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Pakistan suspends mobile phone network over security fears
Pakistan suspended mobile phone services in major cities on Friday to prevent terror attacks from marring commemorations for the holy month of Muharram, officials said. Mobile and wireless phone...
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Two more U.S. servicemen arrested in Japan
Two more US servicemen were arrested in Japan on Friday, police said, as anti-American sentiment runs high following the rape of a woman in the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. Police in Yokohama,...
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Meet Marcelo Ebrard — the man who remade Mexico City
The man who remade Mexico City Jose Guadalupe Gonzalez walks among giant paper-mache renderings of fantastical dragons and serpents, called alebrijes, with his wife and two teenage daughters in the...
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Iran’s summer earthquake leaves 100,000 shivering in tents as winter descends
Iran's summer earthquake leaves 100,000 shivering in tents as winter descends As winter settles in on this remote province of Iran, a pair of earthquakes that devastated the area in mid-August will...
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Obama under pressure at UN global warming summit to show he is serious about...
The climate has been back on Obama’s lips since his re-election, but the Doha conference will show if he is all talk Barack Obama is being pressed for proof of his intent to act on climate change...
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Science budget cuts will threaten Europe’s recovery, say research heads
European Commission president warned that infrastructure projects crucial to the growth of member states will be hit The heads of some of the world’s leading research organisations have warned the...
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Watch live: Black Friday strikes hit Walmart
This post will be updated periodically with new information throughout the day… Click here for a live blog of events around the country… The video below features a worker protest in the Chicago area,...
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Black Friday Liveblog: Walmart protests hit stores in at least nine states
Click here for live and recorded videos of protests around the country… Black Friday Liveblog: Walmart protests hit stores in at least nine states Updated 7:40 a.m. On Thursday evening, the Black...
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Small independents try to compete with big box retailers for Black Friday...
Black Friday: Boutiques open at midnight? How ‘little guys’ try to compete. From midnight on Thanksgiving night until 3 a.m., Julia Dvir’s store, “The Closet,” will further discount her jewelry, hats,...
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Muslim Brotherhood offices torched in Egypt demos
Protesters torched Muslim Brotherhood offices on Friday, state media said, as supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi staged rival rallies across Egypt a day after he assumed sweeping...
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Foster children taken away from ‘racist’ UK couple
British politicians lined up on Saturday to denounce a decision to take three ethnic minority children away from their foster parents because the couple support the anti-immigration UK Independence...
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‘Dallas’ star Larry Hagman dies at 81
Larry Hagman, who shot to worldwide fame for his portrayal of the oilman villain J.R. Ewing in the US television series “Dallas,” has died at the age of 81 after losing a battle with cancer, his...
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Egypt protesters tear-gassed as world concern mounts
Anti-riot police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse protesters camped out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square as Western governments voiced growing concern over Islamist President Mohamed Morsi’s assumption...
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Greece recovers stolen Olympic archaeological artifacts
Greece on Saturday said it had recovered dozens of archaeological artefacts stolen in February from a museum in Olympia after arresting three men in connection to the case. “The discovery and arrest...
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Afghan ‘girl-in-green’ revisits Ashura massacre site
In a brave gesture of defiance against suicide bombers, Afghanistan’s “girl-in-green” on Saturday revisited the scene of a Shiite Muslim holy-day massacre that made her image world famous. Tarana...
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Ancient tombs discovered in Pakistan’s Swat reveals complex funeral rites...
Italian archaeologists say they have discovered a cemetery that reveals complex funeral rites dating back more than 3,000 years in Pakistan’s Swat valley, recently controlled by the Taliban. The...
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Arafat body to be dug up Tuesday for poison test
The body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday to undergo poison tests, the head of the Palestinian inquiry team said on Saturday. “The tomb will be opened on November 27 and...
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Puerto Rican boxing great Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho dies
Puerto Rican boxing great Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho, shot in the head last week, was declared dead Saturday after being removed from a respirator, a doctor said. Camacho, who was 50, suffered a heart...
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Egypt judges slam Morsi over ‘unprecedented attack’
Egyptian judges on Saturday slammed a decree by President Mohamed Morsi granting him sweeping powers as “an unprecedented attack” on the judiciary, and courts across two provinces announced a strike....
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Death penalty removed rrom Uganda “Kill the Gays” bill
Death Penalty Removed From Uganda “Kill the Gays” Bill (via NewsLook) A parliamentary committee says the death penalty clause in the controversial bill has been removed. The bill is expected to pass...
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