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Iraq suicide bombing kills at least four people
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Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has rammed his explosives-laden car into an army checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing at least four people - two soldiers and two civilians.
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John Kerry reaches out to Israeli, Palestinian leaders under new Secretary of State role
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New Secretary of State John Kerry will be introducing himself to his agency's employees Monday after spending much of the weekend making connections with leaders around the world.
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England's King Richard III remains likely found under parking lot
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Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England's King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester.
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Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri pretrial in Guantanamo starts
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The Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of orchestrating the attack on the USS Cole faces a pretrial hearing in his war crimes tribunal.
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Sarai Sierra found dead in Turkey
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Turkey's state-run news agency says Sarai Sierra of New York City has been found dead in Istanbul. She went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul.
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Sarai Sierra suffered fatal blow to the head
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Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin said Sunday that forensic experts had not concluded their autopsy report on the victim, Sarai Sierra, but that it was "clear" the head injury caused her death.
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Japan struck by 6.9 magnitude earthquake
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The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake in Japan had a magnitude of 6.9. There is no danger of a tsunami.
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Explosion at Pemex headquarters kills 14, injures 80
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Mexico's state-owned oil company says 14 have died and 80 are injured in an office building explosion at its headquarters in the capital.
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Brazil fire: No alarm, working fire extinguisher in nightclub where 231 killed
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There was no alarm, no working fire extinguisher, no sprinkler and almost no escape from the nightclub that became a death trap for more than 200 Brazilian college students.
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Australia flood affects thousands, kills four
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Rescuers helped drivers escape swift floodwaters and used helicopters to pluck stranded people from rooftops in northeast Australia on Tuesday after torrential rains flooded thousands of homes and businesses, killed four and forced thousands to huddle in shelters.
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Kazakhstan plane crash kills all 20 on board
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A passenger plane crashed Tuesday near Kazakhstan's principal city, Almaty, likely killing all 20 on board, Kazakhstan airline SCAT said.
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Egypt's Morsi declares state of emergency, curfew in 3 provinces
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Riot police fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in central Cairo on Monday, a day after Egypt's president declared a state of emergency in three provinces hit hardest by political violence and vowed to deal "firmly and forcefully" with the unrest roiling the country.
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U.S. and Egypt: President Obama hopes to maintain good relationship with Egypt
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President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally.
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American woman Sarai Sierra missing since vacationing in Turkey
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An official says Istanbul police are scanning CCTV security camera footage to trace a New York City woman who has gone missing while vacationing alone in the city.
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Holocaust victims mourned at Auschwitz, beyond
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Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again.
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Egyptian protesters take to Tahrir Square to mark uprising anniversary
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Egyptian opposition protesters are gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime.
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Turkish Airlines plane makes emergency landing due to lightning strike
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Turkish Airlines say a plane with 114 people aboard made an emergency landing after it was struck by lightning and one of its engines caught fire.
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North Korea warns of another nuclear test, despite U.N. warnings
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he's seen no outward sign that North Korea will follow through soon on its plan to conduct a test - following its underground atomic explosions in 2006 and 2009.
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