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MISRATA, Libya - Fighting in Libya's besieged rebel city of Misrata killed at least 10 civilians including an Oscar-nominated British filmmaker, and NATO urged non-combatants to avoid troops so it could step up air strikes.
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AMMAN - Plain clothes security forces toting Ak-47s deployed in Homs overnight, a witness said on Thursday, as the central Syrian city defied a crackdown following the killing of 21 pro-democracy protesters this week.
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DUBAI - Yemen should grant immunity from prosecution to President Ali Abdullah Saleh as part of a transfer of power deal to quickly end the country's political standoff, the head of a new centrist party said on Wednesday.
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MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia was emerging powerfully from the global financial crisis but must reduce its reliance on energy and raw materials to see off external threats to its economy.
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HELSINKI - The head of the eurosceptic True Finns party, confident his opposition to the terms of a Portuguese bailout was gaining traction, said on Wednesday euro zone members might face a new solution to the debt crisis by next month.
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PALO ALTO, Calif - U.S. President Barack Obama sought to reignite the youthful energy that propelled his 2008 election on Wednesday with a campaign-style visit to the nexus of social communications, Facebook.
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BERLIN - The astonishing rise of the Greens has given Germany's pro-environment party a new and unexpected problem -- do the Greens have anyone who could lead the country?
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ISLAMABAD - The top U.S. military officer accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of maintaining ties to militants targeting U.S. troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, during a trip to Islamabad on Wednesday.
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TOKYO - Criticism of Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan has spread to his own cabinet, adding pressure to replace the unpopular leader as he struggles to work out how to fund the country's massive reconstruction project after last month's triple disasters.
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NEW DELHI - A court on Wednesday rejected bail applications of five business executives in one of India's biggest corruption scandals, pushing forward a case that has undermined the government and business sentiment in Asia's third-largest economy.
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CARACAS - An accused drug lord sitting in a high-security jail outside Bogota has become an unlikely symbol of friendship for Colombia and Venezuela whose rivalry for years mirrored Latin America's deep ideological fissures.
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