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Greece: far-right party returns to parliament
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:20PM June 17, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — An extreme right party that campaigned to rid Greece of illegal immigrants largely held its bloc of seats in parliamentary elections Sunday, retaining support after a party official slapped a female politician and threw a glass of water on another on live television during the campaign.
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Police: Canada suspect carried $330,000 in cash
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:01PM June 17, 2012 CommentEDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The man wanted in an armored car heist at a Canadian university that left three armed guards dead was carrying $330,000 in cash and no passport when he was arrested by U.S. border officials, police said Sunday.
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Munich voters reject extra airport runway
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:53PM June 17, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Voters in Munich have rejected plans to build a third runway at the city's airport, the second-busiest in Germany after Frankfurt.
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Le Pen loses race for French parliament seat
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:19PM June 17, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has lost her race for a parliamentary seat, but her anti-immigrant National Front party will have its first seats in parliament in years.
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One Egyptian's surrender: The revolution failed
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:54PM June 17, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Mahmoud Abou Adhma's despair over Egypt's course the past 16 months has turned him from an avid revolutionary who camped out in Tahrir Square for most of the 18 days of protests demanding the fall of Hosni Mubarak to working for the presidential campaign of the deposed leader's last prime minister and close friend.
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Royal, French leader's ex, loses parliament race
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:09PM June 17, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — French former presidential candidate Segolene Royal is decrying "political treason" against her after she lost her controversial campaign for a parliamentary seat — quashing her hopes of becoming speaker of the National Assembly.
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Saudi king in Mecca for crown prince's burial
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:49PM June 17, 2012 CommentRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The aged king of Saudi Arabia led a burial ceremony Sunday for his brother, Crown Prince Nayef Abdul-Aziz, in the holy city of Mecca before his internment following evening prayers. He was the second heir to the throne to die outside the country in less than a year.
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UK police probe university bomb threats
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:24PM June 17, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — British police say they are investigating bomb threats that dozens of British universities have received via email.
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Polling station in Athens attacked during election
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:22PM June 17, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police say about 10 men armed with sledgehammers and wooden bats have attacked a polling station during Greece's election, wounding two policemen guarding it and setting fire to the ballot box.
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Al-Qaida urges Egypt to cancel treaty with Israel
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:05PM June 17, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida's leader has urged Egypt to cancel its peace treaty with Israel and to establish Islamic rule, according to an audio message released Sunday.
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Tunisian president eschews travel as security lags
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:23PM June 17, 2012 CommentTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's president is canceling previously planned foreign trips — including one to Brazil for an environment summit — because of a worsening security situation in the North African country.
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Swiss voters say no to yet more referendums
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:56AM June 17, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters decided on Sunday that they have enough democracy already, overwhelmingly rejecting a proposal to hold more referendums on international treaties.
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Fires across southern Greece seen abating
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:36AM June 17, 2012 CommentATHENS, Greece (AP) — Forest fires raging across southern Greece appeared to be abating Sunday, but high winds spurred occasional flare-ups and the danger was far from over, authorities said.
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Iran, 6 powers both need success at nuclear talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:53AM June 17, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — Iran and six world powers resume nuclear talks Monday no closer to progress than in previous rounds, and with the clock ticking on international diplomatic efforts to persuade Tehran to curb activities that could be used to make atomic arms.
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Suu Kyi to make bittersweet return to Oxford
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:26AM June 17, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Before Aung San Suu Kyi was a prisoner of conscience and a political icon, she inhabited a world of children's birthday parties, university libraries and bicycle-filled English suburbs.
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Chinese spacecraft docks with orbiting module
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:58AM June 17, 2012 CommentBEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked with an orbiting module Monday, another first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space.
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Mexican president expects big IMF firewall boost
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:11PM June 16, 2012 CommentLOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — G20 summit host President Felipe Calderon of Mexico said Saturday that he expects the world's largest economies to deliver more than the $430 billion pledged to stop the spread of the European financial crisis.
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Egypt votes for president to succeed Mubarak
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:20PM June 16, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Egyptians on Saturday voted to choose between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a presidential runoff once billed as the country's long-awaited shift to democracy but now clouded by pessimism over the future.
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Stage collapses before Radiohead concert; 1 dead
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:57PM June 16, 2012 CommentTORONTO (AP) — Toronto paramedics say one person is dead and another is seriously hurt after a stage collapsed while setting up for a Radiohead concert.
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26 die as last day of Iraq pilgrimage hit by bombs
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:49PM June 16, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — Two car bombs in Iraq's capital killed at least 26 people Saturday on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit by multiple bombings. The blasts, one in a heavily guarded area close to a revered shrine, raised the week's death toll to more than 100 and cast further doubt on the divided government's ability to secure the country after the American withdrawal.
