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AP Interview: Egypt's pope criticizes Islamists
AP Interview: Egypt's pope criticizes Islamists
Egypt's Coptic patriarch delivered a cautious but unusually sharp criticism of the nation's Islamist leadership in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, dismissing the new constitution as discriminatory and rounds of national dialogues sponsored by the president as meaningless. Pope Ta

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Tuareg rebels in Mali arrest Islamist extremists
Tuareg rebels in Mali arrest Islamist extremists
Secular rebels from Mali's Tuareg people say they have arrested two Islamist extremists, including the man blamed for enforcing stoning deaths and amputations in Timbuktu. A statement from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad says Mohamed Moussa Ag Mohamed of Ansar Dine and Oumeini Ou

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Kuwait arrests 3 former MPs for emir insults
Kuwait arrests 3 former MPs for emir insults
Kuwait says three former opposition lawmakers have been charged with insulting the country's ruler in the latest crackdown on perceived political dissent in the Gulf nation. The arrests announced Tuesday by Kuwait's Information Ministry are part of an escalating backlash from authorities as the oil

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Somali court: Jail for rape victim, reporter
Somali court: Jail for rape victim, reporter
A Mogadishu court on Tuesday handed down one-year prison sentences to a woman who said she was raped by security forces and a reporter who interviewed her. The judges decided the woman falsely claimed she was raped and had insulted the government. The judges based their decision on medical evidence

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Report: Iran to send astronauts into space by 2018
Report: Iran to send astronauts into space by 2018
An Iranian semi-official news agency says the country plans to send its first astronauts into space by 2018. Tuesday's report by Mehr quotes Mohammad Ebrahimi, a senior official in Iran's space agency, as saying the flight of two trained Iranian astronauts has been slated for between 2016 and 2018.

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IOC asked to probe court interference in Brazil
IOC asked to probe court interference in Brazil
The ousted presidents of two Brazilian sports federations have filed complaints with the IOC claiming they were removed from their posts after illegal interference from local courts. The Brazilian ice sports federation and the badminton federation claim the court rulings are a clear violation of the

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France: 4 detained suspected of extremist links
France: 4 detained suspected of extremist links
French authorities detained four people Tuesday in a counterterrorism operation targeting those suspected of trying to join Islamist extremists abroad. The raid in the Paris region comes amid fears that European extremists who once joined jihadi groups in Afghanistan or Iraq are now joining radical

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Bulgaria links Hezbollah to bombing of Israelis
Bulgaria links Hezbollah to bombing of Israelis
Hezbollah was behind a bus attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated bombing carried out by a terrorist cell that included Canadian and Australian citizens. The first major announcement in the investigation carried broad d

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Iran president visits Egypt in warming of ties
Iran president visits Egypt in warming of ties
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed the crisis in Syria with his Egyptian counterpart Tuesday in the first visit by an Iranian leader to Cairo in more than three decades, marking a historic departure from years of frigid ties between the regional heavyweights. Ahmadinejad's three-day vi

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Menendez forcefully denies prostitution allegation
Menendez forcefully denies prostitution allegation
After ducking comment for days, Sen. Robert Menendez is forcefully denying allegations he engaged with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, calling the claims false "smears." Menendez told reporters on Monday that he had done nothing wrong. His voice rose with anger as he described "anonymous, na

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AP Interview: Morocco Islamists warn of unrest
AP Interview: Morocco Islamists warn of unrest
Morocco likes to project itself as unique in the Middle East in finding a third way between revolution and repression amid the uprisings of the Arab Spring. The nation's largest opposition Islamist group is challenging that view. In an interview with The Associated Press, Fathallah Arsalane, politi

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Gitmo judge hears testimony about torture effects
Gitmo judge hears testimony about torture effects
A Guantanamo Bay judge is deciding whether to recommend special training about torture for a military mental health board that will examine the prisoner accused of orchestrating the attack on the USS Cole. The judge heard testimony Tuesday from Dr. Vincent Iacopino (eye-kah-PEE'-noh) in a pretrial

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Jamaica breaks ground on rare-earth project
Jamaica breaks ground on rare-earth project
Jamaican and Japanese officials on Monday launched a pilot project designed to investigate whether rare-earth elements can be commercially extracted from the island's bauxite waste. Researchers with Japan's Nippon Light Metal Co. Ltd. believe they have found high concentrations of rare-earth elemen

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Judo abuse scandal hits Tokyo Olympic bid
Judo abuse scandal hits Tokyo Olympic bid
Just when Tokyo was getting a boost in its campaign to host the 2020 Olympics, an ugly scandal has surfaced within the Japanese sporting culture and threatens to undermine the bid. Tokyo bid officials were thrilled last month when a poll showed that public support had risen to 73 percent, given tha

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Bangladesh sentences Islamic party leader to life
Bangladesh sentences Islamic party leader to life
A Bangladeshi tribunal prosecuting cases stemming from the 1971 independence war sentenced a leader of an Islamic opposition party to life in prison Tuesday, sparking street clashes with police that killed two people and injured dozens more. Opposition leaders have criticized the war crimes trials,

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Iran arrests official implicated in prison deaths
Iran arrests official implicated in prison deaths
A senior Iranian government official has been arrested two years after a parliamentary probe found him responsible for deaths by torture of at least three jailed anti-government protesters, state media reported Tuesday. Saeed Mortazavi — a close ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — was taken

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College credit recommended for free online courses
College credit recommended for free online courses
Students may soon be able to receive college credit for the free online courses that are reshaping higher education. The American Council on Education planned to announce Thursday that it is recommending degree credit for five undergraduate courses offered by Coursera, a Palo Alto-based company tha

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SKorea envoy says NKorea nuke test seems imminent
SKorea envoy says NKorea nuke test seems imminent
South Korea's U.N. ambassador said Monday a North Korean nuclear test "seems to be imminent." Ambassador Kim Sook said there are "very busy activities" taking place at North Korea's nuclear test site "and everybody's watching." Kim told a press conference that in the event of a nuclear test, he exp

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Police arrest 3 for threatening Kashmir girl band
Police arrest 3 for threatening Kashmir girl band
Three people have been arrested in Indian-controlled Kashmir for allegedly threatening the first Kashmiri all-girl rock band, which disbanded after its debut concert following abusive comments on social media and a demand from a top Muslim cleric that they stop performing. The three have been booke

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Murder conviction in Drummond union leader slaying
Murder conviction in Drummond union leader slaying
A former contractor for the U.S.-based coal company Drummond Co. has been convicted of murder and sentenced to nearly 38 years in prison as the mastermind of the 2001 killing of two union leaders. The trial judge also ordered prosecutors to investigate Drummond's U.S.-based president and three form

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