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G-8 leaders: Iran must prove its pursuit of nuclear power is peaceful
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CAMP DAVID, Md. ? President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers grappled Friday with options to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in ...
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18 May 2012 at 9:46pm

Crackdown on Students Stokes Fury Within Syria - New York Times

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Crackdown on Students Stokes Fury Within Syria
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Antigovernment anger in Syria escalated on Friday over the harsh repression of students in Aleppo, the country's largest city, where activists reported what they called the most extensive protests there yet in the 15-month-old nationwide uprising ...
Syrian Attacks Continue as Mass Protests SpreadVoice of America
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18 May 2012 at 8:29pm

Chicago protesters break away from nurses' rally - The Associated Press

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Chicago protesters break away from nurses' rally
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT, AP ? 1 minute ago CHICAGO (AP) ? Hundreds of protesters broke away from a large rally and began marching through Chicago streets Friday, taunting police and shouting about everything from bank bailouts to nuclear power ? a prelude ...
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18 May 2012 at 9:46pm

Tehran Welcomes Planned IAEA Visit - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

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Iran has welcomed news the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency plans to visit Tehran. Foreign Minister Ali-Akbari Salehi said the planned visit of IAEA chief Yukiya Amano was a "good sign." Quoted by the ISNA news agency, Salehi said Tehran ...
Heading Into Talks With Iran, US Sees Hopeful SignsNew York Times
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18 May 2012 at 10:27pm

Following Obama meeting, France's Hollande promises different approach to ......

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New French President Francois Hollande paid his first visit to the White House on Friday, telling President Obama that he would keep his pledge to draw down French combat troops in Afghanistan by year's end and promising that the French would provide ...
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18 May 2012 at 9:53pm

Suu Kyi to address British parliament in June - Hindustan Times

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Suu Kyi to address British parliament in June
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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walks to take an oath in the lower house parliament in Naypyitaw. Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing both houses of Britain's parliament when she ...
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18 May 2012 at 10:02pm

Afghanistan conflict: Rise of 'green on blue' deaths - BBC News

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Afghanistan conflict: Rise of 'green on blue' deaths
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By Emma Kasprzak BBC News After an increase in killings of foreign troops by Afghan army and police officers, and at a time when Afghanistan is poised to take over security in an area where UK forces operate, how safe are British troops from so-called ...
Rockets kill 2 NATO troops, 3 Afghan civiliansThe Associated Press
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17 May 2012 at 1:27am

Malawi: New President Wants to Repeal Nation's Antigay Laws - New York Times

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Malawi: New President Wants to Repeal Nation's Antigay Laws
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President Joyce Banda declared Friday that she wanted to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which lesbians and gay men are being increasingly singled out for prosecution. Ms. Banda, who assumed the ...
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18 May 2012 at 10:09pm

Canada Pleased With Chinese Smuggler's... - ABC News

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The Canadian government says it is pleased that a high-profile Chinese smuggler who had been extradited from Canada has received a life sentence, and not the death penalty. Foreign Affairs and International Trade spokeswoman Patricia Low-Bedard says ...
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18 May 2012 at 8:09pm

Diamond Jubilee: Armed forces in parade and flypast - BBC News

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Thousands of members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force are to take part in a parade and flypast to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The event is designed to reflect the close relationship between the Queen and the armed forces.
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18 May 2012 at 7:01pm

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Greece's eurozone fate may now be in the hands of the 37-year-old political firebrand and his Syriza party

"I don't believe in heroes or saviours," says Alexis Tsipras, "but I do believe in fighting for rights ? no one has the right to reduce a proud people to such a state of wretchedness and indignity."

The man who holds the fate of the euro in his hands ? as the leader of the Greek party willing to tear up the country's ?130bn (£100bn) bailout agreement ? says Greece is on the frontline of a ...

Attacks were beyond our abilities, says rebel leader, as officers who fled describe regime plots before blasts

Military defectors in northern Syria have denounced claims that al-Qaida was behind a series of deadly bombings in Damascus, contradicting the UN secretary general's assessment that the terror group is taking a lead in the insurgency.

The defectors were speaking before Ban Ki-moon's claim on Thursday that al-Qaida was responsible for a deadly blast outside one of Syria's top intelligen...

Cruise ship will be pulled upright by cranes on to platform, refloated and towed to Italian mainland for breaking up

The firms charged with raising the wreck of the Costa Concordia have set out in detail how they will refloat the ship in what is described as the largest maritime salvage operation ever undertaken.

The 114,500 tonne vessel, which capsized four months ago and is sitting on its side in shallow water yards off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, will be pulled upright by cranes on to ...

Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's body dumped in plastic bag in latest killing of a journalist amid deadly drug wars

The tortured body of a Mexican police reporter has been found on the side of a road in the northern state of Sonora on Friday. A day earlier he had been kidnapped by gunmen while waiting at a car wash.

Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's body was found inside a black plastic bag near the city of Empalme, about 68 miles south of Ciudad Obregon where he was abducted, said Sonora state prosecut...

Canadian province's government accused of 'murdering the right to demonstrate' in response to months of turmoil

Quebec's provincial government has passed an emergency law restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests against tuition fee increases. Outraged students reacted by calling it an act of war.

Among the provisions of the law, which passed 68-48 on Friday, is a requirement that police be informed eight hours before a pro...

Former Oxford University student who became Burmese pro-democracy leader to make first trip abroad in 24 years

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel peace prize winner, is to visit Britain next month in her first trip outside the south Asian state for 24 years. She will address both houses of parliament as a guest of the British government, as well as receiving an honorary degree at Oxford University, where she studied in the 1960s.

She will also visit her sons and grandc...

The Guinness Book of Records is considering calling in a soil chemist to arbitrate in a dispute over results of the world worm-charming championship

The Guinness Book of Records said yesterday that it would consider calling in a soil chemist to act as independent arbitrator in a learned dispute which has so far debarred results of the World Worm-Charming Championship from gracing its columns. The news was welcomed at Willaston School, Nantwich, Cheshire, where the fifth annual championship is ...

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6pm: Two days before Chicago hosts a summit of NATO leaders, the city's mayor Rahm Emanuel has said the wide-ranging security measures and months of preparations that went into the event are already starting to pay off.

AP reports that Emanuel said in an interview that the president of Latvia had recent...

He found fame as a policeman in the Lethal Weapon films, but it's his political activism that really drives him. He talks about his beloved Haiti, Obama's disappointing presidency and his friendship with Mel Gibson

A few years ago, Danny Glover sat in his car and cried. The Hollywood star and political activist had just heard the news that his friend, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, had been toppled in a coup backed by the US and France. "It was 28 Febru...

Republicans are rightly shamed by a Super Pac ad plan to tag Obama as a black radical. The irony is his very lack of radicalism

Nebraska has already supplied the right with a billionaire boogeyman: Warren Buffet, hero of the secretarial pool and worldly philanthropist.

Now, the left has a Husker to hate: Joe Ricketts, the man for whom a group of Republican troublemakers dreamed up the perhaps-intentionally hilarious, to-be-sure-intentionally shocking "Plan to Defeat Barack Hussein Obama". The ...