One of the first announcements made by Libya`s National Transitional Council (NTC) after the fall of Tripoli last August was a promise to all those wounded in the fight against former leader Muammar...
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How drones and satellites are catching farming cheats
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WASHINGTON — With $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid and a three-decade relationship hanging in the balance, U.S. officials said Tuesday that Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would travel to Egypt to press for the criminal charges against at least 16 American nonprofit workers to be dropped. The visit later this week by the top U.S. military official likely represents the strongest leverage the United States has in its effort to get Egypt's ruling generals to end a crackdown on American and Egyptian nonprofit groups. The White House and the State Department have unsuccessfully pressed the case with the Egypt's military council but no...
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Former world No.1 Tiger Woods says he`s been talking to golf`s powerbrokers about a rule to ban the increasingly-popular long putter.
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Former world No.1 Tiger Woods says he`s been talking to golf`s powerbrokers about a rule to ban the increasingly-popular long putter.
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Inspectors searching for anti-aircraft missiles amassed by Moammar Gadhafi can`t account for potentially thousands of them.
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Warning that "diplomacy is pretty well exhausted," top Republican U.S. Senator John McCain said Tuesday the time has come to consider arming the outgunned opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.
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Obama administration says it is important to continue increasing pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
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Six months after Britain was struck by five nights of rioting, London police launched a major crackdown on streets gangs which politicians blamed for the country`s worst disorder for decades.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Wednesday that Canada and China have finished negotiations on a foreign investment pact nearly 20 years in the making, but legal and bureaucratic hurdles remain before it can become law.
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Three entire families, including women and children, are massacred overnight in the flashpoint city of Homs by the Syrian government`s security forces and thugs, activists say.
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Can Italy`s technocrat government pull off economic reform?
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In the latest development in the Maldives, Vice President Mohammed Waheed Hassan has been sworn in as the new President of the island nation. He has taken over as the new President after Mohammed Nasheed resigned in the wake of mutiny by a section of the police.
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A presidential historian has pleaded guilty to stealing valuable  documents signed by U.S. presidents, Karl Marx and the French queen Marie Antoinette.
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Militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead at least 20 civilians when they stormed the homes of three unarmed families.
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Russias foreign minister held talks with President Bashar Assad in Damascus as Syrian forces bombarded the city of Homs. NBCs Ayman Mohyeldin reports (Nightly News)
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The outcome of any talks on ending the bloodshed in Syria must not be predetermined, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
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Astronaut Janice Voss, a veteran of five spaceflights and a former science director for a NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, has died after a battle with cancer. She was 55.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Wednesday that Canada and China have concluded negotiations on a foreign investment pact nearly 20 years in the making, but legal and bureaucratic hurdles remain before it can become law.
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Massive abuse of Libya scheme to treat those wounded in battle
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