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French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris
France's military spokesman says a soldier has been stabbed in the throat in the French commercial district of La Defense outside Paris.
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Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another ...
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Hezbollah chief says group is fighting in Syria
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned Saturday that the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period," and vowed his Shiite militant group will not stand idly by while its chief ally in Damascus is under attack.
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Iraq car bomb kills 6 Iranian pilgrims, 1 Iraqi
Two Iraqi police officers say a car bomb has exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad, killing six Iranians and one Iraqi.
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UK police question alleged soldier killer's friend
Counterterrorism police on Saturday questioned a friend of alleged Islamic extremist Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in a savage killing of a British soldier on a London street that has horrified the country.
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Egypt court rules against religious slogans
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court has ruled against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls at a glance
The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of more than 10,000 manuscript fragments representing 900 separate texts, including the oldest biblical texts ever found. They were discovered in caves in the Judean desert alongside the Dead Sea. Most of the scrolls are animal skin parchment, a few are papyrus, and ...
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Fragments of biblical treasure are up for sale
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale - in tiny pieces.
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Female suicide bomber injures 18 in Russian region
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces.
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Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa visit
Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.
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Israeli expert says Syria cyberattack foiled
An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa.




