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Top Iran diplomat in hospital over US ‘misquote’

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister fired back on Wednesday against hard-line critics of Tehran’s groundbreaking outreach to the United States, accusing opponents of

International observers denounce Guinea voting flaws

YoopyaOct 9, 2013March 10, 20240

(Reuters) – International observers have denounced voting flaws in Guinea’s parliamentary election, saying they may undermine the results of a poll meant to seal the

US expected to slash aid to Egyptian government

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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) — U.S. officials said Wednesday that the Obama administration is poised to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in military

Notorious Aussie criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read dies

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SYDNEY (AP) — Mark “Chopper” Read, one of Australia’s most notorious and colorful crime figures, died on Wednesday after a long battle with liver cancer,

Pan-African magazine: Africa has 55 billionaires

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A pan-African magazine says Africa has many more billionaires than previously reported, 55 of them worth more than $143 billion including

China’s Bo Xilai allowed to appeal against life in jail

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(Reuters) – A court in eastern China on Wednesday allowed ousted former senior politician Bo Xilai to appeal against a life sentence handed out last month on

Englert, Higgs win physics Nobel for particle mass

YoopyaOct 9, 2013March 31, 20240

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theoretical discoveries

U.N. faces U.S. lawsuit over Haiti cholera epidemic

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(Reuters) – Human rights lawyers representing Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic they blame on U.N. peacekeepers announced on Wednesday they were filing a lawsuit

Myanmar frees prisoners ahead of regional summit

YoopyaOct 8, 2013March 31, 20240

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s president pardoned 56 political prisoners Tuesday, an amnesty apparently timed to highlight the government’s reforms ahead of a regional summit

Brazil demands explanation from Canada over spying report

YoopyaOct 7, 2013March 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff demanded on Monday that Canada explain a media report that said it spied on the Brazilian mines and energy