U.S. nuclear expert: Iran official linked to past program
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By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Communications from the 1990s suggest Iran's current foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, had knowledge of a program to procure goods for an alleged clandestine nucl
India state to probe corruption in low-caste parks
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The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India's lowest caste. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh state are now investigating whether the billion-dollar project was an elaborate swindle. India has been...
Vietnam protests China's S. China Sea fishing ban
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Vietnam is protesting China's fishing ban in parts of the South China Sea that Hanoi claims as its own. Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi says in a statement posted on the ministry's website late Tuesday that...
China's "small stick" approach to South China Sea
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By David Lague HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a month-long standoff between China and the Philippines over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, Beijing has so far refrained from sending warships from its incre
US officials sought to testify in Gitmo 9/11 trial
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Defense teams in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order senior U.S. government officials to testify at the U.S. base in Cuba as part of a motion to dismiss charges, a lawyer for one of the...
NATO invites Pakistan to summit in Chicago
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NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...
Legion admits it knew of priest's kid, did nothing
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The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from revelations that its late founder was a pedophile, admitted Wednesday that it knew that its most famous priest had fathered a child years ago yet didn't remove...
Mexico's Zetas cartel denies role in killing of 49
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Banners have appeared in northern Mexico signed by the Zetas drug cartel saying the gang was not responsible for killing 49 people whose mutilated bodies were found on a highway in a neighboring state. An employee of...
Haiti's new PM: Mining laws being drafted
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The Haitian government is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the new prime minister said Tuesday. Laurent Lamothe, who saw his Cabinet...
Guatemala mom to ask US court help on adopted girl
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A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department...
U.S.-Pakistan near deal on reopening supply lines
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By Phil Stewart and Missy Ryan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In what would be a major breakthrough, Pakistan and the United States appeared on Tuesday to be on the verge of clinching an agreement to reopen ground s
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Indonesian searchers find 'black box' from Russian passenger jet that slammed into volcano. ...
Historic diamond sold for $9.7 million at auction
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Marie de Medici wore it at her coronation as Queen Consort of Henry IV in France in 1610, and now the Beau Sancy diamond is a lavish accessory owned by an anonymous bidder who paid $9.7 million for it at Sotheby's...
Lightning sparks Hollande's French presidency
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Socialist Francois Hollande assumed France's presidency Tuesday, inheriting a country fearful for its financial future and jetting off immediately to Berlin to tackle his most pressing problem: Europe's debt crisis. A...
Mladic goes on trial for atrocities in Bosnia
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By Thomas Escritt and Ivana Sekularac AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic goes on trial for genocide on Wednesday, accused of leading the slaughter of 8,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men in
Taylor to reject call for 80-year sentence
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By Thomas Escritt and Sara Webb AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor will on Wednesday tell judges he bears no responsibility for atrocities during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war,
Obama, Monti agree Europe ought to "intensify" growth: White House
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President !a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/barack-obama">Barack Obama!/a> and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Tuesday discussed the need for Europe to do more to boost
Argentine rights figure charged with embezzlement
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The longtime operations chief of Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group has been jailed on charges of embezzlement and criminal conspiracy. Sergio Schoklender was formally charged Tuesday by a...
Convicted bank robber arrested in Puerto Rico
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Federal authorities in Puerto Rico have arrested a convicted bank robber once featured on the TV show "America's Most Wanted." A Tuesday statement from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection says Walid Hassan Abdulla...
Bomb targeting former Colombian minister kills two
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By Eduardo Garcia and Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - In a rare attack in Colombia's capital, a bomb targeting a former interior minister tore through his car near the city's financial district on Tuesd
Sudan's Bashir says no South Sudan oil exports without security
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will not allow South Sudan to export any oil through its territory unless the two states settle all disputes over border security, President Omar al-Bashir said on Tuesday. Oil, se
US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south
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Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery waged a four-front assault Tuesday against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with U.S. troops for the first time helping direct the offensive from...
Putin praised by leaders of ex-Soviet states
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By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin won praise from leaders of former Soviet republics on Tuesday and called for closer integration among the now-independent states once rule
UN observers caught up in Syrian violence
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The U.N.'s observer mission in Syria was caught up in a burst of violence Tuesday captured on video, with a roadside bomb damaging its cars just minutes after witnesses said regime forces gunned down mourners at a...
Burning man tries to break into Breivik trial
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By Joachim Dagenborg OSLO (Reuters) - A man set himself on fire and tried to force his way into the Norwegian courthouse where far-right mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for massacring 77 peopl
UK jails man for inciting child prostitution
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A British judge on Tuesday sentenced a Bangladeshi man to 15 years in prison for paying young girls for sex and trying to recruit some as young as 12 years old into prostitution in northern England. In his sentencing...
Support for Mexico ruling party candidate hits new low: poll
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Support for Mexican presidential hopeful Josefina Vazquez Mota, candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), has fallen to its lowest level since the campaign began at the end of Mar
In breakthrough, Pakistan leader to attend NATO summit
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WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will attend a summit of NATO leaders in Chicago this weekend, the Pakistan Embassy in Washington said on Tuesday, ending speculation Islamabad mi
Iraqi VP's ex-guards say they had orders to kill
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Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under...
Iran talks to continue, both sides see progress
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U.N. nuclear negotiators seeking to probe Tehran's nuclear program for signs of secret work on atomic-weapons technology spoke of a good exchange of views Tuesday after talks with Iranian officials, who described the...
Libyan Islamist militia leader to run in June poll
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - One of Libya's most powerful militia leaders said on Tuesday he had registered his newly founded party for June's election for a transitional national assembly, swapping his post for a run at pu
NATO invites Pakistan to summit in Chicago
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NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...
Israeli group wins terror suit against Syria, Iran
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An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group's director...
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Germany's Merkel agrees with Hollande that we want to keep Greece in euro. ...
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Mexico's culture agency: Prolific Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies at 83. ...
NATO invites Pakistan to summit in Chicago
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NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...
Rights group criticizes Sudan media clampdown
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The London-based Amnesty International is calling on Sudanese authorities to stop what it says is "relentless harassment" of journalists. The group said Tuesday that Sudanese authorities arrested a prominent syndicated...
Egypt group documents 841 deaths in 2011 uprising
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An Egyptian rights group released Tuesday the most comprehensive list to date of the more than 800 civilians killed by security forces in last year's uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak last year. The report by the...
EU navy, helicopters strike pirate supply center
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European Union naval forces in attack helicopters conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia Tuesday. A pirate said the strike destroyed a supply center and set back their operations. No...
Mali Islamists to let first aid convoy enter Timbuktu
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TIMBUKTU (Reuters) - The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine said on Tuesday it would allow an aid convoy it had blocked outside the northern city of Timbuktu to deliver its food and medical supplies on Wednesda
Iran hangs alleged Israeli agent in shadow war
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At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel's spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected...
Cuba drags feet on foreign investment
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By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's reform plans to attract more overseas investment are off to a slow start as the government focuses more on regulating existing foreign joint ventures than encouraging
Egypt Brotherhood takes harder line in campaign
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At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi's praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial city in Egypt's Nile...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi says sanctions remain tool for change
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A suspension of U.S. sanctions against Myanmar, rather than a full removal of the penalties, would keep pressure on the government to stay on track with political reforms, opposition leader A
Russia's Patriarch launches Facebook page
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By Denis Dyomkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Facebook page dedicated to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill was launched on Tuesday to feed growing interest in the divisive religious figure who has embodied the churc
Sudans: Trench marks new border as rains approach
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A trench dug across a red dirt road marks part of the shifting border this week between Sudan and South Sudan, old enemies whose forces have clashed in recent weeks. Truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns and 107mm rocket...
Colombia explosion kills two people: police
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - An explosion on a bus in a commercial district of Colombia's capital Bogota killed two people and injured several more, police said on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if the explosio
Israel set to funnel quake aid to Palestinians
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By Dan Williams TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel has set up a mechanism to funnel aid to the Palestinians in the event of an earthquake, though its emergency relief services would not deploy throughout their terr
Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial
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An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that...
EU helicopters strike Somali pirate base on land
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By Yara Bayoumy NAIROBI (Reuters) - European helicopter gunships attacked a pirate base on the Somali coast on Tuesday, destroying five speedboats, in the first such airborne strike on land by the anti-pirac