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 Greece forms technocrat cabinet to prepare for new voteA caretaker technocrat government has taken office in Greece to organize the cash-strapped country’s second elections in just six weeks after an inconclusive May 6 vote jolted the eurozone.
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 Judge to lead Greece to fateful June 17 electionGreece has put a senior judge in charge of an emergency government to lead it to new elections on June 17; bankers seek to calm public fears.
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 Obama walks fine line in bashing Romney, courting Wall StreetFor President Barack Obama’s re-election team, it’s sort of like threading a needle.
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 Signs of progress in blind Chinese activist's bid to study abroadChen Guangcheng, who sparked a diplomatic crisis by fleeing into the U.S. Embassy last month, filled out a Chinese passport application and posed for a photo, moving forward in his bid to study in the United States.
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 George W. Bush unlikely to have role in Romney campaign“I’m for Mitt Romney,” the former president said as the doors of his elevator shut, in perhaps his only statement of public opinion on the race before the Nov. 6 election.
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 Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel agree to end hunger strikeHundreds of Palestinian prisoners have agreed to halt a weeks-long hunger strike in exchange for promises of better conditions, ending a standoff that left several participants clinging to life and drew thousands of Palestinians to the streets in shows of solidarity.
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 Chile suffers 6.2 quake, no injuries reportedA magnitude-6.2 magnitude earthquake has damaged walls, shattered windows and knocked out electricity in parts of far-northern Chile and the Peruvian city of Tacna but no injuries or major damage were reported.
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 Mood of AmericaWhen the Theatre Arts Department of Washington-Lee High School staged its production of Fiddler on the Roof last weekend, the lead character of Tevye was portrayed by a Bengali Muslim, a Virginia Jew was cast as Motel the Tailor, and the Czarist Constable was a semi-Taiwanese super-heavyweight defensive tackle from the football team named Smith. All three were seniors, all had just turned 18, and all would be eligible to vote this fall for the first time in their lives outside of school elections.
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 Syrian uprising fuels another day of Lebanon clashesAt least four people have been killed in Lebanon’s second-largest city, Tripoli, since the gunbattles erupted late Saturday.
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 Yahoo!'s former CEO Scott Thompson reportedly has thyroid cancerThe Yahoo CEO who was pressured to give up his post because his official biography included a college degree he never received reportedly has thyroid cancer.
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Swedish gunman denies immigrant murders as trial opens A Swedish man accused of a deadly shooting spree against immigrants denied three murder and 12 attempted murder charges as his trial opened under tight security
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 Japan assembly agrees to restart reactors, hurdles remainJapanese public wary, split on nuclear power; government likely to await ruling by authorities in prefecture.
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 Greece: Coalition talks drag on as stocks tank on fears over fresh electionsGreek party leaders are to resume power-sharing talks as negotiations to create a government drag into a second week, raising the spectre of fresh elections that could threaten the crisis-stricken country’s international bailout and its membership of the euro.
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 UN inspectors to press Iran on military site accessThe U.N. atomic watchdog will press its demand for access to an Iranian military site in talks starting on Monday that could influence the prospects for a broader diplomatic push to settle the decade-old stand-off over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
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 Greek president's efforts for coalition flounderCritical last-ditch talks to form a coalition government in crisis-struck Greece floundered once more Sunday, leading the country one step closer to new elections, although the socialist party leader said he retained “existing but limited’ optimism for a deal.
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 Batman, Spider-man, Iron Man guard Obama at fundraiserAt George Clooney’s celebrity-studded fundraiser for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, the joke of the night was that the Secret Service was backed up by Batman, Spider-Man and the Iron Man - or at least the actors who played them.
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 Lessons of the Arab SpringChristopher Doyon remembers first “meeting” Libyan blogger Mohammed Nabbous in an Internet Relay Chat room, a kind of virtual private conference room where Anonymous partisans discuss and plan their operations — in this case the overthrow of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.
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 Syria violence kills four even as UN mission growsViolence in Syria kills four civilians, one of them a woman, a rights watchdog says, even as a UN mission charged with overseeing a battered truce neared half its planned strength.
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 Israeli president undergoes surgery for herniaIsraeli President Shimon Peres’ office says the 88-year-old is “feeling well” after undergoing surgery for a hernia during a state visit to Canada.
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 Germany tells Greece not to stray if it wants cashGermany has told Greece that staying in the euro zone was its own choice and that it must not stray from austerity if it expects to get international cash.
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 Official: 12 bodies found where Russian jetliner crashed on slopes of Indonesian volcanoSearch teams have found at least 12 bodies on the steep slope of an Indonesian volcano where a Russian-made jetliner crashed while demonstrating the plane for potential buyers from airlines, an official said.
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 Joe Biden apologizes to Obama over gay marriageBiden’s remarks focused a fresh spotlight on what Obama had vaguely referred to as “evolving” views on gay marriage.
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 Students kick off mass protests in SpainSpanish students take to the streets in anger at crisis cuts in education, the first in several days of broader social protests across the country.
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 Britain forced into F-35 U-turnBritain said it was to buy the F-35 vertical take-off fighter jets for its future aircraft carriers, a policy shift on a key weapons purchase that risks being seen as another government gaffe.
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 Betting suspended on Greek euro exitA surge in bets has forced Britain’s two biggest bookmakers to suspend betting on the odds of Greece dropping out.
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