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Greece orders garbage strikers back to work - Worl...

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Greece used emergency powers to order garbage crews back to work Tuesday to remove 17 days worth of rotting trash from the streets of Athens, as a campaign of strikes escalated against austerity measu...

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UN ends mandate for NATO operations in Libya - Wor...

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The U.N. Security Council on Thursday canceled its authorization for a seven-month-old NATO military operation in Libya that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

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Elderly complain about pants search at NY airport ...

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With age come such things as catheters, colostomy bags and adult diapers. Now add another indignity to getting old — having to drop your pants and show these things to a complete stranger.

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Iraq PM tells Kurds to hand over fugitive VP - Wor...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45750262/ns/world_news...

Iraq's Shiite prime minister told Kurdish authorities Wednesday to hand over the Sunni vice president, who fled to escape an arrest warrant on charges he ran hit squads.

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races under scrutiny - Yahoo! News

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Despite suffering severe injuries in the worst air race accident in the U.S. in more than a half a century, some victims have told their lawyer they would like to attend future races.

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US confirms possible release of Taliban from Gitmo...

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U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Tuesday that the United States may release several Afghan Taliban prisoners from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an incentive to bring the Tali...

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Cross-border gunfire: Syrian bullets kill 1 in Tur...

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Syrian forces on Monday fired across the border at a refugee camp in Turkey, killing one and wounding four, activists said.

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World News - North Korea threatens to reduce South...

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North Korea's military has threatened to reduce South Korea’s conservative government "to ashes" in "three or four minutes" – an escalation of its recent belligerent language. It vowed Monday to l...

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