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Swedish dads enjoying generous paternity leave

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT


STOCKHOLM -- One of Henrik Holgersson's friends laughed in his face when he told him he was going to spend the better part of 2011 as a stay-at-home dad.
"What kind of a man are you?" the friend asked Holgersson, who works for an event management ...

Gadhafi's death hangs over liberated Libya

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libya's interim rulers declared the country liberated on Sunday after an eight-month civil war, launching the oil-rich nation on what is meant to be a two-year transition to democracy. But they laid out future plans with an Islamist ...

Iraq might be last war U.S. fights on the ground

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT


BALI, Indonesia -- In the final days of the U.S. war in Iraq, the outlook for America's military entanglements is markedly different from the confusing, convulsive first days.
Early on Iraq looked, to many, like one in a string of big conflicts in ...

Tunisians, after uprising, vote in first free election

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT


TUNIS, Tunisia -- Tunisians waited in lines for hours under the sun to vote Sunday in the nation's first truly free elections, the culmination of a popular uprising that set off similar rebellions across the Middle East.
Voters -- women with heads ...

At least 217 die in Turkey quake

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT


ANKARA, Turkey -- Cries of panic and horror filled the air as a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 217 people as buildings pancaked and crumpled into rubble. The death toll was expected to rise as rescuers sifted throu ...

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