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NATO: 4 service members killed in plane crash
4/27/13 1:03 PM
NATO says a plane crash in southern Afghanistan has killed four international service members.
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British royal family tours 'making of' Harry Potter studio
4/26/13 8:04 AM
Britain's young royals are having a magical day out with a visit to the studio where the "Harry Potter" movies were filmed.
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Hagel: Syria used chemical weapons on 'small scale'
4/25/13 6:11 PM
The White House has informed members of Congress that, within the last day, U.S. intelligence concluded with "some degree of varying confidence" that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has used chemical weapons.
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Bangladesh building collapse kills at least 70 people
4/25/13 6:56 AM
With deep cracks visible in the walls, police had ordered a Bangladesh garment building evacuated the day before its deadly collapse.
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Pakistanis ready, excited for May 11 election
4/23/13 11:25 AM
Pakistan is on the brink of history. The nation is now just weeks away from one of the biggest tests of democracy in the South Asia nation's six decades of existence.
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Iran denies link with Canadian train terror plot
4/23/13 5:40 AM
Iran is denying any link with two suspects charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train.
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China's quake zone includes portable ATMs and phone-charging stations
4/22/13 5:02 PM
The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China's full range of disaster response is on display.
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Death toll rises to 186 in China quake, 11,000 injured
4/21/13 5:37 PM
Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people and injured more than 11,000. It hit along the same fault line where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago.
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Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout
4/20/13 3:12 PM
Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as they face a reviving al-Qaida insurgency.
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Hagel: "Syrian regime has used chemical weapons"
4/26/13 2:26 PM
Green interview April 25, 2013
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Russia psychiatric hospital fire kills 38 people
4/26/13 5:26 AM
A fire swept quickly through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, most of them in their beds, officials said.
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Iraq fighting grows, raising fear of spreading unrest
4/25/13 11:19 AM
Gunmen have taken over a Sunni town north of Baghdad after a firefight with security forces, Iraqi authorities said Thursday.
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France legalizes gay marriage after harsh debate
4/23/13 7:45 PM
French lawmakers have legalized same-sex marriage after months of bruising debate and street protests that brought hundreds of thousands to Paris.
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French embassy in Libya hit by car bomb
4/23/13 6:45 AM
A car bomb targeted the French embassy in the Libyan capital early Tuesday, wounding two French guards and a Libyan teenager in an attack that President Francois Hollande denounced as an assault not only against France but all countries engaged in the fight against terrorism.
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Iraq clashes leave at least 14 dead as violence escalates
4/23/13 5:30 AM
Clashes erupted early on Tuesday between Sunni demonstrators and security forces in a northern Sunni town in Iraq, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens in an escalation likely to enrage anti-government protesters who have been rallying for months.
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Earth Day kicks off planting of ancient tree clones
4/22/13 7:49 AM
Today is Earth Day, and one nonprofit group will be planting California redwoods in the U.S. and in several other countries. The 18-inch, laboratory-produced trees are genetic duplicates of three giant redwoods.
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Tsegaye Kebede wins London Marathon amid tight security
4/21/13 12:02 PM
The London Marathon started with tributes to the Boston victims and a moment of silence.
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Defense officials, some lawmakers at odds on Syria
4/19/13 4:42 PM
Donnelly interview April 18, 2013
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