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Rioting in Egypt leaves 12 dead

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT


CAIRO -- Relations between Egypt's Muslims and Christians degenerated to a new low Sunday after riots overnight left 12 people dead and a church burned, adding to the disorder of the country's post-revolution transition to democracy.
The attack on ...

U.S. officials think bin Laden's widows may have intel

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT


ISLAMABAD -- The United States wants access to Osama bin Laden's three widows and any intelligence material its commandos left behind at the al-Qaida leader's compound, a top American official said in comments broadcast Sunday that could add a fres ...

Mexican citizens fighting back against violence

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT


MEXICO CITY -- An anti-violence march that began in a central state with a few hundred people and gathered thousands over a four-day trek reached Mexico's capital Sunday, led by a poet whose son was killed by suspected drug traffickers.
An estimat ...

Tripoli faces high supply shortages

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Cars sat abandoned in miles-long fuel lines, motorists traded angry screams with soldiers guarding gas stations and many shops were closed Sunday on what should have been a work day.In ever-multiplying ways, residents in the Libyan ...

Pope: Welcome immigrants to Italy

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT

VENICE, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI urged Italy on Sunday to welcome immigrants fleeing to its shores, invoking the historic role of Venice and the once influential church in nearby Aquileia as a cultural bridges during his two-day visit to northern I ...

Bahrain king to lift emergency law early

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Bahrain's king set a fast-track timetable to end martial law-style rule Sunday in a bid to display confidence that authorities have smothered a pro-reform uprising even as rights groups denounced the hard-line measure ...

29 bodies found in Ivory Coast grave

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT


ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- A new mass grave containing 29 bodies has been found in a restive suburb of Ivory Coast's commercial capital, said a resident who said the victims were killed in the aftermath of a political standoff that plunged the country ...

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