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4 more die in rioting over Prophet cartoons
Appeals for calm in a furor overcartoons of the Prophet Mohammed went unheeded Wednesday as police shot dead four more protestors during rioting in Afghanistan, bringing the worldwide death toll to 13.
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Iraq on high alert ahead of Ashura
Iraq's security forces imposed a massive clampdown on Baghdad and the southern holy city of Karbala on Wednesday to prevent insurgent attacks on tens of thousands of pilgrims gathering for a major Shia
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N Korea Says
US must remove sanctions before talks
North Korea will only return to six-party talks on its nuclear program if the United States drops sanctions against it, a North Korean official said on Wednesday as talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang ended
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Quran riots rock Pakistani city
At least 3,000 protesters enraged by the alleged desecration of the Quran clashed with police and torched two cinemas in Pakistan's second largest city Lahore, police said Wednesday.
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Barracks collapse kills 12 in Chechnya
A total of 12 people were killed when a military barracks collapsed in Russia's turbulent Chechnya region on Tuesday after what appeared to be a domestic gas explosion, local officials said on Wednesday.
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One killed in Pakistan nuke facility blast
A technician was killed in an explosion at a top Pakistani nuclear research facility founded by disgraced atomic scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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US Presidents join mourners at King funeral
Reunited at last in death, Coretta Scott King was laid to rest beside the tomb of her husband after a stirring funeral with 10,000 mourners that was both lyrical and mournful, and at times political.
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Indian in jail for 38 years without trial
India's Supreme Court has asked a lower court for the details of a murder after it discovered that a man has spent 38 years in jail without a trial because police lost his papers, a lawyer said Wednesday.
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