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Strong quake kills at least 4 in northern Italy
A strong earthquake shook northeast Italy early Sunday, killing four people, tearing off chunks of church facades and sending panicked residents into the streets. Aftershocks wreaked more havoc in the region, including knocking down a clock tower and injuring a firefighter.
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Yemen troops clash with al-Qaida in south; 17 dead
Fresh clashes between al-Qaida fighters and government forces in Yemen left 17 dead on Sunday, military officials said, as the army pushed on with an offensive to regain a key town in the county’s south that fell to the militants more than a year ago.
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Former Israeli PM: Jerusalem must be partitioned
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.
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Dominicans deciding ex-president’s comeback
Polling stations are largely calm and orderly as voters in the Dominican Republic choose a new president.
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Israel convicts Palestinian protest leader
An Israeli military court has convicted a Palestinian protest leader of urging youths to throw rocks at Israeli soldiers, in a case that has drawn controversy because it is based on the confession of a 15-year-old interrogated without a lawyer.
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U.N. seeks Iran nuclear deal before Baghdad talks
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear supervisor flies to Tehran on Sunday looking for a deal to inspect suspected weapons sites – a potential breakthrough that Iran may hope could persuade the West to start lifting sanctions and deflect threats of war. But though IAEA chief Yukiya Amano scheduled Monday’s talks with Iran at such [...]
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French Le Pen to lose to leftist in assembly vote: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – An opinion poll published on Sunday showed that French far-right leader Marine Le Pen would lose to far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon in her home district in parliamentary elections next month. The Ifop-Fiducial poll showed that Le Pen would win the June 10 first round with 34 percent of the votes against 29 [...]
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Lebanese soldiers kill two anti-Assad group members
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – Lebanese soldiers shot dead a Sunni cleric and a second member of a Lebanese political alliance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in northern Lebanon on Sunday, security sources said. Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahid and Khaled Miraib, members of the March 14 alliance, were shot in their car as they sped through [...]
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Egypt’s would-be “president of the poor” touts past
QALYUB, Egypt (Reuters) – The motorcade of Hamdeen Sabahy, a dark horse in Egypt’s presidential race, inched over the bumpy roads of this Egyptian town led by a car booming 1960s nationalist music in homage to his hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The smiling leftist politician has a long history of opposition, first to Nasser’s successor [...]
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Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications officials.
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