers, the state news service on Monday released a months-old report that accuses…

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Pakistan Supreme Court pushes cases against military, government

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:00 EST

The Pakistani Supreme Court on Monday forced authorities to produce seven men who had vanished from prison two years ago, into the apparent custody of the military's main spy agency,

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