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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's parliament condemned on Saturday the U.S raid to find and kill Osama bin Laden, calling for a review of U.S. ties and warning that Pakistan could cut supply lines to American forces in Afghanistan if there were more such attacks.
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TRIPOLI - Libyan state television carried brief audio tape remarks it said were by Muammar Gaddafi in which he taunted NATO as a cowardly crusader whose bombs could not kill him.
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AMMAN - Security forces killed six people in demonstrations across Syria on Friday calling for an end to autocratic rule, rights campaigners said, after the government promised to hold a "national dialogue" in the coming days.
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SANAA - Huge crowds across Yemen demanded on Friday that President Ali Abdullah Saleh leave after months of unrest which has put the Arab world's poorest country on the brink of an economic meltdown.
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TOKYO - A worker at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Saturday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said, bringing the death toll at the complex to three since a massive earthquake and tsunami in March.
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SYDNEY - Australia said on Saturday it would send dozens of asylum seekers it had intercepted "to another country", in what appears to be the first implementation of a deal to process boatpeople in Malaysia.
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NEW ORLEANS - Authorities will start opening a key spillway by early Saturday evening to relieve the swollen Mississippi River and avoid flooding Louisiana's two largest cities although potentially swamping thousands of homes and acres of crops.
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CAIRO - Egypt's interim ruling military council vowed on Friday to use all means to crack down on what it called "deviant groups" threatening stability and security.
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ZURICH - Switzerland should reintroduce border controls to limit immigration and possibly even pull out of the Schengen treaty that allows free movement in Europe, the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) said.
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WASHINGTON - Gasoline and food prices hoisted U.S. inflation to a 2-1/2-year high in April, but there was little sign of a broader pick-up in consumer prices that would trouble the Federal Reserve.
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KOLKATA - India's beleaguered ruling coalition has managed to avoid a major voter backlash over a series of embarrassing corruption scandals, winning three of five regional polls and overturning two communist state governments, results showed on Friday.
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LIMA - Leftist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, trying to woo moderate voters, scrapped a plan to nationalize Peru's private pension funds and vowed to respect an independent Congress and judiciary if elected.
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