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Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif calls for an end to US drone strikes
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Pakistan's newly-elected prime minister is calling for an end to American drone strikes in tribal areas.
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Turkey protests: Unrest, government vs. anti-government tensions grows
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A 22-year-old man died during an anti-government protest in a city near the border with Syria and officials gave conflicting reports on what caused his death, as hundreds of riot police backed by water cannons deployed around the prime minister's office in the capital Tuesday.
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Oscar Pistorius hearing: Magistrate postpones case until August
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Oscar Pistorius stood for his entire 15-minute court hearing Tuesday, staring straight ahead, hands clasped in front of him and giving away little emotion as the world got its first close up view of the double-amputee Olympian and murder suspect in nearly four months.
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Turkey protests: Riot police using tear gas against protesters
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As riot police used tear gas against protesters for a fourth straight day in Istanbul, Turkey's president and prime minister displayed wide differences Monday in their responses to those taking to the streets.
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China poultry plant fire kills at least 119 people
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Fire raged through a poultry plant in northeastern China early Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing at least 119 people, reports and officials said.
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Ibragim Todashev father says his son was killed 'execution style'
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The father of a Chechen immigrant killed while being interrogated by the FBI about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect says agents killed his son "execution style."
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'French kiss,' now officially given word in French dictionary
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After centuries of lacking a French word for the sloppy Gallic export "to French kiss," a verb has finally been given its rightful place in the French dictionary.
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American Sgt. Robert Bales was 'crazed' when he attacked Afghanistan village
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Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was "crazed" and "broken" when he slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost and attacked mud-walled compounds in two slumbering villages nearby.
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U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan kills Pakistani Taliban leader
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A suspected U.S. drone strike Wednesday killed the No. 2 commander of the Pakistani Taliban, Pakistani intelligence officials said, although the militant group denied he was killed.
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Pope Francis braves the rain to greet audience
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The rain hasn't stopped Pope Francis--he braved the rain to greet crowds at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.
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Chinese authorities rescue newborn boy from sewer pipe
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Chinese firefighters have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet, sawing out an L-shaped section and then delicately dismantling it to free the cocooned baby, who greeted the rescuers with cries.
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EU ends Syria arms embargo
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The European Union has ended its arms embargo to Syria's outgunned rebels just as top U.S. and Russian diplomats try to persuade Syria's opposition and President Bashar Assad's regime to attend peace talks in Geneva.
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Malaysia ferry capsizes, 21 people missing
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An overloaded ferry capsized after hitting rocks in a remote river in Malaysia's part of tropical Borneo island on Tuesday.
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Crisis in Syria: U.S., allies ask UN to take action on Syria
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The Unites States, Qatar and Turkey have asked the U.N.'s top human rights body to hold an urgent debate on the ways to end the civil war in Syria, and to hold accountable those responsible for killing thousands of civilians.
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British soldier killer was arrested in 2010 in Kenya, has militant links
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A suspect in last week's savage killing of a British soldier on a London street was arrested in Kenya in 2010 while apparently preparing to train and fight with al-Qaida-linked Somali militants, an anti-terrorism police official said.
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Oscar Pistorius fined for unpaid taxes
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Oscar Pistorius was audited and fined for unpaid taxes after having to declare his assets during his bail hearing. He is charged with premeditated murder for the Valentine's Day shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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Kevin Dahlgren, accused of killing family in Czech Republic arrested in D.C. airport
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Police say an American man suspected of killing a family of four in the Czech Republic has been arrested in the D.C. area.
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President Obama national security speech welcomed abroad
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President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two key countries affected by the policies- Pakistan and Yemen.
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