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EU says crucial Algeria listens to 'people's aspirations' - 05/17/2011

ALGIERS- A European Union commissioner said Monday it was crucial the Algerian government listened to the "aspirations of its people", as popular uprisings shake the region. EU Enlargement...

Mass grave found in Syrian protest hub: activist - 05/17/2011

DAMASCUS- Syria's brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protests took a chilling turn Monday with the discovery of a mass grave in Daraa, the town at the heart of protests roiling the country for...

Heaven is a 'fairy story': Hawking - 05/17/2011

LONDON- British scientist Stephen Hawking has branded heaven a "fairy story" for people afraid of the dark, in his latest dismissal of the concepts underpinning the world's religions. The author...

Poignant lawmaker-astronaut farewell at shuttle launch - 05/17/2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Jean-Louis Santini- A wounded US lawmaker and her astronaut husband traded wedding rings before he boarded the space shuttle Endeavour on Monday to command its final flight, a...

Bloodshed along Israel borders kills 12 on Nakba Day - 05/16/2011

MAJDAL SHAMS, Jack Guez- Israeli gunfire killed 12 people and wounded hundreds Sunday as Palestinians marched on Israel's borders with Lebanon, Syria and Gaza in a mass show of mourning over the...

Quake-hit Japan pottery town picking up pieces - 05/16/2011

MASHIKO, Shigemi Sato- Japan's massive earthquake crushed many of Mashiko's ancient pottery kilns and left its world-famous ceramics in shards, but two months on, its craftsmen are picking up the...

Libya buries 11 imams killed in NATO strike - 05/14/2011

TRIPOLI- Libyans on Saturday buried 11 Muslim clerics killed in what Moamer Kadhafi's regime said was a NATO air strike on the oil city of Brega that the alliance said targeted a military site. In...

Death toll mounts in Syria despite talks offer - 05/14/2011

DAMASCUS- Syrian security forces killed at least four people on Saturday in a border town, witnesses said, as the death toll rose in anti-regime protests despite a no-shoot order, dialogue offer and...

US disappoints Libya rebels on recognition - 05/14/2011

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- The United States on Friday stopped short of granting Libyan rebels full diplomatic recognition, as Mahmud Jibril became the opposition's first senior official to have...

3 Syrians killed in rallies despite no-shoot order - 05/14/2011

DAMASCUS- At least three protesters were shot dead in Syria on Friday despite an order from President Bashar al-Assad for security forces not to open fire on demonstrators, rights activists said....
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