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Kerry meets with runners from Boston Marathon
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UN expert urges help for Japan's nuclear victims
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Iran fields 'massive' number of missile launchers
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Oldest Everest climber returns safely from peak
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Opposition parties enforce strike in Bangladesh
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Huge crowd cheers Argentine leader's 10-year rule
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Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
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Suspected rebels kill 28, wound 24 in east India
Officials reacted with outrage Sunday to an audacious attack by about 200 suspected Maoist rebels who set off a roadside bomb and opened fire on a convoy carrying Indian ruling Congress party leaders and members in an eastern state, killing 28 people...
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2 rockets hit Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold
Rockets slammed Sunday into two southern Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding four people and raising fears that Syria's civil war is increasingly moving to Lebanon.
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Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip
Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.
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Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another ...
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Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers
Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been assassinated in the past.
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Egypt top court rules against religious slogans
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning.
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Turkish couples kiss in subway in protest
Dozens of couples have locked lips at a subway stop in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to protest subway authorities' admonishment of a couple that kissed in public.
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Iraq car bomb kills 6 Iranian pilgrims, 1 Iraqi
Two Iraqi police officers say a car bomb has exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad, killing six Iranians and one Iraqi.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls at a glance
The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of more than 10,000 manuscript fragments representing 900 separate texts, including the oldest biblical texts ever found. They were discovered in caves in the Judean desert alongside the Dead Sea. Most of the scrolls are animal skin parchment, a few are papyrus, and ...
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Fragments of biblical treasure are up for sale
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale - in tiny pieces.
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Israeli expert says Syria cyberattack foiled
An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa.
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UK zookeeper dies from tiger attack injuries
A young zookeeper who was mauled by a Sumatran tiger at an animal park has died, British police said Saturday.




