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Fugitive Snowden granted a year's asylum in Russia, leaves airport
MOSCOW - Fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden slipped quietly out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday after being granted a year's asylum in Russia, ending more than five weeks in limbo in the transit area. | Video
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Italy court rejects Berlusconi appeal against tax sentence
ROME - Italy's top court upheld a jail sentence against Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud on Thursday in a ruling which could throw the country's fragile coalition government into crisis.
Jurors ask questions in fraud trial of ex-Goldman Vice President Tourre
NEW YORK - Jurors considering the fate of Fabrice Tourre sought clarity Thursday on two of the lesser charges facing the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc vice president.
U.S. factory, jobless data point to firming economy
WASHINGTON - U.S. factory activity jumped to a two-year high in July and first-time applications for jobless benefits hit a 5-1/2-year low last week, bolstering views economic growth would accelerate in the second half of the year.
Egypt's rulers tell pro-Mursi protesters to quit camps
CAIRO - Egypt's army-backed government on Thursday warned supporters of deposed president Mohamed Mursi to abandon their Cairo protest camps, promising them a safe exit if they gave up without a fight. | Video
Tsvangirai denounces Zimbabwe vote as 'huge farce'
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed Zimbabwe's election as a farce on Thursday after his rival President Robert Mugabe's party claimed a landslide victory that would secure another five years in power for Africa's oldest head of state. | Video
Manning leaks caused diplomatic 'horror and disbelief': testimony
FORT MEADE, Maryland - U.S. diplomats reacted with "horror and disbelief" when the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks began publishing classified information in 2010, a U.S. State Department official testified on Thursday at the court-martial sentencing hearing for the soldier convicted of the leaks.
Tunisia's ruling party says won't remove prime minister
TUNIS - The head of Tunisia's Islamist ruling party refused on Thursday to remove the prime minister from his post, hardening its stance toward the secular opposition's demand that the government be dissolved.


