 | Syrian leader says terrorists are behind unrest
Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a yearlong uprising.
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 | US sees deal near; Pakistan haggling over money
U.S. hopes of reopening Pakistan's supply routes for the Afghanistan war ahead of next week's NATO summit are going down to the wire.
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 | NKorea nuclear reactor construction progressing
A U.S.-based institute says new satellite imagery shows that North Korea has resumed building work on a reactor after months of inactivity.
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 | Slain journalist remembered in London
Leading politicians and journalists have gathered in London to pay tribute to slain war correspondent Marie Colvin.
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 | Merkel fires minister after election defeat
German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her conservative party to an embarrassingly heavy state election defeat.
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 | UN experts say Syria snubs demands on torture
The Committee Against Torture said the Syrians skipped a meeting Wednesday and failed to report on whether it is complying with a 1987 U.N. convention against torture.
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 | Mexico anti-drug agents detain two army generals
Federal prosecutors say anti-drug agents have detained and are questioning two army generals, including a former assistant defense secretary.
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 | Walesa says today's Solidarity deserves a beating
Poland's former President Lech Walesa says that members of Solidarity, the trade union he once led, deserve to be beaten for a disruptive protest they staged last week in Warsaw.
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 | Greece sets new elections
Greece has scheduled new elections for June 17, after members of parliament couldn't agree on a coalition government following the last election earlier this month.
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 | Ratko Mladic's genocide trial gets under way
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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 | China TV blames Dalai Lama for Tibet immolations
China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule.
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 | Yemen clashes kill 13 al-Qaida militants, four troops
Yemen military officials say the latest fighting to uproot al-Qaida from the country's south has killed 13 militants, as well as four soldiers and two militiamen fighting alongside the army.
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 | 'Black box' found of Russia jet
Indonesian special forces have found the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that smashed into the side of a volcano, killing 45 people.
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 | Amnesty Int'l: Mali suffering its 'worst crisis'
An international human rights group says the West African state of Mali is suffering its worst crisis since independence after a coup in the capital and a rebel takeover in the country's north.
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 | Iraqi VP's ex-guards say they had orders to kill
Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under way.
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 | Hollande meets with Merkel
The new Socialist leader of France has met in Germany with Chancellor Angela Merkel -- and they say they've agreed to discuss ways to generate economic growth in Europe.
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 | Rights group criticizes Sudan media clampdown
The London-based Amnesty International is calling on Sudanese authorities to stop what it says is "relentless harassment" of journalists.
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| UN observers caught up in Syrian violence
A roadside bomb struck U.N. vehicles in Syria just minutes after government forces opened fire on a funeral procession nearby.
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 | Colombia president says two die in Bogota bombing
A bomb targeting a former Colombian interior minister killed at least two people on Tuesday and injured at least 19 others in the heart of Bogota's commercial district, authorities said.
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 | Suu Kyi backs proposal to suspend US sanctions
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is cautiously backing a U.S. senator's proposal to suspend U.S. economic sanctions.
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| Greek govt talks collapse, new election to be held
Greece will hold a new election in June after days of talks failed to resolve the country's political deadlock, party leaders said Tuesday.
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 | Criminal charges in Britain's tabloid scandal
Former News of the World editor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will face conspiracy charges in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal.
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 | EU carries out first air strikes on Somali pirates
The European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean on Tuesday carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore, with a pirate reporting that the raid destroyed speed boats, fuel depots and an arms store.
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| Ratko Mladic finally faces justice at UN court
Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is finally going on trial.
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 | Eurozone avoids recession as Germany powers ahead
Official figures show that the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro confounded expectations and avoided falling back into recession in the first quarter of the year.
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 | NATO invites Pakistan to summit
NATO says it will invite Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari to the alliance's summit in Chicago, after the country's foreign minister proposed reopening its Afghan border to NATO military supplies.
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| Cockpit instruments found at Indonesia crash site
Search teams have found some cockpit instruments in the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a cliff atop a dormant Indonesian volcano.
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 | Two more years for U.N. rights chief
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked the General Assembly to approve a two-year extension for High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
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 | Violence escalates in Nigeria
Gunmen surrounded villages and set them on fire, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region.
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 | Haiti's wannabe soldiers meet with leader
Some former Haitian soldiers who want to be soldiers again say they met with President Michel Martelly while he ran for office and he promised them he would restore the military.
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