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Explosion in Syrian city of Homs kills 40: monitoring group

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BEIRUT - Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, a group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad said. | Video

12:45pm EDT

Egypt's rulers tell pro-Mursi protesters to quit camps

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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

World, Egypt 1:12pm EDT

Tsvangirai denounces Zimbabwe vote as 'huge farce'

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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

World, Africa 1:53pm EDT

Italy court rejects Berlusconi appeal against tax sentence

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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.

1:57pm EDT

Tunisia's ruling party says won't remove prime minister

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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.

World, Tunisia 1:02pm EDT

Kazakh tycoon Ablyazov faces extradition from France

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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France - Fugitive Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, accused of embezzling around $6 billion, was told by a French judge on Thursday that he faced extradition, but his family vowed to fight an expulsion it said was politically motivated.

11:52am EDT

Syria's Assad anticipates rebel defeat in defiant speech

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BEIRUT - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday he was confident of victory against rebels and made a symbolic visit to a town once overrun by insurgents but now mostly retaken by his army.

World, Syria, United Nations 11:49am EDT

Kerry says Obama has timeline to end US drone strikes in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD - U.S. President Barack Obama has a timeline for ending the U.S. program of drone strikes, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, following talks with the new government of Pakistan. | Video

1:47pm EDT

Black Italy minister pulls out of debate amid racial insults

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ROME - Italy's first black minister has pulled out of a debate with the anti-immigrant Northern League after its leader refused to condemn a barrage of racial insults she has faced from his party's members.

World, Italy 1:36pm EDT

Egypt's defiant Muslim Brotherhood supporters gird for conflict

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CAIRO - Standing by a brick and sandbag barricade on the edge of a Muslim Brotherhood protest camp in Cairo, chief guard Mohamed Saqr is preparing to resist a threatened attempt by security forces to storm in.

11:54am EDT
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McCain, Biden coming together for Sedona, Arizona forum

These days Washington is not known for bipartisanship, but every now and then a breakthrough is made. It is noteworthy that Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Senator John McCain, a Republican, are appearing together at a forum in Sedona, Arizona on Friday.