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 Protesters, cops clash at NATO in ChicagoFour police officers were injured and 45 demonstrators arrested after baton-wielding police clashed with anti-war protesters marching on the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday, police said.
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 No clemency for death row CanadianConvicted killer Ronald Smith should be denied clemency, recommends a Montana parole board.
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 Suspect in Mexican mass beheadings arrestedMexican soldiers have arrested an alleged perpetrator of the massacre of 49 people whose corpses were decapitated, dismembered and dumped on a highway last week.
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 EU helicopters strike Somali pirate base on landEuropean helicopter gunships attacked a pirate base on the Somali coast on Tuesday, destroying five speedboats, in the first such airborne strike on land by the anti-piracy force.
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 Georgia woman fighting flesh eating bacteriaA Georgia college student who has already lost a leg to a rare, flesh-eating bacterial infection is now expected to suffer the loss of her fingers too, her father said.
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 Obama threatens veto to keep long-gun registryPresident Barack Obama may use his presidential veto to save what critics call an unnecessary registry of semi-automatic rifles in border states.
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 French, Greek elections cast doubt on European economyWhat do the elections in France and Greece have in common?
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 EU's cash crisis spawns break-away backlashOne side-effect of Europe's financial crisis is the rise of fringe parties who want to dump the Euro and maybe the whole European Union. So it's not all bad news.
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 Obama's gay marriage 'honeymoon' a rough ride
[Video]Only time will tell if President Barack Obama's "evolved" support for same-sex marriage results in a net gain or loss of votes in November's election.
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 Obama to bring in millions at Clooney fundraiser
[Video]Fresh from declaring his support for same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama heads west on Thursday for a political fundraising spree that will culminate in a multi-million dollar extravaganza at the home of Hollywood star George Clooney.
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 Ukraine's Tymoshenko puts off move to hospitalUkraine's jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, whose plight in prison has soured relations between the country's leadership and the West, was moved to a local hospital on Wednesday in a high-security police convoy.
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 Mom gives gay son stun gun to curb school bullyingA frustrated Indiana mom is fighting her son's expulsion after she gave her gay son a stun gun to take to school to deter bullies.
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 Putin pledges unity on return to KremlinVladimir Putin took the oath as Russia's president on Monday with a ringing appeal for unity at the start of a six-year term in which he faces growing dissent, economic problems and bitter political rivalries.
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 U.S. lawmakers: Taliban stronger than before troop surgeThe Taliban is stronger now than before President Barack Obama ordered a surge of U.S. troops to Afghanistan, two senior U.S. lawmakers said on Sunday, contradicting the administration's assessment of the insurgency.
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 Medvedev sacks Russia navy chief on last day as presidentPresident Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the head of Russia's accident-prone navy and named a new air force chief on his last full day in office on Sunday as he prepares to take the No. 2 post under Vladimir Putin.
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 For 'Mr. Normal' Hollande it's bye-bye bling blingPARIS - Francois Hollande, the man who wants to be France's "Mr Normal" president, has stopped going to work by scooter but tells voters he will still take the train and do the family shopping once elected - at least, he jokes, "if the fridge is empty".
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 Socialists celebrate as French vote nears closeFrance looked set to crown Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly two decades in an election on Sunday, marking a shift to the left at the heart of Europe and heralding a fight back against German-led austerity.
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 Two American hikers jailed in Iran wedTwo of the three American hikers jailed in Iran after allegedly straying over the Iraq-Iran border in 2009 were to be married on Saturday in a private ceremony in California, according to a statement posted on their Facebook page.
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 Dissident awaits permission to leave ChinaChinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng remained largely out of contact in a Beijing hospital on Sunday as diplomats kept up contacts with authorities over how he might leave China and travel to study in the United States.
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 9/11 suspects defiant at Guantanamo arraignmentThe arraignment of five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks got off to a chaotic start on Saturday when all the defendants defiantly refused to answer the judge's questions and one made outbursts in court.
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 Sarkozy headed for election defeatNicolas Sarkozy was headed for an election defeat on Sunday that could make him the 11th European leader to be swept from office by the economic crisis and crown Francois Hollande as France's first Socialist president in 17 years.
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 Obama's baffling boastEven some of Barack Obama's friends are shaking their heads at the YouTube ad where Bill Clinton praises the president for going after Osama bin Laden, then a text box sneers: "Which path would Mitt Romney have chosen?" Liberal blogmaster and Obama supporter Arianna Huffington told CBS This Morning the ad was "despicable".
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 Bodies of 23 found dumped near U.S. border in Mexico drug warThe bodies of 23 people were found hanging from a bridge or dismembered in ice boxes and garbage bags in northeastern Mexico on Friday, in an escalation of brutal violence involving rivel drug gangs on the U.S. border.
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 Obama under pressure over China dissident seeking asylumPresumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday slammed the Obama administration for its handling of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's case, calling it "a day of shame."
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 Osama wanted Obama, U.S. general killedOsama bin Laden sent orders for al-Qaida to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, according to declassified documents seized during a raid of his Pakistan compound.
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