Mexico presidential favorite eyes border tax break
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CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) - The front-runner in Mexico's presidential election campaign said on Sunday he would create tax incentives to revive economic life along the U.S. border that has been depressed by drug viol
Helicopters arrive for Colombia captive release
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Two Brazilian air force helicopters have arrived in Colombia to lift to freedom the last 10 soldiers and police held by Colombia's main rebel group. The former Colombian senator brokering the release, Piedad Cordoba,...
Ex-Mexican President De la Madrid dies at age 77
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Former President Miguel de la Madrid, who led Mexico from 1982 to 1988 during an economic crisis and a devastating earthquake, died Sunday at age 77, the government said. De la Madrid was the first in a string of...
Britain set for sweeping Internet, phone monitoring
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By Stephen Mangan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to allow one of its intelligence agencies to monitor all phone calls, texts, emails and online activities in the country to help tackle crime and militant atta
NKorea sets April 11 date for party conference
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North Korea's ruling party has announced it will hold a political conference just before a controversial satellite launch. The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported early Monday that the Workers' Party...
Mali coup leader reinstates old constitution
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The junior officer who overthrew Mali's democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation's constitution made a public U-turn Sunday, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was...
Sudan, South Sudan accuse each other of attacks, talks delayed
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By Aaron Maasho and Khalid Adelaziz ADDIS ABABA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan on Sunday accused each other of launching attacks in the oil-producing area straddling their border after talks aime
Mali junta backs down as rebels seize Timbuktu
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By Bate Felix and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's junta yielded to the threat of sanctions on Sunday, pledging to start handing power back to civilians before a midnight deadline, while in the north,
CORRECTIVE: Countering the Coup
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In a March 29 story about demonstrations countering a celebration of Brazil's 1964 military coup, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division,...
Libyan PM visits scene of tribal clashes in desert
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By Marie-Louise Gumuchian SABHA, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's prime minister flew to a desert oasis city on Sunday to try to patch up a tribal dispute that has killed about 150 people over the past week and und
Swiss spy charge signals German tax deal trouble
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By Katie Reid ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss decision to pursue German tax inspectors for industrial espionage is a sign of growing tension that could make it hard for both sides to secure parliamentary ratifica
Mexican agents probe family in 3 ritual murders
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It was a family people took pity on, one the government and church helped with free food, used clothes, and farm animals. The men were known as trash pickers. Some of the women were suspected of prostitution. Mexican...
Pakistani boy who burned himself over uniform dies
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Like many in Pakistan, 13-year-old Kamran Khan's family did not have enough money to send him to school. He was such a promising student that a local private school allowed him to attend for free, according to his older...
Brotherhood presidency bid turns up heat in Egypt race
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By Edmund Blair and Marwa Awad CAIRO (Reuters) - A deft businessman and politician tempered by years in Hosni Mubarak's prisons, Khairat al-Shater is aiming to bring Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to the pinnacl
Christians mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem
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Hundreds of Christian pilgrims marked Palm Sunday in the Holy Land on Sunday, holding masses and processions retracing Jesus' triumphant return to Jerusalem. Palm Sunday marks the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem, where...
Iranians celebrate ancient festival
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Iranians flocked to parks and orchards to mark Sizdeh Bedar, an ancient festival that predates Islam and goes back thousands of years to the time when Zoroastrianism was the predominant religion of Persia. Iran's...
Israel kills Gaza gunman along tense border
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian gunman suspected of trying to plant explosives beneath a fence at the border with Gaza, the Israeli military said on Sunday. Soldiers on Sunday
Tunisia extends state of emergency for fifth time
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Tunisia is extending its state of emergency, first called during street unrest after the fall of the North African nation's longtime autocratic leader in January 2011. The office of President Moncef Marzouki said...
Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid dies
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, who struggled to overcome one of the country's worst economic crises and a devastating earthquake in the 1980s, died on Sunday at the age of 77.
Egypt army pardons Brotherhood presidency nominee: lawyer
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By Marwa Awad CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military has dropped two court convictions against the Muslim Brotherhood's new presidential candidate Khairat al-Shater, clearing him to run in the elections to repla
Hungarian university head resigns over plagiarism
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The head of the university that revoked the doctorate of Hungary's president due to plagiarism says he is resigning his position. Tivadar Tulassay said Sunday that the decision by Semmelweis University to revoke...
Iraqi Kurdistan says halts oil exports over pay dispute
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region has halted its oil exports because it says the central government in Baghdad has failed to make payments to companies working there, the Kurdistan Regional Gov
Somaliland troops and separatists clash, five killed
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HARGEISA (Reuters) - At least four Somaliland troops and one rebel fighter loyal to the breakaway enclave's secessionists were killed during clashes on Sunday, both sides said. The fighting first erupted in
Palestinian sent to Gaza with end of hunger strike
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Israel expelled a Palestinian prisoner Sunday to the Gaza Strip as part of a compromise deal that persuaded her to end her 43-day hunger strike. Under the terms of her release, Hana Shalabi, a 30-year-old Islamic Jihad...
Israel exiles former Palestinian detainee to Gaza
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian woman held by Israel without charge was deported to the Gaza Strip on Sunday under a deal that ended her 44-day hunger strike. Hana Shalabi of the I
Nigeria forces raid sect's suspected bomb factory
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Security forces raided a suspected bomb factory in Nigeria run by a radical Islamist sect as suspected gunmen from the group launched new attacks against police stations in the nation's northeast, officials said Sunday....
UAE boot to Western groups shows wider Gulf unease
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It could seem a bit of overreaching by a local official: Dubai's police chief offering hard-line advice to Gulf rulers about how to deal with opposition such as street protests or anti-state comments on Twitter. Yet...
Clinton to Iran: Show that nuclear arms not sought
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged Iran to back up its declaration that Islam bars weapons of mass destruction by agreeing to a plan that would prove it does not intend to develop nuclear...
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President Felipe Calderon says former President Miguel de la Madrid has died at age 77. ...
Russia shuts Red Square, detains dozens of activists
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By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities closed Moscow's Red Square on Sunday and detained dozens of people trying to hold a silent anti-government protest there, prompting opposition charge
Russia shuts Red Square, detains dozens of activists
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By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities closed Moscow's Red Square on Sunday and detained dozens of people trying to hold a silent anti-government protest there, prompting opposition charge
Timbuktu, ancient Islamic city, under attack
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Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali's fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud mosque and, more recently, as host of the...
Qatar: Iraq's fugitive VP arrives for visit
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Fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi traveled to Qatar on Sunday on what the Gulf nation's state news agency called an "official visit." The trip could intensify tensions between Baghdad's Shiite-led...
Clashes, shelling kill dozens in Syria
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Shells slammed into the central Syrian city of Homs Sunday, killing more than two dozen people, activists said, as Syria's government defied cease-fire demands and international efforts to boost the rebels. Activists...
Anti-capitalist battles injure 15 police in Frankfurt
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By Edward Taylor FRANKFURT (Reuters) - At least 15 German police officers were injured, one seriously, during rioting that lasted into Sunday morning, following an anti-capitalist protest in Frankfurt, polic
Moscow police detain 55 protesters near Red Square
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Police detained about 55 protesters on Sunday outside the gates to Red Square, which was unexpectedly closed to all visitors and tourists to prevent an anti-Kremlin demonstration. Opposition activists had called on...
Kenya casts suspicion on al Shabaab for blasts
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MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya promised on Sunday to hunt down Somalia-based al Shabaab rebels following two blasts which killed one person and injured 31 in the coastal city of Mombasa, but stopped short of blam
Pakistani president to visit India 'soon'
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President Asif Ali Zardari will visit India's shrine of a famous Sufi Muslim saint soon, the first trip by a Pakistani head of state to the country's archenemy since 2005, a spokesman said Sunday. It comes at a time of...
Argentina warns banks off Falklands oil links: report
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Argentine government has threatened British and American banks with legal action over giving advice or even writing research reports about companies involved in the Falkland Islands' nascent
Clinton congratulates Myanmar on landmark election
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is congratulation the people of Myanmar for participating in the election process _ a first for many of them. Clinton says the country's leaders should move ahead with...
Events in the life of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi
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The opposition party of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has announced that she won a parliamentary seat in Sunday's by-elections. The victory, if confirmed in official results, marks a milestone in a...
6 die in nightclub fire in northern Serb city
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The owner of a nightclub where six people died on Sunday trying to escape a fierce blaze has been detained by police, a Serbian official says. Police spokeswoman Mileva Tomic said Alojz G., who owns Contrast club in...
Insight: The man who would beat Hugo Chavez
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By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Tired and hungry after hours of working crowds under a blistering Caribbean sun, Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles needs a rest and some food back in his
Protesters allege Beijing meddling in HK affairs
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Thousands in Hong Kong have protested against alleged meddling by Beijing in the recent selection of the city's next leader. Police used pepper spray Sunday on some protesters who tried to break past barricades around...
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Fire-damaged cruise ship with 1,000 people aboard arrives at Malaysian port on Borneo island. ...
Residents fear clashes as Somali rebel row worsens
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A senior al Shabaab figure has openly disagreed with the Somali militant group's leader, in a sign of growing internal divisions that residents fear could lead to violenc
Fugitive Iraq VP leaves Kurdish zone for Qatar
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, at the centre of a political row that has jeopardized Iraq's sectarian balance, left the autonomous northern Kurdish region for Qatar on Sunday,
Japan experts warn of future risk of giant tsunami
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Much of Japan's Pacific coast could be inundated by a tsunami more than 34 meters (112 feet) high if a powerful earthquake hits offshore, according to revised estimates by a government panel. The panel of experts says...
Seven troops killed in fresh Yemen attack
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By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN (Reuters) - Militants killed seven Yemeni soldiers in an attack on their outpost in southern Yemen early on Sunday, the defense ministry said, a day after at least 20 troops were k
Thousands in Hong Kong protest Beijing's interference
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of protestors marched to the mainland Chinese government's liaison office in Hong Kong on Sunday, demanding universal suffrage and protesting against Beijing's perceived interference