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Harry Potter book with author notes sold for $228K
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:37PM May 21, 2013 CommentLONDON (AP) — A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations has sold for 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a London auction.
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Deadliest attacks in Iraq since US troop pullout
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:31PM May 21, 2013 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — Here is a look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011:
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FBI ID's Benghazi suspects _ but no arrests yet
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:48PM May 21, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.
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Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:21PM May 21, 2013 CommentBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.
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Iran candidate list for presidential race
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:05PM May 21, 2013 CommentThe eight candidates approved Tuesday for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits.
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Algerian president leaves Paris military hospital
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:22PM May 21, 2013 CommentPARIS (AP) — Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and transferred to another facility.
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2 Moroccans tried for homosexuality get 4 months
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:55PM May 21, 2013 CommentRABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.
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Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:45PM May 21, 2013 CommentCANNES, France (AP) — La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui.
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Toback, Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:30PM May 21, 2013 CommentCANNES, France (AP) — A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers."
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Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:49PM May 21, 2013 CommentWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93.
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New Egypt tax law: cuts for poor, business hikes
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:33PM May 21, 2013 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president has signed a new tax law that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians while increasing taxes on small and medium-sized businesses.
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Georgian ex-PM detained on abuse of office charge
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:33PM May 21, 2013 CommentTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Two allies of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili — a former prime minister and a provincial governor — were charged on Tuesday with embezzlement and abuse of office in another sign of an ongoing power struggle between the country's top two officials.
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Court frees man in murder that shocked SAfricans
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:32PM May 21, 2013 CommentJOHANNESBURG (AP) — A magistrate drops charges against the boyfriend accused in the brutal gang-rape and killing of a teenager that shocked South Africans.
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Peace Corps to accept same-sex couples
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:28PM May 21, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Peace Corps says it will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas.
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Lawmakers hand Myanmar leader prisoner list
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:25PM May 21, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are asking Myanmar President Thein Sein (tane sane) to free nearly 250 political prisoners.
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UN: Drop in Syrians reaching Jordan, unclear why
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:25PM May 21, 2013 CommentGENEVA (AP) — U.N. officials said Tuesday that the number of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan has suddenly fallen from an average of 2,500 a day to fewer than 20, and they are trying to quickly figure out why.
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US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:23PM May 21, 2013 CommentHAVANA (AP) — A U.S. diplomat has become a sort of tweeter-in-chief for the U.S. mission in Cuba, reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal critics on the island.
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Rebels in C. African Republic protest conditions
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:22PM May 21, 2013 CommentBANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Some members of the rebel alliance who overthrew the president of Central African Republic are protesting outside the luxury hotel where their leader is based.
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Spain backs sending defensive arms to Syria rebels
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:18PM May 21, 2013 CommentMADRID (AP) — Spain says it favors a partial lifting of sanctions against Syria that would allow the delivery of "defense material" that could include arms to help protect the population.
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2nd day of riots in Stockholm suburb shakes Sweden
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:11PM May 21, 2013 CommentHUSBY, Sweden (AP) — Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a largely immigrant suburb of Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered by the fatal police shooting of a man wielding a knife.
