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Moammar Gadhafi of Libya was elected Monday as leader of the African Union, a position long sought by the eccentric dictator pushing his oil-rich nation into the international mainstream after years of isolation.
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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
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AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
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AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
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AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
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AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
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AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
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AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
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AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
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AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
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AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
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AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
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AP, Washington
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Tuesday with Mutassim Gadhafi, son of and national security adviser to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and said she asked...
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AP, Cairo
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s comment that the country may nationalize its oil sector has “raised some eyebrows” among international oil firms, but...
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AP, Addis Ababa
A senior Egyptian diplomat says Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been elected to lead the African Union.
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AP, Cairo
Call it, if you will, classic Moammar Gadhafi.
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AP, Bern
Swiss International Air Lines said Tuesday that it had lost permission to land in Libya, which has been cutting links since Swiss police arrested dictator Moammar...
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AP, New York
The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says Libya wants to put some of its $100 billion investment fund into American business and send thousands of students to study...
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AP, Kiev
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says there’s strong competition among Western and ex-Soviet nations to sell arms to Libya and that will allow his nation to get a...
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AP, Minsk
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi joined Belarus’ authoritarian president in lamenting U.S. dominance of world affairs Monday during a tour aimed at securing new...
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AP, Moscow
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Saturday he hopes to increase energy ties with Moscow during his first visit to post-Soviet Russia.
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AP, Moscow
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, starting his first visit to post-Soviet Russia on Friday, hoped to clinch a series of major arms deals in another sign of strengthening...
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AP, Tripoli
An official with the charitable organization of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s son says the group helped secure the release of a political prisoner for health...
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AP, Tripoli
Libya said Thursday it has halted oil shipments to Switzerland, three months after the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi’s son in Geneva sparked a diplomatic crisis...
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AP, Geneva
Libya’s state-owned oil company said that it stopped crude deliveries to Switzerland on Wednesday, three months after the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi’s son in...
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An archaeologically rich, Mediterranean area in Libya might just be the next hot ecotourism destination. Saif Al Islam Gadafi, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi...
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AP, Tripoli
The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround in their troubled relations with a meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Libyan leader...
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AP, Geneva
Geneva’s chief prosecutor said Wednesday he decided to drop the case against a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and the son’s wife for allegedly beating...
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AP, Geneva
A lawyer for two ex-servants of the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says a complaint against the son in Switzerland has been dropped.
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AP, Tripoli
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s son says he will no longer be involved in politics, defying in a surprise announcement long-held expectations he was preparing to...
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AP, Geneva
Switzerland warned its citizens Wednesday not to travel to Libya, saying the North African nation has been retaliating ever since Swiss police arrested the youngest son...
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