LONDON- British actor Michael Caine has said he persuaded a doctor to give his terminally ill father a fatal overdose, adding his voice to the country's long-running debate about assisted suicide....
SIRTE, Joseph Badaoui- Arab League ministers on Friday gave the United States one month to save direct Middle East peace talks which they warned would collapse unless Israel halts settlement building...
CAIRO- Human Rights Watch urged Egypt on Friday to stop shooting foreign migrants who try to cross into Israel, as the African country began chairing the United Nations' refugee agency.
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PARIS- Anthropologists said on Friday they had confirmed long-running suspicions that a germ called Yersinia pestis caused the plague that wiped out an estimated third of Europe's population in the...
GAZA CITY- At least eight Palestinians were wounded in a series of Israeli raids on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinian medics and Hamas security officials said.
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ROME- Actresses Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes and Julianne Moore are among the movie stars set to attend the 2010 Rome film festival this month, which will focus on independent cinema, organisers said...
MOSCOW- Konstantin Novoselov, the Russian-born physicist who shared this year's Nobel prize, struggled with physics as a student and was awarded a handful of B grades, his university said Wednesday....
FRANKFURT- Memorabilia from Eva Peron and writings from football legend Diego Maradona pulled in the crowds Wednesday at the world's biggest book fair, which this year features Argentina as its guest...
MONTREAL- Children immured within their severely disabled bodies may soon be able to communicate thanks to a newly unveiled device that translates physiological signals into music.
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BEIT FAJJAR, Marco Longari - Six settler rabbis on Tuesday delivered a box of Korans to a West Bank mosque which had been torched by vandals, in an unusual peace gesture welcomed by Palestinians....
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