NEW YORK/PARIS - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with attempting to rape a New York hotel maid, in a scandal that appeared to wreck his hopes of running for president of France and to open questions over his leadership of the global lender.
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MAJDAL SHAMS - Israeli troops shot Palestinian protesters who surged towards its frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday, killing up to 13 people on the day Palestinians mourn the creation of the state of Israel.
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TRIPOLI - NATO must broaden the range of targets it is bombing in Libya or risk failing to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power, Britain's most senior military officer was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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ISLAMABAD - U.S. Senator John Kerry will press Pakistani leaders for answers on Osama bin Laden in talks on Monday but he will be keen to ensure Pakistani anger over the raid does not subvert vital security cooperation.
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WASHINGTON - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Sunday prodded President Barack Obama to take action on spending cuts while Obama warned congressional failure to raise the debt limit could lead to a worse financial crisis than 2008-09.
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NEW YORK - North Korea and Iran appear to have been regularly exchanging ballistic missile technology in violation of U.N. sanctions, according to a confidential U.N. report obtained by Reuters on Saturday.
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JAMMU, India - Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged sustained cross-border fire on Sunday, security officials said, a day after an Indian soldier was killed by Pakistani troops while patrolling one of the world's most heavily guarded borders.
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SANAA - A Gulf mediator tried to breathe new life into a deal to resolve a transition of power crisis in Yemen on Sunday, even as the opposition said it would reject any plan that would extend President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule.
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ROME - Italians voted on Sunday in local elections that will show whether a sex scandal, three corruption trials and a stagnating economy have seriously damaged Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi two years before the end of his term.
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TOKYO - Japanese officials are readying a new approach to stabilising a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from the containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool.
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LIMA - Right-wing lawmaker Keiko Fujimori's lead over leftist Ollanta Humala appears to be growing ahead of Peru's June 5 presidential run-off, polls by survey firms Ipsos and CPI showed on Sunday.
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