Saudis hold their last all-male election
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Saudi Arabia held its second nationwide vote ever on Thursday, a male-only election for powerless municipal councils. The balloting comes just days after the king decreed that women will be able to participate for the...
9,000 Mexican migrants repatriated from Arizona
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Mexico's government says nearly 9,000 Mexicans caught as illegal migrants in Arizona have been flown to Mexico City the past two months under a voluntary repatriation program. The Interior Department says in a Thursday...
Security raid office of Al Jazeera Egypt
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For the second time this month, Egyptian security officials in civilian clothes raided the Cairo office of Al Jazeera Live Egypt, part of the Qatar-based broadcaster's network, roughing up its staff, detaining an editor...
Police chief in Rio resigns over judge's slaying
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The head of Rio de Janeiro state's police has resigned, saying he was responsible for nominating the police chief who was arrested this week along with seven other officers in the killing of a judge. Writing from the...
Germany keeps alive hopes for euro's future
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Germany kept alive hopes that the 17-nation euro currency can survive the sprawling debt crisis when lawmakers in Europe's largest economy voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of expanding the powers of the...
Ex-Libyan PM protests detention in Tunisian jail
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A lawyer for Libya's ex-prime minister says his client has gone on a hunger strike in a Tunisian jail to protest authorities refusal to free him even though his conviction for entering this country illegally was...
Pakistan leaders call for peace in Afghanistan
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Pakistan's political leaders voiced their support Thursday for the country's powerful army in its destabilizing standoff with the United States over allegations the force supports insurgents attacking American troops in...
Defendants allege police torture in Morocco
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Defendants at a trial over a deadly cafe bombing at a Moroccan tourism destination denied the charges against them on Thursday. The defendants told the judge that they had been tortured and threatened into confessing...
Strauss-Kahn meets accuser at Paris hearing
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PARIS (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrogant and avoided the glare of journalist Tristane Banon as she accused him of trying to rape her in 2003, she said after a legal confrontation on Thursday with the f
The party goes on at Balmain
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The jet-set party girls of the world breathed an audible sigh on relief Thursday, as the new designer at their go-to label for ultra short, expensive and fabulous clothes _ Balmain _ proved he wouldn't meddle with the...
Syrian crowd stones U.S. envoy's convoy, U.S. condemns
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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hurled rocks and tomatoes at U.S. ambassador Robert Ford's convoy as he visited an opposition figure in Damascus on Thu
Gunfire hits south Yemen protest camp, capital quiet
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By Erika Solomon and Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Gunfire hit a protest camp in southern Yemen late on Thursday, after fighting in northern districts of the capital broke a truce aimed at ending the wo
Ex-spymaster to help judge Russian suspect's case
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A judge says that a former British spymaster will help rule on the case of a suspected Russian agent who is fighting her deportation from the U.K. Justice John Mitting said Thursday that former domestic intelligence...
Egyptian police raid Al Jazeera unit again
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police raided the offices of an Al Jazeera channel in Cairo on Thursday and confiscated equipment for the second time this month, the broadcaster said. The headquarters of Al Jazee
Leader of UK far right group convicted of assault
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The leader of the far right English Defense League has been convicted of assault after head butting a rival during a rally earlier this year. Police officers had testified that 28-year-old Stephen Lennon attacked...
Nobel chief sees "important" 2011 Peace Prize
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By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be as "interesting" as the ones awarded to Barack Obama and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee told
Lawyer: Appeals court may acquit Iranian pastor
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The U.S. called for the release of a pastor sentenced to death in Iran for apostasy while his lawyer said Thursday he is hopeful an appeals court will acquit his client. White House press secretary Jay Carney said...
Tainted African ruler may get UN prize in his name
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The African heads of state who converged on the capital of Equatorial Guinea this summer are used to life's finer things _ yet even they were impressed. The minuscule nation located on the coast of Central Africa spent...
Bahrain court sentences protester to death
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Bahrain's special security court on Thursday sentenced a protester to death for killing a policeman, and gave doctors and nurses who treated injured protesters during the country's uprising earlier this year lengthy...
Suicide bomber attacks police in Iraq, killing 2
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A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed car Thursday near a bank in Iraq where policemen were collecting their paychecks, killing two people, while an American soldier was killed in a separate incident that...
New envoys for Swiss, Libyans to ease rocky ties
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Libya's interim leaders are easing relations with Switzerland as they finally put behind them a diplomatic dispute involving one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons. With the ouster of Gadhafi last month, Libya has sent a new...
Officials charge 7th man in alleged UK terror plot
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British prosecutors say they've authorized police to charge a seventh man over an alleged suicide bombing plot. The Crown Prosecution Service says that 20-year-old Mujahid Hussain is expected to appear at London's...
US think tank hires German ex-defense minister
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A U.S. think tank says it has hired a former German defense minister to lead a new trans-Atlantic dialogue initiative _ only six months after he stepped down amid plagiarism allegations. The Center for Strategic and...
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Pakistani police say explosion rocks small hotel in nation's capital; at least 2 wounded. ...
US on Pakistan: Good cop, bad cop or confused cop
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There are two ways to explain why the Obama administration is distancing itself from harsh criticism of Pakistan by America's top military officer _ that the U.S. is playing "good cop/bad cop," or that policymaking...
Another Gadhafi son on Interpol's most-wanted list
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Interpol placed another of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's sons on the equivalent of its most-wanted list on Thursday, placing pressure on the government of Niger to surrender a man accused of overseeing bloody...
US senators say Libyans express gratitude
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U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that Libyans who met a team of visiting senators had expressed gratitude and want to repay the international community that rallied around Moammar Gadhafi's opponents and played a...
10 die as cement truck crashes in north Nigeria
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Authorities say 10 people are dead after an out-of-control cement truck crashed into a taxi and bus stand in a northern Nigeria town. Sector commander Chuks Osakwe of Nigeria's Federal Road Safety Corps told The...
Gunmen blockade Cameroon bridge ahead of election
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Gunmen wearing military uniforms and carrying signs opposing Cameroon's longtime ruler blockaded a major bridge early Thursday, shooting at police for several hours in an attack less than two weeks before the...
Amnesty urges new Lithuania probe of CIA prisons
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VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania, which has said it hosted a secret detention facility for terror suspects, must re-open a criminal investigation into human rights abuses there, rights group Amnesty International said
Fresh clashes, explosions rock Yemeni capital
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Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked the Yemeni capital on Thursday as clashes between government troops and rival tribesmen erupted anew Thursday, leaving at least three people dead. The fighting started early in the...
Ex-Ukraine PM maintains innocence in court speech
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Choking back tears, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko insisted on her innocence Thursday during an emotional closing statement in an abuse-of-office trial that has been criticized by the West. The top...
Fidel Castro mocks Obama for Cuba comments
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Fidel Castro mocked President Barack Obama on Thursday for saying he's open to changing U.S. policy toward Cuba if there is change on the island first, calling the U.S. leader "stupid." Writing in one of his...
Kenya's deputy prime minister testifies at ICC
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Kenya's deputy prime minister testified at an International Criminal Court preliminary hearing Thursday to defend himself against charges of fomenting violence after his country's disputed 2007 presidential election. ...
Palestinians: no talks without settlement freeze
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The Palestinians can't resume negotiations with Israel under current conditions and will pursue their bid to win U.N. recognition, a top Palestinian official said Thursday, after President Mahmoud Abbas and senior...
Venezuela's Chavez scoffs at health emergency rumors
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By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez mocked a U.S. media report that he had been rushed to hospital with kidney failure linked to the socialist leader's ongoing treatment
Nobel Peace Prize for Arab Spring?
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The Arab Spring is the focus of speculation over this year's Nobel Peace Prize, with an Afghan human rights activist and the European Union as possible outsiders. The Norwegian Nobel Committee gives no clues ahead of...
Warning of violence during Serbia gay pride march
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Serbia's police chief warned Thursday violence by extremists is likely during this weekend's gay pride march, and urged the organizers to cancel it. Ivica Dacic said he made his warning so "bloodshed does not happen in...
Watchdog: Libya chemical weapons as expected
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The international chemical weapons watchdog says stockpiles captured so far in Libya are in line with what Moammar Gadhafi's regime had previously declared, and no new weapons have been found. The fate of the country's...
Bahrain jails 20 doctors after democracy protests
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By Andrew Hammond MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain jailed 20 doctors on Thursday for between five and 15 years on charges including stealing medicine, stockpiling weapons and occupying a hospital during unrest in
Bahrain jails 20 doctors after democracy protests
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By Andrew Hammond MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain jailed 20 doctors on Thursday for between five and 15 years on charges including stealing medicine, stockpiling weapons and occupying a hospital during unrest in
Canada safety board blames crew for capsizing
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Canada's Transportation Safety Board says a tall ship carrying dozens of teenagers sank off Brazil in a squall last year because the risk of a capsize was not understood by the crew. All 48 students and 16 crew members...
Small plane crashes in Indonesia; 18 feared dead
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A small plane on a local flight in western Indonesia crashed into a mountainous area Thursday and all 18 people aboard were feared dead, officials said. Rugged terrain and rains hampered searchers trying to reach the...
Fidel Castro lashes out at Obama, U.S. policy
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By Jeff Franks HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban President Fidel Castro lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday for suggesting bilateral relations could improve if Cuba became more democratic, an
Bomb claims Afghanistan's first female police victims
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two Afghan policewomen and a civilian were killed by a bomb blast in western Afghanistan on Thursday, the first female police casualties since the conservative Muslim country began re
Indian court convicts 17 officials in gang rapes
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An Indian court found 17 police and forest officials guilty on Thursday of raping a group of lower-caste women during a search of their village 19 years ago, a report said. The court also ruled that about 100 other...
Typhoon arrives in China after hitting Philippines
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A powerful typhoon slammed into southern China on Thursday after skirting Hong Kong and bringing death and widespread flooding to the Philippines earlier this week. Typhoon Nesat made landfall on the eastern tip of...
Suicide bomber kills three in Iraq's Kirkuk
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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded dozens in Iraq's Kirkuk city on Thursday after he blew up his car outside a bank where police were collecting their salaries. The bom
Zambia's president makes gestures to unify nation
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Zambia's new president is making gestures to unify his nation, reaching out to the west and east. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Michael Sata said he was appointing investigators to look into violence in western...
Lithuania: Rights group calls for new CIA probe
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A human rights group called on Lithuania on Thursday to reopen its investigation into CIA prisons and the alleged torturing of terrorist suspects based on what they said was new evidence of a rendition flight to the...