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UN Security Council visits Haiti to review mandate
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
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
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 civil war.
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Soldier's death sparks debate over arming medevacs
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 of his limbs. Clark did not survive.
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After killings of Iran nuclear scientists, Israeli diplomats targeted
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 of attacks on its nuclear program that have been widely blamed on Israel.
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Brazil editor killed in rough border town
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 found in a different state.
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Clinton: Poverty helping fuel violence in Nigeria
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 tearing at the nation.
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Radical cleric Abu Qatada being freed from UK jail
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 late Monday, British media reported.
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After killings of Iran nuclear scientists, Israeli diplomats targeted
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 of attacks on its nuclear program that have been widely blamed on Israel.
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Pakistan's ISI yields to Supreme Court, surrenders prisoners
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 as the court continued to assert its authority against both the country's powerful army and its weak civilian government...








