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Activist: Rockets rip through Syrian city
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:08:01 AM CST
Intense blasts echoed through the ravaged Syrian city of Homs on Monday after a weekend bloodbath ended in hundreds of deaths there, local activists said.
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Australians urged to flee flooding
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:08:34 AM CST
Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds of people who had chosen to remain in a town in the path of rising flood waters to vacate their homes.
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Aftershocks rattle Philippines; quake death toll climbs
Monday, February 6, 2012 6:39:33 AM CST
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Monday off the third-largest island in the Philippines, killing at least 12 people, an official said.
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President: Tuareg fighters from Libya stoke violence in Mali
Monday, February 6, 2012 5:05:50 AM CST
Tuareg tribesman who reportedly fought for Moammar Gadhafi in Libya have returned to Mali with weapons, stoking violence and forcing thousands to flee, Mali's president said.
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Official: Libya's Saif Gadhafi could be tried within weeks
Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:55:47 AM CST
Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya's deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi, could go on trial "within weeks or months," Libya's interior minister said Sunday.
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Hearing set for Italian cruise ship captain
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:39:15 AM CST
A closed-door hearing to determine whether the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship should remain under house arrest is set for Monday.
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Mexico's ruling party picks woman as presidential candidate
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:46:51 AM CST
Mexico's conservative ruling party has picked a former education secretary as its nominee for the nation's top job. If she wins, she will become Mexico's first female president.
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Elizabeth celebrates 60 years as queen
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:59:10 AM CST
Sixty years ago Monday, a 25-year-old woman got a message that her father had died -- and that she was now Queen Elizabeth II.
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Egypt to charge 43 over NGOs
Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:03:41 PM CST
Forty-three people, including 19 Americans, face prosecution in an Egyptian criminal court on charges of illegal foreign funding as part of an ongoing crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, a prosecution spokesman said Sunday.
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U.S. brigadier general dies in Afghanistan
Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:01:55 PM CST
U.S. Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died in Kabul of apparent natural causes, officials said, making him one of the highest ranking officers to die in Afghanistan.