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Migrant tragedies sharpen calls for safe passage
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Thousands protest elections in Azerbaijan
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Mortar shells hit near inspectors' hotel in Syria
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Strong earthquake hits west of Crete
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Snowden: mass surveillance making us less safe
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TV ad puppets electrify Israeli gay rights debate
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Kerry says partial Afghan security deal reached
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Wind, rain pound India as massive cyclone hits
A massive, powerful cyclone packing heavy rains and destructive winds slammed into India's eastern coastline Saturday evening, as hundreds of thousands of residents moved inland to shelters in hopes of riding out the dangerous storm.
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AP Interview: Islamist leader says Libya PM failed
The leader of Libya's Muslim Brotherhood political party said Saturday that the country's prime minister — who was briefly abducted by militia members earlier this week — has failed and needs to be replaced.
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Beset by bad news, Canada cheers up over Nobel
Alice Munro's Nobel Prize in literature is a morale boost for a country that has been generating an unusual run of bad headlines.
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NATION/WORLD
Brazil ranchers sentenced for killing farmers
A ranch owner has been sentenced to more than 100 years in jail for ordering and taking part in the 2004 killing of five landless farmworkers who occupied his property in southeastern Brazil.
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MOVIE NEWS & REVIEWS
Actress Freida Pinto urges education for girls
Indian actress Freida Pinto urged the world on the International Day of the Girl Child to ensure that 66 million girls who are not in school today get an education.
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NATION/WORLD
Car bomb at Iraq market kills 17
A car bombing at a market in Iraq killed 17 people on Saturday, wounding dozens of others in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the country.
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MOVIE NEWS & REVIEWS
A season of Cumberbatch starts with 'Fifth Estate'
It was the day before shooting began on "The Fifth Estate" when Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was trying on blond wigs for the last time, heard back from Julian Assange, the man he was to play.
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NATION/WORLD
Guyana presses Venezuela on seizure of ship
Guyana's government stepped up pressure on Venezuela to explain why it intercepted an American-chartered ship surveying for oil in disputed waters, a move that threatens to revive a decades-old territorial dispute between South America's biggest oil producer and one of the region's poorest nations...
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NATION/WORLD
Famous Lebanese singer Wadih Safi dies
Lebanese singer and composer Wadih Safi, whose strong, clear voice propelled him to fame throughout the Arab world, has died at the age of 92, officials said Saturday.
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NATION/WORLD
Peru bus plunge kills 50, including 13 children
A bus has plunged off a cliff into a river southeast of the Peruvian capital of Lima, killing 50 people, including 13 children.
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NATION/WORLD
AU: ICC cannot prosecute sitting head of state
The African Union will not allow a sitting head of state to be prosecuted by an international tribunal, the chairman of the continental body said Saturday, in a clear reference to the trial that is about to begin at the International Criminal Court against Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is...
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NATION/WORLD
Boat sinks on Mali river; 20 dead, dozens missing
An overladen boat carrying hundreds of passengers along the Niger River in central Mali capsized at night, and nearly 200 people were missing the following day, the mayor of a nearby town said Saturday.
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CELEBRITIES
What’s in a name? For D.C.’s NFL team, yards of controversy
The symbolism of a Dallas Cowboys-vs.-Washington Redskins football game Sunday couldn’t come at a worse time for the capital’s embattled National Football League team owner, Daniel Snyder.



