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BY: Ernesto Londono | The Washington Post
The soccer match episode that left at least 74 people dead on Wednesday threatens to plunge Egypt into a new cycle of recriminations and violence.
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BY: MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ | The New York Times
With frigid temperature expected, organizers of a protest planned for Saturday are scrambling for ideas to maintain the movement’s momentum — without freezing.
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BY: Mark Magnier | Los Angeles Times
A Cambodian court Friday rejected an appeal by a notorious Khmer Rouge jailer and extended his sentence to life in prison after dismissing his argument that he was a junior official only following orders.
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BY: Farkhad Sharip | Eurasia Daily Monitor
As a part of its attempts to consolidate its presence in the energy sector of Central Asia, on January 17, the board of the Russian company, Lukoil, endorsed a purchase of 6.6 percent of shares in transnational Aral Sea Operating Company.
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BY: Sara Miller Llana | The Christian Science Monitor
Prince William begins his six-week deployment in the Falkland Islands today. Argentines aren't ready to give up their claim to what they call the Malvinas just yet.
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BY: BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | The Associated Press
Nepal's former communist rebel fighters began leaving the camps they have called home for five years on Friday after receiving government checks as part of a plan to integrate them into society.
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BY: Thomas Erdbrink | McClatchy Newspapers
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, openly declared Friday that the Islamic republic will support all movements fighting against Israel.
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BY: Guy Taylor | The Washington Times
U.S. officials have lauded the growing international support for an embargo of Iranian crude oil, but it remains to be seen who beyond the European Union will embrace the boycott.
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BY: Daniel Large | World Politics Review
In December, with a dispute over oil-transit fees between Sudan and South Sudan exacerbating already tense post-independence relations, China sent Special Envoy Liu Guijin for negotiations in Addis Ababa.
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BY: SIOBHAN GORMAN | The Wall Street Journal
U.S. officials say they believe Iran recently gave new freedoms to as many as five top al Qaeda operatives who have been under house arrest, and may have provided some aid to the terrorist group.
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BY: ROBERT F. WORTH | The New York Times
Iran invited young activists to Tehran for a conference on the “Islamic Awakening,” but the fact that no one from Syria’s opposition was invited disrupted the whole script.
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BY: Tania Branigan | The Guardian
Internet connections and mobile phone signals were cut for 30 miles around scene of clashes in Sichuan, state media reports.
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BBC
Famine conditions have ended in war-torn Somalia six months after being first declared, the UN has said. The improvement in access to food is due to a good harvest and significant humanitarian assistance, it said.
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BY: David S. Cloud | Los Angeles Times
Some object to being blindsided by Panetta's talk of transferring combat duties to Afghans in 2013. France suggests that the alliance end its involvement in fighting over the next two years.
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BY: Jonathan S. Landay and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers
The U.S. scrambled Thursday to tamp down the fallout out after its surprise announcement to end its combat role in Afghanistan a year earlier than expected -- a revelation that heightened confusion over U.S. strategy and stoked Afghan distrust of American intentions.
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Stratfor
In their search for a new way of life, the Tuaregs have captured the attention of Western security agencies.
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The Associated Press
Ukraine's government is blaming Russia for natural gas shortages in some European countries as a severe cold spell grips the region.
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BY: Oliver Holmes | Reuters
A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France for Muammar Gaddafi died from torture within a day of being detained by a militia from Zintan, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Friday.
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BY: Colum Lynch | The Washington Post
The United States and its European and Arab partners have agreed to drop a demand to impose U.N. sanctions and a voluntary arms embargo on Syria, in exchange for a commitment from Russia to allow adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution that paves the way for President Bashar al-Assad’s departure from power.
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BY: Neel Chowdhury | Time
The dramatic rise and swift fall of Bangladesh's stock market is a cautionary tale for emerging-market investors oblivious to the perils of hasty deregulation and rapid capital inflows.