Ruling party faces close vote in Bahamas election
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By Neil Hartnell NASSAU (Reuters) - Bahamians voted on Monday in national elections as Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham seeks to keep the ruling party in power in this sparsely populated island chain dependent
Haiti police, UN crack down on would-be soldiers
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Haitian police and U.N. peacekeepers have begun cracking down on bands of armed men lobbying for the country to restore its armed forces, a U.N. spokesman said Monday. Lt. Cmdr. Jim Hoeft said U.N. troops and national...
Putin sworn in as Russia's president for 6 years
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Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in a brief but regal Kremlin ceremony on Monday, while on the streets outside thousands of helmeted riot police prevented hundreds of demonstrators from protesting his return to...
Mexican front-runner fends off debate attacks
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The front-runner in Mexico's presidential race fended off rivals' attempts to paint him as a liar with corrupt backers, emerging from the first of two debates with analysts saying his large lead appeared safe. Enrique...
Nigerian terror suspect blames bombing on gov't
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An alleged Nigerian terror mastermind has accused his government of being behind a bombing in which he is to stand trial, according to an application for bail made available Monday. In Nigeria, President Goodluck...
Israeli Supreme Court orders outpost demolished
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Israel's Supreme Court has set a new deadline for the demolition of an unauthorized Jewish outpost in the West Bank. The court on Monday ruled that the Ulpana outpost must be dismantled by July 1. A May 1 deadline for...
Swede charged in immigrant shootings
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Prosecutors on Monday charged a 40-year-old Swede with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in a string of shootings that spread fear among immigrants in the southern city of Malmo. The suspect,...
Karzai says civilian deaths could hinder U.S. pact
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that the strategic pact sealed by U.S. President !a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/barack-obama">Barack Obama!/a> last week was at risk
Palestinian prisoners on mass hunger strike
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A bearded Islamist who lived on liquids and minerals for 66 days to protest his open-ended incarceration in Israel, winning his freedom, has inspired more than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners to follow him, putting...
Activist confident China will allow him to leave
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A Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States said Monday he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas. Chen Guangcheng is...
Lawyer: Slain Indonesians' kin want Dutch apology
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Ten relatives of Indonesian men allegedly killed by Dutch troops in their country's bloody struggle for independence demanded compensation and an apology Monday from the Netherlands. A lawyer for the Indonesians said...
Israeli court rules against Palestinian hunger strikers
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By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court turned down on Monday an appeal by two Palestinians, who have been on hunger strike for the past 70 days, to free them from detention wit
Taliban kill 14 Pakistani troops, string up heads
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Taliban fighters killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheaded all but one of them and hung two of the heads from wooden poles in the center of town, officials said Monday. ...
Israel set for early vote as it ponders Iran challenge
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By Jeffrey Heller and Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's parliament convened on Monday to dissolve itself and set a September 4 election that opinion polls predict will renew Benjamin Netanyahu's le
Venezuela insists Chavez still leading as silence reigns
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By Brian Ellsworth and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Allies of Venezuela's ailing President Hugo Chavez insisted on Monday he was still leading the OPEC nation despite a week of silence from the usually
Schools reopen in Mali's Islamist-held Timbuktu
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Schools reopened Monday in the city of Timbuktu for the first time since an Islamic faction seized control last month of the fabled tourist outpost, where they are now working to impose Shariah law. Thousands of...
Germany unmoved by anti-austerity votes in Europe
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By Noah Barkin and Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is ruling out any substantive shift in its approach to Europe's debt crisis despite a rising chorus of opposition to Berlin's austerity policies th
South Sudan expects Uganda backing vs. Sudan
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A South Sudanese official said Monday that his government expects Uganda to play a substantial role in resolving the border conflict that has at times threatened to plunge South Sudan and Sudan into a full-scale war. ...
Gunmen shoot CEO of Italian nuclear firm on Genoa street
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By Paola Balsomini GENOA, Italy (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen on a motorbike shot the chief executive of an Italian nuclear engineering company in the leg on Monday, police said, in an incident reminiscent
Colombia's FARC rebels: We hold French reporter
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Colombia's main rebel group says it is holding a French journalist who has been missing since disappearing a week ago while covering combat. The ruling secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or...
Uganda to pass law that limits freedom of assembly
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Uganda's parliament appears set to pass a law that critics said Monday would make it nearly impossible for activists and opposition members to hold public rallies of the kind authorities have long wanted banned. ...
U.N. says housing, job woes fuelling Arab unrest
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By Sylvia Westall KUWAIT (Reuters) - Poor urban infrastructure and high youth unemployment helped fuel the Arab Spring and governments across the region must tackle both if they are to prevent further unrest
Mexico's Pena Nieto holds lead after debate: poll
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto retains a clear lead for the July 1 election after a televised debate in which he came under sustained fire from opponents, a poll showed
Armenian president's party wins parliamentary vote
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President Serge Sarkisian's party has won a majority of seats in a parliamentary election that international observers said Monday were competitive and peaceful, but undermined by organizational problems and some...
Flashy, fiery Sarkozy fades from French scene
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When Nicolas Sarkozy bounded up the steps of France's presidential palace in jogging shorts and shoes on his first day in office five years ago, many French instantly sensed they were in for something new. In a country...
Putin meets IOC chief Rogge in the Kremlin
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Vladimir Putin has chosen the head of the International Olympics Committee for his first official meeting on the day he was sworn in as president. Less than an hour after the inauguration ceremony, he went to his...
Israeli court rules against Palestinian hunger strikers
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By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court turned down on Monday an appeal by two Palestinians, who have been on hunger strike for the past 70 days, to free them from detention wit
Turkish ex-army chief absent as coup plot trials merged
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By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Former Turkish armed forces commander General Ilker Basbug failed to appear among defendants in a mass trial over suspected coup conspiracies, witnesses said, in an appar
Afghan flash flood kills at least 21 in north
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A flash flood swept through a village in northern Afghanistan, killing 21 people, many of them members of a wedding party, officials said Monday. People in Dhy Marda village in Sari Pul province were gathered for the...
Mexico's Pena Nieto draws fire but survives debate
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By Dave Graham and Mica Rosenberg MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto was forced onto the defensive on Sunday by his rivals who accused him of corruption, lies and b
Cambodian leader puts new land deals on hold
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Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday temporarily suspended new land concessions to private companies in an effort to ease political pressure over an issue that has triggered social unrest and occasional violence....
North Sea island evacuated because of WWII bomb
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Some 60 people have been evacuated from a 0.7-mile (1.4-kilometer) zone around a construction site on a Danish island where a possible World War II bomb was found. Police say the bomb was found on the island of Roemoe,...
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NATO says a bomb has killed 3 service members in eastern Afghanistan. ...
Iraq court to free U.S. killings suspect: lawyer
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suspected Hezbollah militant accused of masterminding the killing of Americans in Iraq has been cleared of all charges and will be freed, his lawyer said on Monday, in an announcement that is
At least 20 dead in Nepal flood, 44 missing
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Rescuers dug through mud and debris on Monday searching for bodies after a flashflood swept through west Nepal killing at least 20 people and leaving dozens missing, police said. A torr
SKorea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh
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South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday. The capsules were made in northeastern China...
Algeria election a contest against mistrust, apathy
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By Hamid Ould Ahmed ALGIERS (Reuters) - In Algeria, even those who owe their livelihoods to the government find it hard to muster enthusiasm for a parliamentary election this week that few believe will chang
Armenia president's party wins election-early results
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By Margarita Antidze and Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan's Republican Party won a parliamentary election, early results showed on Monday, in a poll that was seen as a t
Israeli court rules against Palestinian hunger strikers
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court turned down on Monday an appeal by two Palestinians, who have been on hunger strike for the past 70 days, to free them from detention without trial. But in its de
Soldiers kill 4 suspected sect members in Nigeria
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Nigeria's military says soldiers killed four suspected members of a radical Islamist sect during a raid. The raid happened Sunday in Kano, Nigeria's largest city in its predominantly Muslim north. Military spokesman...
Boulder falls on car, kills 6 pilgrims in Vietnam
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An official says a boulder the size of a house has fallen from a mountain in Vietnam, smashing a car and killing six people who were on a religious pilgrimage. Village official Keo Khon says five people including the...
Iraq court rules to release Hezbollah prisoner
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An Iraqi court on Monday declared a Hezbollah commander accused of killing U.S. solders in Iraq in 2007 not guilty for lack of evidence and ruled that he be set free. The case of Ali Mussa Daqduq has been a thorn in...
Observers say Armenia vote fell short of commitments
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YEREVAN (Reuters) - International monitors praised Armenia on Monday for conducting a peaceful parliamentary election but criticized violations of campaign law and interference by political parties in the vote won
Key Bali bombing suspect tells victims he's sorry
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His voice trembling, the militant accused of building bombs for the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks apologized Monday for the first time to the victims and their families. Umar Patek, a leading member of the...
At least 32 Yemeni troops killed in militant attack
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By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen killed at least 32 Yemeni soldiers on Monday when they stormed a military position in southern Yemen where militants control broad swathes of ter
Iran government denies plans to treble gasoline price
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By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's government denied on Monday it would treble the price of gasoline as part of subsidy reforms that have been commended by the IMF but caused anger at home among a pop
Romania parliament set to back new leftist government
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's new prime minister said he was confident his leftist government would win parliamentary approval on Monday and finalize a deal with international lenders to restore public wages to t
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Yemeni officials: Al-Qaida militants kill 20 soldiers, capture 25 in surprise attack in south. ...
Bomb planted on minibus kills 2 in Baghdad
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Iraqi officials say a bomb left inside a minibus has killed two commuters and wounded nine others in Baghdad. A police officer says the bomb exploded when the bus reached the northern Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah...
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Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as Russia's president for a third, new six-year term. (Corrects APNewsAlert to change the word "now" to "new".) (This version CORRECTS Corrects the word "now" to "new") ...